It's a nice domain, super premium and the internet is all about links.
I would consider a social networking type site where people submit their favorite links and people can vote on them. You can rank the hottest links by the hour, day, week, month and year, or by country, category, etc. Let people comment on a link, and show the comments. It would be like a mixture of twitter and digg. A lot of work to do though.
For example, when Michael Jackson died, you could visit links.com, type in his name, and get the most popular links to this news.
Hi there hugegrowth,
This was almost exactly the idea that I was working on, and I do have a raw prototype built. I was designing the system to minimize spam and to ensure security and privacy of data when requested. However, the developer went back to Serbia, and delivered an unusable user interface. I couldn't figure out how to use it, and I designed it!
While I was looking for a new developer, one of the developers I talked to pointed out Diiggo to me, which was very much like the site I wanted to develop but MUCH, MUCH better. They apparently have a great amount of resources available to them. While my domain name would be better, I don't think that there was anyway that I could ever hope to compete -and the cost of development was substantial. So I deemed the project to big of a risk and shut it down, taking my losses.
Maybe I will be able to resurrect the idea if opportunities arise.
Thanks very much for your suggestion.
Rich
Ok, I still think there is something odd with the registration date; I recall Network Solutions screwing up with the creation date - maybe via a transfer? I just can't imagine the domain being available in 1998. In 1996, most likely.
Hi Acro,
Could be. I never paid close attention to it. It was originally with Network Solutions and then I moved it to another registrar and now it is back with Network Solutions.
Rich
That is kind of what I was thinking with the search engine take on things.
Google and Twitter have a list of the most popular topics at the moment, and this shows up in real time.
Good SEO would include fresh and updated content, at least for the rankings. An RSS feed would ensure freshness.
This would involve a script that would parse all the news from many sources. I am not a programmer but I am sure it would be more involved than my simple solution.
Hi there Doc Com,
I was thinking of something similar a while ago. I was going to doing something with the content from the popular social networking sites like Digg, Reddit, Technorati, etc., but I was basically told by people who use these sites that a metasearch of these sites does not have much use and would not be sticky. So I pushed the idea to the side, since as you have indicated, it would require a relatively large amount of money to develop.
Thanks for the idea. I will continue to ponder it and see if I can come up with some unique point-of-view that might be attractive and worth the development costs.
Rich