Has anybody ever heard of NAmedia? It's this fatcat corportation that owns thousands of generic domain names and makes money just by having advertising. Example: http://www.funnystatistics.com http://www.STDs.com http://www.thelord.com That's all their sites are! I understand, they make hundreds of thousands of dollars from it, possibly more, but I think it's wrong. They've taken all the good domain names and made them into crap! By the way, they're corporate URL is http://www.nameadministration.com.
What's the problem with that? They bought many of those domains from people. If they offered you several hundred thousands to buy your entire portfolio, would you sell? Ads on domains are paid for the same way people put adsense on their existing sites. It's actually better for advertisers because a domain like CheapCamera.(EXT) The advertiser is sure that the user is looking for cheap cameras.
I agree, there is nothing wrong with this. They paid lots of money to acquire those domains from people and they are monetizing them for their business. As long as they don't have any domains that infringe on someone's TM, they have every right in the world to own them and use them how they see fit.
Understandable, but that's your opinion. It just so happens some people here (including me) don't agree with it. And it's not true they've taken "all the good domain names". They have a big number, but not all. You have a name they want? Buy it from them. Price too high? Seek other names, you've still got available options if you look hard enough. You want someone in authority to set a standard as to how a domain name is allowed to be registered and "used"? Then expect your choices to be limited... severely.
Did you guys ever hear anything back from them? I'm interested in a domain owned by them and just sent a query email to their contact address. Hopefully I'll get a response soon.
chances are very less to hear from them if you not included a good offer. normally big domainers wont reply if they got just a query without offer
I think its funny how a parked domain (stds.com) has a PR1 from just a few backlinks (less than 20 I can find) and some people can't achieve this no matter how much work they put into it.
PR1? That's seems quite easy to me... came naturally, PR 2 on portal, and subdomains/others are PR 1 for most. I've never had to actually work to achieve that... I just built up some pages. If someone is actually trying to get pagerank, I think it would be very rare cases if they can't achieve PR1. Most websites I know who've been around for 6-12 months got their PR 1 or 2.