Top Web Domains

Interesting report! This is a ranking of web domains based on unique visitors from Feb. '05 to '06. The top five web domains were:
1. Yahoo.com - experienced a 5% increase
2. Google.com - experienced a 21% increase
3. MSN.com - experienced a 1% increase
4. AOL.com - unchanged
5. eBay.com - experienced a -3% decrease

The big winners though, in descending order, were: Blogger.com, MySpace.com, Wikipedia.org, and CitySearch.com. Notable declines, in no particular order, were: eBay.com, Microsoft.com, Expedia.com, CNN.com, Geocities.com, IRS.gov, CareerBuilder.com, Monster.com, Overstock.com, Orbitz.com, and CheapTickets.com.

It would be interesting to know what the biggest winners and losers attribute their traffic or lack thereof to. Given the time span of the study, we can eliminate seasonal fluctuations. Purely speculative...my guess is that these findings can be partly attributed to marketing (both on- and offline marketing spend including SEM), popular trends (e.g. MySpace.com), business maturation and plateauing, and competition.

See: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/custom/2006/03/31/CU2006033101136.html