Maybe some will disagree but I think we should. Maybe not here on NP but we should start one somewhere... Perhaps a dedicated website where the information can be vetted. The claim must be valid and must be vetted. The claim must be able to be rebutted by the end-user, and retracted if the end-user is shamed back into fulfilling the contract to its end. A name/shame site would level the playing ground more than it currently is.
Peoples names, company names, titles, phone numbers, email address, website address should be made public record. Why on Earth not?
I have had CEOs of very large companies flat out back right out of legally binding agreements to purchase my names. Why do they get a pass? Because I do not have the money to go after them - thats why. AND because there is no mechanism to shame them so that their peers and, more importantly their vendors, customers, etc, can see what type of person they're about to deal with. I am dead sure that these same people would hunt me down using all legal avenues available to them, if I were to breach a contract with them! I've had people who have the title of Director of Operations, Vice President, Sales Director and more also breech contracts with me over nearly 20 years of me selling names. It sucks.
With one end-user it was a pattern of agreements to purchase then abusive responses and ignoring and changing the terms and then lies about someone making the offer that shouldnt. I even had people at Undeveloped tell me this was one of the most difficult people they've dealt with. There is no reason for this.
Do not confuse this with tire-kickers. If I had a dime for every tire-kicker I'd be retired already. Tire-kickers email you and ask you "how much?" Then they likely never come back. Some may even haggle for a while but then go away. That is perfectly OK. Thats an open door and its a non-commitment. I am not even talking about those who email you and ask "how much" and you both eventually come to an agreement via email or phone or letter - but then they go cold before they pay escrow. I've had them too but I do not have a legally binding contract with them like those who place bonafide offers through Sedo, Undeveloped, Afternic (the old Afternic) and other venues.. Yes, those agreed via email, phone, snail mail, handshake are also "contracts" but I do not provide those folks with a legal agreement like, say, Undeveloped does. Maybe I should - but I'd still have the problem we're talking about here: non-payers.
Look, a lot of us leave reviews on Yelp. Some of these reviews are negative/bad reviews. The establishment that is getting the negative review is getting "publicly flogged". Why is that OK but its not in our industry? The physical real estate industry has a mechanism to help prevent this sort of thing which our industry doesnt seem to want to adopt: earnest money. I can not make an offer on a house unless I plop down 10% or some fixed amount. 14 years ago someone agreed to purchase my home. They paid $3,000 earnest money. My house went off the market for a week. The buyer backed out. My agent came over with the $3,000 check and apologized. I asked what that was (I had no idea - my first home and my first sale). She said that its earnest money that is collected for this very purpose. If the buyer went through with the deal the $3,000 would be absorbed into their payment, but in that case she was handing it to me for my "loss" of not having the house on the market for 7 days.
Something like that is needed in domain sales. If its not feasible with domain sales then perhaps some version of it. Or, maybe we should start using Yelp and other available avenues to leave bad reviews just like we would if we had received bad service from that company (which we did!). There is no shame on doing this other than the person who breached the contract.