Interview with Rick Schwartz the Domain King

[Chef Patrick]

Last week I had the privilege of interviewing the one and only Rick Schwartz. Rick Schwartz is the founder of T.R.A.F.F.I.C., the events that turn out the who’s who in the domaining industry. Rick either owns or has owned domain names like Candy.com, Property.com, Properties.com, Porno.com, ***.com, CD.com, Widgets.com, Men.com and many many more HIGH END names.

Just a brief background on Rick. He has gone from working in the retail furniture business to owning an extremely successful drop ship company. Rick sold the home based drop ship company in 1998 for over seven figures. Through marketing of his own home based business he realized the importance of domain names and having an online presence. Rick purchased a set of domains for his business and then a set of domains related to the adult industry. The adult related domains started producing steady income from $25 a day to a couple years later $500 a day. This at the time was just a hobby. These events and a few others lead up to the day were Rick purchased Porno.com for $42,000, which at that time was unheard of. After Porno.com came ***.com, eRealEstate.com and Men.com. The rest is history and if your in domaining you know what has come of this.

Q. At the last T.R.A.F.F.I.C. event in Brooklyn NY 250 Rick Schwartz bobbleheads were handed out. Who came up with this idea?

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[Chuck]

Nice read thanks for sharing.

 

[vip]

He bought Porno.com for $42,000... Boy, I should build myself a time machine.

 

[Cashcows]

Last week I had the privilege of interviewing the one and only Rick Schwartz. Rick Schwartz is the founder of T.R.A.F.F.I.C., the events that turn out the who’s who in the domaining industry. Rick either owns or has owned domain names like Candy.com, Property.com, Properties.com, Porno.com, ***.com, CD.com, Widgets.com, Men.com and many many more HIGH END names.

Just a brief background on Rick. He has gone from working in the retail furniture business to owning an extremely successful drop ship company. Rick sold the home based drop ship company in 1998 for over seven figures. Through marketing of his own home based business he realized the importance of domain names and having an online presence. Rick purchased a set of domains for his business and then a set of domains related to the adult industry. The adult related domains started producing steady income from $25 a day to a couple years later $500 a day. This at the time was just a hobby. These events and a few others lead up to the day were Rick purchased Porno.com for $42,000, which at that time was unheard of. After Porno.com came ***.com, eRealEstate.com and Men.com. The rest is history and if your in domaining you know what has come of this.

Q. At the last T.R.A.F.F.I.C. event in Brooklyn NY 250 Rick Schwartz bobbleheads were handed out. Who came up with this idea?

Read the rest of this interview →

Why does this site have to ******* censor names? That;s just lame we are all adults here and if you don;t like it don't read it. It also makes it harder to sell adult names in the adult forum.

 

[stewie]

Good Stuff... thanks :yo:

 

[Sonny Banks]

Q. Do you spend any time in the domainer forums, if so which ones?

A. At one time I spent a lot of time in forums. I opened the first one devoted to domains back in 2000. But disrupters would always show up with nothing better to do then to talk trash so we went private back in 2001 and still is to this day. The conversation on the public boards has deteriorated over the years to a level where it is just not worth dealing with. Forums can be very good when properly moderated. I have found better, more rewarding things to do with my time.

DNForum is not for him

 

[stewie]

Q. Do you spend any time in the domainer forums, if so which ones?

A. At one time I spent a lot of time in forums. I opened the first one devoted to domains back in 2000. But disrupters would always show up with nothing better to do then to talk trash so we went private back in 2001 and still is to this day. The conversation on the public boards has deteriorated over the years to a level where it is just not worth dealing with. Forums can be very good when properly moderated. I have found better, more rewarding things to do with my time.

DNForum is not for him

you can't argue with the King. ound: