Comments on: Edelman: Domainers Cause Harm, Add Little Value

By: Stephen Douglas

Stephen Douglas — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:45:16 +0000

@Dub-A,

Did you leave a link for him to follow back? I think the point is to catch the readers of the blog by immediately becoming a rebuttal “witness” (so to speak), on the site that the perpetrator has spewed his idiotic comments.

Everybody here should go to the link and make at least a single clear point shooting Edelman’s circus balloon down.

By: Lucy

Lucy — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:48:38 +0000

@ David C. (6) Domain Developers – I get it. You do it. You get it. But, how many others truely develop their ‘portfolio’. Aside from the domain bloggers and news agregators, who from the domainer world actual built a website, or sites, of original content that provides a quality experince to the web surfer.

@ Anyone else – please list domainers and their developed websites. Let’s showcase the cream of the crop. And it will be very few sites, amongst the millions of sites in teh collective portfolio’s.

Until there is a Domain Developer index that highlights the great builds of the community, you can not overcome the stigma of being a typo squator, or PPC page owner, or owner of a great-generic-type-in-keyword-domain, that’s worth a gazilion dollars to someone else.

For the old timers – remember the NCSA new website pages? Remember it’s early days, where a new website meant a new website, not a PPC, CPA, redirect site. Ahh the memories…

By: Louise

Louise — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:54:52 +0000

It’s sinister that domainers get the blame for all the wrong on the internet, when Registrars do exactly the same thing! Bob Parsons of Go Daddy admit in a 2007 CNN Money interview that parked pages earn Go Daddy $12,000/day (wonder what they earn now). All the Registrars earn from parked pages. Why are Domainers being singled out? Registrars ARE domainers! Registrars pick up dropped names, preventing them from being released – what’s the difference?

Domainers are the weaker target compared to Registrars, so it’s easy to go after you!

By: Andrew Allemann

Andrew Allemann — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:24:50 +0000

@ Stephen Douglas – last time one of the report’s authors stopped by here

By: Andrew Allemann

Andrew Allemann — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:00:50 +0000

I think the easiest source for publicly available data would be Sedo’s financial statements. Most of the revenue is from domain parking for their clients.

By: bernard

bernard — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:56:33 +0000

@andrew

For sure, an industry that makes money an industry that adds value. I would say it belongs to economics 101.

Still waiting for some examples…

By: Stephen Douglas

Stephen Douglas — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:51:06 +0000

Dub-A,

You know what is really disturbing about your searing article on this guy’s lobbying against domainers?

You posted the damaging article’s link and nobody responded to it, including yourself.

I went and looked at the article, and expected to see a cascade of comments supporting the domain community and ripping Edelman a new orifice.

And guess what? None of the people commenting here, including the experts, answered on that web site. Nobody. There is NOT ONE COMMENT as of this writing, of anyone supporting or arguing the points against Edelman.

No worries, I posted a direct link here to at least show that we’re all “together” *cough* on defending our image.

Come on, people. Write your comments where they’ll be read by people who will learn something, not just preach to the choir.

Okay, I’m prepared for the attack responses.