The New Year brings us a couple new entrants and a few changes in the top ranks.

1. Domaining Blog, Globe Domains and Domain Name Blog join the ranks of the... well... ranked. All three cover aspects of naming. I'm not 100% sold on them being in the list, but will give 'em a try for a while and see what other blog authors and readers think.
2. Due to the additions of the new sites Igor, Name Development, Snark Hunting, and Qwerky all move down a spot, and the rest move down two or more spots.
3. Away With Words has the only genuine uptick in rank - though it is hidden behind the dropping of two ranks due to the new sites.
4. Markeys and Popwink move up. Evidently the folks in the Netherlands really like naming a whole lot.
5. Brandnama, Beep.Name, and Name Ideas drop off the list of ranked sites. Rough week! I feel pretty bad, but I figure that'll give sites an incentive to break into the top million... making the naming commentary and resources that much more well known.
6. Catch-Word continues to hang on even though they continue to be mostly dead. Based on the rankings it seems like they're going to be gone next week.
7. Also look for Qwerky to overtake Name Development in January.

Spots continue to dwindle... Here are the top 13:

THREE MONTH ALEXA RANKING AVERAGES (1/1/2007):

Rank Site AlexaRank Change 1 Wordlab: 71,195 (1532) 2 Stoked Brands: 129,176 1477 3 Domaining Blog: 147,485 NEW 4 Igor: 149,103 (5959) 5 Strategic Name Development: 224782 (11,878) 6 Snark Hunting: 265,451 2243 7 Qwerky: 268,584 5957 8 GlobeDomains: 669,131 NEW 9 Away With Words: 731,455 65,382 10 Good Characters: 755,983 3191 11 Popwink: 1,451833 7034 12 Markeys: 1,513,209 7332 13 Catch-Word: 1,597,119 7733 (Schrödinger’s Blog)

Not in the top 13: Beep.Name, Brandnama, Name Ideas, Domain Name Blog, Rich With Meaning (Schrödinger’s Blog), Product Names, Motorbrand: (Schrödinger’s Blog) Pastelot (French), Ton Of Bricks/A Hundred Monkeys (Schrödinger’s Blog)