Re: [OT] Theiving B*****ds
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 2004
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numero = 59398
interpreted = N
texte = >Buy Domains snatched up a name I had been wanting for years when the company >who had originally registered the domain finally dropped it (I guess Buy >Domain's auto-registration service was quicker on the ball than the one I >used). When I asked about buying the name, they quoted a price of $6,000. >I'm sure if I asked a second time (now a year and a half later) they'd bump >it up to eight. In the meantime, the domain gathers dust. > >Buydomains.com needs to be put out of business and all of the domain names >they're squatting on released to the public. Buydomains.com is a good business. They snatch up the domains that the owners are too stupid to keep registered. So what? Why should they be "put out of business" when they are acting within the law? Just because the original owners are too stupid or lazy to keep their domains registered does not give anyone an excuse to blame others for their screw-ups or to put a properly run company out of business! Domains cost only about $6-7 to renew these days. You can pay for domains 10 years in advance. For $70 anyone in the world can protect his/her domain for a decade ... but of course many don't bother. Instead they play a game to save a few cents -- at the risk of losing an asset that could be worth hundreds of thousands of times more valuable. Whose fault is it really when a company fails to re-register on time? Why blame someone else for your own failure to renew before your valuable domain expires? I'm so sick of whiners trying to place the blame on someone else! When you dig yourself into a hole, you have no right to blame someone else for your ignorance. If you want the domain back, just pay the price and get it back. Then maybe next time you won't screw around with a valuable asset simply to save a few cents ... >BE WARNED > >There are other crowds that have a domain enquiry tool on their >website, you may enquire about bsbsbsbs.com - hey it's available, do >you want to register it now. So you think to yourself I will try a >few others and do that later - about a week later you go back to >register bsbsbsbs.com and guess what it is registered to someone >else BUT you can buy it now for only $500. > >Yes there as some sly B*****ds out there. The simple solution to this problem is to do your domain searches directly thru InterNIC instead of via some private domain registrar, because (presumably) InterNIC doesn't register names that have been recently checked -- which means they won't try to register before you do. And never forget, the system works both ways ... I tried to register a domain that was being sold by one of these companies and they wanted minimum $200 for it so I said "forget it". Less than 6 months later I checked it again and it was available so I registered it for $7. My conclusion is that these companies never register domains for a long time, and the ones not on the top of the list at the time of expiration are released, thus giving everyone else in the world an opportunity to register them -- usually within one year or less. -- Sincerely, Kenneth Grome www.kengrome.com ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list
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>Buy Domains snatched up a name I had been wanting for years when the company >who had originally registered the domain finally dropped it (I guess Buy >Domain's auto-registration service was quicker on the ball than the one I >used). When I asked about buying the name, they quoted a price of $6,000. >I'm sure if I asked a second time (now a year and a half later) they'd bump >it up to eight. In the meantime, the domain gathers dust. > >Buydomains.com needs to be put out of business and all of the domain names >they're squatting on released to the public. Buydomains.com is a good business. They snatch up the domains that the owners are too stupid to keep registered. So what? Why should they be "put out of business" when they are acting within the law? Just because the original owners are too stupid or lazy to keep their domains registered does not give anyone an excuse to blame others for their screw-ups or to put a properly run company out of business! Domains cost only about $6-7 to renew these days. You can pay for domains 10 years in advance. For $70 anyone in the world can protect his/her domain for a decade ... but of course many don't bother. Instead they play a game to save a few cents -- at the risk of losing an asset that could be worth hundreds of thousands of times more valuable. Whose fault is it really when a company fails to re-register on time? Why blame someone else for your own failure to renew before your valuable domain expires? I'm so sick of whiners trying to place the blame on someone else! When you dig yourself into a hole, you have no right to blame someone else for your ignorance. If you want the domain back, just pay the price and get it back. Then maybe next time you won't screw around with a valuable asset simply to save a few cents ... >BE WARNED > >There are other crowds that have a domain enquiry tool on their >website, you may enquire about bsbsbsbs.com - hey it's available, do >you want to register it now. So you think to yourself I will try a >few others and do that later - about a week later you go back to >register bsbsbsbs.com and guess what it is registered to someone >else BUT you can buy it now for only $500. > >Yes there as some sly B*****ds out there. The simple solution to this problem is to do your domain searches directly thru InterNIC instead of via some private domain registrar, because (presumably) InterNIC doesn't register names that have been recently checked -- which means they won't try to register before you do. And never forget, the system works both ways ... I tried to register a domain that was being sold by one of these companies and they wanted minimum $200 for it so I said "forget it". Less than 6 months later I checked it again and it was available so I registered it for $7. My conclusion is that these companies never register domains for a long time, and the ones not on the top of the list at the time of expiration are released, thus giving everyone else in the world an opportunity to register them -- usually within one year or less. -- Sincerely, Kenneth Grome www.kengrome.com ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/
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