Is Adam Dicker a criminal? You decide.

[S-B]

This story starts with DNF; a barren wasteland that once was a leading forum within the domain industry. While the forum itself played a huge role in propagating the myth that is Adam Dicker, the story really begins with DNF College in the summer of 2011.

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Updates / Reports
These are in no particular order.

• Report by headsupp (Resolved)
  • Relevant Videos
  • Reply to Adam
  • Update: Resolved
  
  
• Report by LannyB (Unresolved)
  • Response
    • Follow-up Questions
  
  
• Report by domainesque (Unresolved)
  • Update: Unresolved
  • Report Details
  • Update: Waiting on Refund
  
  
• Report of Shane Cultra's friends (Unresolved)
  • Update: Unpaid
  
  
• Report by Jeff Markus (Dissatisfied)
  
  
• Report by simmplex (Resolved)
  • Refunded
  
  
• Report by Blenja_Man (Pending)
  • Voucher
  • Update: Work in Progress
  
  
• Report by RandysDomains (Resolved)
  • Resolved
  
  
• Report by swamismith (Unresolved)
  
  
• Report by Charlie (Unresolved)
  • Cover-up
  • Update: Unresolved
  
  
• Report by Jaqpot (Unresolved)
  
  
• Report by anon22339 (Unresolved)
  • Details
  
  
• Report by Joseph Peterson (Resolved)
  • Update: Unpaid after 8 days
  • Update: Paid
  
  
• Report by Frank Schilling (Resolved)
  • Update: Paid
  
  
• Report by Lonewolf5503 (Paypal Dispute)
  • Update: Website not delivered and no longer accessible
  • Update: Lonewolf5503 wins PayPal dispute
  
  
• Report by GermanRaven (Unresolved)
  • Update: Full story
  
  
• Report by ClaudeDauman (Unresolved)
  
  
• Report by bobsranch (Unresolved)
  • Details
  • Update: Legal Letter Received
  
  
• Report by Newby888 (Unresolved)
  
  
• Report by dougasd (Unresolved)

From what I understand, Adam still owes north of $33,000 to previous customers and business partners. As I receive more information, I will update this figure.

 

[S-B]

Good to know. I still feel those who have news-related websites/blogs should allow archive.org to crawl their site, to keep them accountable.

Play nice, my friend. A battle with Theo is a battle lost.

 

[Acroplex]

When it gets boring, some folks prefer to kick the messenger. Nothing new here.

 

[Jim Holleran]

Geo great job with DomainGang!!!

 

[daj]

Play nice, my friend. A battle with Theo is a battle lost.

Yes, I know. I have nothing against Theo or Michael. Just found it slightly odd that they blocked archive.org from crawling their sites but I guess if it causes server load issues than it's better to disallow it.

When it gets boring, some folks prefer to kick the messenger. Nothing new here.

Sorry you feel that way. It was just an observation with a slight conspiracy spin. At least in the case of Michael, he scrubbed everything clean.

 

[Acroplex]

I've blocked archive.org, along with other crawling bots. As far as I'm concerned, my server's uptime is more important than a conspiracy spin. Plus, only Google really matters these days.

To keep you entertained, however, there's a new article on Adam in today's DomainGang. Although I no longer cover his "accomplishments", this is more of a focus on today's LL .com prices.

 

[HeyNow]

Next time you have questions I'm right here, been here since 2003.

1) Did you work for DNF? Were you a mod there?
2) Did you have dealings with AD? (Other than buying and/or selling from each other)

 

[pchip]

At least in the case of Michael, he scrubbed everything clean.

Has Michael ever publicly spoken about why all of that information was scrubbed clean?

 

[Acroplex]

1) Did you work for dnf? Were you a mod there?
2) Did you have dealings with AD? (Other than buying and/or selling from each other)

1. No and no.
2. Never bought or sold domains from/to A.D.

To refresh your memory or lack thereof, go read my blog post. Or go back 100+ pages here.

 

[daj]

Has Michael ever publicly spoken about why all of that information was scrubbed clean?

Not that I'm aware of.

 

[TheLegendaryJP]

Are you really Greek?
Do you live near a Creek?
Greek, is it hard to Speak?
How do you remain so Meek?
Take your time answering but please within the Week.

 

[itsmeyall]

myself i dont think theres nothing wrong with a lot of the professional domainers that saw good sucess and learned a lot from using what they learned in a fashion the generates revenue its not any different than a professor writting a book of his study hypothesises and then selling it to the masses. just its not good to be shady or exploitive of others because theres a lot of innocent newcomers and if you do that it takes you from the realm of being a service provider to being a predator. there was a lots of big names working with and around the alleged bad apple most of them could be innocent and some may not even of known but if they any associates want to erase their association out of embarassment or protest i dont see that its wrong if they do or dont try to distance them self either way i would say they have that right and its would be professional just like when one of those pro athelete do some bad deed in the news and then the team comes out and says look we dropped this playber because he got in trouble with the law or did some other shameful act.

 

[itsmeyall]

so we can just look at it like ..

• okay we are all a team
  
• our game is domains
  
• and we had to drop one specific player from our team
  
• because there was some indication that that bad apple may not been on the up and up and may not been a true team player
• but we are still a team
  
• and we are all going to move on and continue to look for major wins at our game!!

 

[tldrental]

Damn... I step outside for a coffee break. I come back and all hell breaks loose. No DNF, so I google. Adam's name is mud. .. and stumbled upon this thread. .. ouch.

aaahh so ahhh is DNF for sale... 140 pages is a lot of pages to read for this thread

 

[TheLegendaryJP]

No word yet brother, time will tell.

 

[headsupp]

The guy that bought the domain calls himself "DNF Buyer", likes it is a trophy. He is also selling it for 100k supposedly. If he is, he must have gotten it at market value price which would have being a bargain.

 

[CrashDomains]

http://domainnamewire.com/2016/02/19/r-i-p-DNF-2001-2016/

The latest DNF obit. Andrew Alleman is official calling it dead, DNF has been down for over a week. At first he was saying it was going through "server upgrades"... just another one of his compulsive lies.

Also, be prepared for lots of spam if you were ever a member, on Adam's fb page he publically posted that he had 800k opt-ins and he asked if anyone knew how to turn that into cash. He is scrambling for money it seems. Unpaid bills, avoiding victims for months still.

Also his new fb group "Domains into Businesses" has officially started.... kind of a DNF college part 2.

 

[richface]

what has happened to dnform.com ?., I have been away from the industry for a while, this news is shocking maybe
I should go back to my day job..

 

[sofiapartner]

This guy Shane Bellone - i personally don't like him very much ( because of the flippa drama) - but he became part of the domain history forever. He destroyed Dicker and his forum. Together with all the lies, manipulations and illusions surrounding Dicker. Together with all his awards from domain gatherings. Plus many guys who were his "friends", but now refuse to remember their friendship.

 

[WebInceptions]

This guy Shane Bellone - i personally don't like him very much ( because of the flippa drama) - but he became part of the domain history forever. He destroyed Dicker and his forum. Together with all the lies, manipulations and illusions surrounding Dicker. Together with all his awards from domain gatherings. Plus many guys who were his "friends", but now refuse to remember their friendship.

Did someone ask for the definition of the phrase, "Blaming the Victim"?

 

[CrashDomains]

Shane Bellone didn't ruin Adam Dicker, Adam did that to himself. Shane just brought Adam's wrongdoings to light and it was more than past time for it to happen. Now Adam is sowing what he himself reaped.

 

[MasterOfMyDomains]

http://www.tld.org/if-you-plan-on-doing-business-with-adam-dicker-you-should-read-this-first

then read this

http://onlinedomain.com/2016/01/28/news/adam-dicker-owes-a-lot-of-money-to-a-lot-of-people/

Be wary at DNF people don't have their memberships renewed for old times sake

 

[TestCase]

This guy Shane Bellone ... He destroyed Dicker and his forum. Together with all the lies, manipulations and illusions surrounding Dicker. Together with all his awards from domain gatherings. Plus many guys who were his "friends", but now refuse to remember their friendship.

Yeah, and Bernie Madoff was a stand up guy that everyone loved -- well, until the whole ponzi scheme collapsed around him...

But Bernie's a top notch guy otherwise, right?!?!? It's not like he killed anyone.. All he did was take away their hard earned money never to be seen again. I just can't understand why all his so called "friends" deserted him despite all the good he had done prior to the ponzi scheme thing.

 

[Charley]

This guy Shane Bellone - i personally don't like him very much ( because of the flippa drama) - but he became part of the domain history forever. He destroyed Dicker and his forum.

If Shane didn't let the world know about Dicker's dirty work, none would know about it.

 

[S-B]

This guy Shane Bellone - i personally don't like him very much ( because of the flippa drama) - but he became part of the domain history forever. He destroyed Dicker and his forum. Together with all the lies, manipulations and illusions surrounding Dicker. Together with all his awards from domain gatherings. Plus many guys who were his "friends", but now refuse to remember their friendship.

The feeling is mutual.

 

[imeta]

I remember when I buy the highest membership package on his forum. I wait for half a year to get access. I send messages all over his contacts to get access. At the end I get access but not what I paid for, I get access to lover package.

BTW I'm in online business over 15 years I buy at least 1.5k products online. I never ever experience something like this.

When I read his forum terms there was something like this "We keep rights to decide if we are going to allow you access when you purchase package, and we will not refund you no matter of what".

And I was like: what the fu**, I'm sheep or what?