Poker.com, I Mean CarbonPoker Slipping Downhill
Written by Matt W | Sunday, June 3rd, 2007
This domain name, Poker.com must be one of the most confusing things to happen with the biggest domain name in online poker. So how is Poker.com fairing after turning into a poker portal? The answer is not too good.
Their traffic rankings according to poker-seo.com, alexa, compete.com and other website tracking sites divulge into facts that Poker.com is becoming less and less popular unlike other US accepted sites like Fulltiltpoker.com whom are taking advantage of the US situation.
While affiliates and players can still visit and play at Poker.com’s software it must ONLY be through an affiliate link. If a player were to go directly to Poker.com without going through an information site link like ours, they would be directed to a regular poker room review site.
Steve Badger from playwinningpoker.com, a man who has been in this business longer than anyone said that Poker.com has been one of the most mismanaged domain names of its time. According to him the domain name has potential to be a ten figure business but instead it stays limp at only an eight figure business.
After adding Carbonpoker as their new “Name Brand” site on the Merge Gaming Network the site has experienced a large decrease in player volume despite still accepting US players.
The site has largely attracted freeroll hunters from the beginning but lately their real money traffic has plummetted to about 300 on average at peak playing hours says pokersitescout.com. Bigger brands like PokerStars are in the 10,000-15,000 range.
Even stranger is how they tried to auction the site off for a sum of $25 million but supposedly the deal never went through. Strange things continue to go on with Poker.com the domain and it will be interesting to see who ends up with the lucrative domain name.
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