RickSchwartz.com 👑 Domain King® 👑 Since 1995

Pioneer/Curator 6500 DOTCOM Domains: Property.com-Properties-SmartGlasses-Middleman-Cheapest-Queen-Booty-Ass-Horny-Weapons-Homemade-Widgets-Fools-Voyeur-Cutie++

[Rick Schwartz aka DomainKing® @BettyAiProject]

My First Real Domain Acquisition of 2026

IntelligentGlasses .com $1,288

Almost all of my registrations this year have been hand-registered defensive names.

This one wasn't.
But it was since I own Smartglasses .com.

A few days ago Steve Epstein was telling me about the race toward AI-powered intelligent glasses involving Meta, Samsung, Google, Warby Parker and others.

As he was talking, I started looking.

That's when I found:
https://t.co/oHfc2kegj2 just sitting there. Available. $1,288 price tag.

I snapped it up quicker than a lizard and a fly.

For those convinced all the great domains are gone, opportunities still appear every day.

You just have to recognize them before somebody else does.

👓🌱

#Domains #DomainNames #DigitalAssets #BeanstalkChallenge

[Rick Schwartz aka DomainKing® @BettyAiProject]

Three Beanstalk Challenge sites just went LIVE.

#23, #24, #25

https://t.co/OPPbXCFxsn
https://t.co/WuANilckJ2
https://t.co/Ji7PIQTebB

Congrats to Chad Folkening!!

The fleet is growing. 🚢🚢🚢🚢🚢🚢🚢🚢🚢🚢🚢🚢🚢🚢🚢🚢🚢🚢🚢🚢🚢🚢🚢🚢🚢

#BeanstalkChallenge #Domains #DomainNames #DigitalAssets

[Rick Schwartz aka DomainKing® @BettyAiProject]

90 days ago I planted a seed.

At first it was just an idea.
Then it germinated.

Then it started to grow.
I named it the Beanstalk Challenge.

Magic beans appeared.
Caretakers for those magic beans appeared.

The builders got stronger.
The ideas got sharper.

The polishing cloth came out.

Websites appeared.
Businesses appeared.
Judges appeared.
Sponsors appeared.
Momentum appeared.

An armada began to form.

Ships started sailing in different directions toward different destinations.

And something unexpected happened.

An industry that hadn’t had much excitement in a very long time became energized.

The Beanstalk Challenge did more than germinate.

It gave people permission to dream again.

And soon those dreams will be visible for the world to see.

What’s funny is that today marks only 90 days.

A 90-day-old baby should barely be able to hold its head up.

This one is already walking and talking.

It has builders.
It has businesses.
It has judges.
It has sponsors.
It has momentum.

And somehow this little 90-day-old baby already has a support system larger than anything I have built in my entire career.

The funniest part?

The baby isn’t just walking and talking.

The little son of a bitch has already started lifting weights.

For years I’ve described myself as Johnny Appleseed.

Planting seeds.
Planting opportunities.
Planting domains.
Planting ideas.

But somewhere along the way, Johnny turned into Jack.

And those seeds became a Beanstalk.

90 days ago I started out as a one-man band with a seed.

I planted the seed.

Betty helped me water it.

The builders are helping it grow.

And the audience is cheering it on.

And now the whole thing is starting to take on a life of its own.

Today I’m conducting a symphony orchestra. And the concert hasn’t even started yet.

Don’t believe me?

Just watch. 🌱🎼👑💪🚀

#BeanstalkChallenge #Domains #DigitalAssets

[Rick Schwartz aka DomainKing® @BettyAiProject]

One final update.

@MorganLinton has accepted the 5th and final seat on the Beanstalk Challenge judging panel.

I couldn’t think of a better person to complete this respected and trusted group.

The panel is now complete.

The builders will build.
The judges will judge.

And the results will speak for themselves.

I want to personally thank:

@MorganLinton
@AndrewRosener
@Castello_Bros
@AmmarKubba
@RonJackson

for accepting this responsibility and for the confidence they’ve shown in what we’re building.

Their willingness to lend their time, expertise, judgment, and credibility means a great deal both to me and the industry, and I’m grateful to have such a respected and trusted group guiding this process. 👏

Welcome aboard, Morgan, and thank you to all of our judges. 🌱

#BeanstalkChallenge #Domains #DigitalAssets

[Rick Schwartz aka DomainKing® @BettyAiProject]

Important Beanstalk Challenge Update:

I have decided to remove myself entirely from the judging process.

The winners will be selected by an independent panel of 5 respected leaders from our industry.

I am pleased to announce the first 4 judges:

Andrew Rosener @andrewrosener

David Castello @Castello_Bros

Ammar Kubba @AmmarKubba

Ron Jackson @DNJournal

One additional judge will be added in the coming days.

The purpose is simple.

I don’t want the winners chosen by me.

But the panel of esteemed judges was.

I want the winners chosen by people whose judgment, experience, and integrity are respected throughout the domain industry.

It’s about builders.
It’s about entrepreneurship.
It’s about execution.

It’s about turning opportunity into reality.

The builders will build.
The judges will judge.
And the results will speak for themselves.

Let the games begin.

Don't believe me… Just watch!

#BeanstalkChallenge #Domains #DigitalAssets

[Rick Schwartz aka DomainKing® @BettyAiProject]

Why Some Partnerships Create Empires… And Others Create Regrets. Devils and Angels. A partner should fill a gap, not create one.

Some people ask why I didn’t do the Beanstalk Challenge years ago.

Well, the truth is, I did.

I tried something similar with Joint Ventures.

I tried something similar with Stud .com.

Neither worked.

The common thread?

Partners.

I don’t do well with partners who travel at a different speed than I do or who see the world through a different lens than I do.

After a while, even the best ideas stall.

So I moved on.

I learned.

I adapted.

And I waited.

Because after all these years, I’ve come to believe that one word matters more than almost anything else:

TIMING!!!

The Internet had its timing.

Domain names had their timing.

AI has its timing.

And the Beanstalk Challenge has its timing.

The funny thing is the core idea hasn’t changed very much.

The timing has.

And so have the partners.

Today I’m surrounded by builders, entrepreneurs, operators, and people who see the opportunity and want to move.

They see what I see.

And my most reliable partner happens to be Betty.

That’s the difference.

Sometimes the first attempt teaches you.

Sometimes the second attempt scares and prepares you.

And sometimes, the third time’s the charm.

#BeanstalkChallenge #Domains #DigitalAssets

[Rick Schwartz aka DomainKing® @BettyAiProject]

The one thing history teaches us is that barriers get broken by the people willing to step up. That’s it.

People either: step up, step back, or complain.

Most barriers are mental long before they are physical.

Yes, physical barriers exist, but even those are usually overcome first by mental strength.

Physical strength alone is never enough.

Olympians may be champions because of their physical gifts, but what gets them over the finish line is mental strength.

Willpower, Focus. Belief.
The refusal to quit.

Mental strength has proven throughout history to be one of the greatest forces humanity possesses. And when the Internet arrived, the people who won didn’t wait for permission.

They didn’t apply for jobs.
They assumed roles.
They simply stepped up and grabbed a tool.

They found a place to fit. A sector to plow. A direction to go. That’s exactly what’s happening again with AI right now.

Some people are frozen in fear.
Those are the next generation of complainers being born.

Others are stepping into the future and building it.

#BeanstalkChallenge #Domains #DigitalAssets #domainking

[Rick Schwartz aka DomainKing® @BettyAiProject]

The First Frontier Made Me The Domain King. The Second Changes Everything.

I Waited 30 Years For This Moment.

The Builders Who Show Up Now Will Own The Next 30 Years.

I Proved Domain Ownership.
Now I’m Proving Domain Activation.

Most people get one frontier moment in life.

I’ve been lucky enough to experience two.

Not on a different mountain.

On the same mountain.

The first frontier was proving the value of domain ownership.

The second frontier is proving the value of domain activation with AI, builders, and entrepreneurship.

Same mountain.

Different altitude.

Young people are fearing the future.

An old guy like me is fully embracing the future.

What the hell is wrong with this picture?

The first time this happened was during the birth of the Internet.

The establishment didn’t show up.

Now AI is here and many young people in their prime still aren’t showing up.

That blows my mind.

Maybe because I’ve already lived long enough to know that every major technological shift creates more opportunity than fear for the people willing to adapt.

AI doesn’t scare me.

It invigorates me.

I see builders becoming entrepreneurs.

I see dormant assets becoming launchpads.

I see one person doing the work of entire companies.

I see opportunity expanding instead of shrinking.

Most people see disruption.

I see the next frontier.

And somehow I ended up on the front lines of it again.

#BeanstalkChallenge #Domains #DigitalAssets #DomainKing

[Rick Schwartz aka DomainKing® @BettyAiProject]

Looking back over the last 50 years from 50,000 feet, these may have been the biggest and most important technological pillars leading us to where we are today:

The electronic calculator

The cell phone

The personal computer

The Internet

And now…

AI

Each one dramatically expanded human efficiency, production, leverage and widely expanded the standard of living.

Each one changed behavior.

Each one created entirely new industries, fortunes, and ways of living.

And each one was initially underestimated or feared by millions of people.

AI may ultimately dwarf them all.

And if you really want to understand fear…

Try removing those advances from your lifetime and starting over from scratch without them.

Welcome to my lifetime.
Welcome to my world.

When I graduated high school, none of those things existed.

And believe me…it wasn’t easy to get a job.

Maybe that’s why I feel like I’m in Beast Mode this year.

And maybe when you first saw that phrase, you didn’t really know what I meant.

Maybe you laughed.

Maybe when I said it at the beginning of the year, you brushed it off and dismissed it.

But I think now you understand it.

You’ve seen the transformation.
You’ve seen the energy it brings.

If I can feel this level of excitement, energy, curiosity, and optimism in my mid 70's, what exactly is everyone else’s excuse?

Don’t believe me?
Just watch.

#BeanStalkChallenge #Domains #DigitalAssets

[Rick Schwartz aka DomainKing® @BettyAiProject]

TRAFFIC helped define the ownership era.

Beanstalk Challenge may define the activation era.

For 30 years the domain industry focused primarily on acquisition, parking, valuation, holding, selling, and defense.

The game was ownership and sales.

But AI changed the equation.

Suddenly one motivated builder with AI, a category defining domain name, and real execution can accomplish what once required an entire company, massive capital, and years of infrastructure.

That changes everything.

The Beanstalk Challenge started March 3rd as a public experiment.

What happens when premium domain names stop sitting idle and start becoming real businesses in public?

What began as a challenge is rapidly evolving into something much bigger:
An entrepreneurial ecosystem powered by premium digital assets, AI leverage, operators, builders, marketers, and real execution.

Around 60 projects are already in motion.

Not theory.
Not parked pages.
Not mini-sites.
Not “coming soon.”

Real builders.
Real launches.
Real momentum.

The most important realization?

The businesses became more exciting than the prizes.

That’s when I realized this wasn’t just another domain project.

It may be the next evolution of the domain industry itself.

TRAFFIC helped legitimize domain ownership.

Beanstalk Challenge may help legitimize domain activation.

And we are only getting started.

Don't believe me… Just watch.

#BeanstalkChallenge #Domains #DigitalAssets #DomainKing

[Rick Schwartz aka DomainKing® @BettyAiProject]

Mr. Wonderful with his dinky $16 million collectible card no one can see or cares about.

vs

Me with my Amazon Neon Sign hanging from my neck.

A $16 million collectible that does nothing.

Or $200 million worth of domains about to break out and buy every other collectible!

[Rick Schwartz aka DomainKing® @BettyAiProject]

Is AI about to create the youngest generation of self-made millionaires in history, and destroy higher education in the process?

A 16-year-old kid with AI may now have more leverage than a Fortune 500 company had 10 years ago.

A kid with talent, ambition, AI, and access to the right digital assets may now be able to build in weeks what once took companies millions of dollars and years to create.

The Beanstalk Challenge unlocked that opportunity by placing category-defining domains into the hands of talented builders who otherwise may never have had access to opportunities like this in their lifetime.

A lot of people initially focused on the Bentley.
That was intentional.

Human nature is my hobby.
The Bentley was the emotional hook.

The attention grabber.
The ignition key.

It got builders to stop, look, and imagine themselves behind the wheel of something exciting.

But something fascinating happened almost immediately once they entered the ecosystem.

The moment builders got their hands on category-defining domain names and began building real businesses using AI, infrastructure, and execution...the Bentley started shrinking psychologically.

Why?

Because they were no longer imagining themselves driving a convertible Bentley.

Now they were imagining themselves piloting a jet.

The business itself became exponentially more exciting than the car.

Once they entered the cockpit of a potentially multimillion-dollar business opportunity, the Bentley almost disappeared from the picture entirely.

And honestly, that happened in almost every single case.

The real prize was never the Bentley.

The real opportunity was becoming the pilot of something much bigger.

If I’m guilty of anything, maybe I’m guilty of understanding psychology.

The Bentley got them emotionally into the seat.

The business made them never want to leave the cockpit.

As of today we are approaching 30 builders and 60 live projects on some of the most valuable domains on the Internet.

https://t.co/DOyVhQ4dDl

#BeanstalkChallenge #Domains #DigitalAssets

[RickSchwartz.com 👑 Domain King® 👑 Since 1995 @DomainKing]

@onlinedomaincom @BettyAiProject

[Rick Schwartz aka DomainKing® @BettyAiProject]

First they buzz you at 600 mph…

Then they come back dragging their ass like a dog doing 100.

Slow enough to make eye contact.

Miami Air Show weekend.

#MiamiAirShow #AirShow #MiamiBeach #Aviation #FighterJets #MemorialDayWeekend #Domains

[RickSchwartz.com 👑 Domain King® 👑 Since 1995 @DomainKing]

For years, the image on the left served a purpose.

It protected territory. It sent a message.
And trust me, the message was received.

The future of domains isn’t just about defending digital real estate anymore.

It’s about building with it.

Turning category defining domain names into real businesses.

The edge is still there.

The mission just got bigger. Much bigger.

https://t.co/tQq0jkQXjv

[RickSchwartz.com 👑 Domain King® 👑 Since 1995 @DomainKing]

#NewProfilePic

[Rick Schwartz aka DomainKing® @BettyAiProject]

The USA may have just produced the most unprepared graduating class in modern history.

The Class of 2026 has been cheated.
Not because they lack intelligence.

Because too many of them were taught fear instead of opportunity.

I’ve now watched multiple commencement speeches where students actually booed AI.

Insane!

Every transformational technology in history carried both promise and risk.

Fire, Electricity, Automobiles, The Internet.

All could be used for good or evil.

But every previous generation still embraced the future and learned how to harness it.

This is the first generation in my lifetime I’ve seen openly reject the future standing directly in front of them.

That’s not progress.
That’s tragedy.

You may wonder why a college dropout like me spends so much time focusing on colleges and universities.

Maybe it’s because I wish they would ask one very important question:

Why did some of the brightest minds in technology and business and history itself drop out in the first place?

Why did people like:
Steve Jobs
Bill Gates
Michael Dell
Mark Zuckerberg
Larry Ellison
And many others walk away from the traditional system?

Maybe they saw something.

Maybe they learned faster outside the classroom than inside it.

Maybe they understood that curiosity, timing, instinct, and execution sometimes matter more than credentials.

And maybe the education system should spend less time teaching fear of the future and more time teaching people how to embrace it and build it.

A piece of paper cannot replace intelligence.

It cannot replace ambition.

And it certainly cannot replace common sense.

And what may be the saddest part of all?

The Class of 2027 may be even less prepared than the Class of 2026.

If you don’t have the right attitude and wok ethic, no amount of education can make you successful.

Attitude determines whether knowledge becomes opportunity
or just information sitting in somebody’s head.

#Mindset #ClassOf2026 #AI #Education

[Rick Schwartz aka DomainKing® @BettyAiProject]

This is the clearest explanation yet of how the Beanstalk Challenge is becoming the centerpiece of two worlds merging:

Identity & Infrastructure.

Domains, AI, Builders, Execution, Entrepreneurship

The challenge that challenged an entire industry.

Don’t believe me...Just watch.

#BeanstalkChallenge #Domains #DigitalAssets

[RickSchwartz.com 👑 Domain King® 👑 Since 1995 @DomainKing]

Found this archived screenshot of my original @DomainKing Twitter account.

I joined Twitter in September 2008.

This screenshot is from 2017 and shows nearly 14,000 followers before I left the platform in 2018 for 10 months and the handle ended up in the wind.

A lot of folks see “2019” on my current account and assume I’m new here.

No…

18 years minus the gap.

Long before social media became what it is today.

But still a long way from 1985 and the primitive CompuServe days when navigation was nearly impossible.

Before AOL and Prodigy, the Internet was largely impossible to use for ordinary people.

Those two platforms helped save and popularize the Internet for the masses.

Me and my 8088 Headstart Computer being one of them.

#Domains #DigitalAssets #DomainKing #BeanstalkChallenge

[RickSchwartz.com 👑 Domain King® 👑 Since 1995 @DomainKing]

@zDomainName @BettyAiProject Thank you! It even amazes me sometimes.