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By: Christopher S. Penn » Blog Archive » The Mother of All Pingbacks

Christopher S. Penn » Blog Archive » The Mother of All Pingbacks — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 19:20:41 +0000

[...] Mark Forman’s Getting a Leg Up : Good News and Bad News [...]

By: admin

admin — Fri, 18 May 2007 17:32:54 +0000

Hey Bryce. Yeah don't mind them offering having option listed. I understand the concept of loss-leading getting people into the store and hopefully getting them to buy other higher profit merchandise. Even Walmart doesn't push stuff on you when you are in store. it just has it all around for you to pick up and throw in cart if you choose.

Please do stop by and listen. Very excited to be producing my own content in this channel.

By: Bryce Moore

Bryce Moore — Fri, 18 May 2007 15:01:40 +0000

My guess is that GoDaddy's margins on actual domain sales are very, very small, and where they stay profitable with it is in Wal-Mart economy model -- sell something for a very tiny profit, but sell a metric ton of them and make the profit on volume. Of course, since they're not a public company they don't have to share of that economic data with anyone outside their financiers.

The high-margin stuff is all the add-on's they try to push at you (the e-mail add-on's, domain "protection" services, auctioning off domains they bought themselves, severely oversold hosting) as well as the ads they placed on parked web pages, since there is almost no overhead involved with these things.

Honestly, even though they do support some podcasters, I am at the point that when my little swath of domains comes up for renewal I am going to be looking for someone else to registrar them.

I digress, rapidly as it would seem -- sorry for the commentblogging. Best of luck with the new show! I'll peak in on it when it comes online.