Anything that I do, someone else might do better, faster, cheaper.
Or, at least, I am bound to be matched within 95% by someone who is seeking the same opportunities, has similar ambitions and is driven by similar or a competing cultural background.
It’s a law of the nature.
People think alike, often mimic, attempt to do better at things they perceive as interesting. Since the time of the caves, artists who drew on the walls – often using animal dung for paint – set an example for others to either simply follow or attempt to surpass.
In today’s global economy, progress arises from competition, for a simple reason: when all goals are created equal, choice and interest in a product or service become flat. When all that one could wear in the former USSR was brown and khaki jackets made of rough threaded material, everything came from a single source of production: that of a monopolistic, government facility.
Monopolies are bad for the basic human instinct of being different.
Although we can get used to uniformity, we do not accept it. Humans want choices, different ways of doing the same thing, different views of the same image. It’s the way the human brain functions and becomes stimulated and consequently evolves. It’s how we have left the caves and built homes and skyscrapers, turned cooking into an art and how trading via a handshake became e-shopping.
In a world that has somehow united under the hood of a global network, monopolies isolate our humanity, destroy the intricate need for satisfying our various senses and turn us into robot citizens from the movie “Metropolis”.
And that alone, can be a truly devastating experience.
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Amen to that :)…well said
I guess this post is targeted to Domaining.com, so as things come to mind:
Does IBM.com advertise DELL.com?
Does SnapNames.com advertise NameJet.com?
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No!
So why do you want we promote a competing service?
And more when:
– It’s for free.
– It’s a “copycat” of our own service.
– Copied by an old member.
Something is fair competition and another is “copycat”.
Something is have an open mind, and another is be an idiot.
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Another blogger today was waitting I comment his post about the issue I had with Sahar.
I was decided until I saw his missleading and inacurate blog post title.
In his post he said we are selling ads on the backs of other people’s content.
It’s a point of view, now this is another one:
We already spend $200k+ to promote our industry and continue each month $3-$6k from our own pocket.
So look all the money we are making from people content! You want the same?
I don’t think anyone else in the industry is spending so much money to try to promote it.
What we are doing in fact is simply spend each month a lot of money so few bloggers can get a larger audience and few thousands people a better way to read them.
And the gratitude are the comments you can read today around, not a lot.
Some motivated volunteers to replace us?
Most serious, sure we would like one day we stop generating expenses and start making benefices.
This why we will continue to try to monetize domaining.com
We have not stollen any content and we are not abusing of anyone!
Bloggers accepted we show their headlines in exchange of traffic and possible recognition.
A win/win situation!
Otherwise tell me what will be our advantage if we could not try to monetize our site?
Bloggers are selling themselves advertising in their site with our traffic.
And it’s normal, it will never come to my mind that Elliot, Andrew, Michael, Ron, … are abusing of domaining.com because they are selling ads in their pages, it’s absurd!
At the inverse, I am happy, they deserve it for the great work and their dedication, at the inverse I would like all have the same chance.
You know without sponsoring at a moment even the most motivated blogger finish abandoning, and a lot already did the step unfortunately.
Sure, many will say that today domaining.com is only a part of their traffic.
But I can tell you (and I have traffic numbers) from the less popular to the most popular one, all got a great share of their subscribers because they were listed in domaining.com
The problem is bloggers cannot quantify the volume because subscribers after use their own RSS reader for a huge percentage or mainly visit them from our newsletter (where they cannot track referral and identify it’s from domaining.com).
Domaining.com is not having any monopolistic share, trust me.
I think less than 30% of the full domaining industry use a vertical news aggregator to check domaining news, the rest is taken by RSS readers like Google, …
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I read another false comment on this blog:
We NEVER listed any domaining feed at domaining.com without previously get the authorization of the owner, and this should NOT change.
Better, since September for avoid possible missunderstanding we ask a setup fee which is the proof the blogger accepted the few rules each blogger we list must follow.
So what I read of people suggesting to some bloggers they ban our IP to avoid we show their headlines have no clue of how does it works.
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Regarding Sahar.
To be true I have been very surprised.
He started this morning by a missleading Tweet suggesting I dropped his feed because he was advertising a competitor.
When in fact we decided to not advertise in our NEWSLETTER the ones promoting competing services, NOT in our pages.
So I immediately sent him an email to clarify if it was due to a possible missunderstanding (english is not my mother language).
I did not got other response that a post in his blog (one cannot comment) and the attempt to activate his relationships to try to create an anti domaining.com buzz.
When I think that I tried to help him just one week ago recommending to all my Twitter followers to follow our “friend Sahar” … Oops!
I don’t know the “real” reason that motivated Sahar.
Recently he told me business was a bit harder, so maybe it was simply a bad day, bu what bad day!
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We will continue improving Domaining.com as better it’s possible and launching new services that may help domainers.
For those that support Domaining.com THANKS and for the others simply visit another site, you have all your freedom.
Francois