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Where are they now?

8 July 2008 | 21:04 by Wolfie
Filed under: Blogging, Internet

As I’ve mentioned before, I’m a little obsessed with Alexa rankings and their relevance (or lack of it) for measuring a website’s success. Taking a look at their pages for wolfshowl.com this evening, I discovered that I am not the first to own this domain name; according to Alexa’s WayBack Machine, from March 2002 to the end of 2005 wolfshowl.com was a purveyor of “a wide selection of Homemade oils,Lotions,bath salts and Egyptian Perfume Bottles. As well as Bondage apparel, Erotic clothing for men and women. Jewelry of all kinds, and everything you can think of for your New age Supplies. We now sell Adult Pleasure Toys.”

Sounds like it was a much more interesting site back then, doesn’t it?

But I wonder what happened to the previous owners? Did the bottom fall out of the erotic clothing and adult pleasure toy market (surely not), or did they just decide to move on to pastures new? How do you even get into selling that sort of stuff online anyway? (No, really, I’d like to know ‘cos I’m sure there must be some money in it; answers on a postcard to Wolfie Needs More Money, England).

If anyone out there was involved with wolfshowl.com before I took it over in December 2007, drop a comment and let me know what happened.

[Apparently, wolfshowl.com now attracts 0.0003% of global internet users and has an Alexa rank of 275,702. Facebook, which is currently at 5, gets about 8.5% of global internet users stopping by. Even Google (at 2) only gets around 30%. At least according to Alexa and, as I've said before, who knows how relevant their figures are?]

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