information lnvitation.com sold for $20156 ?

[Lox]

lnvitation.com > Lnvitation.com sold for $20156 ???
241 bids
(small L)

 

[bmugford]

Dynadot should fix the way domains are displayed.

They need to be displayed in both upper and lower case to avoid this type of thing.

Brad

 

[Pusang Gala]

The bid winner will surely feel like he took a collective punch in his stomach after realizing it was L.

 

[NickB]

Surely there's something more to this? SEO domain? 241 bids might know something that we dont? haha

Ahrefs is showing a grand total of 2 backlinks.......

Border line scammy the way it is presented

 

[Ostrados]

That "l" is the difference between a $20k domain and $20 domain!
That's why I use this tool i or L checker

 

[equity78]

Thank you for the suggestion, I have passed this on to our marketing team with this auction as an example to see if this can be implemented to our listings.


I'm sorry, we're unable to disclose information regarding private accounts and orders, unfortunately. It would be for the current registrant of the domain to decide whether they would like to disclose that information or not, as confirming whether or not a certain price was paid for a domain name could affect any efforts to sell the domain in the future.

No this is about a flaw in your system that might have caused someone to pay for something that they did not know they were buying.

 

[equity78]

We don't disclose any private customer information, including sale information, without the customer's consent or unless required by law, regardless of the circumstances.

If you would like more information on whether the auction winner completed the purchase the current registrant would be the best point of contact. Currently, the domain is using our privacy service, so you could contact the current registrant by emailing [email protected] and including the domain name in the subject of your email. That will then be forwarded directly to the current registrant.

You continue to miss the point, hiding behind language that doesn't fit here. We all know what lnvitation.com sold for, if I was asking you Hey Dynadot what did lnvitation.com sell for and it was a private transaction, then sure you not giving out personal information makes complete sense.

In this case someone was compelled to start a thread because they could not believe someone got duped for a misspelling due to there being no upper and lower case designation.

To add to this nonsense it's now on auction on your site with no upper and lower case designation. https://www.dynadot.com/market/user-auction/lnvitation.com

 

[karmaco]

I think that sale will be a hard flop. Hard to imagine they were intentionally bidding up a typo. They thought it was the real word.

Can you imagine paying 20K for what you think is a high value dictionary word and find out after the fact you bought a typo?

 

[wot]

The bid winner will surely feel like he took a collective punch in his stomach after realizing it was L.

Unlikely to pay one would think?

And yes, very close to scammy!

 

[karamakate]

GD auctions already showing that simple lower/upper case variations of the domain name:



It's not that hard at the programming side.
This is shame of dynadot. They should think it while developing that page.

If I were them, I would make a full refund to the buyer and ban that scammer in a moment.

 

[Gube]

Thank you for the suggestion, I have passed this on to our marketing team with this auction as an example to see if this can be implemented to our listings.

You can also do it the same way as we do on 48hr (with two CSS rules to add) :
By default, show the domain in lowercase (or uppercase) and on mouse hover (:hover), show the opposite casing
Example

And on hover

And then on the actual listing page, showing both works (but if you don't have enough space to add the other casing, this on hover tricks works too, just make sure the box with the :hover effect is large enough so users realize they can do it)

 

[Dynadot]

Thank you @Gube, I've passed both your example and the GoDaddy example from @karamakate onto the team for further discussion and expect that they'll be able to make the necessary changes to avoid a similar situation in the future.

 

[Dynadot]

Our team has confirmed that we'll be updating our marketplace and auction listings to show domain names in both lowercase and uppercase to minimize the risk of any misunderstandings in the future, thank you everyone for your feedback on this matter.

 

[Parmeet]

Even I thought it is I and not l !!!

 

[Dansam]

Scam!

 

[wot]

https://www.namepros.com/search/374559/?q=Linvitations.com&o=relevance

Almost DeJaVu

 

[Reallybigidea.com]

Just curious, was that domain a misspelled word as well?

it is not misspelled it is a brandable six letter dot com.

 

[CraigD]

This type of font manipulation/confusion (upper vs lower case) is an old trick that should have been foreseen by the developers.

Perhaps they should use a serif type-font, or only upper-case.

 

[Dynadot]

I wonder if you can actually request a refund for this kind of situation (false advertising).

@Dynadot should definitely do something about and start displaying both variations.

Thank you for the suggestion, I have passed this on to our marketing team with this auction as an example to see if this can be implemented to our listings.

@Dynadot did this get paid?

I'm sorry, we're unable to disclose information regarding private accounts and orders, unfortunately. It would be for the current registrant of the domain to decide whether they would like to disclose that information or not, as confirming whether or not a certain price was paid for a domain name could affect any efforts to sell the domain in the future.

 

[KnifeCatcher]

Surely there's something more to this? SEO domain? 241 bids might know something that we dont? haha

 

[griff]

the buyer took an L in multiple ways on a serious note have seen the same thing happen on squadhelp multiple times - still surprised people aren't pasting names directly into google before committing money (or replying to suspicious looking emails)

 

[coolhands]

You should watch-out of domains typo. It's will be better if you copy and past the domain on google to double check.

It's happened to me yesterday, I have almost bid on the following domain amercianeagle.com on Namejet, I thought it was American Eagle.

 

[D Haynes]

I saw this when it was still at 500 bucks and copy and pasted the name into a search bar which shows what it is. To be fair to Dynadot they listed the name all in the same case (lower) which is probably the default. More fool the bidders I say.

 

[dande]

It's now listed at Dynadot marketplace for $19,999.

 

[DotKing]

I believe that previous owner has renewed the name. At Dynadot you need to wait 3-5 days after winning the auction to take control over it. Name is now on "Make offer".