The results of our poll for greatest domain investor of all time are in. The poll was also conducted on Namepros to see how different audiences view the best. Rick Schwartz won going away at both sites.
Rick took 24% of the vote here at TheDomains.com and 32.7% at Namepros. Frank Schilling took second at Namepros. Frank was behind both Mike Carson and Andrew Rosener at TheDomains. They tied for second with 20 votes. The reasons why you will see some others added on Namepros was due to the mods adding some names that I did not.
Of course there are many schools of thought, someone said it should be done by different eras, others felt compare newcomers to newcomers. We might in the future. This poll was all time and based off domain investing.
The top 3 in 2014
Frank Schilling (31%, 77 Votes)
Yun Ye (17%, 43 Votes)
Rick Schwartz (11%, 27 Votes)
TheDomains results: 174 votes
Mike Carson 20
Frank Schilling 16
Rick Schwartz 41
Mike Berkens 0
Mike Mann 6
Nat Cohen 3
Andrew Rosener 20
Yun Ye 9
Garry Chernoff 1
Adam Dicker 15
George Kirikos 3
Marc Ostrofsky 0
Mike Zapolin 1
Thunayan Al-Ghanim (FMA) 0
David and Michael Castello 1
Igal Lichtman (Mrs.Jello) 0
Scott Day 3
Anything.com 3
Chris Chena 0
James Booth 4
Andy Booth 1
Brent Oxley 4
Hiren Patel 9
Kevin Ham 4
Greg McLemore (Web Magic) 2
Other (leave a comment to the choice)8
Namepros results 281 votes:
Mike Carson 5
Frank Schilling 35
Rick Schwartz 92 votes 32.7%
Mike Berkens 2
Mike Mann 15
Nat Cohen 2
Andrew Rosener 18
Yun Ye 12
Garry Chernoff 0
Adam Dicker 6
George Kirikos 2
Marc Ostrofsky 0
Mike Zapolin 1
Thunayan Al-Ghanim (FMA)4
David and Michael Castello 0
Igal Lichtman (Mrs.Jello) 2
Scott Day 1
Anything.com 3
Chris Chena 0
James Booth 6
Andy Booth 0
Brent Oxley 9
Hiren Patel 8
Greg McLemore (Web Magic)0
Kevin Ham 8
Braden Pollock 5
Jay Chapman 1
Bob Parsons 6
Reberry Brothers (Andrew Reberry & Jeff Reberry) 6
Was there ever a doubt? Rick is the best for me and had my vote.
You read the commentary on namepros, holy crap, these are some of the dumbest people inhabiting the planet. Snowflakes voting for friends, someone said Brad Mugford is their greatest of all time. Brad is a good guy but greatest of all time??? Put the pipe down. Fuck
Both great domainers but I’d vote for Rick Schwartz (I missed the poll) because he did it without a roadmap!
The legend/ego continues to grow. Lol
I agree. I would not put myself on the list.
I would vote for Rick Schwartz as well. He has been a consistent presence for 25+ years.
He is an OG investor that has some of the best domains and has had many multi-million dollar sales.
Pretty much everyone on the list has accomplished a lot in the field.
It is hard to compare generations. People like Andrew Rosener, Booth brothers, etc. came in later and have done incredible things. Others took the financial risk in the mid to late 90’s and acquired amazing portfolios.
I think Frank Schilling lost some credibility with his “.COM is AM radio” new gTLD pumping.
Brad
Not Rich, but Richard. He is an old man.
What’s that gif where the guy just stares and blinks… insert that here, thanks.
You mean this one ?
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I didn’t realize how many gifs there of guys just staring and blinking.
Bubbles is probably my favorite:
https://media.giphy.com/media/Fp96kfPVdv0RO/giphy.gif
Thank you, yes. 🙂
Who in the hell voted For Rosener that guy sank domainsherpa everything he touches turns to mush like the Bronx tale. We’ve been mushed. He likes to tout names he is selling but pays $600,000 for a name just to sell it for $620,000 he is a walking gimmick all talk and no substance. Sherpa shows have hit rock bottom they were only good back in 2013,14,15
I only have a handful of names but when I emailed Rick on occasion with some questions when serious offers came through, he always replied back to me with well-thought answers and solutions. For that and all the other times he would have selflessly helped people I have to give my vote to him and wish him the best of luck with his businesses.