Morning Folks!!
12/18/15
It's been a while. Just a couple fun things as I countdown to my 20-year anniversary in the domain investment business this coming week on December 26th. A 3-part series before I go back to retired life waiting for the 25th. But just like it was 20 years ago, people will be distracted with their holiday vacations. Today, just a little silly fun and humor. Hope you enjoy it!
Twas the day after Christmas when all through the house not a phone line was ringing so I just clicked my mouse.
My numbers were done and a spreadsheet confirmed that 1995 was over and 96 had begun.
The kitty-kat was nestled on top of my bed. While visions of millions danced in my head.
I went out on a limb and there arose such a chatter, I sprang to my feet to climb the tall ladder.
Away to Windows I flew like a flash, tore open my mind and was just a bit brash.
To the moon and beyond in the new fallen idea the luster of money should soon appear.
With a few extra dollars so lively and quick, I knew in a moment it must be St. Nick
More rapid than eagles the coins they came and I whistled and shouted and called them by name.
Dot Com this and Dot Com that. Oh my goodness and look at dat!
Now pennies then nickels and dimes all day led me to discover new ways to make hay.
I plowed and plowed and plowed til May thinking of a time a score away.
I planted the seed to grow a tree and planted another to frame the sun. Oh my what a forrest it has become.
Two decades later I survived the zoo, Know one thing you never knew.
Whoever reads this and whatever they do. I'll promise right now to never bore you.
Domains to the rescue and on to the stars, to the moon and beyond and even Mars.
And time right now to fly away, I think I've had my my final say.
Good luck to all and to all a good night!
And here is a little extra bonus to twist your brain. I know it twisted mine!!
In 1996 I started writing using domain names I owned in a post I made that actually made sense. It was a little more colorful using only adult domains as you will see below and a bit easier confining it to one basic subject. So here is my modern day version: RATED R++. So be warned! 333 domains (at last count) used possibly making this the longest domain speak in history. Where is Guinness?
So while sitting with my virtualgirlfriend.com who was wearing sexyunderwear.com that I bought at the pornstore.com, sipping some chiantiwine.com singing christmascarols.com on my property.com having a little candy.com and watching some porno.com, I got off my ass.com to go into erealestate.com where I figured I could make some homemade.com jointventures.com. It was like 1969.com all over again. It would help beginners.com and the unemployed.com take down their jobwanted.com sign to be able to retrain.com in computerservice.com or get bachelordegrees.com and become virtualteachers.com so they could get the greatestjob.com. Maybe someday make awardwinningsites.com. and make the top40list.com or even the top10list.com. That might send the topheadhunters.com looking their way and they will never kissass.com
So let's gettogether.com and startthinking.com then startbelieving.com then startmakingmoney.com so we can startliving.com on the way to delray.com and traffic2004.com and make new associations.com. Some were born in 1978.com while others were born in 1969.com or 1964.com or even 1923.com. I thought of all the widgets.com that would need wholesaling.com to onlineshoppers.com and who the beneficiaries.com would be and how that might impact the grandchildren.com who can shoptilyoudrop.com
Some wanted to gofishing.com. I wanted to do officework.com. Some thought I was pigheaded.com. But I thought of all the departments.com and I was not looking for a pissingmatch.com.
So first I went to the giftdepartment.com where I saw giftsformen.com and then giftsforwomen.com to find the hottestgifts.com with factoryrebates.com on the way to the servicedepartment.com next to the partsdept.com where I thought of some prankgifts.com for the starscars.com but I still wanted the hottestbargains.com.
I looked at the hottestbooks.com and the hottestfashions.com worn by the hottestcelebrties.com and hottestmodels.com going to the hottestplaces.com hanging with the hottestplayers.com but I was still focused on the hottestsales.com. The hotteststars.com in their pristinecars.com and limodrivers.com want to go to the hottestspots.com. They get the hottesttickets.com at the hottestshows.com and eat at the hottestrestaurants.com. But I am still looking for the hottestdeals.com on the hottestproducts.com at the hottestprice.com. But the hottestcelebs.com are going to the hottestclubs.com with the hottestchicks.com on the hottestdates.com all because they are hotshit.com and make the hottestmovies.com, hottestvideos.com and hottestmusic.com and become the hottestnews.com usually started by the hottestrumor.com and then they have to leave by finding the hottestfares.com and wherever they go they will still be the hottestgame.com in town.
I saw domains as goldfutures.com and investmentdiamonds.com and focused on investmentqualitydomains.com. I saw domains as incomeproperty.com to buyandlease.com. I saw domains as foreigninvestments.com that would aid foreignrelations.com and capable of worldbroadcasting.com. The cheapest.com properties.com in the world and wanted to be the modelhomes.com worldchamp.com
I had productstosell.com but I had to worry about protecting.com them as they were unsafe.com from the cyberbully.com and hijackers.com. It forced me to become an expert on trademarking.com. Because these asses.com were the biggestjerks.com and biggestassholes.com and would need a courtorder.com issued by a grandjury.com and then gosueme.com because bribes.com or a silly ceaseanddesist.com letter was just going to be my bestlaugh.com. They were nothing more than a rodent.com to me and I became their biggestmistake.com. Thanks to hallofshame.com and RDNH rulings.com I was able to give some lawtips.com to the inexperienced.com instead of lipservice.com.
They would bitch.com that I was a cybersquatter.com and hoarding.com undevelopeddo
The biggestplayers.com came to wager.me and it cost many thousands in protecting.com me and you and hopefully the futureanalysis.com would support that. My ladygodiva.com vs Campbell's; My goofoff.com vs Lilly Inc.; My carnivalsucks.com vs Carnival Cruise Lines; My daisydukes.com vs Warner Brothers; My tstv.com vs Toronto Star Newspapers. lipservice.com vs who even cares? Slam Bam corporatebullies.com!! I won the biggestcontests.com because I had the biggestballs.com before there was a UDRP process and saveme.com vs the world when there was one! NEXT!
What I was doing was topsecret.com but I had a workschedule.com to worksmarter.com as I could workanywhere.com and reside in the worldsbestplacestolive.com because I wanted to go to the worldsbesttravelspots.com and knew that if I had long term aspirations workingoff.com the Internet, the generalpublic.com, who may be the jurors.com, would understand the uniquemomentinhistory.com and sense of urgency at making my stake and would like to be filthy.com rich too. It's a kinkyfantasy.com that most people understand just like folks like freeshit.com and the dailydouble.com. I decided to gobet.com on it because ihavefaithin.com and I could buynowpaylater.com because Netsol had no xxxcashier.com to pay for ricksdomains.com and that gave me availablecredit.com that I would have never had.
When I was born cheapland.com was inherited.com. It was all sold and owned. There was no more freeadmission.com or freenights.com. But I did see that virtualbillboards.com could be planted throughout the world and I could compete with the worldsbestsalesmen.com with the worldsbeststuff.com. That gave me the bestodds.com that dailyevents.com would help me geteven.com and then use demonstrations.com by famousamericans.com at tradeshows.com and chatboards.com to getexcited.com about the hottestdomains.com where companies were exhibiting.com.
I don't eat russiancaviar.com but I can sell some. I don't wear cubiczirconia.com but I can sell some. I know nothing about uniformrentals.com but it could become a full time career. I am not into wholesalejewelry.com but I can get the bestvalues.com with jades.com and sparklers.com and even a pinkdiamond.com. I can buythat.com and then iexport.com. I can buywholesale.com and buyworldwide.com. I could buycloseouts.com and I can buylobsters.com, buysoap.com, buyclothing.com, and look for the biggestdiscounts.com and clearences.com and buybargains.com then sellprodu
I may have had the worstsites.com but the enterbutton.com that led to the virtualtours.com made me millions by affiliateadvertising.com and I was still getting screwed.com by the biggestwinners.com with the biggestripoffs.com. They never saw domaintraffic.com before and that potenttraffic.com provoked a good screwing.com and fakeout.com every so often for my "Fake" traffic. I would say screwyou.com and tell them if they continue with sneaky.com stupidmoves.com like cheating.com me that they will earn a spot on unfairbusiness.org and I would make them the mostfamousperson.com on the internet with their bigripoff.com and let folks know what whores.com they were and that gave me the power to be an sob.com and I was not faking.com. They put me in the virtualcollections.com
I guess I was a shameful.com banker.com who was overeating.com with a wad.com of money and looking for honest webmasterprograms.com so I could become an authorizedreseller.com and promote advertisedspecials.com and add to my christmasclub.com. I started buying adultbooks.com at wholesaleprices.com looking at personalads.com because I knew singlepeople.com wanted to look for greatass.com and getlaid.com. The only way to make extracash.com back then was with porncash.com because there was no mainstreamamerica.com in 1996 and 1997. Google did not exist. So a dailyprayer.com would not even get you a freephonecall.com or cheapestfares.com if you are goingplaces.com like grandcentralstation.com fordirections.com on the way to see hitshows.com.
males.com wants.com hotdates.com with sexychicks.com, naughtwiv
prettymodels.com and partygirls.com were everywhere. men.com think they can makeout.com because they think they are a stud.com, get horny.com and start seducing.com the prettyladies.com and if I write anymore it will be x-rated.com and the prudes.com will get upset even tho whore.com, slut.com, vagina.com and virgins.com etc. are used all day everyday on TV that our kids gowatch.com and they are not censoring.com them and either are the grandparents.com because they are just wickedteens.com hotrodding.com to the stripjoints.com to have a cold-beer.com and make xxxvideos.com.
Makes you startthinking.com so startthere.com and startsearching.com. startoff.com by startworking.com so you can startvoting.com so that you can startout.com not being a starvingartist.com because you needmoremoney.com and then you can get preapprovedloans.com, speak to financialconsultants.com, taxplanners.com and become a stockinsider.com and maybe even a domainking.com and gofirstclass.com as you goup.com the ladder.
So after 20 years they can stoplaughing.com at the craziest.com idea because theking.com has written salestips.com on his tipsheet.com that many a domainseller.com like me have used to make the year's biggestsale.com. I'm not bluffing.com and ireport.com I can make you that can give me some bragging.com rights while retiredinboca.com relaxing on my casualfurniture.com and watching funnymovies.com
This all just reconfirmed.com that typeins.com were not a violation.com and realeyeballs.com by a realliveperson.com capable of finding and previewing.com realistic.
And now that you made it through all of that I hope it brought a few smiles to your face and a few memories. Now on to my 20-year anniversary posts next week..... Happy Holidays and the best to you in 2016 and beyond!
~Adam
“Domain name poetry”, worth millions indeed. Awesome post!
Your history is like a perfect example showing the value of being ‘in the right place at the right time’ or coming up with an idea, which combined with perseverance over years and belief in the value of the idea paid off.
More over!, you managed to keep some of your domains even up to now, 2015, so many years Gosh! and finally you did what you did in 2015. Respect!
All the best and Happy Holidays!
Harry Shields
Thanks for the memories. You’ve brought a real excitement to the world of domaining. Long live the King. “Domain King!”
Tommy Butler
Fantastic post such a joy to read
Michael Gilmour
Loved reading the post Rick!
spencer
would love to hear the domain kings thoughts on current trends.
did he ever see 4l’s doing what they are doing now or were they pigeon crap in his mind?
looking to get a sense of his vision and blind spots.
kw boswell
Finally a bit more, and a good reason to celebrate. Happy career Anniversary! – kw
Tom T
The King has spoken!
Great post Rick, have a happy holiday.
roy messer
Long live the KING!!!
Marius
Great post Rick, Happy 20th Anniversary!
gary
Always great to hear from the KING!
John
Good fun Rick! I’m going to do the same with my domains! Congratulations, not for being in the right place at the right time, but recognising it, getting the wallet out (when it wasn’t $0.99 godaddy coupon time) secretly laughing at those who laughed at you and putting your money where your mouth is and your bauble’s on the line! Merry Christmas
Krishna
Rick…thank you. Happy domaining anniversary.
Homero A. Gonzalez
Happy 20th!! Fun Post! My head is still spinning from reading all those domains!!
Joe Styler
Always good to hear from you. I hope you and your family are well and enjoying the holidays.
Steve O'Brien
Really enjoyed this post. Seems like 20 years sure flew by quick. Maybe you should sign up for another 20? Happy Holidays Rick! Take care – Steve
@domains
Nice to see you blogging again!
What is your perspective on the domain market for 2015 and looking ahead to 2016? How have your domain inquiries been this year compared to the past?
Joseph Peterson
Fun read
Kevin
That was AWESOME!!!
Jay
Great Read, Merry Christmas Rick.
Max
Thanks Rick, for sharing
…wisdom, inspiration –
and leading from the front!
Mike
Guinness post..
Happy Holidays.
dawn
Incredible…we all miss your posts…Have a terrific holiday.
gazza
part 3
I think I’ll take a cheap STANDFLY.com and FLYSTANDUP.COM down to my OCEANICREALESTATE.com for some OCEANICTRIPS.com but must contact several REGIONALDOCTORS.com and ask if they can send a HELIDOCTOR.com
to cure my hangover. I’d better look-up in the ADBIBLE.com for the number of WEALTHYCOUGARS.com for a little RELIEFISM.com
Not quite as good as RICKS but these are all for sale and are BOUGHTASSEEN.com. Hope I’ve used the correct PROTACOL.com
Great post rick.
Steve Cheatham
Hi Rick. Good read. Thanks.
Kevin
@ Gazza – That is beyond really tacky to copy Rick’s post verbage with crappy domains and offering them for sale using his blog. Geeeezzz seriously.
gazza
Kevin,
Apologies for my pathetic effort. It was a spontaneous action. In future I will take more time and think things through before acting.
Sorry Rick!
Merry Xmas to all.
teresa
Amusing and fun to read, Rick.
Happy Holidays
Teresa L.
Amaresh
Hail the Domain King! Absolutely fantastic. Happy holidays Rick!
Will
Awesome post. I truly enjoyed the creativity and the wisdom. It is definitely amazing you were able to use all those domains to come up with the story. Very unique, rare and powerful skill to have =-D
– Will
Joe
Years of wandering in a domain to give money to end the years go shopping, you live, you work long hours, you’re traffic to Florida, you like to play station and nuvo cases respond to new wolves howling at night to get the sale of shit pigeon.
Thank you for the short time I could email to a few detail yours have done it before Howard matter how Moniker, shows already in one of your emails.
Blunt and friend of friends of profession true to yourself.
888 porn for both large with few words and numbers written much and little of what you have been for many of us.
The domain is old king a memory, you are now a retired king of many domains of the great times.
Best Regards, and Happy Holidays to you and your love.
Surya
Very Good Post Rick! Congratulation for the 20th Anniversary, you are obviously The Domain King
Dr Domainer
Loved it :) Great read! Domainers are lucky Rick is not in his 30s!! Most great future trend domains would be gone!!!! Trust me this guy is not human. Namepros has some great domainers but 99% of them can’t say NO!! Always sell too cheap.
Rick is the Greatest domainer in the world.
Pat Walker
Really a Super Great post Rick — You did all of this over 20 Years by Successfully — Doing the impossible — and avoiding Many Many Common Major Mistake’s… Through out the years you never panicked out — or bailed out early — or cashed in… You strongly stuck to your Great Predictions – Belief’s & Plans…
You will definitely remain to be the Undisputed — Domain King — Forever !!!
Alan
Rick, thanks for the timely post. Great reading with lots of insights!
Chris Campbell
Happy Holidays Rick!
Barry Chapman
Hi Rick. Thanks for the post, thanks for being ahead of the game, and more than anything thank you for sharing with us all your insight & wisdom through the decades. Congratulations !
mike
Very entertaining. Thanks for sharing. Enjoy the holidays.
Joseph
As always, enjoyed Rick’s posts but had hoped to read his take on the loss of Camilla.com to a horrible UDRP decision and what domaines can do to reverse this decision. A lawsuit should be filed and domain investors who have benefited from domain sales should fund it. Any thoughts??
Signor
Happy 20th Anniversary Rick. :)
Nice poem.
David Howard
Agree with Joseph’s comment. We need a a fund, and a fighting body, to oppose these bad tribunal decisions.
Joseph
Thank you David, and best wishes for a Merry Christmas and a joyful, prosperous New Year to all!
Yes, we need to organize and create a fund to oppose bad, biased decisions or almost all domain investors at one time would face ‘bad faith’ accusations by companies too narrow sighted not to have registered a domain name before we did… Bad precedents will be set until and unless we oppose them with smart legal counsel. Ignore at your own peril but we are all in this together! Stop reverse domain hijacking. Paragraph 15(e) of the UDRP Rules are clear but were not adhered to in the Camilla.com case.
Haroon Basha K J
I really enjoyed reading Rick’s post.Awesome, informative and mind-blowing. Thank you.
James
A great yet inspirational post by a legend.
Thanks for sharing it The Domain King.
Happy holidays.
elevator
Awesome and first of its kind, your are a great writer! Just question Rick, are retired from writing or from domaining? I ‘m asking to know the fate of those great names in your post above.
Wish you happy retirement live.
Cheers.
Rick
What da hell?
These domains all go nowhere!
What does this prove?
I really thought you knew your stuff.
Until I saw this.
I just don’t get it.
dnplace.com
Great post! wonderful thoughts! mind blowing memories! Long Live!!!