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Originally Posted by Ross
The days of the lazy domainer might be just about over.
There was life before google, and there will be life after google. It just requires hands-on work.
As much as I loathe micros~1, I start to wonder how a yahoo acquisition might change google's behaviour toward domainers.
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yep. The word on the street is "develop or die" wrt monetization. In the past there was real cooperation between Google and Fabulous. Since Fab used a google feed, then it was in google's best interest to provide service to Fab. A lot of my domains would get page 1 listing on google with popular keywords. Now the placement sucks, and the advertisers are leaving parked pages in droves. That is a major double hit (search engine placement, loss of advertisers). Like I said above, there is a trickle down effect that is going to hurt Fabulous too.
arghhh... I program in most of the major languages, and am a perl fanatic at the system level, but the prospect of developing 1500 domains, even into mini-sites, is a bit frightening.
Overall, this is going to impact sales too, since many resellers price their domains based on ppc and traffic. With search engine placement way down and advertiser competition tanking, this will hurt resale value. The times they are a changing.