A French idiot and an American moron I hold domains as “hostages“, “not allowing people who want them to use them.”
This moronic allegation came in an email, from some French guy named “Guillaume Sibelle” from Paris, France. Twice he placed a lowball offer of 60 euro for a domain I own, and twice I had to slap him back to reality with [...]
Scammers at the parking lot; scammers online As I was putting the groceries into the trunk of my car today, a nice looking lady in her mid 40’s approached me. She was well-dressed, at least by Florida standards and considering the temperature was in the low 90’s. I thought she wanted some sort of assistance, when she started with “Sir, sorry to [...]
Sedo scammers take advantage of email predictability It was in early 2000 when one of my few - back then - domains got hijacked by a Turkish hacker. He picked that particular domain because it’s a very common Greek cussword, shared equally among our eastern neighbors. The domain was registered with Network Solutions, which offered back then an update process via email. [...]
Sedo removes Obama & McCain domains from its marketplace In yet another hasty move, Sedo has inexplicably begun to remove political domains from its marketplace. It is uncertain how far the pattern searcher reaches, however Carolyn from the support department mentioned that their legal department decided to remove domains that contain the name of the US political candidates, Obama and McCain. I expect [...]
Lost in the abyss between Namejet and Netsol Namejet’s utilization of the Network Solutions pre-release service has created an aftermarket for really old domains that expired and were not renewed. Instead of dropping them, Netsol offers them up on auction. Several people, myself included, go through the pre-release lists for domains of value: aged domains, traffic generators or simply brandable domains. So far, [...]
