Detective stories - and some other conspiracy theories

[tonecas]

war.net is on auction at Sedo. 0 bids.

war.net belongs to Register who in 2005 got stuck with the domain because of a non-payment owner, poor guys.

Naturally, because they had already incur on expenses by renewing the domain (forget about the option to release the domain to the registry and ask for the refund) they kept it. On 2006 instead of releasing it again they put a privacy whois through Domain Discreet. One more into a bunch of other domains to make the portfolio prettier.

Forward to 2009. The domain appears again in the ownership of Register so that anyone can see it. After all, why hide it when many registrars have built some good portfolios by this way and left unpunished? But the buyer didn't come but the financial and economic crises did.

So here we are now in 2010 and Register looks at Sedo and asks "Hey buddy of mine! why don't you auction it and help me unload this crap? Every other registrar that have amassed portfolios the same way have been unloading, so they should know what they are doing! We are tired of paying fees to the registry!"

And so it goes...

regards,
tonecas

 

[-db-]

war.net is on auction at Sedo. 0 bids.

Well... you did them a favor, because it's received 5 bids since you started this thread, up to $2,000 now.

 

[tonecas]

Well... you did them a favor, because it's received 5 bids since you started this thread, up to $2,000 now.

i'm allways available to help a poor fellow domain investor.

regards,
tonecas

 

[mis_chiff]

What was the question?

 

[Ronald Regging]

No offense, but I have no clue what your post is about.

Err I reread and understand now. Yeah, I remember hearing something a long time ago about how registrars weren't allowed to warehouse domains. But then again, look around you... This industry is replete with scandal and backroom deals.

 

[DotWeekly]

Have you ever seen the domains Register.com has listed on Afternic! I'd say they keep a lot of domains. Them and clearly Tucows are the two most known registrars to do it. Godaddy had it's hand in it as well but came clean.

 

[tonecas]

Have you ever seen the domains Register.com has listed on Afternic! I'd say they keep a lot of domains. Them and clearly Tucows are the two most known registrars to do it. Godaddy had it's hand in it as well but came clean.

all of those registrars obtained a good share of their portfolios by retaining domains Yofie. You can also add to that list Dotster which will be the theme of the next "Detective Stories".

regards,
tonecas

 

[-db-]

Up to $8,123 now with less than 3 days remaining.

The reserve is not yet reached, but it must be getting close.

Reserve price range: 5.000 - 9.999 USD

That's an interesting feature, listing a reserve 'range'. Hmmm...

 

[tonecas]

That's an interesting feature, listing a reserve 'range'. Hmmm...

if the range was 50,000-99,999 there would be also bidders almost close to the reserve

regards,
tonecas

 

[tonecas]

someone PLEASE help Register. they are now selling war.net at SnapNames.

after some real flesh bidders on Sedo auction failed to miss the reserve by just a few bucks they are now trying to mark it up on SnapNames. it seems Snap is good for selling short names (don't tell anyone).

regards,
tonecas

 

[exsedo]

What was the question?

Is that the answer ? I was confused as well, but I picked it up eventually.

 

[mis_chiff]

Is that the answer ? I was confused as well, but I picked it up eventually.

Now that could be the question :lol:

Yeah I figured it out :gl:

 

[-db-]

Really, I don't usually know what the hell any of you people are talking about. I just play along.

 

[aldowner]

war.net is not available for sale.

That's what I found...

 

[Jeffrey]

@tonecas - Good detective work!

I hope i could be an owner of a registrar someday! :blink:

 

[tonecas]

TUP.ORG or how to catch domains by "colateral" work

TUP.ORG is currently expired and on the pre-release list for NameJet.

What is not showned is that TUP.ORG was probably snapped in 2009 behind the curtains.

TUP.org was owned by The Uptown Partnership Inc., managed by Eclipse Microcomputer Systems Inc with the admin contact email on wes [at] eclipse-micro.com and registered with Network Solutions.

On Aug 2009 TUP.ORG expired. But eclipse-micro.com expired and dropped first in 2009-08-27 and was caught by someone using Moniker.

Invalid information was placed on the WHOIS to cover any tracks (it's not even necessary to spend a few bucks on a privacy service since even today there is no validation or enforcement on the accuracy of the information that is placed on the WHOIS) :

Registrant:
Dns Admin [email protected]
None
Manhattan
NY
10001
US

Then the person seems to went on after TUP.ORG since on 30-Aug-2009 the domain was renewed and removed from the pre-release list. The admin email contact then become kreator94 [at] hotmail.com with everything else remaining the same.

The process to get "colateral" domains is very simple and straightforward, specially with Network Solutions, after one catches a domain that was used to managed the "colateral" domain.

One only needs to go to netsol's site, specifying that has lost the account information and requesting that the information be sent to the previous email address - that one has already setup again on the caught managing domain. Then receive the email, go again to netsol's site, log in to the account with that information, renew the domain and change the admin email address.

eclipse-micro.com is now again expired since it is not needed anymore.

Let us see if TUP.ORG will be again removed from the pre-release list.

regards,
tonecas