Social Trendcasting Site Is Great Tool For Domainers
Ran across a nifty site today; I have no idea how it slipped by me. It’s called Edopter.com and they brand it as social trendcasting. You are able to browse and follow trends, even submitting some yourself (requires free registration). As a member, you can comment on submitted trends and even help hype them. You are given credit for discovering trends and can give credit to others.
The popularity of a trend can rise and fall, and it will show you the difference from the previous weeks popularity.
The site does use information that you enter to help define trends. For instance, you enter your date of birth, zip code and gender upon registering. The site will keep track of the trends you submit and support. So if a certain trend is wildly popular among 20-24 year old men, the site will say that.
I spent a good deal browsing the site and found some interesting trends and clever start-ups. A few examples:
- Spikeball - Like volleyball, only different… just $50 and enjoyed by males ages 25 to 30 from Chicago. Being the curious fella that I am, I checked in with Google Trends. The trend report for “Spike Ball” supports this claim. Check out the cities: LA is first, with Chicago second. Pretty neat. (ChicagoSpikeball.com is available Spikeball is the name of a product, not a sport. So it’s trademarked)
- OLED’s - Organic LED’s are more efficient and powerful.
- Coworking - The idea of work-at-home employees getting together in a community area such as a cafe or a shared office.
I even found one related to domaining: Backwards-spelled domain names. Sorry, not sold.
Taking a look at the most popular trends and you will see a watered down list of obvious things like the iPhone, Obama, Apple, Firefox, etc. The real treasure is found from browsing the trends.
Plenty of stuff here for domainers to sniff out. Some of these trends are quite early, which is a great time to get in on it. Let’s go back to the Coworking trend: If people are searching out comfortable places to work, a directory could be worth building. How much competition will you have? LocalCoworking.com is available.
Check the site out, spot anything that has potential?
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Nice site for domainers,thanks but domains like chicagospikeball.com/spikeball.de/spikebal.nl would not get you TM problems?
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Actually, you’re right. I thought it was the name of the sport, where it’s really the name of the actual product. Good catch. Must be why I saw a lot of “Spike Volleyball.” That would likely be how people are avoiding the trademark issues.
-Scott
Media Post just ran an article today about another trend: Coupons
In June, the Wall Street Journal ran a MarketWatch article, “Surfing the Web to Save on Food.” The article discussed a recent Hitwise study which found visits to coupon Web sites increased 56% for the week ended June 6, in comparison to the same week in 2007.
CouponMom.com, a Web site that tracks grocery-store sales and pairs them with available coupons to bring the price down even more, has seen traffic more than double in 2008 compared to last year. Economic concerns have consumers being more cautious about their spending — taking the extra effort to find the best price and save a few bucks.
This high percentage of consumers is an excellent opportunity for marketers to latch on to.
Another good trend worth noting…
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I agree! Coupons have always been popular, but these coupon sites are taking it to the next level. With Baby Boomers becoming more comfortable with the internet (my mom is living proof!), and people starting to consider penny-pinching an art form, sites like these are growing in popularity.
Thanks Kelly.
-Scott
Just bought a few “backward” domains. Thanks for the heads up.
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No problem! The best use I can see for this technique is a pronounceable brandable name. For example: Ralos for solar and Tobor for robot.
You could even take the words and turn them into a brandable palindrome:
RalosSolar.com
Which, I’d like to add, someone already did
Otherwise, domains like this:
noisivelet.com
are a hard sell in my opinion.
Thanks for the comment!
-Scott
I found this information quite interesting, useful and thought provoking…
Thank you for sharing…
~Patricia K.
DomainBELL.com
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