advice How Do We Measure Greatness?

For me, the greatest domainer is simply the one who makes the most total profit by his/her domains.

Even if it involves a lot of "luck" and being at the right place at the right time.

Just my 2 cents...

Being "Great" is not simply about making the Benjamins ($$$). Too many top domainers in the industry might be making good money but are sorry excuses for human beings. They have ego's bigger than Donald Trump's ego and are just as dellusional. The industry is filled with smoke and mirrors as we have seen with the recent NJ debacle where industry leaders could be employing questionable business practices. Some of these people were/are considered "great" domainers.

I think that the real great domainers are the ones that none of us have even heard off.....they are probably happily doing their thing under the radar....

My personal view is:

Being Good at something means you have become very competent and efficient in that particular disciple / industry/ skill / etc... So if it was domaining then folks making lots of money buying and selling domains would be "Good Domainers" - even if they are not adding value and lack morals and principles. - They would still be good at domaining.

Being Great at something means you have mastered that particular disciple / skill / industry / etc and you have done so without compromising your morals and principles. What you are doing adds value and your success is not dependant on ensuring that other people fail or is not dependant on you scr*wing other people over.

**lol - can't edit my above comment but I made the same typo TWICE -- I meant "Discipline" and not "Desciple"

Whizzbang said:

Earlier this week I posted an article which opened up the topic, “Who is the Greatest Domainer?” From feedback, it became evident that there was a problem around the whole definition of “Greatest” and over what period of time. I hope to outline my thoughts on this topic here.

To define “greatest we need to first ask, “Greatest in what aspect of business?” When a domain investor buys a domain name they typically have one of four ways they plan to make money from the transaction:

BUSINESS MODEL

1. Traffic – the domain has traffic that can be monetized.

2. Stock item sale – where the goal is to sell a lot of low value domains each year.

3. High value sale – typically sell a few high value domains each year.

4. Development – building a real business on a domain(s).

When we look at “greatest” then we need to consider in what business models is the individual regarded as being great. For example, Rick Schwartz is amazing at selling high value domains but last time I checked he doesn’t do development and certainly doesn’t optimize his traffic. This doesn’t mean he isn’t great (I think he is) but it highlights what he is great at.

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when you use a term like

GREATNESS

or "make great again"

the only advantage is
that everybody
thinks of something different

so you are actually targetting a lot of people
with a lot of different ideas and concepts
with one single slogan

so you actually please everybody
and at the same time please nobody

"thats greatness"

Can't pick Greatest Domainer without deciding if it means "Who regged the best %^& in the early days?" or "Who Rock Star works the heck out out of their famous premium port now?"

But to me, Frank owning Uniregistry pushes the cart over the hill.

I might not be the Greatest Domainer, but I can proudly say I have the G r e a t e s t . S i t e