Comments on: Don’t Use Marchex As a Domain Industry Measure: They Suck

By: Did Your Domains Investment Return 60% Since September? It Easily Could Have | Domain Shane

Tue, 21 Dec 2010 18:04:50 +0000

[...] my Marchex investment did. I admit it, I was pretty pissed at Marchex earlier in the year. I wrote an article about them not being a domain industry measuring stick and felt they were heading the wrong [...]

By: Bill

Bill — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 04:26:41 +0000

I wasn’t trying to call you out, it’s just whenever a blog ends up on domaining bashing one of the few public companies in our small pond of the internet I really do like to get some backup info as Marchex regardless if you like them or not is one of the most public examples of what domaining is all about.

At least in my mind.

By: ShaneCultra

ShaneCultra — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 02:55:12 +0000

Bill,
I have the utmost respect for what you do and how you’re doing it but that’s a pretty broad statement. I WILL write a post but no matter what I write you’ll alway be able to say I have no idea what I’m talking about because I’ve never done it. It’s really a no win scenario for me but I wouldn’t have written it if I didn’t believe I could. I will admit I made one big mistake in my post, their portfolio is weaker than I thought. They had millions and millions of dollars of cash infusion from going public and they wasted it on zipcode domains. Bill, I really do appreciate the comments and honored you actually read this thing. I’ll put my thoughts down and see what you think. Just take it easy on me

By: Bill

Bill — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 02:44:53 +0000

I’d love to hear your ideas on how to increase profit when the ENTIRE PPC industry is down… now that would be an interesting post.

It’s quite easy to say you’d do something better without actually doing anything at all:)

By: ShaneCultra

ShaneCultra — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 00:36:34 +0000

Hey, I’ll take “most” . I was just playing around. There are plenty of great money making opportunities that I don’t know about. As soon as you posted the comment I started looking into it. I just don’t like Marchex, they seem to take good things and screw them up

By: Troy

Troy — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 00:29:32 +0000

I like most of your posts Shane, I didn’t mean to sound rude. You are right, Marchex is a crappy company but the “pay per call” model of business can be very profitable, and there are some big players in the game. Marchex just hasn’t done it right.

Troy

By: ShaneCultra

ShaneCultra — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 00:20:40 +0000

Troy,

You are right and I will leave it at that.

By: Troy

Troy — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 22:34:34 +0000

“I can’t imagine why they’re not raking in the dough with the brilliant “Pay Per Call” campaign. Then again, I’m sure if that worked Google would be doing it.”

You clearly have no experience in “pay per call”. I will leave it at that.

By: Belmassio

Belmassio — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 22:16:04 +0000

Truth is, their portfolio is not that great…….some 78,000 zipcode doamins, if I recall correctly, with very little direct navigation traffic is a lot of renewals fees that suck profits from the rest of the decent domains.

Have you ever typed in your zipcode to find local info? I never have and don’t have a clue what is on my zipcode even. Surfing by zipcode is boring….it has zero personality.