Feedster is feed infrastructure, rebuilt on the domain the machines already poll. It began in 2003 as one of the first feed search engines. The company closed in 2007. The polling never stopped — feed readers, ping services, and crawlers still make 41–72K requests a day to this domain. Pomegranium owns it, and is building the business that answers them.
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Measured November 1, 2026, in the owner's Ahrefs and Cloudflare accounts. Human visits here are negligible and unmeasured — we say so on the page where we sell placements: what Feedster has is authority and machine flow, not an audience.
Three lanes, stated at their actual state. Nothing below is described as further along than it is.
Fetch, parse, normalize, and deliver feeds as a service. The plumbing by itself is a commodity — the market pays a cent or less per feed per month — so the product is the layer above it: intelligence read across the flow, the way Feedly's intelligence products sell at $1,600–$3,200 a month. The feed service is the plumbing underneath. The summary of the river is the product.
Every lane prices off one question: who exactly is polling? Feed fetchers, search crawlers, AI crawlers, and everything else, counted properly. That measurement is running now — the first read is on this page, below. Telemetry about this domain is our own input; we do not sell it, because there is no honest market for it — the priced flow in that business runs the other way.
Metered access for AI crawlers exists as a published floor ($0.001 per successful retrieval) and a closed beta with no proven buyer. We count this lane at zero today. If the market shows up, the domain is positioned. If it doesn't, nothing in the plan depended on it.
A separate thing, kept separate. While the business above builds, the domain's authority is offered as a small link-placement program — the first cash in, not the business itself. What it is, what it costs, and what it does not buy are stated in one place only: the box at the bottom of this page.
A first read of the request stream — the top user agents over one day, 63,258 requests sampled. It is a first read, not a census, and it is labeled that way — the measured set above is the full segmentation's; this table is the read that started it.
| Who | What they are | Requests |
|---|---|---|
| WordPress (XML-RPC) | Pingbacks from the blog ecosystem — sites still notifying Feedster of new posts | ≈6,204 |
| DotBot | Moz's crawler, mapping the link graph | 4,612 |
| BulkPing | A ping service — the feed era's notification machinery, still running | 2,698 |
| MJ12bot | Majestic's crawler | ≈1,841 |
| ElevenLabs crawler | An AI company's crawler, in the top ten of the day | 1,684 |
| UniversalFeedParser | A feed parser, polling feeds the way it has for fifteen years | 467 |
The RSS era's machinery never stopped calling. Until now it got a page that answered none of it. That is the gap this venture exists to close.
Coming soon — who we are building toward
The table above is who already polls. Beyond it, the record names four readers we are building toward: Feedly (a discovery surface, and a reader service) · Feedspot (discovery) · Inoreader and NewsBlur (reader services, where people actually read). Building toward means the mechanism is specified and the intake is not yet submitted; no figures attach to any of them. The rest stand as classes until the endpoint census names them: feed and search indexes · syndication consumers · and the legacy readers — the ones who knew the first Feedster and dropped it at the 2007 shutdown, who we are re-introducing ourselves to. Names join this list only when there is a live motion behind them — a submission made, or the compatibility build under way. The census that names them is specified, and ready to run.
2003. Feedster launches in San Francisco as an RSS feed search engine — one of the first, indexing the early blogosphere in near real time. It raises roughly $6.45 million from Selby Venture Partners, Omidyar Network, Mitsui, Felicis, and angels.
2007. The company closes. The domain remains, and the internet's address books never update — the polling continues, unattended, for nineteen years.
2020–22. A guest-post and link desk operates on the domain. In 2022 the domain itself is negotiated — offers reach $100K; the owner asks $230–250K; no sale. The domain stays.
2026. Pomegranium resurrects Feedster as a venture: the placement program first, the feed business behind it. This page replaced a one-page placeholder the owner had set years earlier.
Feedster is one venture in a constellation the holdco builds the same way — each company born linked into the estate. The others: Pomegranium, the holdco itself · Brandscaped, the branding and design company · Holisticly Well, concierge medicine · ContentHow.
The feed business: info@feedster.com · Placements run through the box at the bottom of this page.
A separate offer — link placements
While the lanes build, the domain's authority works. A placement is a followed link, placed in content on this domain, held for twelve months. It is bought by sites that want a reference from a DR 65 property with 2.9K referring domains — authority transfer, stated as exactly that.
| Placement | Terms | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Inner page | 12 months, prepaid, followed, in content | $300 / year |
| Inner pages ×3 | Same terms, staggered | $285 each |
| Inner pages ×5 | Same terms, staggered | $270 each |
| Homepage | Same terms · capped at 3 placements | $500 / year |
The whole program is footprint-disciplined: about ten placements across the domain's pages, staggered over weeks, in screened niches only. Renewal is at the same rate. If a placed page goes down inside the term, the placement is repaired, replaced, or refunded pro-rata.
What a placement does not buy: traffic.
Ahrefs measures zero organic search traffic to this domain, and human visits are negligible — unmeasured, and not part of this offer. Anyone who tells you a link here will send you visitors is selling you a story. What is real is the authority profile above, and that is the whole of the offer.
Is this a link farm?
No. A link farm sells volume; this program sells about ten placements a year, screened, staggered, and renewed at a stated rate. The domain's authority is the asset the whole venture is built on — spending it down for link volume would be eating the seed.
What happens at month twelve?
You renew at the same rate, or the placement comes down. No auto-renewal, no hostage renewal pricing.
Everything above is the face. This is the mechanism: tell us where the link would point, and the full offer — rates, terms, payment link — is in your email instantly. No list, no follow-up sequence. The offer is the email.