Virtual Punching Bag - LET IT OUT!

Crypto King said:

I had an issue with GoDaddy support around a domain transfer for a .uk domain. Was told that my billing details were wrong 10 times over even though I insisted they were correct and even mentioned they had charged me on that same card for something else. After speaking to 2 other people it seems it was a bug on their end and the payment has gone through.

Then, regarding the push itself (.uk works by changing the tag which is a sort of a push from registrar to registrar) I was told the sending registrar cancelled and to contact them, even though whois showed GoDaddy. Sending registrar said GoDaddy was talking nonsense. Went back to GoDaddy, this time spoke to a chap from the US and he told me right away it was another bug and the domain was now in my account.

Terrible service from their offshore call centers who annoyingly don't listen to what you are telling them. Atleast that is my experience so far and hope that it was just a coincidence that both operators were offshore - may be the training needs to be improved. Also, what is with all of these bugs!

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No, that's no coincidence. That's my experience as well. They don't know nothing and just don't understand anything that you're explaining to them. Basically they are lacking the knowledge to provide basic support.

Luckily we have Joe around to help out with the occasional issue.

As for pushes, I was told they're experiencing issues when you provide both the email address AND the client# when you request the push. So I will try using just an email address next time and see if that's any better.

Definite.udrp

Suxxx

Life is a stream of blindness with a chronology of undetected chances, e.g.

1984 Basquiat paintings - What did I do? Hang around in bars and clubs
1994 Domains - What did I do? Dating
1997 Nasdaq, Nemax - What did I do? Play Lotto
2009 Bitcoin - What did I do? Collect dot.mobi
2017 FAANG stocks - What did I do? Nothing
2019?
2020?
...

Aaaaarghhh Punch Zack Gong Wham

Spammers,scammers, and trolls burn my arse!

Blitzpotz said:

Life is a stream of blindness with a chronology of undetected chances, e.g.

1984 Basquiat paintings - What did I do? Hang around in bars and clubs
1994 Domains - What did I do? Dating
1997 Nasdaq, Nemax - What did I do? Play Lotto
2009 Bitcoin - What did I do? Collect dot.mobi
2017 FAANG stocks - What did I do? Nothing
2019?
2020?
...

Aaaaarghhh Punch Zack Gong Wham

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HAHA best one yet

I really hate that a non-US ICANN has been given the keys to the virtual hen-house, and we're now supposed to be surprised they're gorging on chicken morning, noon and night?

Making a living from domaining is frickin hard!!!

some days it really sucks

My biggest gripe (for a long time now) is that when I do a lot of research and find a nice available .com domain and add it to my wish list and then a week later when I go to register it I see that someone has just taken it.

My guess is that all our Whois searches and any researches done on search engines are being monitored or sold to others. Some of it is being done at the Registrars, but I now believe that a lot of our domain lookups are also being monitored at the Registry level. (and even ICANN itself).

I recently did a lookup at ICANN Whois for "Wallet Fortress" in .com which showed to be available and then a week later when I went to register it I noticed that someone had just registered it.

Now if you ask why I didn't register that domain right away, well at the time I couldn't afford to spend any extra money on domains and so I added it to my wish list to register it later.

Every time that I bring this up people tell me that it's just coincidence, but after losing a lot of nice domains this way I am now convinced that there is something going on here.

Nevertheless I still managed to get a few other Wallet domains that I had on my wish list even though I lost one of the best ones:

ExecWallet.com

RevolvingWallet.com

SmallBizWallet.com

and

IncognitoWallet.com

oldtimer said:

My biggest gripe (for a long time now) is that when I do a lot of research and find a nice available .com domain and add it to my wish list and then a week later when I go to register it I see that someone has just taken it.

My guess is that all our Whois searches and any researches done on search engines are being monitored or sold to others. Some of it is being done at the Registrars, but I now believe that a lot of our domain lookups are also being monitored at the Registry level. (and even ICANN itself).

I recently did a lookup at ICANN Whois for "Wallet Fortress" in .com which showed to be available and then a week later when I went to register it I noticed that someone had just registered it.

Now if you ask why I didn't register that domain right away, well at the time I couldn't afford to spend any extra money on domains and so I added it to my wish list to register it later.

Every time that I bring this up people tell me that it's just coincidence, but after losing a lot of nice domains this way I am now convinced that there is something going on here.

Nevertheless I still managed to get a few other Wallet domains that I had on my wish list:

ExecWallet.com

RevolvingWallet.com

SmallBizWallet.com

and

IncognitoWallet.com

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There has been lots of reports of that going on throughout the years. Nobody has proven it that I know of, but you know what they say, "where there is smoke there is fire."

Left Jab (lowballer)
Right Jab (another lowballer)
Elbow (renewals)
Uppercut (pump bidders)
Knee to Groin (no response from seller)
Shin Kick (no response from buyer)
Big Kick (registry domainers)
Le Grande Punch (comparing .Mobi to The G's)
HeadButt (.com vs New G adoption)
Kangaroo Slaparoo (ok to reg AppleTeslaCocaCola.com?)
aaand
Roundhouse Kick for the KO!! (premium renewals)

ahh so much better.

Very strong post @HotKey
Which punch can you recommend for fun buyers? Would appreciate an adequate tip.

removing privacy whois on domains to try and sell more with the added obvious exposure to buyers and getting spammed by email AND phone endlessly!

Internet.Domains said:

Let it out!

Are you angry with the NewG's? Let it out!

Are you tired of the .com maximalist's? Let it out!

Got a domain gripe? Let it out!

Have you been burned in domaining? Let it out!

Is something in the domain industry bothering you? Well, of course, LET IT OUT HERE!

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nice thread

Once you sell a domain or drop a domain, remove the domain name from the aftermarket places (f.e. Afternic, Sedo, Dan, etc.). Thank you!

people who ask for an opinion on a domain name, don't like the answer and get annoyed when you tell them it is worthless - Your asking for an opinion, stop looking for self justification - Deal With It

Godaddy Expired Auctions
Godaddy Domain Push Process
Godaddy in general....

Bots

Not enough new trends or tech to go around

and pilchards

Internet.Domains said:

There has been lots of reports of that going on throughout the years. Nobody has proven it that I know of, but you know what they say, "where there is smoke there is fire."

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I actually had someone at GoDaddy tell me (this was back in 2002-2003) that "There isnt enough hard drive space in the world to record everyone's WHOIS lookups". I had to laugh.

Here is mine:

The "Domain Buyer Requests" Y'all seen some of those requests AND offers for them, I am sure. LOL

Op: Showcase your Namepros domain,namepros is the newest forum in town

Me: rush to register nameprosforum1.com,namepros247.com,nameprosismylife.com

Four years later, not a single offer.


Thread remain stagnant on page 1 after five years

Putting money in stocks and not knowing the limit of spent.
But it did help me to learn self-discipline which is now helping me in domaining. Bad experiences in life are not that bad after all.

seeing bizarre domains like happylook dot com sell for $40,000!

lack of response from potential buyer after receiving offer and negotiation. i even appreciate negative response but sudden disappearance and no reply in between offer, counter offer frustrates me like nothing else and it has been happening with me a lot in recent times specially at dan.

Besides afternic, sedo are biggest marketplaces but their UI is terrible, process of listing names there is tough, at sedo you have to confirm through nameservers and park where many times it doesnt even resolve, at afternic lot of times your domains are already listed by previous owners or new names listed go in review. you have to contact their support everytime to correct it.

imo

The owner of CBD.com, Christian Book Distributor, has said in many media articles that it's been forced to completely rebrand and change domain names due to confusion with CBD.
This is such a ridiculous lie; the amount of confusion would have had to have been immense.
Why rebrand after 40 years of successfully being known as CBD after a few confused customer's call. Since there was absolutely zero on the site which made any reference to CBD, it literally probably was only one or two calls that the owner is referring to as the confusion which forced the rebrand. The entire site was Christian-based products, bibles, mugs, keychains, dvd's...zero CBD products, zero mention of CBD at all. And yet many major media sources picked it up without a single reporter questioning the validity of the rebrand.
Not a single reporter points out how suspicious it is that a 40-year-old successful company rebrands for no valid reason at all, well, other than the fact that the domain name of the company is suddenly worth tens of millions?
That rebrand HAD to happen as the first step in selling the name.
I bet in under 6 months the CBD.com sells for like 20 million.

(What burns me is the lack of transparency, especially for a company built upon selling truth.)

people not into domaining r clueless. atypical person with the hottest 3l.com on the globe is a total dunce! the way it is in 2020. sheer luck and total ignorance = big $$$$$$$!!!

Realizing that a domain had gone unlisted on ANY marketplace less than a month from it expiring.
(Learned that 1000 names plus might be too much to try to manage.)

I hate these stupid spam emails phising for bank details or appraisal scams...but I thought I'd have a little fun with it this time. See below for the entire thread. Start reading from the bottom of this post.

Hi Feng,

Thank you for such a pleasant email this evening. I particularly like the fact that all of your emails come from a different email address, soo cool! Yes to all of your questions. See below for my high level business plan.

Business Idea:
I am looking to start a professional ass cleaning business. The business would be centred around using a conveyor belt where each person can stand on the belt and it will go into a room like a car wash. High pressure jet washers will then spray your ass and you come out the other side very clean.

How does it make money:
Each ass clean with cost 10 bucks and will take only 2 mins. If we get 500 customers a day (can do 2 customers at a time) it will take around 8 hours of work plus 2 hours of opening and closing the ass wash so 10 hours in total. 500x10bucks × 365days = $1.82M per year. if we open 20 of these with the 200M investment, your investor will get his money back in 2 years.

Funding required: 200Million USD

I hope you agree this is a great idea.

How do we proceed?

Kind regards,

Assimov Wipington

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From: feng guiji <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, November 11, 2019 7:05:32 PM
To: <Arfy>
Subject: Re: Hello

Dear Arfy ,

Thank you for your response and i dont know of what to make of your for showing interest in my proposal. I want to assure you that this is a serious transaction and if you are really interested, we will make it happen only if you can also assure us of your capability to handle a business of this magnitude requiring confidentiality and absolute trust . I will be the eyes and ears of the investor during the course of this transaction as he is indisposed and want to remain anonymous . There is considerable amount of funds in millions available for investment .

Meanwhile, Before we proceed, I need to ask you a few questions to enable me understand your business plan and evaluate it.

1. Describe the existing projects that you have that require funding ?
2. What is the ROI that can be expected per annum if the fund is invested into your projects?
3. Are you able to travel at a short notice if your presence is required in person to meet and get acquainted as business partners, facilitate the release of the funds? i.e sign agreements and necessary paperwork’s for funds transfer etc If possible, pls send me the executive summary of the project(s) you seek funding for with the ROI that can be expected per year.
4. Have you handle large volume of funds in the past ?
I will appreciate if you can provide detailed answers to the questions above. Also provide your direct telephone number so we can have a follow up conversation.
Yours Faithfully
Feng Guiji.
Private Tel: +44-745-914-1988


On Sat, Nov 9, 2019 at 11:26 PM FENG GUIJI <[email protected]> wrote:
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From: Me
Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2019 18:21:51 +0000
Subject: Re: Hello
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>

tell me more

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________________________________
From: Feng Guiji <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, November 9, 2019 4:49:06 AM
Subject: Hello


I am Feng Guiji, a broker working with a wealth management company
based in Europe . I am contacting you because one of my high profile
clients is interested in investing in your country and have asked me
to look for individuals and companies with interesting business ideas
and companies that he can invest in. He wants to expand his portfolio
and has interest in investing a substantial amount of revenue abroad.
I got your contact when searching the internet through the directory
enquiries and I believe that my client will be interested in investing
in working with you.

As you can imagine, we have not had any prior communication before so
I will be keeping the details to a minimum until I get a confirmation
from you that you are interested in this proposal. I will then give
you more details upon receiving your positive response. Please provide
your direct telephone number as well so that I can give you a call to
discuss further.

Best regards,
Feng Guiji,