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James said:nice!!
Thanks Wot :]
accentnepal said:If Rick had to start over with $500 (and had the energy of youth) he would do something that few or no other people have considered. That was what he did 20 years ago, it did not need to be domains, it just happened that was where he found an opening. And he might fail this time, perhaps he failed a few times before he got into domains.
Be a great question to ask him, if you had only $500 where would you put it?
goodkarmaco said:Yes Yofie,
I too think sometimes when people talk about money it shows a little vanity.
The exception to that rule for me is if I am among friends.
I will dare say Monte, or Frank S, was probably inspired many times by the success and at times boast coming from Rick. I have only been in this business a few years so I may not know the real histroy of these guys. I suspect though Monte and Frank were rapid rising stars after Rick blazed the trail.
Monte is not just a domainer, he runs a large auction house, and that makes his statements a little more corporate. Listening to Rick reminds me of a friendly chat at a card game or grabbing a beer somewhere. I would welcome the boasts as what he is doing and the money he is churning makes him like Donald Trump in most domainers eyes.
So the only thing that is different in their way of talking about money is Rick talks like a domainer might talk to a friend he is telling the domain business too. Maybe a little more colorful than some. The Montes of our world brag too. For instance when they say they sold 4 million dollars worth of domains at a recent auction in some public statement.
I wish more domainers who have made it would tell us how much they made this week and how. I need all the inspiration I can get.
tricolorro said::hi:
A couple of German domain forums broke the news.
Deutsche Telekom bought Telecom.com from Rick.
Talk about Dialing For Dollars!
Patrick
Timewarp said:It's easy for us to say he was just lucky for getting in to the market early but if any of us had that domain in 1997 how many of us would have sold out years ago for $100K or $200K or a paltry half million, he knew what he was doing to pull off a sale like that!
Rick likes to show off for sureYofie said:I do think Rick has done Wonders for all domainers, but others have as well. I don't see Frank S. or Ron J. or Monte talking about there money all the time. I just don't get the fact that he is always talking about his money and yapping about his 5,000 sq ft suite... Who cares if you are staying in the engine room!
I guess it just bugs me when people talk about the money they have.... It's not very classy IMO.
Rick Schwartz said:The information being made up here and now elsewhere is not accurate. I did not sell Telcom.com. I don't and never have owned that domain. The domain I sold will be announced in 1-2 weeks.
Just want to set the record straight.
Thank you!
Just looking at Whois history clearly shows this is not the case for Telecom.com .tricolorro said::hi:
A couple of German domain forums broke the news.
Deutsche Telekom bought Telecom.com from Rick.
Talk about Dialing For Dollars!
Patrick
Makes a lot of "expert" predictions wrong thenRick Schwartz said:The information being made up here and now elsewhere is not accurate. I did not sell Telcom.com. I don't and never have owned that domain. The domain I sold will be announced in 1-2 weeks.
Just want to set the record straight.
Thank you!
tricolorro said::hi:
A couple of German domain forums broke the news.
Deutsche Telekom bought Telecom.com from Rick.
Talk about Dialing For Dollars!
Patrick
nrmillions said:A lot of names regged in the 90s for $70 or even for free are worth six figures now. The hard thing to do would be to reg a name right now in 2008 for $7 and have it sell to an enduser for $700k.
-AAE- said:Wow.
Im wondering what name he sold :D
Rick Schwartz said:The information being made up here and now elsewhere is not accurate. I did not sell Telcom.com. I don't and never have owned that domain. The domain I sold will be announced in 1-2 weeks.
Just want to set the record straight.
Thank you!