Frank Schilling's Domains?

Rhythm · #1 06-10-10, 11:59 PM

I know this may be controversial, and maybe I'm missing something (like traffic/revenue stats) , but (with a few notable exceptions), are not the majority of domains he owns that he has chosen to publish questionable with respects to quality?

http://domainnamesales.com/blog/

Please prove me wrong.

Chris.C · #2 07-10-10, 01:09 AM

No doubt there is a fair bit of fluff in there. There were some decent names as well though.

DavidL · #3 07-10-10, 07:50 AM

That's the thing. Frank got into the game late (2003) and made his millions through hundreds of thousands of 'average' domains.

1,000 mediocre names that make an average of $5/mth in combined ad revenue and sales make more money than 5 blockbuster domains that you rarely sell.

Lessons for us all. Is .au market in the same or lesser stage of maturity than the .com market was in 2003 (albeit a much smaller size)

snoopy · #4 07-10-10, 10:01 AM

I would say they generally good quality and mainly picked for search popularity etc, not necessarily for good looks.

Chris.C · #5 07-10-10, 12:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by netfleet

Lessons for us all. Is .au market in the same or lesser stage of maturity than the .com market was in 2003 (albeit a much smaller size)

But without the type in traffic...

snoopy · #6 07-10-10, 12:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cncventure

But without the type in traffic...

Yeah that is the thing, Frank Schilling got rich by buying names with traffic on very low multiples (like reg fee

), I think the same is very hard to do in .com.au.

Rhythm · #7 12-10-10, 06:44 PM

Well, least I'm not the only one:

What Does Frank Schilling Know That You Don't Know?

Chris.C · #8 12-10-10, 07:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rhythm

Well, least I'm not the only one:

What Does Frank Schilling Know That You Don't Know?

I didn't quite understand this post. Is he trying to say that it's all about the metrics?

snoopy · #9 12-10-10, 10:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cncventure

I didn't quite understand this post. Is he trying to say that it's all about the metrics?

Most of his posts are hard to understand.

DavidL · #10 13-10-10, 10:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cncventure

But without the type in traffic...

.au do get type-ins - just at a fraction of what .com do. But the prices are a fraction of .com too so it's not all bad.

Quote:

Originally Posted by snoopy

Yeah that is the thing, Frank Schilling got rich by buying names with traffic on very low multiples (like reg fee

), I think the same is very hard to do in .com.au.

There are levels of 'rich'. Maybe the size of the .au market means you'll not get rich like Frank but you can still do OK.

It's all a question of relativity. Say a typical com.au is worth 1/20th of a .com.

Say 20 people made $5M or more in the boom years of .com domaining between2001-2007 (Frank starting late in 2003/2004 didn't he?)

Would it not be conceivable that 20 people could make $5M/20 = $250K in the boom years of .au between 2008 - 20XX?

Caveat: Unless the actual cost of registration vs return for .au doesn't stack up. If Frank for example ran on such a small margin such as $10m in reg fees per year, $11m in revenue, you wouldn't necessarily be able to repeat in .AU

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