Famous Quotes in Domaining

It hurts when reality doesn’t go along with your dreams and hopes.

In domaining, tears could mean joy as well as dreams can turn into nightmares. Buying the wrong names. Selling the wrong price. I’ve been there, done that. I even ate my shoes several times.

But, I believe that a true winner is determined by overcoming defeats. That’s why I’m going to list some of the famous quotes in domaining world for those who need inspiration.

Believe me, in domaining, ANYTHING can happen in a split second.

• “Domains have and will continue to go up in value faster than any other commodity ever known to man” — Rick Schwartz
• “They’d say (the investors), ‘No one will ever have a TV and a computer in the same room,’” — Shelby Bonnie, CNET Co-Founder.
• “Another example of this is the word ‘ringtones.’ It is worth millions right now, but five years ago, it wasn’t worth 50 bucks. If you see a trend or something that you see coming out that the next guy doesn’t–spend ten bucks and buy up that name.” — Marc Ostrofsky, President of Internet REIT
• “If you ask 10 different experts, they are sure to tell you 10 different things (about domain’s value).” — Christian Kalled, director of brokerage for Sedo North America.
• “We got something for $150,000. If they had wanted $5 million, I would have done it in a blink of an eye.” — Call Tabibi, founder of UnRealEstate.com.
• Dotcom will become in our corporate language like Inc. or Co. or Corp. – a generic way of describing a company, in this case a company that does business on the Internet. (Clive Chajet)
• The classic development questions need to be reformulated for a 21st century economy . . . will the poor continue to be left behind, will the wealth of information be hoarded by an elite? (K Y Amoako)
• Broadband is like a narcotic. Once you have it, you won’t be able to give it up. (Lynn Forrester)
• We’ve all heard that a million monkeys banging on one million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true. (Robert Wilensky)
• We are all unrealistic domain owners. (DotComGod)
• Brother, can you spare a domain? (Acroplex)
• “We grew up in a working class neighborhood of Vancouver and then gradually moved to better neighborhoods, but during that transition, I saw that to really do anything, you need to not only work hard, but also think about how you work.”

  Kevin Ham quoted on DNJournal

• “If you have the money, purchase the best domain name you can get your hands on. But remember the golden rule: a domain name is only worth what you can do with it. We’ve turned down $5,000,000 for PalmSprings.com and didn’t think twice about it because we’ve monetized it so well. However, in someone else’s hands, PalmSprings.com could have been parked or less developed and worth nowhere near as much. If you have the talent and vision to develop a generic mega-domain, please give people like us a call.”

  David Castello

• “You can be the king of any industry you want online with the right domain name…
  even if you know nothing about it!.”
• “This is my final offer!”
• “Good Names Are Not Cheap – Cheap Names Are Not Good”
• Most of what you have is only really valuable to you.
• interested party: “We are prepared to offer you $800 for your domain ###.com” (### represents a premium LLL.COM)

  me: “Add another zero to the end of that offer and maybe we can talk.”

• No one wants to buy this adress. Be smart please and reduce the price…
• “what’s the value of a click, if that click leads to the sale of a $20m plane…?” Rick Schwartz.
• “You are what you register.” — Seminarist.com
• “I would never sell my Children” Kevin Ham – TRAFFIC Las Vegas Feb. 2008
• Whats the BIN?
• What does BIN mean?
• No BIN yet
• $1 to start
• “You’re a cybersquatter!”
• “Participate and prosper.” -tekz999
• “All PMs replied to.”
• “I don’t think you should have sold that domain.”
• “You stole my domain !”
• Lowballs will be ignored.
• “Will Google’s Omnibox search have an impact on typo domains”
• “You can’t fix stupid”
• “I guess I was afraid to smile because I was worried the audience would not bid if I looked like I was happy about making money.” — Rick Latona
• “I don’t think you can go wrong with .com no matter what you do.” — Elliot J. Silver
• “I’ll make him an offer he can’t refuse.”
• “You know that day you once told me about, when Domainland would no longer need ICANN? It’s coming.”
• “I’ve never seen so many domains wasted so badly.”
• “Tyler sold his domains to department stores at $2,000 apiece. It was beautiful. We were selling rich companies their own expired domains back to them.”
• “The first rule of Domain Club is – you do not talk about Domain Club.”
• “Well, Clarice – have the domains stopped screaming for renewal?”
• “I’ve seen domains… domains that you’ve seen. But you have no right to call me a cybersquatter. It’s impossible for words to describe what is necessary to those who do not know what domaining means. Domaining. Domaining has a face… and you must make a friend of domains. Domains and traffic monetization are your friends.”
• “Smell that? You smell that?
  -What?
  Dropping domain names, son. Nothing in the world smells like that. I love the smell of dropping domains in the morning.”
• “You’re gonna need a bigger portfolio.”
• “All those domain names will be lost in time… like tears in rain… Time to expire.”
• “Cole Sear: I see expired domains.
  Malcolm Crowe: In your dreams?
  [Cole shakes his head no]
  Malcolm Crowe: While you’re awake?
  [Cole nods]
  Malcolm Crowe: Expired domains like, at SnapNames? At Pool?
  Cole Sear: Walking around like regular domains. They don’t see each other. They only see what they want to see. They don’t know they’ve expired.
  Malcolm Crowe: How often do you see them?
  Cole Sear: All the time. They’re everywhere.”
• “It’s not the years, it’s the Archive.org age.”
• “Ladies and gentlemen… I’ve traveled over half our state to be here tonight. I couldn’t get away sooner because my new domain portfolio was coming in at Moniker and I had to see about it. That portfolio’s traffic is now flowing at two thousand unique type-ins and it’s paying me an income of five thousand dollars a week. I have two other transfers pending and I have sixteen domains producing income at SedoPro. So, ladies and gentlemen… if I say I’m a domain man you will agree.”
• “Payment should be made by Paypal within 24 hours of purchase.” (By sellers on eBay posting mystupidandmeaninglessname.biz for $9,995,000)
• “95% of all the domains I get are hand registered.” — Rick Schwartz, interviewed at dnkitchen.com
• What the heck was I drinking when I bought these???”
• “I would build my foundation with the domains i bought”
• “Only selling this domain name to fund another project!”
• “if this doesn’t sell today…I’m going to develop it”
• “there is no email without a domain name”
• “offer good for 24 hours only”
• “I received two offers at 50k last year for this one, BIN $13.00 plus paypal fees”
• “Buyers pays escrow fees”
• “the “bot” appraises it at…….”
• “$$ to kick it off”
• ” I turned down two offers 5 years ago in the mid xxx,xxx range.”
• “Sale ends friday”
• Will you take less?
• “Will you take any domains in trade?”
• “One man’s junk is another man’s treasure.” — Unknown
• “Please delete this domain from the WHOIS database.”
• “He who owns the traffic owns the transaction”.
• Just like in the days of the bible, the written word is just as prevalent on the internet” (ie- domain names)
• “What doesn’t sell for a dollar today may sell for ten dollars tomorrow” — Unknown
• “The sales I most regret are the ones I don’t make.”
• “Don’t buy a name you aren’t willing to own if you aren’t able to sell it.” – Rick Latona
• “We (me and my wife) ended up selling as much of our stuff as possible to invest in domains. The magical point came when our living expenses were covered and we just kept on reinvesting to grow the cashflow.” — Michael Gilmour
• “okay I’ll be right there…just give me one more second”
• “Sure, there are a lot of guys trading them like baseball cards, but why would I want to invest?”
• “I’m selling to fund another project”
• “I’m thinking of sending this to auction”
• “Give me numbers not excuses”