Did RegFly kill CCC.net?

[VURG]

Let's face it, a large percentage of the last few thousand CCC.net were registered with RegisterFly. Last years $2.75 and $2.95 registrations for .net meant that a lot of people were buying large amount of these domains there rather than pay 2-3 times that elsewhere.

Due to RegFly's mistakes, a large percentage CCC.net collectors have been forced to pay renewal fees for their domains early and their available funds have dropped considerably. When trying to sell the domains, nobody wants the RegFly dirty linen and so the wholesale price of CCC.net has been dropping the past few months. The strange thing is that the wholesale price of non RegFly CCC.net has been affected as well.

This has been at a time when the CCC.com domains have never been higher and are going from strength to strength. I think people will look back at this time as a slump in the CCC.net market and a great time to find bargains.

Just a thought

(CCC.net are 3 character domains with at least one letter and at least one number)

 

[antman]

Good thread, and in my opinion, yes it did.
I bought a CCC.net and it was pushed from another RF account. I can't unlock it, and the auth code doesn't exist (yes, I've looked)

I don't know what to do with it now and I'm sure others are in the same position. :td:

 

[Name Trader]

You might try opening another account and pushing the domain into it. It's not guaranteed to work.

 

[3par]

CCC.net does not take off because there is no end users. I don't recall ever seeing sale reported at afternic.

The total registration of the CCC.net owned by regfly is about 2500, from my log file last september. Those registered in 2006 is below 1500; while the total registration in 2006 is above 8300.

So don'e blame registerfly. They are pretty bad, for sure. But they should not be blamed for the CCC.net.

 

[tzsxc]

While i think that the registerfly fiasco has affected the CCC.net price in terms of perception of value(no one buying regfly ccc.net), the underlying end-user/big sale is just not there for CCC.net. Until that happens, their value will be correlated with what another domainer is willing to pay for them.

 

[accent]

The negative = belief that there are few end users, also applies equally to CCC.com.
The advantages are that they are short and in a popular extension.

I had noticed a drop in interest in CCC.nets, and had assumed that it was the buyers from last year cashing out (I am trying to sell a few myself to avoid renewals). The Registerfly connection is an interesting theory, I believe it explains it better, although both are probably factors. Luckily I got mine out of there.

CCC.infos were bought out about the same time. What do you folks see happening there? A large number are in one person's hands.

 

[Michelle]

I have seen some very low ccc.net sales of late infact, some ccc.infos have been much higher

 

[oKiAo]

Good thread, and in my opinion, yes it did.
I bought a CCC.net and it was pushed from another RF account. I can't unlock it, and the auth code doesn't exist (yes, I've looked)

I don't know what to do with it now and I'm sure others are in the same position. :td:

I transferred with several domains from RF without any problem.
First unlock it by clicking the Locked link, then uncheck the "Lock", then click update. After that you have to click on the + which is on the same line as the Domain Contact Information (Need to disable any whois protection first), then click on 'Configure'. Next page scroll all the way down then you will find the code there.

 

[Sam]

CCC.net does not take off because there is no end users. I don't recall ever seeing sale reported at afternic.

The total registration of the CCC.net owned by regfly is about 2500, from my log file last september. Those registered in 2006 is below 1500; while the total registration in 2006 is above 8300.

So don'e blame registerfly. They are pretty bad, for sure. But they should not be blamed for the CCC.net.

Theres always end users . I sold off a CCC.net for $XXX this year . Just not many.

 

[AdoptableDomains]

Theres always end users . I sold off a CCC.net for $XXX this year . Just not many.

But was that really a CCC.net or a LLL.net or NNN.net? even if something like LLN.net, a lot depends on the character combinations. Not all CCC are created equal.

 

[antman]

Good thread, and in my opinion, yes it did.
I bought a CCC.net and it was pushed from another RF account. I can't unlock it, and the auth code doesn't exist (yes, I've looked)

I don't know what to do with it now and I'm sure others are in the same position. :td:

I transferred with several domains from RF without any problem.
First unlock it by clicking the Locked link, then uncheck the "Lock", then click update. After that you have to click on the + which is on the same line as the Domain Contact Information (Need to disable any whois protection first), then click on 'Configure'. Next page scroll all the way down then you will find the code there.

Yes I've tried - It worked once, and then a few weeks later, nothing now. After I click unlock and then update, it refreshes the page and locks it again. Locked forever! :td:

 

[VURG]

The total registration of the CCC.net owned by regfly is about 2500, from my log file last september. Those registered in 2006 is below 1500; while the total registration in 2006 is above 8300.

Thanks 3par for your stats. Is this 2500 before or after the large amount of transfers out of RegFly within the last 3 months. My argument was that the forced early transfer expenses has reduced the potential investor market as they don't have money for money domains.

2500 is around 10% of the domains. More than enough to significantly alter the reseller market. Most CCC.net are not on the reseller market and I consider that RegFly domains consist of a higher percentage of CCC.net due to the fact that the owners don't want to pay renewal fees 6 months early and they don't want to wait 6 months and risk losing their domains with the RegFly fiasco.

Interesting 8300 would be around 1/3 of the CCC.net domains.

CCC.info: I think that they were bought out 2 years to early. I think that the owner will probably be forced to drop them all. However, at $1 a year, I think other speculators will buy them all again and wait for another year and I expect the same thing will happen again next year. Who ever picks them up in mid 2008 onwards should do well. (Just my theory)

 

[deu12000]

Yes I've tried - It worked once, and then a few weeks later, nothing now. After I click unlock and then update, it refreshes the page and locks it again. Locked forever! :td:

The way around this is create another account push all the domains into it and then unlock them there. It happened to me a couple of days ago. The only problem is I still can't get my domains out even though they're unlocked.