So this post is going to be less fun than our exciting mini-Demand Media flame threads, but here goes a summary of what I think everyone agrees on.
1. Demand Media took the premiums off the market to review them for themselves and has some generic corporate boilerplate blah-blah language up in the meantime.
2. Demand Media has the right to do #1 since that is one of the things they paid Verisign for in taking over the extension.
3. Demand Media has either registered a couple of the names for itself (that was the point of #1 after all) or is working with some priviledged end-users to register some names during the "closed" period.
4. Demand Media has not done a good job communicating during this process and is frustrating some of their better customers. My guess is that this is not because they are evil people, but because they are a) busy and b) still working out some of the details.
5. Demand Media to date has honored the Verisign pricing model to the last letter. In other words, no *registered* non-premiums have been reclassified as premiums and all premiums were set to their correct Verisign negotiated renewal prices.
6. Every senior member of this board has dozens, if not hundreds, of undeveloped .tv domains.
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Given that everyone from Millers to EQ to SF to SKG seems to agree on the previous 6 items, I am not sure why we have multiple, high emotion threads going on this topic. My brain is starting to hurt from the total lack of information being conveyed in these threads. It is just venting.
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Let's stay focused on helping each monetize the domains we already have. Sometime in the next 4-12 weeks, we will find out Demand Media's plans.
And then we either will or will not register more premiums. I do not plan to be excited or disappointed. I have no expectations whatsoever from DM and nobody else really should either, unless Demand Media changes its position on #5. That is the only obligation they have to us.
And anyway, most of us, should stop regging premiums anyway. Easier said than done of course, but still probably the right step...
Beyond that, don't we have enough productive work to do without this chaos?
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It is not my intention to offend anyone with this post. I just want to take the heat level down.
1. Demand Media took the premiums off the market to review them for themselves and has some generic corporate boilerplate blah-blah language up in the meantime.
2. Demand Media has the right to do #1 since that is one of the things they paid Verisign for in taking over the extension.
3. Demand Media has either registered a couple of the names for itself (that was the point of #1 after all) or is working with some priviledged end-users to register some names during the "closed" period.
4. Demand Media has not done a good job communicating during this process and is frustrating some of their better customers. My guess is that this is not because they are evil people, but because they are a) busy and b) still working out some of the details.
5. Demand Media to date has honored the Verisign pricing model to the last letter. In other words, no *registered* non-premiums have been reclassified as premiums and all premiums were set to their correct Verisign negotiated renewal prices.
6. Every senior member of this board has dozens, if not hundreds, of undeveloped .tv domains.
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Given that everyone from Millers to EQ to SF to SKG seems to agree on the previous 6 items, I am not sure why we have multiple, high emotion threads going on this topic. My brain is starting to hurt from the total lack of information being conveyed in these threads. It is just venting.
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Let's stay focused on helping each monetize the domains we already have. Sometime in the next 4-12 weeks, we will find out Demand Media's plans.
And then we either will or will not register more premiums. I do not plan to be excited or disappointed. I have no expectations whatsoever from DM and nobody else really should either, unless Demand Media changes its position on #5. That is the only obligation they have to us.
And anyway, most of us, should stop regging premiums anyway. Easier said than done of course, but still probably the right step...
Beyond that, don't we have enough productive work to do without this chaos?
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It is not my intention to offend anyone with this post. I just want to take the heat level down.
