Rick Schwartz Is Mad As Hell And He's Not Going To Take It Anymore

The value of domains has little if anything to do with earnings.

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Give that man a prize! I like many newbies to the industry was sucked into that vortex when first starting out but quickly realized what a bunch of hooey it really is. Earnings are but one factor in domain's true value.

Good read and thanks for making it available Duke.

Another good article on DNJournal.

Rick says "There is going to be a new solution come to domainers that will knock PPC out of the box unless things change"

Why wait? if there's truly a solution that offers better results wouldn't you want to offer it? Huge $$$$$$$$$$ for anyone with a better solution.

PPC still offers great revenue opportunity in various ways for domainers.

Another opportunity for domainers is having your own parking company with a First-tier primary feed from google or yahoo. Getting that is the ultimate for me........

Dave C.

Excellent interview thanks Ron.

Is it possible that the top domainers out there are worried that if Google stops traffic to their sites it will make their domains worthless and stop their cash cow from making them money?

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WINDtlPXmmE

SpareDomains said:

step #1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WINDtlPXmmE

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I forgot just how good that scene was.

SpareDomains said:

step #1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WINDtlPXmmE

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Or this!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyUEeWiRpTQ

My first blog post at my new vbum.com site.

http://www.vbum.com/

Let's get serious about this discussion. I read the article Duke and it's GREAT. It highlights perfectly the problems of "domaining" and that is development. Not ONE word about development from Schwartz. Here is a guy that's top 10 in our industry. A leader and a showman. Yet in his big speech makes no mention of adding VALUE to domains. As long as guys like that continue to simply park or sell I believe domaining will have a bad reputation.

He mentions a lot about PPC but in reality he is talking about parking. Google won't kill PPC for sites....but they can easily strangle parking companies. The internet wasn't built nor has perpetuated based on landing pages to actual legit content sites. Parking companies are just unnecessary middle men that provide a minimal service. They are the pizza delivery boys of the industry. They should NOT be paid well for their low positions on the ladder of the internet.

While I fully believe domains inherently intrinsic value I do not believe that value should be related to parking PPC. It should be directly related to development potential. Natural traffic is excellent and usable but it's goal should be content.

Good post by DJ....


Well researched.

labrocca said:

My first blog post at my new vbum.com site.
http://www.vbum.com/
Not ONE word about development from Schwartz. Yet in his big speech makes no mention of adding VALUE to domains. As long as guys like that continue to simply park or sell I believe domaining will have a bad reputation.

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I have to disagree that parking gives the domain industry a bad rep. Some like it and some do not. It can actually give value to domains by simply showing the revenue history.

labrocca said:

My first blog post at my new vbum.com site.
http://www.vbum.com/
He mentions a lot about PPC but in reality he is talking about parking.

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That's how I took it as well..

labrocca said:

My first blog post at my new vbum.com site.
http://www.vbum.com/
The internet wasn't built nor has perpetuated based on landing pages to actual legit content sites.

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To me A lander with links to the advertiser is no worst than a site like Shopping.com, Shopzilla.com or even insurance.com.... insurance.com and many others is not much different than a parking company they just have links to other companies.

labrocca said:

My first blog post at my new vbum.com site.
http://www.vbum.com/
Parking companies are just unnecessary middle men that provide a minimal service.

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Well ya know if the advertisers are uncomfortable with the quality of traffic their receiving from a parked lander they can choose not to advertise on that domain name.

Dave C

To me A lander with links to the advertiser is no worst than a site like Shopping.com, Shopzilla.com or even insurance.com.... insurance.com and many others is not much different than a parking company they just have links to other companies.

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If that's how you feel then add Google to the list as well. Sorry but I have to 100% disagree with you that sites like Shopzilla are the same as parked pages. I can choose to not use shopzilla. Most are unaware that they are on a parked page and are tricked into giving someone else revenue via link. People aren't tricked at Shopzilla. It's clear that links to products are at other sites. It's not clear at all what parking pages do.

labrocca said:

I can choose to not use shopzilla. Most are unaware that they are on a parked page and are tricked into giving someone else revenue via link. People aren't tricked at Shopzilla. It's clear that links to products are at other sites. It's not clear at all what parking pages do.

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1. I can choose not to use a parked page

2. It's not the shoppers biz how much I get paid and I'm sure shopzilla, shopping and insurance.com don't display what they get per click either.

3. They are in no way being tricked

4. It is clear what parking pages do.....Advertisers like Dell run an ad and display their url clearly.

Bitter

Duke said:

Rick Schwartz is on the warpath. In an exclusive interview for DN Journal's monthly newsletter previewing the Sept. 23-26 T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference in New York, Schwartz laid into cyber squatters, PPC companies, registrars and even "show fatigue". Find out why he has taken off the gloves.

http://www.dnjournal.com/newsletters/2008/august.htm

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He's probably not making as much money as he once did. Why else would he give a crap about domainers with questionable character ... take a look a www.jerkoff.mobi and then tell me he's a creative, innovative domainer. Don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with making a few bucks hyping buttplugs and trannys, but then don't pass judgement on the ethics of domainers and domain-related companies who are also legally profiteering.

Wah wah wah, my revenue stream is drying up! I'll have to get off my fat ass and get a real job, maybe. They've stopped coming to 12 domainer conventions each year ... duh!

Talk about someone who's been giving domainers a bad name ...

Ron, I am a big fan. You continue to put out top quality news every week. WOW!!!

DomainSubway said:

Ron, I am a big fan. You continue to put out top quality news every week. WOW!!!

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I follow your articles very closely.

Thanks Ron!!

It seemed to me that Rick said a lot but said nothing really.

He really did not say what he was going to do about it. Raise hell? But what does that mean? If he'll get something orgainized, then I am all for it. How come we don't hear the DNOA or anybody else saying anything about this? It just seems as domainers we are really ineffective at getting anything done in our industry.

Really, we just need all legit domainers to begin giving registrars, other domainers, auction houses, etc...... a hard time about involving themselves with TM domains..... and we have to be serious about it.

How come we don't hear the DNOA or anybody else saying anything about this?

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I suspect that behind closed doors lots of people are making money in ways they won't admit in the open.

labrocca said:

I suspect that behind closed doors lots of people are making money in ways they won't admit in the open.

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ditto

labrocca said:

I suspect that behind closed doors lots of people are making money in ways they won't admit in the open.

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Makes sense.

I hope that is not true of most of the members. If so, then God help us all if we don't get out of parking and more into development before the big G Hammer comes down.

labrocca said:

I suspect that behind closed doors lots of people are making money in ways they won't admit in the open.

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I agree. Why share the info when you can keep 100% to yourself?