What Happened to 66Stage.com?
66Stage.com is a well-known video sharing website that essentially embedded movies hosted on servers such as; Youku.com, Tudou.com, Veoh.com, Videos.Yahoo.com, Video.Google.com, and MegaVideo.com; just to name a few. It was a very popular site; most likely due to the fact that it was a source to watch movies that had only recently premiered in theatres.
However, something happened to 66Stage.com some time last week; visitors no longer received a homepage that listed all the latest movies that had been posted on the site… they were redirected to www.themoviedownloads.com, which has a cheery young person introducing TheMovieDownloads as the Number 1 Movie Downloads website in the world. Disappointing? definitely.
I find its not uncommon for someone to:
STEP 1: Build a website and generate lots of traffic
STEP 2: Once it has reached significant traffic levels, sell the domain name / website to someone where it can be URL forwarded to another website to increase traffic to that website and thus revenue by taking advantage of search engine results, bookmarks to the site, etc. I believe that this is what could have possible happened to 66Stage.com. After you have all the backlinks, bookmarks and social buzz about the site, all you have to do is sit back and watch your traffic fly through the roof.
66Stage.com background:
Website Traffic (compete.com):
66Stage.com received approximately 150k visitors per month
Website Age (archive.org):
66Stage.com has only been indexed as far as October 2007
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://66stage.com
Domain Name Registration (domainsatcost.ca):
The domain name doesnt actually expire until September later this year, but was recently updated on February 6 2009
http://domainsatcost.ca/DomainSearch.aspx?q=66stage&t=CA,COM,NET,ORG,BIZ,INFO,US,NAME
Call it part domain name monetization or simply business. The bottom line is that nothing is going to be free forever, BUT on the web, you can be assured that there will always be another website doing the same thing or will be if one goes down.
Tell me what you think about my assumption in a comment below.
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yeah its no www in front of the 66stage now… I just checked my previous bookmarks, they dont work, but going directly in without typing the www works. Thanks for the information on web business. nm it is switched lol its not 66stage its stage66… sorry dummy
… Nevermind, the site is definitely not working, visually you see it as it is supposed to be, but everytime you click it does bring you to the above mentioned lame movie site, it doesnt matter what you click on. Tis a shame. Anyone else got a site please post it ups!
well I was stupid enough to goahead and became a member of that site.it’s a scam they keep telling you to download some program to see the movies,when you’re done and click the movie it goes back to blah blah become a member blah blah its like a merry go round……and yes they charged my CC very stupid i know,but i tough what the hell than i can see all the movies…..yeah right.
Artep…it always worked fine for me, except:
Veoh movies directed you to veoh.com site, and
Megamovies stopped after 72 minutes or so.
Everything else worked great. But now, all I get is “Server not found”.
Bring back Stage 6!
I think the movie industry forced them to take it down for legal reasons.
Obviously we DARE watch movies for free!!! Like DVDs the Entertainment Industry doesn’t make enough money from the garbage produced, so as with illegal music downloads, 66Stage got ripped off the web. If you look at Hulu, for the time being, it is free (of sorts)but that will change too.
CRAZY… but this is the world we live in. You are Taxed to Death and the money you pay is wasted by those elected. Amazing…
that website is okay but not as good as 66stage usta be.
stage66 is scam to fool users and 66stage.com was the original website which is closed now :/
I paid the movie download 50.00us and, still unable to watch any movies . Unable to reach anyone to inquier or to refund money
66stage caused my pc to crash. Had to purchase a new hard drive because of…..
Its a shame… i had good times watching movies from this site… fortunatly i found filmhill.com and movies-links.tv
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