Stop comparing domain names to the wrong things. What sets Domains apart from ALL other investments is CONTROL. Let me show the important differences. CONTROL!! what does that mean? When you buy a stock or gold, do you have control of the price? No! NONE! Same thing with Bitcoin. Do you have any control? No! […]

I want to enable dreams and dreamers and I have the unique vehicle to do that and do that in dozens of industries. I can all but guarantee them a seat at the table and will be taken seriously from day 1 if they are serious! It surprises me and saddens me that so few […]

Afternoon Folks!! This past week was a field of dreams. After a 2.5-year drought and selling no domains while Bitcoin, Crypto, NFTs and Apes ruled, their collapse has invigorated the domain industry. 2015 was my best year, booking $12.5 million in Domain earnings mostly via sales. This week was my best week ever! I booked […]

TRAFFIC 2024 Announcement!! After a 10-year hiatus, I will be forming an exploratory committee next week with the hopes of having a 20-year TRAFFIC reunion during the week of October, 21, 2024 in South Florida. This has truly been an epic week for me, like none other. Two 7-figure domain sales and a third and […]

Morning Folks!! Branding is about consistency.Branding is about repetition.And ultimately branding is about sales. No sales, no brand. More and more I see morons that make advertisements and commercials, and I dont even know what the hell theyre advertising. Its so subliminal you cant even figure it out unless youre paying close attention. Lets sta...

Morning Folks!! I wear a lot of hats, and I have developed a lot of talents over the years. Not artistic. Couldnt draw much more than a stick figure. But when it comes to business, I can paint like Picasso. I am an Angel Investor Extraordinaire! I give individuals and businesses worldwide an on-ramp and […]

Morning Folks!! In my eyes, I have this vision and have compared Domains to two things: Popcorn and blades of grass growing on a future lawn. Popcorn because we just have no idea which domain name will pop next. NONE!! Just like you have no idea which corn kernel will pop next. Its impossible to […]

Morning Folks!! Domain investing and domain flipping are basically two different businesses. Two different ways of thinking. Two different approaches. And the results are usually quite different. One is selling seaside mansions. The other is selling partially usable mobile homes. Those who sell mansions dont talk about hold times they invest knowin...

Probability versus Possibility. That is where most domainers and inexperienced folks go off the deep end. Theyre in the Anything is possible crowd. The first problem is that the failure rate of 90%++ is ignored and not even factored in, so they have a 90% chance of getting it wrong from the getgo. They are […]

Afternoon Folks!! In just a few minutes President Obama is set to nominate Bob McDonald to head the Department of Veteran Affairs whom you might remember was the CEO of Proctor and Gamble when they were convicted of trying to reverse hijack the domain name Swash.com. In what was I believe the greatest shakeup in […] The post BREAKING!! Former...

Morning Folks!! Go brew a pot of coffee, this is going to take a few minutes. What started as a simple equation blossomed into all types of adventures and mis-steps and examples in real-time that absolutely support my equation. An equation that may be all but lost in the clutter of events that just had […] The post The Rick Schwartz Equation ...

Morning Folks!! You can only ask questions and let folks answer them as they see fit. They get the rewards if it works and they suffer the consequences when it does not. The minute I saw the answers by Daniel Negari to the questions posed, I knew his troubles had just begun and was about […] The post The Walls of Jericho Fall on .xyz appeared...

Afternoon Folks!! Gtld's Reach 1 Million in just 6 months!! Gtld's Reach 1 million in just 6 months!! Gtld's Reach 1 Million in just 6 months!! Gtld's Reach 1Million in just 6 months!! Let me repeat as you will see this SPIN on every domain blog and further. But what a load of CRAP! The numbers are PATHETIC! The lack […] The post BREAKING!! G...

Morning Folks!! First of all, I have no idea how I got in the middle of a firestorm that has nothing to do with me. But here we are. Folks will use my selected words to bend things one way or another and sometimes not bend at all.  It's almost comical. Almost all my blog […] The post My Interview with Daniel Negari Addressing Reported Inflate...

Morning Folks!! When I get to Vegas I am going to transform what I do and many others as well. I said in the past that the gTLD's will help leasing domains and sub-domains. We're here! So yesterday the process started for me to start many new businesses. Want Chicago.Tradeshows.com? It will be for sale […] The post Selling Premium Sub-Domains...

Evening Folks!! So.. the big surprise bonus for guests is that we have been collaborating with the .VEGAS team to have Oscar Goodman there and he will appear and sign copies of his fantastic book for our attendees. We had hoped this would be a surprise for next week, but the secret has gotten out, […] The post SPOILER ALERT…..Surprise B...

Morning Folks!!! So what goes on at T.R.A.F.F.I.C.?? Below is the link for the entire "Meeting of the Chiefs" segment last year and a preview of the 10th anniversary video that is currently in production. In 2013 the snippet between the 1 hour and 25 second mark and the 1 hour 10 minute mark may […] The post Meeting of the Chiefs LIVE from T....

Morning Folks!! It has been YEARS since a new monetization program has come out, but the industry may be shaken to the core and I want to be on record before that event unfolds. An END-USER designed a system over the past 10 years for in-house use and found himself right on the doorstep of the domain  industry. […] The post GetitFido.com's Ne...

Good Morning, Grab a cup of coffee. This will take about 10 minutes of your time. Please read the very important call to action letter below that Michael Castello penned in behalf of domain investors and the domain industry. It is well thought out, passionate and much-needed. Howard and I support it 100% and ask for your […] The post Domain I...

Afternoon Folks!!               Rick SchwartzThe post My First Ever Pictorial Blog Post appeared first on The Rick Schwartz Domain Name and Traffic Blog RicksBlog.com | Home of the "Domain King".

Morning Folks!! Want answers? Always look at both sides and do it often. We talk about new gTLD's like this is something new. It ain't. Nobody is putting any fingers in a dyke. I love what is coming. I am looking forward to it. But one must know the difference between getting on a winning […]The post You Can Ride a Horse, You Can't Ride a Sta...

Morning Folks!! As my research department discovered the other day, King.com, owners of Candy Crush, the $1 Million dollar a day hottest game in the world, is trying to trademark the word "Candy". Folks think I would be upset. WHY?? If you have a trademark and don't own the .com domain that goes with it, […]The post The Candy Crush, "Candy" T...

Morning Folks, The earliest pioneers, they got .net. They mined silver not gold. Put a metal name next to each current extension as I am about to do. Did you watch Klondike last night? 3 part series about the Alaskan Gold Rush. They are relaying it. I think on Discovery? Not sure. See what was […]The post All Metals vs All Extensions. Let's D...

Morning Folks!! I will judge each gTLD on their own merits. And while there is a lot of stupid things being said, we have to know that there is more than one dance happening and for more than one audience. Domainers, Investors and the end-user. (Just kidding about the end-user) :-) So in the case […]The post Here are the Reasons the .Club guy...

Morning Folks!! What Was,  What Is, What Will Be and What If? Sounds pretty encompassing to me. How long do you have to think and ponder on something before you find an answer? Well it can easily be a split second or a lifetime or a never. Pondering, thinking and digging very deep. See most […]The post What Was, What Is, What Will Be and Wha...

Morning Folks!! I swear to you that the entry bar to the domain industry is only in your mind. A good mind can come into this industry TODAY and set up shop and within a few years, make his/her fortune. How? Well actually there are many ways. It takes some hard work to start, but […]The post How To Discover The Fortune That Can Still be Made ...

Morning Folks!! And another one bites the dust! In a rare one member panel and a finding of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking by RPG Life Sciences Ltd. Represented by Anand & Anand, India. Congrats guys. More about you to come. This post is just starting. The domain name rpglife.com http://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/search/text.jsp?case=D2013-2094...

Morning Folks!! Here are my most viewed posts of 2013. How to protect yourself from Reverse Domain Name Hijacking http://www.ricksblog.com/2013/04/ricks-magnificent-vaccine-how-to-reve rse-reverse-domain-name-hijacking/ Rick's Official Reader Poll http://www.ricksblog.com/2013/12/ricks-official-2013-reader-poll/ I take you right inside the ebet.com ...

Afternoon Folks!! "Drinking the Kool-Aid" is a metaphor commonly used in the United States that refers to a person or group holding an unquestioned belief, argument, or philosophy without critical examination. It could also refer to knowingly going along with a doomed or dangerous idea because of peer pressure. The phrase typically carries a negati...

Morning Folks!! We all use Google. We use their tools and we use their technology. But people live on Facebook and live on Twitter.  And they can  make a living on both. You may or may not have noticed the new "Social Sharing Tower on the right of the screen on the home page. The […]The post 296 Ways to Share the Love and an In-Depth look at ...

Morning Folks!! I want to wish everyone going to Vegas Good Luck and Good Fortune!! I was looking into the possibility of attending and hoping to get there however I took a fall  right around Christmas and re-injured my foot and big toe that was just in the process of healing from a good stubbing […]The post Good Luck and Good Fortune In Las ...

Morning Folks!! The chart below was written about by DomainIncite. These are for September registrations of current gTLD's. So let's compare. But just at first glance .com at 475,000 had 3x as many registrations as all the 17 others combined. Damn numbers! .Com 475,000 for September were moe than the combined TOTAL registrations for  .Post, […...

Morning Folks!! I have talked about "Noise" for many years. But I've been especially focused on the noise the last 12 months because you could see the noise coming a year or more away. And now we are entering the noisy zone. 2014. For me the noise is equal to Bullshit. Noise equals bullshit. There's […]The post The Business of NOISE will Defi...

DON'T CLICK on the email!!!!!! If you got a verification from Godaddy this morning. DON'T CLICK!! phishing scam http://www.dnforum.com/f611/beware-thread-518227.html#post2185855The post BULLETIN: Godaddy.com Phishing Scam. Don't Click Email!! appeared first on The Rick Schwartz Domain Name and Traffic Blog RicksBlog.com | Home of the "Domain K...

Morning Folks!! http://www.ricksblog.com/2007/11/the-real-story/ What lessons can be learned? What are the parallels and what are the differences? Just questions to make us think. Rick SchwartzThe post Kool.Aid Drinker Reality Test. appeared first on The Rick Schwartz Domain Name and Traffic Blog RicksBlog.com | Home of the "Domain King".

Morning Folks!! Alta Vista was the 2000lb Gorilla in the room. Compaq and Dell were leading the way along with CNN. And this vast new medium was being touted as the future. New ventures like eBay and Amazon sprung up. A few very primitive sites were being launched. Including one I started as I had […]The post Condemned by Their Own Stupidity....

Morning Folks!! On December 26th 1995 I had a mission. It was a mission already in progress. In about August 1993 I had just lost $65,000 playing the options market in one day. Back then I was just recovering from being flat broke a few years before so this was stinging loss. I was playing […]The post Twas the Day After Christmas 1993?? appea...

Morning Folks!! One of the epic product failures in my lifetime was when Coke introduced "New Coke" back in 1985. That was a few years after the digital watch was brought to market by Pulsar. That watch kept better time than anything on the market and was supposed to replace all those expensive watches and make […]The post New Coke. The Great...

Morning Folks!! I have been saying since the spring when things were the darkest that 2014 was going to be a great year. I think most can see that we have turned the corner in the economy. Not for the average man on the street. But business is back and it is only a matter […]The post 2014 A Year of Anniversary's appeared first on The Rick Sch...

Morning Folks!! .Sucks is not good for anyone. I think it exemplifies ICANN out of control. So it broke yesterday by thedomains.com (my personal research department) that one registry bidding will try to extort as much as $25,000 a pop from companies to get their .sucks domain. This sucks! The other 2 bidders are also quite […]The post .Sucks...

Morning Folks!! So Let's just say for a moment that these are the current top 20 extensions. I am sure I have it wrong because I included a couple that came to market with great fanfare. Remember the hype on .ws? "World Site". How are those babies doing today. How many of you invested in […]The post With 900 Horses, How many Winners do you Ne...

Afternoon Folks, So I decided that Pigeon sh*t is a term that should be reserved for low or no value single domains of current extensions to avoid any confusion in the future with their bigger cousins as they bring some large dung to market. Limited quality gTLD's of low or no value  need some clarity, color and […]The post Breaking: Pigeon S...

Morning Folks!! Let me state right now that the most over used term of the last couple of years is "Start-up". If I were a comedian, I could make a living off of the routine. Everyone uses the word "Startup" like that is their wonder drug to cure-all business woes. Startups? Really? Even tho 80% […]The post The Start-up Savior? appeared first...

Morning Folks! It's simple, I look to the customer for all my answers.  The consumer is driving this train and the consumer decides when to stop. He decides to pull the wallet out or not. You can give the consumer snow skis for free but if he does not ski and does not want them […]The post Rick's 2013-2014 Poll Results. What They Mean and Poi...

Morning Folks!!I have never done this before but that does not mean I can't do it today. This is your day to give me your thoughts and directions for 2014. Hope you engage and help me serve you better in the future. How many gTLD's will you Buy Into? None 5 or More 10 or […]The post Ricks Official 2013 Reader Poll. Part 1 appeared first on Th...