As the movie about WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange entitled The Fifth Estate, whose URL is TheFifthEstateMovie.com, is getting ready to open 0n October 18, two well known domainers are primed to make some money off the movie which is already getting a lot of buzz.
Frank Schilling’s Name Administration owns the domain name FifthEstate.com while my Domain Sherpa weekly domain investor co-star Page Howe owns the domain TheFifthEstate.com
The term Fifth Estate is known to be a generic term that relates to journalism.
According to Wikipedia.org, the Fifth Estate, is used to describe media outlets (including the blogosphere) that see themselves in opposition to mainstream media.
Both of the domain names are already getting traffic according to Alexa.
FifthEstate.com according to Alexa has a ranking of 13.3 million while the domain name TheFifthEstate.com which is a direct match of the name of the movie,has a higher Alexa Ranking of 10.8 Million.
The official website of the movie has an Alexa Ranking of 2.6 Million.
Expect traffic on all of these domains to pick up as the movie opens a week from Friday.
Its another example of what could happen when you register a domain name of a well known term or phrase as opposed to a made up word or phrase.
Not much money to be made by movie domains. There will be a spike on Friday and then a quick return to normal traffic.
The good news about this domain is The Fifth Estate, as Mike writes, is a well-known term relating to journalism and broadcast journalism. The movie is aptly titled, given the subject matter, and the term is generic enough to have more staying power than other movie titles that would be domains. 😉
what onlinedomain.com said…
i thought that title sounded familar, that was my idea all along when i bought it. a “best of the blogs” for the fifth estate. thanks for the mention
page howe
Do they own lots of names with the word “estate” ??
Just curious. . .
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Page
No problem buy me a few drinks at TRAFFIC
If you sell it we will have to move up to bottle service
gladly…..page
get in – get out faster – how did that deal with the new royal baby do – I am told by very unreliable sources – that .com did not do well – go figure ?
I’d hazard a guess that the type-in traffic & notable Alexa rankings for both domains is largely driven by Canadians looking for “The Fifth Estate” – a long-running (~35+ years) investigative journalism program broadcast weekly on the Canadian Broadcast Corporation (CBC).
http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/
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~~ From Wikipedia ~~
The Fifth Estate is a Canadian television newsmagazine, which airs on the English language CBC Television network. The name is a play on the fact that the media are sometimes referred to as the Fourth Estate, and was chosen to highlight the program’s determination to go beyond everyday news into original journalism. The program has been on the air since September 1975,[1] and its primary focus is on investigative journalism. It has engaged in co-productions with the BBC, The New York Times, the leading Canadian newspapers The Globe and Mail and The Toronto Star, and often with the PBS series Frontline.