Ok, maybe that did seem a bit attacking, sorry. But it really was an honest question: Are you still arguing for the sake of arguing or do you still honestly think that you have made a point? You speak of the "self appointed experts" and attack their valid points without knowing two bits about them. How are you an expert on this particular subject?

I'm not trying to be rude, I really am curious.

oh noes! pls somebody buy all my domains! :Oh crap

fluffygrrl has to be a troll nick

Sorry, I've been watching too much Star Trek.

It doesn't have to cost you something to be valuable. It merely has to be something someone desires.

And I'm not disputing type in traffic EXISTS. However, try some math.

With current 6months revenue valuation schemes, 15 millions worth of domains that presumably sold last month must produce 250k in ppc every month. With a 10 cent per click average price, that means 2.5M clicks. With a 0.5% ctr, which may well be generous for parked domains, that comes to half a billion visitors.

They do not get half a billion visitors a month.

:error:error

It seems they have become a greater drain on the would-be investor with little understanding and time to lose.

WTF are you talking about, i was talking about hookers and hotdogs. :warning

Didn't feel like reading through everything, But if nobody has mentioned it yet porn.com sold for $9.5 million and pimproll.com will be hosting it once its developed.

"We will take our time with PORN.COM", says a representative of MXN Ltd. It does not need to transform overnight. In the meantime, we will keep it parked with PremiumTraffic.com, a leading domain name monetization company".

If you plan to signup for pimproll PLEASE pm me and ill send you my referral link :)

Yea... well I now what thats like uno
 

^^ Just making small talk...

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what's the man said, in 5 years ?

Ever hear of "abitrage"? Heh, can't wait till my business partner Rick Latona sees this one. He's built an entire business making SERIOUS bank on doing exactly what you're saying doesn't make money. Then again, he might be too busy making money to bother. Normally that's my motto. Only reason I'm here now is b/c Shey showed me the thread.

Delusions? Tell ya what, next time you're in the Philippines come check out the $450,000 condo we're buying next week off the proceeds of selling one choice domain that we bought a few years back for less than 25K. As you enjoy the magnificent view from the 47th floor tell me if you're having a delusion.

Domains are like any other business people. Some are good at it and make bank. some aren't and don't make jack. If you're one of those that failed and didn't make money don't go around trashing the entire business model. Just because you weren't smart enough to make a good profit doesn't mean no one else can. If there's wasn't a way to make money you most likely wouldn't have gotten into it in the first place and more importantly no one else would be out there doing it now!

And I've said my peace, I'm out.

:1orglaugh

Of course, and the point of the post was to make a point that wasn't a point to mock the point made by the thread starter.

cliff notes: I purposely drew the wrong conclusion to be sarcastic.

Marc I feel like I should post a bare ass pic takin in Costa. :winkwink:

lol yep , just another troll sicking for attention :)

Cool joke!

It seems this needs to be personally explained to each and every single person with a vested interest.

THIS THREAD IS NOT ABOUT YOU PERSONALLY. It's not. I don't care if you're married or not, live in a condo or a house, in Texas or the Phillipines. Your personal circumstances don't interest me, and I'm pretty sure they don't interest anybody else on the whole world wide web.

That said, feel free to keep right up posting about them, altho it'd prolly better to start a blog.

And that's quite the gist of the argument. "Domainers" aren't business people, and whatever it is they do is not a business.

Against this, I've heard the argument that, hey, we made money. Other than being weak for the obvious reason that everybody's Warren Buffett on the internets, it's also weak because making money doesn't prove something is a business.

Generating wealth would, but not merely making money. I see many people have serious difficulty distinguishing these two, but then again that's not surprising. There is however sufficient material in this thread for anyone with half a brain to figure it out, so I won't repeat myself on that score.

Now, do tell us more about you and your problems, preocupations and triumphs, we really do fuckin care. And it has everything to do with the discussion at hand.

you are quite possibly the dumbest person on gfy. not because you're dumb, but because you don't know how dumb you are.

thats a great line.

LOL

Well, having a business doesn't prove you're making any money.

So, I'd rather just make money and have you call it what ever you want.

I see your :1orglaugh:1orglaugh and raise you :1orglaugh:1orglaugh

Totally humorous thread.

:pimp

Funny stuff

:1orglaugh

Quote of the day.

Wasn't so hard now, was it :)

Go for it! Those that don't know this pic, on the Costa Rica show I did the horseback riding thing, got a horse with a burr up it's ass to do nothing but gallop full speed, wound up with a LOVELY case of saddle sores up and down my ass cheeks.

Frankly the pic would be perfectly appropriate. Pretty much sums up this fluffer in my book: annoying and irritating pain in the ass but if you don't give it any attention it'll go away soon enough :)

There is nothing more irritating than stupid person with a small amount of education. Clearly you've either taken 1 course in economics that you don't actually understand, read a bunch of books written by other stupid people who think they're smart - or maybe you even have a degree from some back-woods college (cracker-jack box, whatever).

You have said several times that you think people in this thread have trouble differentiating between 'creating wealth' and 'making money' - what is truly pathetic is that you've demonstrated that you are not able to distinguish between the ability to read and regurgitate the words from a text book and the ability to correctly analyze real-world situations and apply knowledge by creating valid, coherent arguments. You mask your lack of real understanding with a talent for the written word.

Your attempts to use metaphors and 'fables' to make your point is a prime example of a stupid person trying to be smart. Please continue to enlighten us with some more apt stories that capture the essence on the domain business.

P.S. - your site is a piece of shit, I hope you got paid by me going there or you really are an idiot.

Why thank you. I wish there was something nice I could say about you in return, but sadly, 2000 or so posts fail to produce anything whatsoever I could cling to. Do stop by again.

your lack of comprehension is what leaves you with nothing to say...

Mikey baby, you've made half a dozen or so content-free posts in this thread, I still don't give a shit about your bloated head, but here's a reply to you so maybe you're finally satisfied and stfu. Thanks.

you start an investment analysis thread only to end with an unoriginal pic of a girl doing a handstand. good job fuckface.

Hahaha. I own some insertion domains that get type-in traffic. I don't even bother with a landing page. I simply send the traffic directly to a sponsor and yield 14 cents per click with it. I pay about 100 dollars per year in reg fees for those domains and they make me over 2 thousand dollars per year.

Yes, that's a pissy little amount, but when you've got the domain portfolios that some of the people in this thread have, then it amounts to a very significant amount indeed.

Sounds about right.

Certainly not. It ammounts to a pissy poor ammount on a different scale. If you put 10M in the lap of the government, they're going to pay you half a million a year. 40k a month, that is.

Calling something an "investment" that barely keeps up with federal bonds, just because you've heard some stories about pies falling from the sky... hehehe. God they crack me up.

wrong I knew those guys and they got $5 million for it.

we owned a small domain called webtv.com eventually that also got bought for big big bucks.

Not many people have 10 mil to invest, and some people who claim to have such money to invest use it as more of a way to get responses than anything else. How much is the government going to give you for $100 or even $1000 investment?

Anyways, while you've got it all figured out and have the domaining world at its knees, how much money are you making doing whatever it is your doing?

We wish you luck :). However, you've been at it for couple decades now almost, haventcha. Much longer ?

Isn't this verbiage strikingly reminescent of each and every Ponzi scheme since Ponzi himself ?

O boy, just hang on in there, and o boy aren't you bothered you didn't get in early.

I'm sure some of the people that got in real early made some money. Not the sort of money they claimed AT THE TIME, but maybe not far off. Nowhere near the sort of money people claim today.

The entire "business"/scam depends on there being more and more and ever more idiots with tons of cash that buy into this scarcity theory. While there's always plenty of idiots, there's not always plenty of idiots with arbitrary ammounts of cash falling off of them.

And as the "smart investors" that took credit to dump the money into imaginary "real estate" start getting the interests squeezed out of them, more and more incredibly great deals are going to pop up, and for incredibly low prices. Which will keep halving every month till all the puff is squeezed out of this play-pretend market.

About five to ten times more than what you will get out of parking the very valuable domain name those dollars would buy you.

Apparently, enough.