TiaWood.com

On having different domain development projects:

"Just think to yourself: wait a second. Am I really focused or am I just kinda scattered out there saying I wish I could do these things. And that's why you always have to pull it back and ask yourself 'what are the projects meaningful to me and how can I get those done?'..."

"...You need to make sure what it is that you are doing is actually contributing to your revenue and that is the biggest thing I think people forget in the domaining world. They get flustered. They are doing 8 million things at once and they start searching for more names to buy or searching for good deals and they forget that they need to make money with their own names..."

"...Make that one [domain] the best it can be. Get focused. Get to work. Don't get overwhelmed because that one name could turn into a revenue stream that outranks twenty of your names because you put the time and energy in..."

~ Morgan Linton

* Photo courtesy of DNJournal.com

Here is another good comment by Castello found on this page.

"My brother and I don’t park many names and have trumpeted the advantages of developing portfolios before anyone else (if there is another major domainer who has been doing this with the majority of their portfolio before 1995 please let me know).

That being said, I agree with you that parking has played a critical role in the evolution of our industry and I am certainly not in favor of seeing it go. On the other hand, parking is the past not the future. When you park a name – especially a really good one – you are essentially consigning it to a slow death. Even worse, parking a name allows competitors to develop their names and future dilute the value of your name (a perfect example of this is the parked PalmBeach.com vs our developed WestPalmBeach.com).

I could go on and on, but the bottom line is that anyone parking a name in 2009 with a value of over 100K is essentially making a terrible business decision.

PS: The answer to this is YES and it will happen in the next twelve months (I know this for a fact): “You want a company to take on Google and get advertisers to move to their network?”"

"Our sites may look basic, but looks can be deceiving. Those simplistic looking sites generate massive revenue for our advertisers - and our advertisers are our #1 priority. Furthermore, sites like PalmSprings.com have constantly updated content with editors for its Calendar of Events, Classifieds, Forum, etc.

My suggestion is this. Build a site, do all the things you believe are important and then sign advertisers to contracts. In other words, put your reputation and talent on the line. If you don’t drive serious business to these people you will be run out of town. If you survive the first year, I promise you will have entered a new world that most domainers haven’t a clue about and you will have learned to play by a whole new set of rules. And when something works, you will be exceeding hesitant to mess with the formula (ever wonder why Google still hasn’t changed their front page?).

Our sites have been criticized by webmasters and designers alike for years. And I’ll tell you the same thing I tell them - every day my brother and I cry all the way to the bank."