Face it, these guys were doing this LONG before any of you were. They had a vision and went with the basics available to them, parking pages. It's the only way without a developed web site (other than selling). When Kev was registering God.com and Heaven.com and Hell.com and whatever else he owns you were debating if you should spend the $50 on a .com you searched for a godaddy or other. (Well I was :D) You were "on to something" when Kev was "on to investors" for more money to invest in great keyword domains. They all come at a price tag. Especially at the end of the year. Who's paying for that? Kev himself? or the investments he received? did he even receive investments? I don't know and I really don't care but he had to do this somehow with "other people" that knew what was going on in this industry. He's a doctor, doctors make decent coin per year. He would have also had to spend 6+ years learning how to become one! What? he got a tip and discovered that he wouldn't practice anymore, instead he would become a internet legend by hoarding domain names? Get the point? someone tipped him. How much bloody time does a Dr. Have to sit on the chair all day registering domain names? is my final point. Shouldn't he be saving lives?
Insider information if you will. On second note, it's really simple math to consider the fact that hmm, only 1 person can own this particular .com and if I buy it for $50 I can easily resell in the future to someone who can't have it and wants it. Let's keep in mind humans want ANYTHING they cannot have. Doesn't matter what it is. All of you in here want something you can't have. Correct me if I'm wrong.
I'm huge on getting rid of parking pages. They do nothing. I'm also aware that I will never earn a million from parking domains. Parking companies want to do the same thing and they USE YOU to make their "investors" understand we have "thousands of clients .. we need more money". The more money flowing in the more fancy the cars, planes and travel becomes. Your quality of life increases and you want more. It doesn't stop really. Earn your first $1000 from the web and you'll undoubtly want $2000. Make a million you'll want 2 million.
If you want to earn money on the internet you better get off your asses and start learning how to develop web sites. Simply put. Read the fine lines about these guys ... they don't know how to develop sites or what to do with their million dollar names and obviously have no intention of doing so. But now they are being forced in a way to do something because as you saw quoted above .. money is starting to die down as the people learn about these ads and don't want to click em. Don't believe me? check out NamePros and DNF and DP forums where almost all the users that are connected with Adsense feel everything is decreasing... quickly. People aren't STUPID. It only takes one average joe 10 seconds to land on a parked page, click a link and discover wait... this isn't like google, this sucks. When he sees it again he clicks BACK or clicks Google.
What we're seeing now is the hoarders are finding that PPC is decreasing and it's time to "Develop" the sites into businesses. The money is going away fast. Time to develop. It don't matter, they will always have the edge of any NamePro domainer or enthusiast because again, face it they are worth millions. Money talks, bullshit walks.
There is a lession to learn here. Develop your web site and stop using parking programs.
We've seen Tax on email, tax on digital goods, tax on this and that... it's only going to get worse. We've also seen concern regarding "Better register your .com for 10 years" as registrars will be able to charge you what THEY feel your name is worth not to mention The Snowe bill trying to squeeze in like flin. On second thought, I'm not "as informed" as many of you domainers so I kinda look at Google as Big Brother. Didn't the Bush administration force google to hand over search results not too long ago? Wait a sec, didn't Bush Administration lose like 1 million emails during the time of 9/11? do you REALLY THINK the US government is sitting there like jack asses letting google do it's thing as search queries fly by? I'm big on the notion that they are watching EVERYTHING you do. Why wouldn't they? everyone's homepage is set to google, they know it, you know it, Everyone knows it. That's called invasion of privacy, more specifically, spying (
IF that's what is happening right now). Why wouldn't they? do you think they care about laws? Go do some research on Bush and their criminal activities over the past several years.
Things are a-changing. You better be ready. How? Learn how to develop web sites and make a bloody difference. It's up to you.
I earn a good living working hard doing what I do (14-18 hour days). I develop software for businesses that want to start online marketplaces. Development is where the money is. I'm not joking. BUT -- there is a huge price to pay for internet development and that is solely TIME. You lose a lot of great things life has to offer when learning, training, discovering JS, AJAX, PHP, MYSQL but what is life without having some coin to enjoy some of the things that are not free?
Internet and Developed web sites go hand in hand. Not some parking page that offers much to be desired where you're sitting on you ass all day trying to buy more domains to park them. If that guy is you, you're going to lose in the end BIG TIME. When parking stops (and it will, you watch) how will you pay for all your crap names? you won't. You'll let them expire as if you never owned them.
This is only my opinion. I see what I see. Nothing more, nothing less.
I've gone on long enough. Sorry folks. This topic is great, but I feel people that are parking need to look at the real way to make money. Not bitch and complain about people like Kev. He saw something, jumped on it and there you have it. A legend was born.
If you were Kev, you would have done NOTHING different (other than develop them by hiring a developer and designer to move forward on every domain purchase) Trust me