Jeff Gabriel announced his departure from Uniregistry, earlier today. Those of us that were made aware of this personal decision a few days ago, are reminded of a very important mantra in life: Family comes first. Jeff's moving back to his roots, to be closer to his family. For the past seven … [Read more...]
Shift the paradigm : Clueless realtors and domain names
July 16, 2019 by 4 Comments
A lot of domain investors facilitate domain sales basing their approach on how the real estate market operates. While there are similarities in this analogy, there are also differences which make the use of real estate an imperfect example to demonstrate how the domain market works. For … [Read more...]
GoDaddy : Openly ignoring the BIN price and using the client as an excuse
July 1, 2019 by 3 Comments
In May I wrote about how GoDaddy continues to send unsolicited offers for domains that are listed for sale on other marketplaces, with a BIN. What's the catch? For $69 dollars, GoDaddy brokers reach out to anyone with a domain. If a GoDaddy customer is hoping that the brokers there will … [Read more...]
GoDaddy continues to pester domain owners with “offers” that ignore the BIN
May 17, 2019 by 6 Comments
I wrote about this issue before, and it's obvious that GoDaddy and its team of brokers don't really care. At the very least, middle management at GoDaddy is not doing anything to address this issue, which they promote as a "Domain buy" service. GoDaddy's aggressive approach to relaying offers and … [Read more...]
Scammers using Bitcoin in an effort to steal domain names
April 22, 2019 by 5 Comments
During the past two weeks I experienced two attempts by scammers to steal domain names, by offering payments in cryptocurrency. These Bitcoin scammers offered to acquire premium domains by indicating they can only make payments in BTC. There is a reason why such a method of exchanging domains … [Read more...]
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