Comments on: Frank Schilling’s Defensive Patent

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 09:44:38 +0000

Thanks for your support qwerty. Frank’s running costs for his Lear have gone up since I wrote that.

Seems like there’s plenty of life left in the parking market, views and clicks this month are higher than any other month this year.

I agree there’s plenty of suckers buying overhyped and overpriced domains though.

I like the sound of that domain……

By: qwerty

qwerty — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 05:14:29 +0000

Brian
May 15th, 2008 | 6:53 am

He knows that the price of fuel for his Lear has doubled and the traffic/clicks/revenue from his 200,000+ domains has diminished and so he’s evolving to a new business model. Prehaps the reason his blog has gone quiet for 08.

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Brian has made a very valid statement/observation.

The days of amassing domains and creating click banks hoping to make millions “parking” them is fast coming to an end. Parking is a parasitic business practice and the marketplace will eventually price accordingly. The marketplace has already proven 2 or 3 sites with good content can make many multiples of the revenue compared to several thousand parked domains in a click bank.

There’s a reason Google now relegates click bank IPs to the bottom of the search heap. Advertisers want conversion. If you ain’t got content people want, you ain’t got anything.

If single word domains were such “category killers”, then search.com would be ahead of yahoo or google. Or books.com would be bigger than Amazon. There’s way too much hype in this business. Domain name market is in a bubble, just like the Nasdaq was in 2000 and the housing market was in 2005. As the general economy slows down, I expect domain prices in the resale/auction market to take a nose-dive. Those paying 100K for thisdomainiswaytoolongtobeanygood.com are about to come back to reality when they find no buyers for the flip.

By: Chris Nielsen

Chris Nielsen — Mon, 19 May 2008 20:12:05 +0000

I’m not a patent lawyer, but I hope someone at the patent offices knows something about DNS and domain names to reject this puppy. Right from the start it is misleading with saying that traffic and emails are “lost”. They are not lost as the browser returns and error messsage and failed email messages are generally returned to the sender if the address does not exist.

This move by Frank surprises and disappoints me. I hope there is some useful reason to make this move, but on the surface it almost seems like he is trying to put Keven Ham and many others out of their typo-harvesting business.

The patent seems to say it should be providing what it “assumes” the user typed in and take them to that site. While typos are a pain, I think you open the door for abuse and even more mistakes when you start correcting what someone typed in. Furthermore, you start limiting what is allowed as valid for the future and put another layer of complexity and possible security risk to what we have now.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 19 May 2008 01:21:39 +0000

@ Antoinette – yes and no. If Frank’s pending patent keeps companies from stealing traffic, then it could benefit everyone.

By: Antoinette

Antoinette — Sat, 17 May 2008 12:16:45 +0000

I think that is overly optimistic! Usually patents only benefit the patent holder.

By: Stephen Douglas

Stephen Douglas — Sat, 17 May 2008 08:53:56 +0000

Frank Schilling + John Berryhill (X + Y = $$$) = “Domainers Who Know Something”

Just expect if it benefits Frank, it’s going to benefit domainers.

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 15 May 2008 06:53:46 +0000