On The Radar: Wiki Domains

Without a doubt, Blogs are one of the hottest areas in the domain industry these days. Whether its a "blog" or "weblog" (the full term for blog), domainers and bloggers just can't get enough of them. All the major extensions and several minor extensions are taken for "blog", "blogs", "blogger", "weblog", weblogger", "weblogs", and "blogging". Even demand for blog hosting domains have caught fire. In fact, BlogHosting.com was recently bid all the way up to $26,000 at Pool.com before a bid was mysteriously removed.

Blog-related domains for key industries are taken as well. Forget about registering such domains as StockBlog.com, GameBlog.com, and even DomainBlog.com. That said, I would suggest registering any (blank)Blog.com that is available, has a moderate to high fan base, and fits one of your key interests as you soon as you can. The way these names are being registered, the pickings are getting slimmer and slimmer every day. According to DeletedDomains.com, over 2000 domains containing "blog" have been registered in the past 2 months! When you see names like 5iblog.com registered you know that blogs have become a mania.

What's left in blogging to buy? For starters, use "weblog" instead of "blog" if you need to. Although more accurate, the term weblog is far from being as popular as blog. Although a little riskier, try to search for niche areas of blogging as well. Two examples of this are klogs and reblogs. Klogs are knowledge-based blogs that are picking up steam inside of schools and companies, while reblogs utilize previously used content. Look for more on the blog industry and its relationship with domains in the coming weeks on DomainRadar.com. 

Here is a partial listing of the different blogs out there:

weblogs - less used term for blog
moblogs - blogs from a camera phone
photoblogs - close to moblogs but not used quite as much
klogs - knowledge-based blogs
audblogs - audio blogs
reblogs - blogs with previously used content
glogs - cyborg logs
metablogs - ?

Registering different versions of a type of blog (substitute the type of blog for "blog"):

blog - personal webpage that is updated regularly with various resources
blogs - plural version of blogs
blogger - they maintain the blog
bloggers - plural version of blogger
blogging - posting to the blog
blogosphere - the entire world of blogs and blogging 

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