Well said, but these are not real critics here, the only reason that they put down all hand regs across the board (not only in this thread, but all the other ones too) is because hand regging domains is against their business model which is based on selling their leftover domains to unsuspecting newbies. They claim that they are keeping those newbies from making mistakes, but when the newbies need help these so called critics usually ignore their questions, or worse they ridicule the newbies for even asking a question.
I dont ridicule newbies or put their names down and never have, just trying to give some advice to try and help a little and maybe stop them from making the same mistakes I made and save them some money, thats all, if there is anything wrong with that, then I a guilty as charged
And by the what oldtimer, I don't sell my names to any "unsuspecting" newbies...its not really my style
Ask around and you will see I reply to a lot of new poster's PMs and try and help as best I can and maybe point them in the right direction.
The "Big Data World Africa" conference that was held this past October in Johannesburg wasn't just about South Africa.
It was about the rest of Africa, but that will take 20 years to develop into anything profitable as most of them don't even have the infrastructure for this, it was just a PR exercise to try and educate the countries involved and try and make them aware of what it is or how it works
I certainly hope you are right when you say it will solve a lot of africa's problems
Ultimately the opinion that matters is the enduser buyer, not domainer cheerleaders and critics.
You are spot on there, my opinion doesn't count when it comes to selling these names, but I hope it counts a little to someone who might be regging 70 hand-regged names and then they get stuck with them for 5 years spending a fortune on renewals only to sell one 5 years down the track
All I am saying is most of the names are gone already, I mean this "big data" threadon ly started a few months ago, a lot of names were gone 2 years before that, it is just a better idea to email around and spend $200 on 1 decent name and make a nice profit on it, rather than spend $500 on average names that might never find a home
Running all these negative criticisms through Big Data Analytics shows that some people here might actually be a little bit jealous of all the quality hand regs that they see in this thread.
I dont think jealousy is the word that springs to mind oldtimer
Nice find, which can both approve and disprove Gilescoley. While huge parts of Africa do not have any electricity you may have said this domain does not make sense. The original registrant had the Desertec plans in mind, the project to produce sun power and export it to Central Europe. Well, the domain buyer is a company in UAE, they use the domain for an annual energy conference - in South Africa.
Blitzpots, this doesnt prove anything, this is a great name, electricity is a necessity all over the world and most countries in Africa have it in the urban areas and its just the rural areas that don't have it. Electricity is used on a daily basis in most countries in Africa
Big Data is new and you cant really compare this to electricity, its comparing apples to oranges
Anyway, good luck
