Ethics of Domain Drop Auctions: TDNAM and NameJet called out Yesterday: Today We call out Tucows Yesterday domainnamewire.com reported that employees of TDNAM.com and NameJet.com were allowed to bid on domains that were in their own company’s dropping auction service.
In the article, domainnamewire.com sited some discussions on NamePros about GoDaddy employees, including Adam Dicker, who runs Godaddy aftermarket service, bidding on and winning auctions from their own system.
Troubling for sure.
Today we are calling out Tucows.
The Domains - Saturday, June 21, 2008 - 6:34
Name That Caption: Dedicated Domainer
Yesterday I created a contest based on the picture above, with the creator of the best caption receiving a $10 Starbucks gift card. Instead of selecting the winner on my own, I chose the top 5 for you guys to vote on today. Winner will be the caption with the most votes in the
Elliot Silver - Saturday, June 21, 2008 - 10:1
Candy.com: A Weekend Musing As The Suspense Mounts Chocolate Made Personal- Online's Untapped Sweet Spot
Lively debate on my posts about a sweet deal melting in the mouth of Rick Schwartz. I wanted to share some of the comments from the DNForum thread and add my two cents along with links to past TFF coverage that may give perspectives for DN Forum members they can't see from the t...
The Frager factor - Saturday, June 21, 2008 - 9:16
GoldAuction.Com On Bido. What Would It Go For?
I read earlier today on NamePros.com a number of valuations for GOLDAUCTION.COM, anything from US $400 to US $4,500.
I also read earlier today on DomainState a comment which got my attention about rYY.COM, yesterday’s auction. The comment was put by Snoopy:
Would say it was about 10-15% under market value. Considering the liqu...
Conceptualist - Saturday, June 21, 2008 - 13:33
CORRECTION In my initial post today on Domain Drop auction services , I INCORRECTLY identified Adam Strong as the employee of Godaddy which had placed bids on the Godaddy auction Platform.
The correct name of this person is Adam Dicker.
Adam Strong is not an employee of Godaddy and has not engaged in any improper conduct in this
The Domains - Saturday, June 21, 2008 - 15:44
BQB.com, Taking a deeper look If you were not aware of BQB.com it is a newer auction service for domain names that has No Commission, No Listing Fees and to top it off No Bullshit!
BQB currently has 1719 domains listed for sale. Because of the auction format, this underscores how many domains have actually been listed for sale over the past
DotWeekly - Saturday, June 21, 2008 - 23:27
At Bido, We Listen! Last few days have been extremely rewarding. Years of hard work finally came together, and most of the doubt some had at our initial concept have been replaced with a sense of optimism. To say we are thrilled is an understatement!
We’ve learned a lot in last few days running Bido, bugs are quickly found and eliminated, and futu...
Conceptualist - Saturday, June 21, 2008 - 8:16
Tucows/Afternic simply dropped the ball When Tucows announced they would be sending expired domain names to Afternic.com I was happy. So I did all my home work and found several domains that I liked right away (about 40). I put all these domains in to Afternic and all were listed as expired domain auctions. So I watched them in My
DotWeekly - Saturday, June 21, 2008 - 11:5
Network Solutions Backflip On Front Running Network Solutions has tried the good old “Jedi Mind Trick” - and its FAILED big time.
These aren’t the domains your looking for…. move along… move along.
The company has issued a press release saying:
“Network Solutions has long called for a fee-based solution to eliminate the related abuses of do...
Domainer Income - Saturday, June 21, 2008 - 21:7
NameJet.com - Employees Not Allowed to Bid There’s a bit of controversy swirling around the expiring domain name after-market as reports of “insider bidding” have been raised at NamePros and DomainNameWire.com. According to DomainNameWire the topic of NSI and Enom employees bidding at NameJet was discussed with an employee over the phone.
Enom Sr. VP Taryn N...
Domain Name News - Saturday, June 21, 2008 - 17:36
Domain Aftermarket Exec Bidding On Own Auctions As reported by Andrew at DomainNameWire.com, reports have surfaced that Godaddy VP Adam Dicker has been bidding on domain auctions at TDNAM.com, the domain name after-market site he is charged with running. Network Solutions and Enom also allow employees to bid on domain names in auctions at Namejet.com. The practice of allowing empl...
Domain Name News - Saturday, June 21, 2008 - 15:14
Domain Buzz: This Week in Domaining Domain Buzz Issue #6 - Top Domain Articles and News
Visit DotSauce.net for “The Insert” a new side-blog which will feature daily links, videos, quotes, photos and more from the domain industry.
Listed below are the top news stories, announcements and articles from the domain industry that happened this past week.
June 14t...
DotSauce Magazine - Saturday, June 21, 2008 - 15:15
NameJet.com - Employees Not Allowed To Bid There is an interesting bit of controversy being discussed around the expiring domain name aftermarkets as reports of “insider bidding” have been talked about at NamePros and DomainNameWire.com. According to DomainNameWire the topic of NSI and Enom employees bidding at NameJet was discussed with a NameJet employee over the phone.
Eno...
DnExpert - Saturday, June 21, 2008 - 18:18
DomainerMeeting Paris Live Auction Results Moniker have released the official DomainerMeeting Paris Live auction results. There is still the extended online auction which ends on June 26th, 2008.
The top domain name Aftermarket.com went for $125,000 which is an interesting result.
Interesting sale of Muslim.info ( went for only $400 ), and a cool domain hack Disease.es that w...
DnExpert - Saturday, June 21, 2008 - 18:14
GoDaddy Offers Deep Discount on .TV Registration Today, GoDaddy is offering .TV domain registration for only $15.99! This is the lowest price I have seen and is extremely discounted as compared to other well known registrars charging 4 or 5 times as much.
Click here to see GoDaddy’s .TV sale!
If you have an idea for a multimedia video website, social video sharing, media
DotSauce Magazine - Saturday, June 21, 2008 - 19:22
Lawsuit Payday (.com) The simplest of domain strategies is to find a source of unresolved pain and remove it.
Do that by making an offer on TV and with a call-to-action domain to elicit the "I want" sign-up behavior online.
Two pictures are usually presented with pain first and relief second. There are two absolute necessities:
==>The prospect can hol...
The Frager factor - Saturday, June 21, 2008 - 16:38
ExerciseTV.tv/Store Behold the first spoken-URL I've rated. You know it's a bad URL when the person being paid to say it can barely get it out right. It would be like having ExerciseCom.com -- that's just nasty. And topping it off with a slash only makes matters worse. This URL puts the boob in boob tube.
Good URL Bad URL - Saturday, June 21, 2008 - 19:18
108 Expired Domains I sent my newsletter subscribers a list of 108 expired domains today. I practice showing only a sample of that list on my blog here to be fair to the folks that bothered to subscribe to my FREE newsletter. My newsletter is free and you can subscribe at any time though.
If you want to learn
DnExpert - Saturday, June 21, 2008 - 18:34
David Beckham Strips (.com) Does anybody else remember when sports figures just played sports- they didn't have to pose nude to sell clothes/
The Frager factor - Saturday, June 21, 2008 - 15:41
NationalCity.com/NoATMfees I've been seeing a lot of this from National City. Putting the punchline of their ad as an extension to their URL. If they are keen on driving people to this specific page, I'd really rather see them use subdomains. NoATMfees.NationalCity.com would be more effective as people tend to ignore everything that comes after the domain. Ho...
Good URL Bad URL - Saturday, June 21, 2008 - 18:1
Blog.UrbanOutfitters.com/Election08 So close but yet so far away. Leading caps and use of subdomain are a good start but tacking on a slash is URL overload. This URL doesn't get my vote.
Good URL Bad URL - Saturday, June 21, 2008 - 18:31
www.svn112.com OMG, I hate acronym URLs. Unless the company is commonly known as such. I doubt Sperry Van Ness goes by SVN though. And the 112 is seemingly random. Turns out 112 is the address of the agent (not the property being sold). Apparenly, SVN (henceforth, they shall be known by the acronym -- hey, they made their bed!) has a bunch of diff...
Good URL Bad URL - Saturday, June 21, 2008 - 18:12
redbullairrace.com This one just has too many strange words that get lost in a sea of alllowercase. This URL has no legs, er... wings.
Good URL Bad URL - Saturday, June 21, 2008 - 17:55
