One, is that there is the opportunity for Wealth Creation from parked domains. There is an opportunity for the owner to make more money than currently with a parked site (yes, he could make much more than a few hundred per day, WeBuyThe, which is why these companies are buying his leads), thus creating wealth for himself, potentially others (ie. jobs to run that business), and in this case do a good deed as well by hopefully helping others find jobs. The downside for Monster, etc. is dispersed enough amongst the ad buyers to limit financial trouble and only slightly eats away at the bottom line of the pockets of a corporate exec that can afford the small loss. Wealth Creation must be the goal of our economy again to get us through this Recession.

Two, there is a drop-off in conversion rates the further a customer has to click through to the next site to find his product. There are potential clients lost between their natural arrival at Resume.com and the next stop the ad takes them. I do not have the data for how many, but think of a time searched for a product and after not finding it on the second or third page, eventually gave up.

Lastly, I continue to believe that parked sites are a detriment to the Internet in general. I do have sites parked, so I am guilty as the rest of us, but we must admit that the goal needs to be development of these sites for both more productive and efficient use of the domain and to reduce the negative impression they leave of our industry.

This might have been a novel idea 10 years ago, do you think it still applies today?

*sorry for any missing h’s, need a new keyboard.

And this is bad, how? Bad for the economy? What? Quit drinking from “I wasn’t smart enough to buy such a good domain and now I’m jealous” fountain.

Resume’s will last for a long time as a primary source of a simple introduction to a potential employer. Any job opportunity related domains should be put into use at this point in time to facilitate that medium of information.

I like that statement, and I believe the Internet is in the process of doing just that.

To bad the whois info is concealed. We could have all bombarded the owner with e-mails and phonecalls suggesting development ideas. That may be just the push they need. Who knows…

The way I see it, if you’re still using a resume and don’t have a multi-media, digital version, i.e. a blog of yourself, then you really aren’t maximizing the value of your skill set.

The future of the resume is right here. Who in their right mind wouldn’t want to have theirname.com!