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Blog Failure Rates
A major highlight from Technorati's State of the Blogosphere report is the estimate that 75,000 new blogs, or approximately one blog every second, come online every day.
And yet, only HALF are still kept current three months later. 75,000 times 90 days equals 6,750,000 new blogs every quarter...3,375,000 that fail and become dead, which creates a lot of deadspace debris. How do these get cleaned up? Do they get tossed in a blog dump? Do they ever get deleted? Blogger.com's rules say that if you find a dead blog and desire its subdomain name, you need to contact the registered user directly and request the transfer. Remember, registering for a blog domain name on places like blogger or typeset are free. The chances of you getting it (and getting it released without payment) are minimally.
If Technorati's estimates are indeed accurate, it sounds like someone needs to set up a solid blog recycling program ASAP. Opportunity?
posted by Unknown @ Monday, February 20, 2006,
