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It appears that Verisign are feeling pretty secure now that they have their 6 year agreement with 4x7% price increases on .com and their stock popped up 18% today. In a blog post today Verisign say:
Andrew has written an excellent column on it here, or you can read their blog post (I wonder if it will get revised?) here.
As Andrew points out:
Seriously, amazingly insensitive of Verisign.
Bob (grrrr... feeling angry )
ps I always try to find the bright side of everything. A good day for ngTLD and country code extensions I guess?
"Flipping domain names or warehousing them to create scarcity adds nothing to the industry and merely allows those engaged in this questionable practice to enrich themselves at the expense of consumers and businesses." - Verisign today
Andrew has written an excellent column on it here, or you can read their blog post (I wonder if it will get revised?) here.
As Andrew points out:
Verisign has been catering to this market for years. Sponsoring its conferences, promoting domain investing, creating the very tools designed to let domain investors know which domains to register…and now it wants to pretend it has nothing to do with this “questionable practice”. C’mon.
This is almost unbelievable and I can't believe it will not anger many. At least for those of us who were trying to decide whether we call ourselves domainers (not a dictionary term),domain investors, domain service agents, domain experts, domain originators, etc. no longer need to worry about that. We are all scalpers according to Verisign.
Seriously, amazingly insensitive of Verisign.
Bob (grrrr... feeling angry )
ps I always try to find the bright side of everything. A good day for ngTLD and country code extensions I guess?
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