By Dan McDermott
The Lynchburg Times
dan@lynchburgtimes.com
The Huffington Post beat The New York Times in unique web visitors in May.
There. I said it.
The Drudge Report has linked to a Politico story about a bit of a Twitter-tiff between the two media heavyweights following news that Comscore found that Huffington Post had 35.5 million unique visitors in May compared with 33.59 million at NYTimes.com.
An executive from HuffPo owner AOL gloat-tweeted “Six years to disrupt 100 years. nice work team huffpost!”
Not to be outdone, NYTimes fired back, re-tweeting Forbes blogger Jeff Bercovici’s note that about 30% of HuffPo’s traffic comes from parent AOL.
Huffington Post responded with “Sorry guys, this is just for Huffingtonpost.com. AOL sites not included.”
To this the New York Times tweeted “So, are you saying that AOLNews.com does not redirect to HuffingtonPost.com?”
This is silly.
AOLNews does in fact redirect to HuffingtonPost.com. But so what? That doesn’t change the fact that the Times got beat.
Lots of sites have redirects.
Hmmm….
I wonder if the Times has redirects?
Wait, they do!
Such valuable internet properties as thejoybean.com and unexceptable.com redirect to NYTimes.com.
In fact, 44 domains redirect to the home page of The Times.
The point here isn’t who is right (HuffPo) or wrong (NYTimes) but that the fight should be honest. Brutal is good. Disingenuous is bad.
Let’s stop the hogwash. Oops… nohogwash.com also redirects to NYTimes.com.
Disclosure: Dan McDermott owns three newspapers in Virginia. His work has appeared in and/or been linked to by Huffington Post and The New York Times. He is a fan of both the new-tech website and the site that is the pride of the Old Gray Lady (oldgraylady.com also redirects to the NYTimes. Both spellings: gray and grey.)
So hang in there, New York Times. Be proud of the 44 domain names that redirect to your flagship home in the interwebitubes:
americanpresscorps.com
ashlandspecialtychemical.com
astraclimat.com
bozada.net
broeksmit.com
buckmanchemicals.com
buckmanlabs.com
cybertimes.com
cybertimes.net
darndestkids.com
drewchemicals.com
drewindustrialchemicals.com
foleychoi.com
herculeschemicals.com
huaguofeng.com
jobmarketnytimes.com
johnbozada.com
johnbozada.net
johncrimmins.com
mikeflood.com
mmbmail.com
mytimes.com
nalcochemicals.com
newyorktimes.com
newyorktimes.net
newyorktimesontheweb.com
newyorkwedge.com
newyorkwedge.net
nohogwash.com
nyt.com
nytimesontheweb.com
nyt.net
nytontheweb.com
oldgraylady.com
oldgreylady.com
oppedijkvanveen.com
roadrunnerediting.com
thebrokenyoke.com
thejoybean.com
thenewyorktimes.com
thenewyorktimes.net
thetimes.net
times.com
unexceptable.com
we-bring.com
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