I have to run to the Trafficz cocktail party, but the Geo Domain Expo has been fantastic so far. While the past year or so has been a bit “bumpy” for the domain industry, the prevailing feeling in this sector of the industry is genuine optimism and excitement. Dan Pulcrano just released some very good news about his company, and I’ve heard other stories about tremendous growth for geographic domain owners.
The pioneering geodomainers continue to see growth in their websites (both in terms of traffic and advertising revenue), and new geodomainers like myself are more excited about the opportunities in this niche than anything I can recall. I haven’t been to a conference where people have been so willing to share advice and knowledge. As I’ve been told by several people, we aren’t really competitors, so it doesn’t hurt us to help someone else.
Instead of focusing on how the changing economic times are hurting revenues, lower PPC payouts, and the struggling economy, people at this conference are enthusiastic and excited about changes that are going on today. While I may be pessimistic about the health of the domain industry at times, I am very optimistic about my geodomain holdings.

Boulevards Cracks Quantcast 500
Boulevards network, at 360, now ranks among Internet’s most visited properties
Chicago, IL., July 14, 2008 – The Boulevards network now ranks among the top 500 properties on the Internet, according to traffic ratings compiled by Quantcast Corporation.
As of July 11, Boulevards’ city guides and local information services achieved a rank of 360 among Internet destinations tracked by Quantcast.
“We are pleased to be counted among the world’s largest Internet properties,.” said Boulevards CEO Dan Pulcrano in an announcement at the Associated Cities Geodomain Expo in Chicago.
“Quantcast has performed a tremendous service for the industry by becoming the first ratings service to transparently aggregate data from multiple sites into a unified ranking. This is the Forbes 500 of traffic ratings.”
“Before, many companies flew under the radar and lacked visibility because their traffic was distributed among a network of URLs,” Pulcrano added. “Now, Quantcast adds up unduplicated traffic data from all of a company’s services, then publishes and ranks the results for all to see.”
Boulevards’ rating includes aggregated traffic from Boulevards’ high profile city guides, which include LosAngeles.com, Seattle.com, Philadelphia.com, Denver.com, Dallas.com and Houston.com as well as the popular MovieTimes.com site, formerly known as “Mr. Movie Times.”
Boulevards reaches a combined total of 50 million users each year, delivering more than 300 million ad impressions annually.
About Boulevards New Media Inc.
Boulevards owns and operates sites under the primary city domain in the majority of Top 20 U.S. cities and continues to push the boundaries of the city guide industry. Born in 1994 with the idea of “inventing the local media of the future,” Boulevards’ sites were among the first city guides to allow community postings for both events and businesses. The company offers a suite of marketing and lead generation services to both local and travel-related businesses.
With properties such as Los Angeles.com, Seattle.com, San Francisco.com, Denver.com, Houston.com, Washington DC.com and Philadelphia.com, Boulevards operates in 23 of the nation’s top markets, and is the largest U.S. operator of city guides branded with high-ranking, intuitive “cityname.com” URLs.
The Boulevards network reaches more than 4 million unique viewers each month, of which 91 percent are in the U.S. With traffic ranked alongside such companies as Oprah.com and MTV.com, Boulevards is one of the nation’s leading online media companies.
About Quantcast Corporation
Quantcast provides the first open Internet ratings site that enables Web publishers and advertisers to easily understand Web demographic trends. The company’s transparent Internet ratings promote openness and accessibility to accurate data by allowing web publishers to contribute directly to the service.
Contacts:
Public Relations, Quantcast Corporation contact@quantcast.com 415.738.4755
Boulevards New Media Inc.
pr@boulevards.com
408.271.3500