New domain parking company offers charity donation and no cost brokerage services.
A domain industry vet has started a new parking company with a charitable twist.
Jakob Knightly, formerly with NameDrive, is launching Rikimu.com next week.
At a high level, Rikimu is a domain parking service with a charitable element: the company donates 5% of its share of revenue to charity.
Currently you can choose from three different charities. Two of them are domain industry favorites: The Water School and Mike Mann’s Grassroots.org.
It’s a nice perk, yet the nominal charity donation itself probably isn’t enough to get people to switch parking companies. (Although a similar charity offer got a lot of people to buy Ethos water at Starbucks.)
But Rikimu has some other interesting features. A key one is free domain brokerage services in which Rikimu will handle negotiations and not charge a commission.
For domainers more interested in maximizing sales inquiries than domain parking revenue, the company offers sales-focused landers such as this one:
A number of domain parking companies have come onto the scene in the past two years, and Rikimu has some features to make it worth a look.
You can get more details at Rikimu.com and in this video:
JP says
Great idea. I really have to know though how they chose the name Rikimu.com. (I like the name)
Dmitriy says
I wonder how much a compound word domain like flutedbezel.com is worth today?
God Of Domains says
Nice idea
ellis says
Hi are they using google or Yahoo feed?
My friend says they use secondary feds like 7search, affinity, similar!
Can somebody clarify?