BLIND SUPPORT ??? lol .. Seriously .. there are literally HUNDREDS of useful and helpful reviews and interviews at Domain Sherpa .. it's not perfect .. but it's pretty damn good and offers lots of eye opening OPINIONS and information to newer domainers in a format that makes learning fun!
The
ONLY actual opinion I remember hearing on
@DomainSherpa was against Shill bidding.
Beyond that it's important to remember that the ideas being explored in the
allowing self-bidding in auctions was based on the condition of full transparency and disclosure. Without those Andrew Rosener (
@MediaOptions) very clearly and specifically stated that his opinion on shill bidding in secret is that it was actually 100% wrong!
The fact remains that auctions as a whole are a royal mess when it comes to domains ,, and unfortunately there is no way to 100% remove all potential fraud! Beyond that there are tons of OPINIONS on how to possibly make things at least "better" (IE: still far from perfect but at least a little better) .. and almost all of those OPINIONS have various pros and cons .. and if you ask me .. there is a lot of value in exploring and discussing all of those potential solutions to hopefully come up with some solutions to make things "better".
It should be noted that those OPINIONS were actually shared HERE AT NAMEPROS ... yet for some reason instead of speaking out against Namepros you choose to focus your finger pointing at Domain Sherpa that barely even touched the subject aside from a few comments AGAINST shill bidding! You talk about "blind support" .. but you are the one who chooses to be blind to these facts for some unknown reason!?
Please don't misinterpret what I'm saying as being against NamePros in any way .. I saw those opinions as opinions .. and discussing opinions is a good part of a healthy debate that can often find the best elements of two sides and find a resulting compromise better than either proposal.
Also .. who specifically bid on their own auctions?
@Michael Cyger? He very clearly spoke against it!
@Domain Shane? He actually brought all of these allegation out to the public before ANYBODY else!
@Frank.Schilling? That probably goes without saying as his bot probably bids on every single domain at auction .. lol
@Ali? You just went out of your way above to make him look nice, so I'm guessing not!
@MediaOptions? Seems
@Michael (or possibly even yourself or another member) did a pretty good audit and came up with nothing encriminating .. plus if you go back to the original discussion you'll see he was very clear that any possible positive elements allowing people to bid on their own auctions was 100% conditional on it being transparent .. he also actually pointed out some potential negative aspects of self-bidding. That whole part of the discussion was mostly theoretic exploration of potential solutions to secret shill bidding and ill-intentioned auction manipulation.
As for the extent of the NameJet scandal .. I was right there in the mix asking questions of NameJet (still unanswered) .. as well as exploring the pros and cons of potential fixes to make things better.
After getting personally attacked I lost a little interest in the whole discussion because I was being attacked simply for exploring the pros and cons of possible solutions:
While there was some fantastic work being done to uncover a lot of the crap and cheating .. there was also tons of unobjective insinuations and accusations based on OPINIONS as opposed to anything anyone had actually done. I was also a little frustrated some of my posts were deleted because they referenced other deleted posts.
Let me be clear that there certainly were people who cheated the system .. but it also turned into a witch hunt at some point .. and once I saw at least parts of the discussions becoming baseless accusations .. I didn't really see the point in participating any further given the personal attacks on me .. ironically enough I barely use namejet aside from checking out the occasional name shared on Domain Sherpa or DSAD.