4Chan is a well known chat and image sharing website that is visited by close to ten million people each month. The website was started in 2003 by a New York City teen, and the site grew rapidly in popularity. A couple of weeks ago, it was announced on TechCrunch that the founder of 4Chan received $625,000 in funding for his new venture called Canvas Networks (canv.as).
What some of you may or may not be aware of up to this point is that 4Chan cannot be found by visiting 4Chan.com. 4Chan uses 4Chan.org, and likely as a result of confusion between the domain extension, over 70,000 people in March accidentally visited the .com, according to the Compete stats I found.
While this traffic leakage may be minimal compared to the site’s millions of visitors per month, I have heard that Compete stats don’t always give the most accurate picture of type-in traffic, so that number could actually be higher. 70,000+ visitors is a large football stadium full of people – the Louisiana Superdomain, Lambeau Field, Sun Life Stadium, or Gillette Stadium are examples of football stadiums close to that size.
Interestingly, a Whois search on DomainTools shows that 4Chan.org was created in February 0f 2004, although the Wikipedia article about the site says 4Chan was founded in October of 2003. 4Chan.com was first registered in December of 2003, and is owned by “OS Domain Holdings III, LLC.”
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