I'm sorry but I feel like I have to put this because I
dared to do the
pathetic and unthinkable thing of calling into question the validity of a domain sale today... just like I would do every other day for other domain sales that surprise or excite me.
I had very little prior knowledge of
@DNGear or her sales until today and still don't know a lot about her to be honest and didn't know she was a NPs member until today. I had heard ".XYZ Queen" banded around a few topics that were floating around in the forum but to be honest because it was .XYZ I ignored it because its not a extension that I am interested in (that's allowed!
), but I had noticed a trend of .XYZ sales recently in relation to the nickname.
Today when
I saw in that quest.xyz had sold for $69.8k I was very surprised and I did question it's validity, but we're on a domain forum so I think it's OK and healthy to do this. I did this in
a light hearted manner, I did question whether the recent spate of .XYZ sales were real or not, I was expressing my surprise and I admitted my jealousy in relation to this great sale.
Anyway, it was nothing personal and I would never condone attacking another member of NPs and I don't feel like anything I've said has actually done this, but I would like to stress that for me that "questioning" domain sales is part of the enjoyment of being on this forum. In my mind it's not a personal attack to question the validity, merit, price, quality, extension, platform of sales or any other aspect of domaining that is presented before us.
Being scared into silence by others that call them
pathetic, which I would argue is a bit of an attack doesn't feel like the right way to go about fostering a mentality of questioning and intrigue which surely underpins the point in having a domain forum in the first place. If nothing else, questioning things serves as a very important tool to prevent "newbies" from wasting all of their money, which is easy to do in this industry if they were to follow the ever changing bluster of fads that whistle by never to be seen again.
It could just be that you didn't mean me anyway, or that you believe that others have not entered into the dialogue regarding these .XYZ sales with the spirit in which I certainly intended to with my few posts. Maybe if I saw all of the posts that you have seen with regards to your accusation of attacks I may agree with you, but in general it's not a personal attack to say that you are questioning the validity of a sale or don't think a domain name is worth the amount paid or to admit being flabbergasted that it sold for so high or that you can't believe that someone didn't choose a different name because you think the extension is bad. There are quite a few people on this forum, so it's not surprising to find others sharing the same opinion either.
Based on the past .XYZ sales (10 $xx,xxx+ sales in the last 3 years, source namebio), it is reasonable to conclude objectively that it is
surprising that that name sold for such a high amount. That doesn't take away from the fact that it's a sale that we all wish we had conducted, which I think comes across in the dialogue that I had, but that doesn't mean that it's wrong to question it... Heck, the person that sold it replied,
albeit it not in a way that I expected under normal circumstances but that only allowed those in the thread (including me) to learn more about the sale in the end which was interesting in itself.
Anyhow I wish everyone on the forum, including
@DNGear all the best in their sales, but I can't promise to bottle up my surprise or scepticism when one sells at all, or for less/more than I expected it to no more than I can I guarantee not to watch from afar in wonderment at the spectacle...