Either the proprietor of cryket.com has sold the domain for a tidy little fee, is selling the domain, or it has fallen prey to the “do no evil” corporation.

Cryket (pronounced “cricket”)  was one of few places where you could search the entire Android Marketplace for phone apps via the web. It was popular with the Android development community as a handy method for charting the success and trends of applications they built against others in the store, as well as reviewing daily comments left by consumers. Some bits of information found at Cryket.com were stock market-like up and down arrows charting an application’s popularity trend over time, download statistics, an area for video and screenshot uploads, and the best part of all… a QR barcode image on each application page in the Android Marketplace that provided all the information needed to download the app with your Android phone. (example of how this was done in the video below.)

I don’t know a lot about the domain purchasing / squatting market though I’m told it’s pretty cut-throat. Websiteoutlook.com stated that the domain was worth, based on traffic and ad revenue, at around $127,618. Whether or not this number is based in reality or fantasy is for the more educated to determine. Site fans who have been going through withdrawals recently have suggested that the site no longer works thanks to an aggressive C&D campaign, the developer account cryket.com used to capture the extensive info was revoked, or they changed the Marketplace API so much that functionality was seriously impaired. Once the site was no longer able to provide up-to-the-minute data, the owner may have just decided to offer the domain for sale. Your guess is as good as mine.

Google cache screenshot of Cryket before it disappeared.

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