Comments on: Shame on You New Home Source for Stealing Our Traffic

By: Sundream Estate

Sundream Estate — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 11:06:40 +0000

I agree with the people before, – its skit to do thing like this and what going around – comes back on you later. My point is the other one is a new site and it take a long tome before it’s coming up in the serp. Site's content and service is king. Buying a misspelled domain and try to get traffic has many try before and 99 % has often no success. So don’t be worry, they are away one day. Just working harder with on your site and don’t write anything about them (no free links or publicing)

By: C Richey

C Richey — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:54:58 +0000

It won't make much of a difference in the long run. I bet most of your traffic is either direct or from Google searches. Direct traffic won't be affected at all and Google knows who you are already.

By: jaysonnhs

jaysonnhs — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:58:00 +0000

By: Discount Carpet

Discount Carpet — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 07:39:15 +0000

We have had similar instances. It sucks, but in the end things usually work out with the consumer going to the proper, better site. I think most consumers are pretty savvy these days. The web has turned out to be a great device for taking a local or regional business to a National level, however, there is an ugly side to the web such as cybersquatting or traffic stealing. If your story is correct, then congrats to you for calling them out. Best of luck!

By: givings

givings — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:26:15 +0000

We bought a domain, newhomesection.com for a specific purpose before your webstie even existed. 6 months later, a company (yours) launches a new website using almost the exact same name. If I were launching a new site, I would question picking a name almost identical to that which a leader in the space already owns.

As for inaccurate: We did not recently buy the domain. We owned it 6 months before your site existed. All I can say is, you should choose your domain names well and not try to lauch a site based on a deviation of a name a company already owns. If you ever want to contact New Home Source directly, you are welcome to call me at the number provided.

By: jaysonnhs

jaysonnhs — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:50:20 +0000

Blair, thanks for chiming in (not too sure if it was actually you who commented as the name was under givings)

I'm unclear as to what your comment says, exactly. You lost me after "First, we bought http://www.newhomesection.com on" after that, nothing really makes sense. We would love to get our facts straight for our blog readers, can you help us out?

Your link to the GoDaddy Whois info. above actually goes to our Whois information; your Whois information paints a different picture from the one you painted above. In addition, we called the previous owner (a real estate agent back east) back in early 2007 and heard no mention of Builder Homesite owning the domain. If I remember correctly, he wanted to sell the domain for around $6,000 (could be less) and told me that he just never got around to launching it. We watched the whois for the last two years and it never said Builder Homesite, until recently.

If anything I or we've said is inaccurate please let me know and I'll get things changed as needed or removed if necessary.

By: jaysonnhs

jaysonnhs — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:50:04 +0000

Blair, thanks for chiming in (not too sure if it was actually you who commented as the name was under givings)

I'm also unclear as to what your comment says, exactly. You lost me after "First, we bought http://www.newhomesection.com on" after that, nothing really makes sense. We would love to get our facts straight for our blog readers, can you help us out?

If anything I or we've said is inaccurate please let me know and I'll get things changed as needed or removed if necessary.

By: Sam

Sam — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:47:53 +0000

I absolutely agree with you.Thanks for sharing.

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:06:25 +0000

Tacky yes, but a lot of companies are doing it. Buying established domains and then redirecting them to another site is all too common a practice today.
I have seen more than a few sites that had done a considerable amount of link building also let their domain expire and find that it had been snatched up by someone else.
Incidentally, you could do a bit of link building so that your site ranks above them for the misspelling…not sure exactly how much traffic the misspelling of your name is getting though.

By: Jostmon

Jostmon — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 04:25:42 +0000

I hate to say this as it might add insult to injury but once a website starts getting more than 100K traffic a month it would be really wise to trademark the name. That way you would have a claim against any name that is confusingly similar if they are registered after the trademark date (I think). IMHO you are doing the next best thing by informing your readers of the subtleties involved in the various names. Best of luck and I hope those who act less than honorably get what is coming to them in the end.