The Death of Domain Parking and the Birth of a New Vertical Web 2.0 Empire

[Lidador]

Why domain parking as we know it is about to come to an end… and what’s next

This story is about Richard Rosenblatt, an innovator and serial entrepreneur who sold his startup iMall to Excite@Home for $565 million in 1999, and went on to broker MySpace to Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp for $580 million.

He is currently the co-founder, chairman and CEO of Demand Media, the company that first caught domainers’ attention when it acquired eNom and Bulk Register in May 2006.

So what has Richard been up to? For the past year or so, he has been quietly working on revolutionizing the domain industry and creating a new Web 2.0 media empire in the process.

Here: http://www.dailydomainer.com/news/20...n-parking.html

ps:I have been saying this for a long time now...

[Drewbert]

The biggest problem with letting other people provide the cotent for your site, is controlling it.

I was going to add forum capability to most of my domains, but the potential for disaster and hence admin time put me off doing it.

[sunsei21]

i remember reading this in a magazine and playing with someideas that might work on a smaller scale and 2 months later im still thinking.

[boca]

Originally Posted by Drewbert

The biggest problem with letting other people provide the cotent for your site, is controlling it.

I was going to add forum capability to most of my domains, but the potential for disaster and hence admin time put me off doing it.

The model that seems to work is the wiki, not the bulletin boards. If you get a critical mass of users, they will police the contents like wikipedia. I'm not gonna try this, because I think it only works when the number of users is large.</theory>

[touchring]

Originally Posted by Drewbert

The biggest problem with letting other people provide the cotent for your site, is controlling it.

I was going to add forum capability to most of my domains, but the potential for disaster and hence admin time put me off doing it.

Just disable links.

[Drewbert]

Links are what make the web go round.