Some feel Frank is a .com diehard since he refuses to acknowledge the branding power of .tv.  After all, would Frank’s gazillion dollar .com portfolio be worth the same amount if he and other influential .com investors openly and objectively discussed the merits of .tv...you decide.

Last week’s Domain Roundtable event featured Frank Schilling as the keynote speaker. 

Video after the jump! 

Frank shares some insights on how he got started and where the industry is going. Frank figured out early on that domains with PPC advertising can be a good thing. This is a great recap of how Frank got to where he is today and a few hints about where he plans to go in the future.

Many people didn’t renew domain names in the dotcom crash and Frank re-doubled his effort to pour all his revenue back into buying generic keyword domains. Frank reflects how history doesn’t repeat but it often rhymes so there are lessons to learn from his domain history.

The most amusing part is minute 31:55 where Frank jokes that he just made $100 exhaling.  There is also a mention of George Kirkos at spot 42:04, Frank helped co-found the ICA with Bob Martin after that conversation with George. At the very end, minute 52, Frank talks about possibly creating a super brand by redirecting all his traffic to a portal and building a brand around it. Traffic measurement companies like COMscore can’t seem to track Frank’s traffic because it is spread out on so many different domain names. Frank owns 320,000 domain names but it would be hard for any advertising company to see he has around 30 million unique visitors a month. In comparison, the most watched TV show on National TV every week only has 20 Million viewers.

Source: Domain Tools