Bob Parsons Sour Grapes!

[Amnezia]

So i see bob parsons is kicking up a big fuss about the whole .eu registration process. While bob makes some valid points one can't help but feel its a nice way of deflecting the masses of negative publicicty surrounding the huge failure of his own company to secure any domains for its clients.

A few days ago people were going nuts at godaddy for screwing up now all of a sudden everyone agree with bob and the attention turns to EurId. All i can say is well played bob!

 

[fonzie_007]

No one will dispute that companies will try and deflect negative PR. GD may indeed be culpable, but the bigger "fish" in this whole stink seems to be EurID.

 

[dgridley]

My thoughts as well...

but the bigger "fish" in this whole stink seems to be EurID.

 

[fonzie_007]

Knowing that people are really Teed off about the whole .eu registration process, one of the best things they can do (notwithstanding contacting their MP and/or MEP) would be to support GoDaddy challenging the entire registration process.

Does anyone actuallly think GD is happy about the situation either? They have lost out of potentially thousands of .eu registrations and lost out large sums of business and money. Does anyone really think GD will get its 10,000 euros back from EurID?

 

[white_crane]

Does anyone actuallly think GD is happy about the situation either? They have lost out of potentially thousands of .eu registrations and lost out large sums of business and money. Does anyone really think GD will get its 10,000 euros back from EurID?

If Company X got the domains, why didn't Go Daddy get them? He could have set up a bunch of registrars himself for the benefit of his customers, and then charged people a small premium to go through his farm of registrars. Didn't do it, did he?

 

[ActiveSimSites]

My finger remains firmly pointed at GoDaddy, even more so now i've seen Bob Parsons' whinge story. The least he could do is admit his company screwed up big time, even if it wasn't just them.

 

[fonzie_007]

So you all are advocating that GD engage in unethical business practices just so you can gain personally?

 

[ActiveSimSites]

Exactly. There was nothing to stop GoDaddy attempting to grab the names, useless b******* :D Did they sit there thinking "other companies aren't doing it right, we'll just sit here doing nothing and see what happens"? Grrr.

 

[white_crane]

So you all are advocating that GD engage in unethical business practices just so you can gain personally?

If that was the legal requirement. Everyone who set up phantom registrars was playing by the rules that were laid for this game. If you can't play by the rules to win, that's your fault in not having the skills to grasp the situation.

 

[fonzie_007]

Instead of directing your anger at GD, you should be advocating that all domains regged by phantom registrars should be rescinded...

 

[fixxation]

I don't see how Parsons can be complaining about anything - the fact that GoDaddy lost domains for thousands and all, I really don't think he should be pointing the finger at all these "phantom" companies. Yes, they are definitely culprits in this whole Landrush phase, but I can see GoDaddy themselves was doing it as well with multiple other "companies of theirs".

I registered a few names with GoDaddy, ones that are pretty unique product names so odds were low that they'd be taken by others.

Of the three that were successful, only 1 appeared as registered from GoDaddy. The other two were registered from www.wildwestdomains.com , and www.bluerazor.com - both sites definitely have a GoDaddy front-end, the design screams it out from the second the page loads.

So what's that all about Bob?? I remember a few months ago there were loads of new registrars that appeared shortly on the EURid accredited registrar list, tons with the same phone number - it was a number in the US. I rang it up, guess how they answered... "Hello, GoDaddy!"

It's all very fishy, him pointing the finger at other dodgy registrars when they're doing a similar thing themselves. Sure, they obtained my names for me, but it's NOT GoDaddy that shows up on the whois.eu site.

I can't believe that GoDaddy's success was soooo CRAP seeing that they had hundreds of secondary little GD companies of theirs registering names of behalf of GoDaddy for their GoDaddy customers.

This guy is just trying to draw the attention away from their extreme lack of success and point the finger at someone else. Yes, he is pointing the finger in the right direction and for a valid reason as well, but in fairness- GoDaddy isn't all that innocent in this Landrush game either...

 

[Amnezia]

Business has always been agressive in europe, its a very competative market place. What happed on land rush day was no surprise, it was always gonna play out like that.

Im european myself and i really dont have a problem with what happened. If i had enough capitol i would have done the same myself.

 

[ActiveSimSites]

I don't believe domains registered by phantom companies should be rescinded. If GoDaddy did their job there would be tens of thousands of domains less for those phantom registrars to get. GoDaddy are one of the major f*** ups here, and Parsons' blog article makes his lot out to be the innocent victims? Bollocks!

 

[fonzie_007]

If GoDaddy did their job there would be tens of thousands of domains less for those phantom registrars to get.

The logic here is astonishing... As a silly American who has no stake in .eu registrations, I won't bother wasting anymore of my time on this issue. I just hope .eu domains have the same type of flop as the debacle regarding .ws domains.

 

[Amnezia]

The logic here is astonishing... As a silly American who has no stake in .eu registrations, I won't bother wasting anymore of my time on this issue. I just hope .eu domains have the same type of flop as the debacle regarding .ws domains.

sounds like someone else has sour grapes too!

 

[equity78]

comparing .ws and .eu that's astonishing Logic. People get it you are a Go daddy cheerleader fine just understand many don't like GO DADDY and they are expressing that.

 

[-OutlawBiker-]

Hey, if you remember, the .info LR1 was pulled back to a large degree and LR2 put out there with thousands of names. I didn't participate in the info LR1 because of all the fraud. A similar thing happened with the biz landrush and it was pulled back and restarted. I also played by the rules in that one. Some of the same people who gamed the info and biz landrushes were the same that gamed the .eu. Was it any surprise? I really hope they go back and do the same thing in this landrush, get rid of some of the snakes, and have .eu LR2. Fonzie has it right above.

 

[MadAboutDomains]

Outlaw... did they go back and confiscate names from those who created "PHANTOM" registrars when they released the .INFO?

Thanks

- Luke

 

[Amnezia]

Whos to say whats wrong and wats right? EurId set out the prerequisits for peoploe to become a registrar and some companies bent the rules alittle, big deal! This is nothing compared to most of the scams pulled by big business on a daily basis. Its all very well to live in fairy land where all the wealth gets shared out equally and everyone gets a fair chance. Sadly this is the real world and its not a level playing field.

 

[equity78]

Im european myself and i really dont have a problem with what happened. If i had enough capitol i would have done the same myself.

looks like he is EUROPEAN learn how to read WHAT PART DON'T you understand?

And this is not a competition your ext has been beaten hands down? hahahaha numbers of regs means nothing it is the quality of domains owned by each individual domainer