in the early days of parked, it was a very different story. Over the past few months, as a company they have really grown up and become more professional. They are definetly worth a try.
DonSimon should be cloned, as most other account managers just dont grasp the domainer way of thinking. Just my observation.
In the early days, which was only a few months ago, but it seems like years ago at this point. Things were definitely different then. I remember the days waking up and seeing that we had added 100,000 domains to parked, and our new system only knew about 10,000 of the domains. Which meant that we had to train the system what the other 90,000 domains were. I remember arguing with our fraud team the first time we paid everybody that certain accounts shouldn't be terminated for fraud, but now my mom could have spotted it as fraud. But I also remember when Namestrands asked me to delete his account, he was the first and only person to ask me to do that. It was like the wild, wild, west back then!
A few months later and now we get to work with our partners on an individual basis, do a lot more customizing of deals and sites, and continue to make improvements to our system to help our partners, the advertisers, and ourselves. We have never and will never use some stock system by our search providers like some other companies. We think each domain is unique and no domain should ever be generic unless you want it to be that way.
So we have grown up in the past few months, basically because we aren't fighting fires anymore. We are able to develop and innovate new things that we didn't have time to work on before. In a previous thread on 12/05/2006 or 11 days ago I said that we have 1270 templates, as of today we have 1454, so 184 new ones in 10 days. It took us 5 months to get to 1,000 templates, it should only take us 2 months to get to 2,000 templates.
But we do still have a long way to go, some people who have left us after the first few months have come back and stayed. So we must be doing something right.
Enough rambling.
Donny
