I had wrote about Aggregation feeds back in June. With anything, there is always the good and the bad. I have always had mixed feelings about them.

The problem I am having more of right now is Saturation of using one’s feed… Domaining.com, AdamDicker.com are two of the main ones that grab DotWeekly.com’s feed. I’m sure other’s do as well and now DnHeadlines.com is interested as well.

Here is my recent Q&A with Michael from DnHeadlines:

DnHeadlines: Q, What do you think about becoming part of the DNHeadlines.com RSS inventory?

My Answer:

Hi Michael,

I guess I have always had mixed feelings about blog aggregation.

The good for the blog owner:

It can provide extra traffic (readers) to your site, which can also bring in more direct readers.

Gain in links.

The bad for the blog owner:

The person grabbing the feed is "getting something for nothing"! Who says they will be sending traffic "back" and not just using the content.

The person grabbing the feed is profiting from somebody else’s work. IMO (ie, adding "ads") because without the aggregation, Domaining.com and DNHeadlines.com wouldn’t have the content they do and the advertisers wouldn’t be around or getting clicks.

The bloggers unique content is spread around the web, making the blogs unique content not very unique anymore. Although the blogger was the first, that doesn’t mean all the traffic from that content goes TO the site that started it.

Saturation. After domaining.com started, more and more "domain" aggregation sites are coming up. Do we really need more?

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I think our industry is way to spread out already. Don’t get me wrong, competition is good but when is the fine line of to many or to much?

How many think like I do, that the domain industry has way to many Auction Services? Same thing as the Blog Aggregation. It’s good and bad. Bad for buyers, because how do you be so many places? How can you reasearch so many different domains all over the place, let alone find them all..

What if the auction services offered up all their domains into 2 auctions per day as a Group? Each get to keep their own profits etc. Then you would only have One Place to do your reasearch. One auction for Expired Domains, the second auction for the day would be "customer domains". TDNAM, Pool, SnapNames, Afternic and Namjet, Sedo all on ONE auction service… I know I’m dreaming, but it "could" be done.