Incredibly irresponsible posts by CEO/Salesman

[000]

NamePros should really consider adding an "ADVERTISEMENT" disclaimer to posts by shameless salespeople! (IF this sort of content must really be allowed at all)

A certain CEO/Salesman is going around shamelessly pumping his extension, while making false claims like this to newbies who are willing to listen / enrich him:

Let me give you few ideas of what I would register (if I was on the domainer side) before the others :

Get the list of all 300 US big cities : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_population
+ top 100 world big cities in population (London, Paris, Barcelona, Madrid, Dublin, Berlin, Mexico, Rio, ...)

And then, I would register :

1. cities+hotel.best (ex : vegashotel.best, miamihotel.best, nychotel.best, ...)
2. cities+restaurant.best
3. cities+realestate.best
4. cities+lawyer.best
....

Each single .Best domain should have a minimum value of $500 on the aftermarket for an investment of $1.99 at dynadot actually : https://www.dynadot.com/domain/best.html

"Each single .Best domain should have a minimum value of $500 on the aftermarket for an investment of $1.99"

C'mon... really???

And this is just ONE example. This guy is also claiming (without proof so far as I'm aware) that he's sold a pair of .BEST domains for 1 MILLION dollars.

Please tell me NamePros is better than allowing this junk!

We can see that many newbies are falling for it.

 

[xynames]

Whenever you read posts about extensions other than .com selling for unusually high prices whether .best .tv .top .app .homes or whatever must take with a grain (or boulder) of salt.

Some oddball extension posts at NP are hype and pump some are thoughtful and reasoned.

 

[NYJimbo]

Damn, I'm all out of popcorn...

 

[bmugford]

From post #29 in this thread - https://www.namepros.com/threads/what-is-your-best-domain-names.1126251/page-2

Let me give you few ideas of what I would register (if I was on the domainer side) before the others :

Get the list of all 300 US big cities : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_population
+ top 100 world big cities in population (London, Paris, Barcelona, Madrid, Dublin, Berlin, Mexico, Rio, ...)

And then, I would register :

1. cities+hotel.best (ex : vegashotel.best, miamihotel.best, nychotel.best, ...)
2. cities+restaurant.best
3. cities+realestate.best
4. cities+lawyer.best
....

Each single .Best domain should have a minimum value of $500 on the aftermarket for an investment of $1.99 at dynadot actually : https://www.dynadot.com/domain/best.html

Plus, this is exactly what we are doing right now.

The difference is that we are selling our .Best inventory directly to big Corp and in package between 3k to 10K domains but this is exactly what we are doing in terms of sales strategy.

This is nothing more than a sales pitch and should be classified as such. It does not belong in a general discussion. Maybe there should be a ".Best is the best extension ever thread" under the promotional section where all these sales pitches could be consolidated as to not appear in so many separate threads.

Brad

 

[Kate]

I think your marketing is too heavy. I don't know why you are spending so much energy trying to convince domainers, instead you should be focusing on developers, real end users.
It's good to have registry representatives visiting us from time to time, but domainers are not supposed to be the target market (or this is a bad sign).
And indeed the market has spoken. Your TLD is nothing special, there are hundreds of others that nobody wants. .best could easily be interchanged with .top or .vip or .whatever.

It's not like members are picking up on you for some unfair reason. Any newbie making similar claims can expect ridicule.
You should know better as a registry operator. But your targets are downright delusional. You're out of touch with the reality of the market. And you are not alone. Many registry operators seem to have no domain experience and no clue about consumer expectations.
We have seen it before. Many times. A long time ago (as early as 2001).

The nTLD program was built on wishful thinking. This is sad because after 5 years people have not learned anything.

Many TLDs are already in trouble and performing badly. I am expecting to see a number of TLDs disappear in the coming years, I wouldn't be surprised if yours is one of them but good luck anyway.

 

[offthehandle]

The new gtlds are for direct sales to end users who cannot afford a .com they truly want or need. They should be advertised and sold on places end users look to buy like on GD, not as an investment..

Touting them to new domainers and new investors is like selling a dream like betting on penny stocks.

 

[bmugford]

I will in detail don't worry but please as you don't know anything about me, and the .Best and THE.Best social network and you continue insult me in your post, please first give your real identity as I have a real sense of humour - a French one - I would say - like you don't know anything about the .best, you also don't know that 1% of the .best share belongs to a lawyer company that aren't really French and have not the same sense of humour that I have, specially when you can say that the .Best is a crap extension.

So go ahead, please tell us who you are and I will personnally give you all detailed explanations about how and why THE.Best social network is the biggest innovation at scale since the ngtld program and how it will affect each .Best domain name value on the aftermarket.

Can you please clarify what that comment I have put in bold actually means? It sounds like it is phrased as some type of legal threat, otherwise I am not sure why that would even be relevant to the discussion.

I just wanted to clarify - someone's opinion that your extension is crap is protected under free speech.

Brad

 

[ecalc]

Ignore the naysayers. The aftermarket has spoken. Dishwasher.best was just the start, the sky’s the limit, this thing is a juggernaut. To maximize ROI, it all boils down to teamwork. Build a team of all stars, you don’t have to look far. Step one, buy that long top name and convince the seller to work for you promoting hotel.best as the world’s most valuable name. He’s relentless, like a bulldog, speaking of which that coldcut guy with 50 years experience once scored 4 touchdowns in one game, turn him loose on your social network and stand back. I’d sign up but my neighbor is going to be on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, and I’m her phone friend, you know how it goes, they could ring anytime.

 

[JB Lions]

Ok so take an example from the list.

So you claim that the value of : nychotel.best for instance cannot be of $500 right ?

Probably not. Don't remember this extension but it looks like you came out in 2014
General Availability - 21st May, 2014 - https://namestat.org/best

So 5 years. Only a little over 10,000 regs. Those aren't good numbers.

Reported Sales:
Namebio - 0
DNPrices - 2
dishwasher.best - $149.60
domain.best - $177.00

Those are 1 word .best, not selling for much. So 2 word .best not looking good. Plus, it doesn't flow. Best usually comes up front/first. Best dishwasher, Best domains, so the order is wrong.

 

[offthehandle]

Yep you read it clear : 100M users = domains FY2023.

I had a dream too, but then reality slapped me in the face and I woke up.

 

[Kate]

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[bmugford]

Hi Brad, I clarify : It's zero level but in many threads @000 is insulting me directly so like I said, you have all the rights to not love me or even hate the .best without any reason but you have to stay correct.

I am and I stay correct on my own. And it's not a threat - it will be business and legal thing coz I like to know who's not enough courageous to insult me without giving its real identity. You don't agree ?

No, I don't. This is a public discussion forum.

It seems like you are tying to imply some legal ramifications for making negative comments.
I am sorry, but I don't feel like the community should have to deal with this BS.

Brad

 

[bmugford]

I will help you coz it seems that you have difficulties now :

On SEDO, you will find this :

nycinns.com 4,888 USD
nyresort.com 2,000 USD
bronxinn.com 2,750 USD
nychostel.com 5,000 USD
brooklynlodging.com 2,488 USD

But this will be too easy for me as even divide by ten I am still true.

So now I will explain what will happen : With our THE.Best social network we will decentralized the social media user account on .Best websites. It means 1 user = 1 .Best

And guess what, our users are rewarded to make reviews on anything (hotels, restaurants, ...) and in all cities (nyc, london, paris, ...) so trust me like on Instagram,, facebook and other social media accounts, the value of the .Best names will go up on the aftermarket and quickly coz using an EMD to make some reviews on hotels in nyc for instance will help people get more traffic and make more money.

Coz this is the punchline, our social network rewards the users (we share 50% of our advertising revenues with our users)

Without counting the pros B2B business model where businesses will pay to have their .best websites also to monitor and sponsor their Best Reviews.

And our target is of 1M users FY2020, and 100M users FY2023. Means 100M .best domains FY2023 !

Yep you read it clear : 100M users = domains FY2023.

That is the biggest revolution in the domain name industry since 2012 !

And you know what is funny is that 100M users is nothing in the social media industry.

I project my company will have 40 zillion dollars in sales by 2023. Baseless projections are meaningless. You are a little late to the party with these. In the early days of new GTLDs we saw countless unrealistic projections that never came true.

This is just more sales pitch. If you keep making bullshit claims you are going to keep getting push back.

Brad

 

[bmugford]

Brad, I love you but you don't know anything about this project, our projections, business plan,acquisition/retention strategy.

THE.Best social network was selected as one the most potential startup in Nov 2018 by the WEB SUMMMIT.

It was officially presented on stage at the last NAMESCON Las Vegas on Jan 29.

THE.best will be officially launched centr stage at the WEB SUMMIT in november 2019 in front of 20K attendees at the altice arena of Lisbon.

We are now on a TV road show.

Nothing against you but trust me, on that specific part of our business none of you can even imagine what it is.

It's 2 years dedicated work with a team of 11 people we get the support of the french national bank on this and Trust me 100M is even our conservative hypothesis coz we will be also accredited in China.

THE.Best will be first social network to be : decentralized, rewarded, responsible and global.

Quora is 300M. Twitter is 800M, Instagram is +1B and FB is +2.5B without China.

You have provided me no basis to "trust you".

I really couldn't care less either about your plans. There are plenty of bad ideas based on faulty projections and market demand.

People are complaining about you essentially spamming sales pitches, and your response is to spam more sales pitches.

You can take your posts to the appropriate forum, which is not general discussions.
These posts belong in a promotional or advertising forum.

Brad

 

[000]

Whenever you read posts about extensions other than .com selling for unusually high prices whether .best .tv .top .app .homes or whatever must take with a grain (or boulder) of salt.

Some oddball extension posts at NP are hype and pump some are thoughtful and reasoned.

Right, but it's different when the CEO is allowed to come here into OUR HOUSE and spread "information" that is irresponsible at BEST.

@000 - I will in detail don't worry but please as you don't know anything about me, and the .Best and THE.Best social network and you continue insult me in your post, please first give your real identity as I have a real sense of humour - a French one - I would say - like you don't know anything about the .best, you also don't know that 1% of the .best share belongs to a lawyer company that aren't really French and have not the same sense of humour that I have, specially when you can say that the .Best is a crap extension.

So go ahead, please tell us who you are and I will personnally give you all detailed explanations about how and why THE.Best social network is the biggest innovation at scale since the ngtld program and how it will affect each .Best domain name value on the aftermarket.

Oh ok, so you're gonna threaten to send your lawyers after me for calling .best a crap extension....? That's cute. Lots of luck!

 

[BaileyUK]

What ?.... No mention of 25,000 % return on investment

It's all down to BEST being such a popular search term for just about everything. Unfortunately domains don't work as prefixes to wording.

Best Restaurants (one of my favorite look-ups for cities and towns)

Restaurants - best, I'm sure it will work but, nobody uses it

 

[000]

I am and I stay correct on my own. And it's not a threat - it will be business and legal thing coz I like to know who's not enough courageous to insult me without giving its real identity.

Welcome to the Internet.

You come here making false claims and expect us to not have a problem with that?

We REJECT your irresponsible, misleading, SELF-SERVING investment advice!

Want some respect? Behave in a responsible manner, like many other CEOs around here!

 

[bmugford]

Ok so take an example from the list.

So you claim that the value of : nychotel.best for instance cannot be of $500 right ?

I don't think it is worth that. I would not buy it.

Still, there is a big difference between "cannot be" and "should have".

Each single .Best domain should have a minimum value of $500 on the aftermarket for an investment of $1.99 at dynadot actually : https://www.dynadot.com/domain/best.html

That is clearly hyperbole backed by an opinion, not objective data.
It is a sales pitch. Those type of posts do not belong in discussion threads.

Brad

 

[000]

Let me give you few ideas of what I would register (if I was on the domainer side) before the others :

Get the list of all 300 US big cities : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_population
+ top 100 world big cities in population (London, Paris, Barcelona, Madrid, Dublin, Berlin, Mexico, Rio, ...)

And then, I would register :

1. cities+hotel.best (ex : vegashotel.best, miamihotel.best, nychotel.best, ...)
2. cities+restaurant.best
3. cities+realestate.best
4. cities+lawyer.best
....

Each single .Best domain should have a minimum value of $500 on the aftermarket for an investment of $1.99 at dynadot actually : https://www.dynadot.com/domain/best.html

Plus, this is exactly what we are doing right now.

The difference is that we are selling our .Best inventory directly to big Corp and in package between 3k to 10K domains but this is exactly what we are doing in terms of sales strategy.

What you said in the above QUOTE is that each of these "should have a minimum value of $500 on the aftermarket":

coloradospringsrealestate.best
miamigardensrestaurant.best
murfreesborohotel.best

Do you stand by this claim? And what is your reasoning? What evidence do you have that your statement is correct?

Because in the Real World, your claim is ABSURD, and those that follow your advice would almost certainly be throwing their money away (TO YOU, coincidentally).

Each of these JUNK domains is AVAILABLE TO REGISTER for $1.99.

 

[Cyril.Best]

I will help you coz it seems that you have difficulties now :

On SEDO, you will find this :

nycinns.com 4,888 USD
nyresort.com 2,000 USD
bronxinn.com 2,750 USD
nychostel.com 5,000 USD
brooklynlodging.com 2,488 USD

But this will be too easy for me as even divide by ten I am still true.

So now I will explain what will happen : With our THE.Best social network we will decentralized the social media user account on .Best websites. It means 1 user = 1 .Best

And guess what, our users are rewarded to make reviews on anything (hotels, restaurants, ...) and in all cities (nyc, london, paris, ...) so trust me like on Instagram,, facebook and other social media accounts, the value of the .Best names will go up on the aftermarket and quickly coz using an EMD to make some reviews on hotels in nyc for instance will help people get more traffic and make more money.

Coz this is the punchline, our social network rewards the users (we share 50% of our advertising revenues with our users)

Without counting the pros B2B business model where businesses will pay to have their .best websites also to monitor and sponsor their Best Reviews.

And our target is of 1M users FY2020, and 100M users FY2023. Means 100M .best domains FY2023 !

Yep you read it clear : 100M users = domains FY2023.

That is the biggest revolution in the domain name industry since 2012 !

And you know what is funny is that 100M users is nothing in the social media industry.

 

[Cyril.Best]

Probably not. Don't remember this extension but it looks like you came out in 2014
General Availability - 21st May, 2014 - https://namestat.org/best

So 5 years. Only a little over 10,000 regs. Those aren't good numbers.

Reported Sales:
Namebio - 0
DNPrices - 2
dishwasher.best - $149.60
domain.best - $177.00

Those are 1 word .best, not selling for much. So 2 word .best not looking good. Plus, it doesn't flow. Best usually comes up front/first. Best dishwasher, Best domains, so the order is wrong.

FYI, In 2014 it was not us : we just bought the .Best recently (in July 2018) primary to launch our social network and here is what we did in 6 months (on the registry side only) :

Plus you can daily retrieve majority of our premium sales on our social media account (twitter, linkedin, ...)

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

I'm with .BEST almost since the beginning... when it was opened...
Overall, during these years I regged ~20 domains...
As of today I have ~10 domains.

 

[Puneet Malhotra]

I just see 1 .Best sale on namebio.com.

Am I missing something?

 

[Puneet Malhotra]

I have registry prices of some TLD's / GTLD's can go up to $2000.

Why would someone wants to earn less ???

 

[BaileyUK]

It is a shame that a few Business owners, tend to view established domain boards like it's some sort of Privately owned Bulletin Board, No worries they always end-up doing themselves a massive disservice. This $1.99 worth $500 stuff is such a giveaway to the whole agenda