Mike Arrington's TechCrunch is a traffic monster, in large part because he works really hard. But he has some help, too. For instance, he's getting an unintentional assist from competitor Om Malik.
Here's how: Om's NewTeeVee.com is a blog covering digital video. NewTeeVee.org, however, is owned by a guy in Missouri, Ross Hosman, who sends all traffic to the site to TechCrunch.
Hosman says he's been trying to reach Om for at least a year to sell him the domain, and says he'd part with it for $50 (we asked Om for a response but don't have one yet). Hosman, who says he's a network security engineer at a "very big" Internet hosting company, says he's sold domains like Virb.org, Crazyegg.org, Imagekind.org and Hotpads.org in the past. Just a hobby that nets him around $10,000 a year. It's not that Ross doesn't like NewTeeVee, or have a thing against Om. But, he says, "for the record, I do prefer Techcrunch."
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