{"id":1686,"date":"2011-06-03T20:42:28","date_gmt":"2011-06-04T00:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acro.net\/blog\/?p=1686"},"modified":"2011-06-03T20:42:28","modified_gmt":"2011-06-04T00:42:28","slug":"frank-schillings-expensive-com-made-me-some-nice-cash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acro.net\/blog\/frank-schillings-expensive-com-made-me-some-nice-cash\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank Schilling’s expensive .com made me some nice cash"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t have a domain portfolio the size and caliber of Frank Schilling’s.<\/p>\n

While I’m selective with my domain acquisitions over the years, I never went all out like Frank did. My domain portfolio is compact and manageable, consisting primarily of single word, dictionary .com\/.net\/.org domains, two-word .com compounds and creative or marketable .com’s.<\/p>\n

Overall, I don’t invest in exotic TLDs but I made an exception last year when I registered about 50 .co domains, primarily geoDomains and 3-letter .co’s. Some of those I sold, others I kept for development.<\/p>\n

It was one of those .co domains that gave me the opportunity to wonder about Domain Administration’s selling prices; the .com is owned by Frank Schilling and I just sold the .co<\/p>\n

The buyer quoted the .com owners as “greedy” for wanting 5 figures for the domain; this gave me the opportunity to sell them the .co at a nice price that further increased my ongoing trust in the Colombian TLD.<\/p>\n

Those of you that are skeptical about renewing their .co domains in July, be very observant of your traffic stats; there are plenty of people or companies ready to snatch them if you let them drop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t have a domain portfolio the size and caliber of Frank Schilling’s. While I’m selective with my domain acquisitions over the years, I never went all out like Frank did. My domain portfolio is compact and manageable, consisting primarily of single word, dictionary .com\/.net\/.org domains, two-word .com compounds and creative or marketable .com’s. 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