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Morning Folks!! A distinction has to be made between investment quality domains and those domains folks buy to flip as fast as possible. Those are 2 separate and distinct business models even tho they coexist together and benefit each other in many ways. As I stated before "First of all anything can be sold. Any extension has an aftermarket. So there is always money to be made. So let's be clear on that." So there will always be aftermarkets for .whatever and money to be made. I compare it to the waiter making $500/night at a top restaurant and a waiter making $50 a night at a restaurant that is 3X as busy but the prices are lower. The guy...
Read More »Morning Folks!! Numbers have always been my roadmap. Numbers cut through all the motives, agendas and bullshit and hopes and all the rest. Numbers don't lie people do. I am guilty of forming opinions based on numbers regardless of the fallout or who is involved and I have done that since 1996. I test and I report. I invest to find REAL answers. My reports cut all ways because I just follow them wherever those numbers lead and to the conclusions they provide. I now have some conclusions and if you have been following my posts over the past year you won't be surprised. Some will always squeal but that is becuase they are emotionally and finacially invested in whatever...
Read More »Morning Folks!! If you have no sense of history it is hard to know where the future is going. I look to history for almost every new event and apply a test to see if it is consistent with other points of history. It started with the "Front Door". That is how business started. That was the ONLY access. The Front Door. Then one day somebody got smart and told the good customers to come in the "Side Door" as not to deal with the other folks or the lines. Then of course came the "Back Door" for deliveries and still other folks. Some even used the back door for special customers! Imagine that. See this was before there was...
Read More »Afternoon, Want to know what Juan Calle thinks of Domainers after taking MILLIONS of our dollars??? You are not much more than a "SQUATTER"! Calle: $30 price: "Deters Domainers from Cybersquatting." I guess sponsoring ALL the major domain shows was your way of deterring us?? Watch this interview on Youtube that Elliot Just Posted. And since Juan's customer owns a .net and filed a UDRP against the owner of the .com that was registered long before he went into business, I think domainers would label him a "Reverse Domain Hijacker" as long as we are throwing labels loosely around here. Rick Schwartz UPDATE: On his blog here Juan states: "But there is an aspect in the world of domaining that...
Read More »Afternoon, Want to know what Juan Calle thinks of Domainers after taking MILLIONS of our dollars??? Then watch this interview on Youtube that Elliot Just Posted. Rick Schwartz
Read More »Morning Folks!! I don't do well with morons. Especially when they are disguised as professionals that are supposed to know what they do for a living. So when I have to deal with idiots that are clueless about what they do and whatever they are doing I don't play well. These guys will only last a few weeks or months anyways until the other idiots they work with find out that he knows even less than them. Let's have a meeting! You all know that "Meetings" are a pet peeve of mine. I have worked with enough entities to know it should not be a "Meeting." It should be named, "Let's make a decision" because most meetings achieve little in...
Read More »Afternoon Folks!! I was just sent this a few minutes ago and wanted to share a story about Candy.com that came out earlier today. Rick Schwartz
Read More »Afternoon Folks!! As you might have heard, T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Returns to Las Vegas in 2013. We will be returning to Las Vegas for the 7th time! But this time in a new venue that you are sure to love. We had great times at the Venetian but that now is part of the history of T.R.A.F.F.I.C. We are stepping it up a notch and going to the fabulous 5 Star BELLAGIO HOTEL!!!! T.R.A.F.F.I.C. WEST Starts right after the Memorial Day Weekend next year. So save the date and we will have more to say in the year ahead. Until then, let me remind you that TONIGHT the price of attending our October show at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Fort Lauderdale...
Read More »Morning folks!! I was looking for a post I thought I already wrote announcing our plans for 2013 and Las Vegas and stumbled on this little gem that I wrote back on February 20th but decided not to post at that time. I have a number of posts that I write and never publish or wait until the right time. This is one of them. This is basically Part 2 of a story I started telling here. I was constrained by the times and my own knowledge. But my mission was to build a $1MM revenue engine that would act as an oil well and be able to pump for my lifetime and beyond that annual minimum. In 1996 I...
Read More »Morning Folks!! If your goal is to have a commercial and worldwide presence then dotcom is the domain extension that is recognized in that manner. If you believe differently, that is fine, but the bigger your company is the more costly that belief will be over time and eventually you might be blamed for that belief. As far as the desire to get the dotcom version, it will never go away and each passing day makes it harder and more expensive to obtain. And if your competitor gets that domain, well they will likey hurt your company to the point of collapse. That is what "I" believe. Now country codes are just fine. But who can argue that it may...
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