Legendary Domain investor Rick Schwartz a/k/a the Domain King, wrote to me about the post we published about earlier this week from MarketingLand.com, that Domain Names appeared in substantially more television commercials that aired during the Super Bowl than Hashtags and Facebook Pages. He thinks it's a game changer, a reset in the importance of Domains. So here are Rick's thoughts and … [Read more...]
The Domain King Is Now The King Of Deplorables
Rick Schwartz, who is know as and has a US trademark on the term "Domain King" is now certainly the King of "Deplorables" In the 2016 President election the term "Deplorables" gained amazing traction after Hillary Clinton said that the half of Donald Trump's supports were in the "Basket of Deplorables". Trump supporters went on to wear the "Deplorables" tag as a badge of honor. The Domain … [Read more...]
10 Takeaways from the Rick Schwartz interview
Once again I would like to thank Rick Schwartz for taking the time to do an interview that read more like a domain guidebook. The interview was long and some people do not like to read the whole article when it's 2000 words, let alone over 5,600 words. So here are 10 takeaways from the interview: On China It is far from dead and it may be a Pigeon Shit Bubble. The dollars are real … [Read more...]
Rick Schwartz talks to us about China,.Web and much much more
It's been over 10 months since Rick Schwartz has sat down and written his thoughts on domaining. I contacted Rick to ask him if he was up for an interview and he graciously obliged. Below is what I consider a post to bookmark and read a couple times over. I wanted to touch upon China, Parking, and the new gtld program. The last question will hopefully be a big help for new investors entering … [Read more...]
Rick Schwartz Comes In First for Greatest Domainer of All Time
Greatest Domainer of All Time ? Two years ago when we asked who was Greatest Domainer of All Time ? Frank Schilling was the runaway winner. Fast forward to today and Rick Schwartz wins going away. Rick garnered 36% of the vote, 98 out of 273 votes. Frank Schilling was 29 behind at 69. Yun Ye won bronze getting 23 votes or 8%. Thanks to everyone who voted in the poll. Full results … [Read more...]
Sedo Weekly Transactions Total $1.5million led by Boardroom.com
Over the past week, 542 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.5m. 62% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: Top .com: boardroom.com at 75,000 USD Top ccTLD: itjobs.in at 18,000 GBP Top “other” TLD: tea.world at 5,000 USD After no five figure .com sales last week there were four this week. It was a good … [Read more...]
Rick Schwartz Files UDRP on DomainKing.biz
Rick Schwartz's company Virtual Dates, Inc has filed a second UDRP based on his "Domain King" federally registered trademark, this time on the domain name DomainKing.biz. About a month ago Rick Schwartz filed a UDRP on the domain name DomainKing.ng. .Ng is the country code (ccTLD) for Nigeria. At that time Rick told TheDomains.com that the UDRP on the domain DomainKing.ng was "the first … [Read more...]