Tomorrow as they say is a new day, there is still quite a lot to do to bring this site together. Given the amount of data that there will be in the Data Sets – it increased by 41 entries yesterday, there will be 303,000 records in the sets.
The number of individuals opting for privacy increased to 708, an increase of 26 over the previous two days. That being said there are still over 150,000 individual owners that have decided not to opt out, these will likely be the target for any mail merges or sales campaigns.
As with any business decisions, cost is a major consideration. I have been wreslting with where to pitch the price point for the data. I have a significant (595Gb) quantity of data, it is not just covering the US Data. Other countries feature, Australia, Brazil, Canada and a number of other countries are represented.
I started collecting these files twenty five years ago, the downloads started in 1999 and continue to this day. The data was used for my own research and it kept growing, the first download of the US Register was less than 25Mb in size when compressed- it is now 70 and still growing. When uncompressed, the US data files now inflate to 520Mb and I have literally thousands of these files.
As to the price point, well I was thinking along the lines of a couple of large coffee’s and a dohnut. So for the full data set, probably in the region of $15.00, with the intermediate data set being about $10.00 and the enthusiast deata set being $5.00 or there abouts.
Still enough of the ruminating, there’s still work to do today.