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Rick Schwartz Maybe “Retired” But He Is Still The Domain King & Still Schooling Them Up

May 19, 2015 by Michael Berkens

A lot of people in the domain world miss Rick Schwartz since he retired.

His “Biggest Fan” who writes onlinedomain.com openly stated last week he was eagerly waiting for a new post from Rick on RicksBlog.com.

The Domain King remains retired but of course he still owns a lot of domain names and gets offers  to which he responds to.

Rick shared with me an exchange he had with a someone about a domain name he owns over the weekend, Flaunting.com

What follows, with Rick’s permission is the email exchange in which Rick schooled the inquirer in classic Domain King style.

We will refer to the person who inquired about the domain as the buyer,  although clearly in this case there was no sale:

Buyer: What is the price of Flaunting.com?

RS: $500,000

Buyer: hahahahahahahha

RS:  Sorry you can’t afford it.

Buyer:  it’s not worth it of course, Flaunts.com is $1,900 dollars

RS: Not any more, I just bought it, Thanks!

Personally I hate when people write me about a domain I own and then use other domain names for sale to try to bring down the price of my domain.

If a buyer equally loves the other domain they found,  that is much cheaper why would they write to me and not just buy the other domain.

Reason

They lie.

Yes,  Rick Schwartz is alive and well and still schooling them up and giving them hell.

 

 

Filed Under: Domain Industry, Domains

About Michael Berkens

Michael Berkens, Esq. is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also the co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. which sold around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in December 2015 and now owns around 8K domain names . Michael was also one of the 5 Judges selected for the the Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com contest.

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Comments

  1. Andrew Rosener says

    May 19, 2015 at 9:41 am

    I Love It! I’ve done the same before. People are stupid. Just no way around it.

    • Joe A says

      May 19, 2015 at 2:27 pm

      Dittos (I haven’t done that but I do love it)!

  2. Groovy says

    May 19, 2015 at 9:42 am

    Classic 🙂

  3. jose says

    May 19, 2015 at 9:42 am

    long live The King

  4. tommy butler says

    May 19, 2015 at 9:52 am

    The King says it all. Classic.

  5. Andrea Paladini says

    May 19, 2015 at 9:58 am

    It happened the same to me as well many times, they always try to fool you with those laughable tricks … lol
    Rick strikes again! 🙂

  6. Spencer says

    May 19, 2015 at 10:06 am

    doesnt look like Rick bought to me?

    http://who.is/whois/flaunts.com

    • Joe A says

      May 19, 2015 at 2:28 pm

      Looks like he did from here!

  7. Jamie Zoch says

    May 19, 2015 at 10:11 am

    Good stuff!

  8. Michael Berkens says

    May 19, 2015 at 10:20 am

    Confirmed with Rick I have a copy of the receipt now the issue is why hasn’t DNS taken down the sales page when the domain was purchased two days ago?

    • Paul says

      May 19, 2015 at 10:27 am

      lnteresting

  9. Paul says

    May 19, 2015 at 10:22 am

    This is an eye opener for me..same thing happened to me about MarijuanaCapsule dot com…after i told him my price,the so called buyer told me he is no longer interested that MarijuanaCapsules dot com has been dropped and is for $20..i told him he is lucky to get it..i also told him that MarijuanaMarket dot com will soon drop he should wait to get it…I finally told him he does not look like one who wants to buy a domain name.

    From this article it seems to me this is their new way to price down domain or what…this is crazy.
    Thanks to thedomains dot com and domain king.
    This is why i always read articles and posts here.honestly i have learn alot.

    • Max says

      May 19, 2015 at 4:35 pm

      @Paul that was some good advice to hand out for free… try and sign them as a client for domain acquisition consulting =)

      On the other hand, I watch the drops daily (w/ my morning tea) and regularly am able to add the plural or singular of a name that I already have; imho, if they’re not worth buttressing then they’re likely flotsam and can be dropped themselves!

  10. Bill kara says

    May 19, 2015 at 10:25 am

    That’s hilarious, hope he comes back to blogging

  11. Logan says

    May 19, 2015 at 11:03 am

    Now Rick shows up under WHOIS. When I went to the page, the price was only $1,725.

    • Max says

      May 19, 2015 at 4:43 pm

      Perhaps the message there is: all roads lead to R… =)

  12. Tony says

    May 19, 2015 at 11:07 am

    Yesterday, Morgan Linton mentioned MHB tweeted a $50K sale over the weekend that he bought a month before for $1K. What is that domain, MHB?

    Most other domainers would’ve sold in the $5-10K range including myself.

  13. Scott Alliy says

    May 19, 2015 at 11:11 am

    “Not any more” classic Rick love it!

  14. Jide says

    May 19, 2015 at 11:14 am

    I love the reply, classic and hilarious

  15. John says

    May 19, 2015 at 11:47 am

    Great story-very funny. The buyer learned a good lesson i’d say.

  16. Jay says

    May 19, 2015 at 11:55 am

    haha Rick Schwartz scored a 1, 2 KO. nice

  17. Ramahn says

    May 19, 2015 at 12:25 pm

    Good stuff! Not sure if Rick studies martial arts, but I still call him Sifu Rick cuz he’s been my domain teacher since day one.

  18. SBasu says

    May 19, 2015 at 12:29 pm

    for my PROTONMAIL.IN got an offer form €200….said my price…said UNREALISTIC…. MY DOMAIN…MY PRICE….

  19. Barry Garner says

    May 19, 2015 at 1:10 pm

    Just to put a different spin on it… This could have also been a very clever ploy by the “inquirer” to attract Rick to purchase the domain “Flaunts.com”, just a thought guys! 😉

    • Domain Shame says

      May 19, 2015 at 4:45 pm

      If only Frank Schilling didn’t already own it.

    • Together TV says

      May 20, 2015 at 9:06 am

      Now THAT would be funny…doubtful it happened, but interesting possibility

  20. Michael Berkens says

    May 19, 2015 at 1:53 pm

    Barry

    Definitely some out of the box thinking

  21. Gordon says

    May 19, 2015 at 1:59 pm

    ROFLMAO I’ve done that more than once to a buyer who shot off his mouth!
    It’s always the guys that do that I’ve never had a woman take that approach.

  22. Michael Berkens says

    May 19, 2015 at 5:44 pm

    Well Rick is asking $500K for the longer domain and knowing Rick he will sell flaunts.com for $xxx,xxx figures or will die with it, either way he has $9M in his pocket for porno.com i + candy.com + property.com + the rest

    I don’t think Rick is going to lose 1M of sleep over a $2K purchase

  23. Konstantinos Zournas says

    May 19, 2015 at 6:31 pm

    I am not Rick’s biggest fan. Clearly this title goes to the one with the 100s comments on one of Ricks lasts posts. 🙂
    But we are missing an important voice in domaining.
    Having more voices is better for the industry whether you agree with them or not.

    • Luis Zamora says

      May 20, 2015 at 5:04 pm

      Now we know who the “buyer” was !

  24. Josh says

    May 19, 2015 at 6:35 pm

    OR….. did the “buyer” just sell Rick a $1900 domain lol 😉

    • Luis Zamora says

      May 20, 2015 at 5:08 pm

      Good thinking, after all the “buyer” ended to be the “seller”; and tricked Rick into buying his domain flaunts.com. Now who “schooled” who? Rick may be now stuck with two useless domains !

  25. John says

    May 19, 2015 at 6:57 pm

    🙂

  26. KC says

    May 19, 2015 at 8:36 pm

    Expecting more to come from Rick…

  27. Realville says

    May 19, 2015 at 9:59 pm

    Flashback …. TRAFFIC 2013: GTLDs

    Rick Schwartz vs. Frank Schilling + Monte Cahn

    2015: Two year reflection: Rick Schwartz OBLITERATED Frank Schilling + Monte Cahn in that ’13 GTLD debate

    Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEDblgg3Qew

    Rick is the ultimate salesman and debater.

  28. Eric Lyon says

    May 20, 2015 at 8:49 am

    We all know Ricks not really retired. He’s just on an extended vacation buying and selling from a cabana somewhere on his laptop. 😉

  29. Together TV says

    May 20, 2015 at 9:02 am

    FU**ING EPIC! Wow…

  30. Eric Borgos says

    May 20, 2015 at 12:11 pm

    Classic Rick Schwartz stuff. Good to hear from him again, even second-hand.

  31. joeray says

    May 20, 2015 at 9:54 pm

    I had someone offered to sell me a domain that was almost the same as one I owned, so I did a whois search and found it was available for the reg fee, I bought it.

  32. Ruben says

    May 21, 2015 at 7:47 am

    Great move! 🙂

  33. Michael Berkens says

    May 21, 2015 at 9:59 am

    According to domaintools.com the seller appears to have been Internet REIT, Inc. (IREIT) which for those that are new to the business built and bought domain names into a large portfolio which are all for sale at DNS.

    They are not the person who attempted to buy the domain, I have the emails

  34. Chris Campbell says

    May 22, 2015 at 5:45 pm

    “Sorry you can’t afford it.”

    Nice…

    I think this is my new go to response…I am serious….


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