Francois: Sure, you’ll get a traffic gain now, but in the long run, you’ve wasted your money. DNGator had its own unique feel that made it great. It seems you’ve killed it off by simply redirecting the domain. I take it you’ve never read any business merger case-studies. Bad move.

Acro & Francois: I wish both of you the best of luck. I’m disappointed to see DNGator end the way it did, but from a business stand point, I suppose its all about acquisitions. If you’re not buying, you’re getting bought. =/

That was professional and courteous.

Francois, congrats on growing your business, smart move.

Great job to both of you.

Acro his part of these old domainers I have a lot of respect and who were already dealing names when I still not even known domaining existed.

Not only he have acted with talent in a business point of view but he also have helped our industry by this sale as our industry need to have a strong site that amplify the voices of our community.

Regarding this anonymous comment:

I don’t turn accounts for voice different opinions.
At the inverse if you look at the history of this site you will notice I have allways take care of all suggestions and critics and very often they influated my initial opinions.

This small list I talk are mainly composed by people who abused of the affiliate program by paying people to create fake accounts. People who put some domains for sale and after did not delivered the domain, others who started escrow transactions and never paid the name and few ones that made Paypal refund after having advertise their domains in our newsletter. I continue to call these BAD PRACTICES.

Now I admit I was maybe a bit fast on tell this person was maybe part of these people and I do apologize on this. Now I don’t see another reason why he/she is so motivated to anonymously hurt me.

“Soundly Reasoned” – your other comment was not approved simply because I don’t accept criticism from anonymous sources, from people that don’t have the testicular fortitude to sign with their name or business moniker; and especially statements that are just personal attacks.

The story ends here. Having “one option less” as someone put it, is a challenge for whoever wants to take on the competition to prove that they’re not just talking the talk – go ahead and create your own “DNGator”. In a world of entrepreneurship, the idea is to create your own path and take on challenges, not to talk down on whoever you consider “competition”.

Good luck to all.

What do you consider bad practices? To not know who this person really is, you yourself are taking a swipe at him or her. I have seen you turn off individuals domaining accounts, because they voiced their own opinions, as some sort of gesture to punish them. That only makes you yourself guilty of bad practices.