Thanks for taking the time to chat with a stranger, I really appreciated the chance to talk with you.

I agree with Derek: “you are as nice a guy in person as you seem to be on your blog”.

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Thanks Stephen, it was truly my pleasure.
Cheers
Sahar

hey Sahar, you mind going into a little more detail on ask.com? Confused on how they’re the missing piece in this game…

thanks man!

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We need another party besides Google and Yahoo that needs the domain channel to create more competition for our traffic. Google is too big (besides the fact they are like a “black box”, sharing little information with their aggregators) and while having the domain channel is good for them, because they are market leader, liability from the domain channel is greater then for smaller players (more money you have, more people want a piece of it).
Having only one party that is bleeding badly is a problem. What happens if Yahoo for some reason pay less attention to the domain channel or even close it? You will have one major company on its own that now can play with pricing even worse then they do now. The fact we only have Yahoo and Google today is one of the worst situations for this market.
Why ask.com then? Because ask.com has been struggling to gain market share for years staying at #4 behind ms, yahoo and google. For ask.com having the domain channel is literally solving the problem they have been trying to solve unsuccessfully for years - gaining substantial search market share quick.

“because Adam mentioned it I had to disagree”
At least you can admit that.

The multiples do set the floor as you said.
Won’t argue there. I haven’t sold a domain on a multiple of ppc for a long time, but as you said it’s nice to have as a starting point if you NEED it.

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I’ll try to write more about it today, it’s a good topic.

Nice job snagging FuneralArrangements.com!

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Thanks Derek, pleasure meeting you two as well