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Rick Shwartz, aka the domain king, recently announced his sale of Property.com to Foreclosure.com.

The sale is obviously marked as one of the highest in the domain industry, however the price wasn’t made public.. for all we know it could $500k.. or $1M, or $5M. Or $10M, as many domainers would expect.

Dnjournal has the full cover

All Other blogs reported the news: read more »

A new interesting cover story on dnjournal

There are certain names that everyone in this industry knows, names that newcomers normally encounter within hours of entering the domain business. Names like Rick Schwartz, Kevin Ham, Frank Schilling, the Castello Brothers and others from a small band of pioneers who have reached the top of a mountain that thousands of others continue to climb. Most in that group became wealthy because they were visionaries who foresaw how valuable domain names would become long before they appeared on anyone else’s radar. read more »

A recent interview with Rick Schwartz posted over at Search Feature:

Mike Dammann: How did you get the idea to start the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Domain Conference and Expos and how close are you to the search engine industry?

Rick Schwartz: It started as a 12 person get together at my home. When 35 wanted to come I hooked up with my Attorney, Howard Neu, and decided we needed a venue other than my house and an agenda of activities and discussions. When 135 signed up we got THRUST into the convention business. 6 months later we held our second TRAFFIC show in Las Vegas and this time 235 showed up. By the time we have another show in Florida a few months later, we were 350 strong. So it was never planned, it was needed and we just took the ball and ran with it.

After 10 shows we have established ourselves as the key event in the space and thousands of domainers and investors have come to one show or another.

As for the search industry, it is an industry having more and more in common with domain owners. In our show in May in Orlando we will have at least one SEO panel and in future conferences even more as our channels overlap more and more. read more »

This week Rick Schwartz decided to quit blogging and put widgets.com on ebay.com

With 4 days to go now the auction is up to $120k

I’m pretty sure the reserve won’t be reached and domain won’t sell, so no idea why Rick decided to do that. eBay is certainly not the place to sell a domain like that.

Looks like he didn’t even take the time to write a proper description, read more »

Check out domainkingofkings.com, The Unoffical Rick Schwartz Blog. Rick Schwartz spoof blog

Some of the funniest stuff I’ve seen in a while

And the comments are even funnier, here are some:

Tia Likes Wood wrote:
I can’t believe you would stoop to such lows with this website. Rick has done so much for this industry, you should be thankful he’s so generous.

TW
“I serve as a private web designer for some of the world’s biggest domain investors. Needless to say, I also live in a trailer park, and smoke crack.

Adam Imadick wrote:
You should add memberships to read this blog. Gold members get to read 10 words, Silver members get to read 50 words, Exclusive members get to read 100 words. Then you just promise them next week they get to read 200 words (but they don’t) and the money just keeps coming! Seriously, it works. With my site, I was able to rent 10 goats last week on membership fees alone! read more »