Frank Schilling

FRANK-SCHILLING

The Virtual Real-Estate “Guru”

Networth: $100+ Million

Frank Schilling, is a ‘domain investor’ and The Multimillionaire Domainer spoke about the subject during a Tech TV interview with Matt Markovich in 2002, describing those who invest in high-value generic domain names for the purpose of future development. Today participants in this space are collectively known as domainers.

Schilling, who pulls in $20 million a year from his domain business, coveted one for himself.”At the time,” he says, “he was planeless.” had more than $31 million in operating cash flow, yet it booked just $220000 in profit.

Frank Schilling patented the “Generic Top Level Domain Rerouting System” in 2001, financed the Caribbean’s first ICANN accredited domain name registrar in 2003, joined as a member of the ICANN business constituency and co-founded the non-profit ‘Internet Commerce Association’ in 2006. He began domain blogging on Seven Mile in 2007.

Frank Schilling was one of the first to administer very large portfolios of domain names for third-parties and is one of the largest generic domain-name investors in the world.

Frank now has over 200,000+ domains in his inventory. Each of these sites have some kind of advertisement on them. I’ll let you do the math. Many have referred to him as the virtual real estate “guru”

That world-wide mindshare has been reinforced since the very beginnings of the Internet via trillions of dollars in collective global marketing and serve to create a premium value for the extension. The marketing that you, I and others have done, has served to make .com the first extension most of us try in the browser’s address bar.

Individual names often sell for 100 years PPC. No high quality domainer would dream of selling a portfolio worth potential billions to a third party for 10-12X PPC revenues. PPC is a flawed multiple because it works off a rev-share. If you buy a portfolio for 10X and it is on a 50/50 rev share (after ‘cost of services’ through Google Adsense) that means you sold your portfolio for 5X what Google could make with it.