Domain name game

Good news for BE. Jeff's realizations of 31580 members for BE back in September 2005 have almost come to fruition, so a big huzzah to Jeff for his 5 month old lie. Congratulations Jeff for finally getting the traffic you deserve. Inside sources say we should also all say a big thankyou to Bloginvestigator.com, Blogobserver.com, Blogpromote.com, Blogspying.com, Blogdiscoverer and Blogexaminer.com for helping Jeff get to where he is today.

Jeff is so into numbers that the banned members and the members that withdraw are still counted on the forum and member base so the number will be reached soon but we all know the number is still a lie. Also Jeff has so many projects on the boil and is moving so fast on untested applications that he has made the word "BETA" a catchphrase for all BE members and is pushing forward his quantity over quality campaign.My mole says that BlogMads impending release is making Jeff a little nervous.

Now that BlogAdvance have announced that they are working on their BlogsWiki and have been for quite some time, even recently changing it from a subdomain to its own domain name my inside source tells me BE also have a domain name for a wiki and the domain name is Blogging Wiki and now one wonders if they will also release a wiki to battle with BA once again and I personally can't wait for Jeff's sudden interest in poll hosting. I am convinced he has been testing it for some months now and it is so ready to be sprung on BE members that it will only be in BETA for 2 months rather than the average 4 months that his current projects are running at. Its a mystery why these things are in BETA when Jeff is always careful to say all these new projects have been in development for some months and why there is a need to update the projects only a month after their release. Planning problems I would expect, or maybe Jeff is lying.

This entry is about domains so I will leave you with a domain related question.

Why has Rachel one of the admins over at BE and an avid supporter of BE who, by the way has publicly spoken out againt BA and how crap it is, why has she bought blogadvance.info, hidden the whois so no-one can see who bought it but yet forgot to hide her tracks as the dns is ns1.dnsalienblog.com and she owns blogalien.com. I really want to know why.

Statistics

...The interest in BlogCharm has been simply overwhelming...

...With over 800 members and approaching 1000 blogs already BlogCharm promises to be a massive launch when we go live with paid advertising March 1st...

Define 'overwhelming'. Of course, flash $$'s in front of anyone and you are going to get signups but by their standards of so called members the following statistics are pretty bad.

I hate linking to this site so I won't. BlogExplosion currently have 24,114 members as indicated on their forum. Let us look at numbers.

24114 members. 800 members applied. That means 3% of BlogExplosion's member base applied for blogs. Wow. Overwhelming is not the word I would use. More like underachieving, but then again BlogExplosion is rather famous for flaunting their incredibly large member base and yet nothing seems to happen when it comes to active participation by the masses.

For instance, BlogExplosion touts themselves as being the largest community forum on the internet. As was said before 24114 members with 9366 posts which leaves BlogExplosion running at 39%. All members of BlogExplosion automatically become members of their forum and if you leave or if you're deactivated your membership on their forum remains. Got to think of those numbers. On the flip side, membership on BlogAdvance's forum is voluntary and while there are only 255 registered members, they have 18289 posts and are currently running at 7172%.

A forum is no good if people don't participate and while BlogExplosion may have the numbers they sure don't have the statistics that prove that they are as "huge" as they claim and quite a number of big name blogs have left and that tells you something right there.

...BlogExplosion is getting recognized! We have been approached by several very well-known companies over the last few weeks and we have partnerships that are being negotiated right now!...

With the new "partnerships" approaching I feel sorry for their member base as if its not nazi controlled now, whats it going to be like when other "partners" matter and their image matters? As it stands, you cannot blog about other traffic exchanges, you cannot have a negative opinion about BlogExplosion and you're only allowed a "hate" blog if you are part of the inner circle. What happens when you decide to blog about one of the new "partners"?

Be careful what you blog about. BlogExplosion is watching you.