NamePros Member Burano writes:
"So, has it always been like this on this forum? I see pages and pages of posts of people trying to sell lists of domains with no responses except themselves.
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Some of these names are decent too…since I haven’t been on this board that long, I was just curious if this was always the case since it’s free here. Or maybe your domain just really has to STAND OUT??
It used to be you could at least make your money back on lower quality domains…seems like those days are over."
For years most of the domain market has been riding on the back of PPC revenues. Domainers made good money with PPC, reinvested buying more domains, made more money from PPC, and so forth. Very few were smart enough to diversify, to read between the lines, to understand that PPC income is an opportunity of a lifetime, and not something that will forever keep going up. As Rick Schwartz put it so well the other day (comments 45) :
"Just look at PPC. Domainer margins have shrunk a LOT while our “Partners” have not. Google makes more and the PPC companies only care about maintaining THEIR margins at the expense of OUR margins and domainers just sit back and PARTY! Party, while WE pay for that party.. But domainers have been out to lunch on every facet of this business when it comes time to standing up for themselves, their rights and their fair share. But don’t worry folks, it will only get worse. Worse because domainers have decided to be powerless."
The bottom line is if domainers make less money they spend less on buying domains in the aftermarket, they save more (if they still have anything to save!), and overall, they look to diversify from a falling trend. In the bigger picture it forces all of us to go out and get the word out to mainstream. If we fail to do so, we will surely suffer the consequences.
Bido , with it’s focus on one domain a day and participation of hundreds of industry voices, intends to do just that. It is easier for an outsider to read about one domain and the various thoughts on it than to look at a whole market and understand years of dynamics. If you want to stay in this business you must adapt, making no choice is the wrong choice. What worked yesterday is not working today. What works today won’t work tomorrow. After years of experience I learned this: In the domain business you either adapt, or you perish.
Source: Posted on TheConceptualist by Sahar Sarid -- Reprinted with permission -- June 25, 2008