news Rick's most recent hand-registrations

[Theo]

Rick's still registering domain names, but not as many as he used to.

 

[Johnn]

The names don't have any value in my opinion. But when they are in Rick's hand it's a different story.

 

[Theo]

Yeah, Rick is a domain collector, but his recent registrations are fewer in volume.

 

[AcquisitionKing]

What is his recent registrations ?

 

[DotKing]

Who is Rick

 

[AcquisitionKing]

What is his recent registrations ?

 

[ukbackorder]

Rick Schwartz was a big player at the start of the century. However he seems to have dropped the ball a lot of times - most notably either falling for, or trying to create, .mobi hype with a stupid 200k acquisition of flowers.mobi. There are still people who revere him but from what I've seen over the years he's just flamboyant, loud mouthed, and a bit rude (or perhaps a 'character'?) and made money at a time when the industry was more ripe (like many of us). However as you can see from his recent acquisitions he appears to have become another run-of-the-mill domainer. What worked a decade ago doesn't work now and he's not the only one looking for a new niche but unable to continue doing the same. I think the difference is he will have a moan when the market doesn't do what he wants whereas many of us realise the market doesn't care about individuals in an industry where people usually have a 10 year business life expectancy. (think netscape, myspace, yahoo search)

 

[ravdn]

Good analogy but there are industries > 10 year business life expectancy. (Google, etc)

 

[EM @MAJ.com]

He's a well known and a successful domain investors.

 

[ukbackorder]

Good analogy but there are industries > 10 year business life expectancy. (Google, etc)

Yeah that's why I said 'usually'. There are far more companies that started in the industry, were big, didn't diversify, and then unceremoniously disappeared overnight than companies that have been successful. You'll notice that ebay, paypal, google etc are not now doing what they were originally doing as is the way to stay as long as you can in the business. With the speed technology is advancing diversify or die... I think that refers to Rick as well as a lot of other 'old time' domainers.

 

[Together]

He's a dick, try dealing with him.

 

[amplify]

This thread got bumped.

I'm surprised to see that all 3 names are still owned by Rick. However, none of them are reachable. I would think that they would redirect or give some indication of what they are used for 3 years later.

 

[MapleDots]

There are still people who revere him but from what I've seen over the years he's just flamboyant, loud mouthed, and a bit rude.

He makes no beefs about that, in fact he goes out of his way to be so.

Personally that is one of the reasons I follow him, he tells it like it is in a very colorful way, its never boring when you read his articles and they always entertain.

All that aside, the man knows how to sell, he has shown time and time again that he is a consummate salesman.

 

[DomainsGENERAL.com]

I'm surprised to see that all 3 names are still owned by Rick.

Something can certainly be made with "translatorproject", but the other two seem pretty unusable, especially years after the event (IMHO it was already sh!tty names to start with and domains probably registered for the wrong reasons)