Uniregistry

[franka46]

I have been with 101domain for a long time but have recently ''discovered'' uniregistry ,
I was impressed with the ease and speed of registering a domain and started moving my domains from 101 to uni.
Now I made an inqueiry about a domain I want to register but uni does not handle that extension .
They replied
To purchase this domain/website name please call me between 7AM-7PM Central Standard Time at 1-949-416-2555. Press extension 8 for faster service.

I replied ,telling them that i live in indonesia,bali and it would be too difficult to call them from my mobile ..
Also asked them why I should ring them just to register a domain??

Second email

Please call me in regards to xxxxxx. We would like to speak to introduce ourselves, talk about the value of this domain, and the payment process.
Our phone number is 1-949-416-2555 x 8
We are open from 7AM-7PM Central Standard Time.

Our Domain Brokerage looks forward to your call.

 

[ivey]

Look for another registrar period. Uniregistry is so unappealing to me, brokers are robots.
I am continually asked for prices when it says offers, admin email in control panel is so incorrect. Its nice to know emails of previous owners though.. most are blank
I had a price inquiry, quoted $1200 I looked broker quoted $3300
When I asked why, he said cannabis is quote below
Darryl Lopes to You
Marijuana and pot in Canada are becoming legal and you under valued the name. I sold weedtv.com for 25,000 USD. You can quote higher and always come down, HOWEVER you cannot quote lower and go higher. https://www.google.com/webhp?source...=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=marijuana+canada&tbm=nws

Thanks for the link to google Daryl, however I live in BC bud

I emailed the inquiry email addresse, and quoted the guy $420 with no response. I asked broker about this his reply
Darryl Lopes to You
I am trying to make us both the most amount of money.

I undervalued my name? Guy sounds like a domainer not a broker.
Wait Frank is a domainer.. Still no money

I have all my names set at offers, yet get messages from uni asking for a price?
Then whatever price i give them they jack it $200 or $2100

Did receive $1,000,000 offer other day at uni, then following message came in


01/19/2017Buyer's offer $1,000,000.00Most recent quote $950.00

Hello there. I currently own the domain name PickAStrain.com. I see that you are also in the same business name as mine. I feel like we can merge together to build the ultimate website for the future of marijuana websites.

I told Matt accept the million, I dont want to team up with Norb Norb
Haven't heard back

Yes, I made an inquiry a year ago on a 21 letter .com guy wanted 15k for it
Pass, yet I still get messages from their brokers, last one was am i on vacation or something like that.
Yes, very aggressive

Out of the kindness of my heart, I will close negotiations on all inquiries, so the potential buyers don't get spammed with the same rude sales messages for perpetuity

Since their nameserver landers suck, I use their contact form forward lander
https://uniregistry.com/market/contact/DOMAINNAME.com

Had an inquiry and it goes to above link. However they say inquiry came from marketplace search?
Uni sucks, frank is fishing at your expense, the brokers can't price names and their control panel shows wrong or incomplete information.

Frank and i like to key on the same keyword, however a search of that keyword at uni, shows mine way down the list, Frank gets lots top spots.> Looking now, I only see someone else's premium marketplace names then extensions like .help .site .band .dentist
My names aren't even there. Thanks for that little bit of extra effort to make me as much money as you can


Better luck to you, I wouldn't use them as a registrar, and skeptical about their brokers and whether they know what reality is.

When I quote a price, I just the broker that commission is already included to leave the price as is. If a broker does his own thing I call Uniregistry and speak to someone in a higher position and I prevent further inquiries from going to that broker. They don’t normally do this, but if there’s a legit reason they will.

Anyway, I feel Uniregistry is a hard sell. They no longer review domains they put in their marketplace... but love asking high prices for any and everything. You almost feel weird pricing a domain for anything close to 1k.

And the worst part is that their brokers don’t have real conversations. They talk like robots... sending out the same messages. I don’t even know what their brokers are paid to do...

 

[wwwweb]

I saw this post quite a while back and never replied because I was working with Uniregistry. However, I am no longer working for them and therefore my opinions won't reflect that of the company.

How am I supposed to guess you live in BC. Think of that for a second... from my point of view. I dealt with many sellers as a broker when working day to day. I doubt you ever had a phone conversation or emailed me about the weather. I was showing you the Google link so if you are busy or perhaps did not live in BC, you would understand why and I know why I would advise pricing it higher.

Do you want brokers to price your names lower?
Do you want brokers to get less money for you?
Do you want brokers to do no research on your domain names and report trends or spikes in traffic or stories in the news, perhaps you would be unaware of it, let's say if you lived in BC?

I don't think so.

I have experience selling marijuana and weed related domain names, I brokered weedtv.com for $25,000 USD as I told you above and californiagrass.com for $5K, I also have brokered hundreds of other domain names totaling in the millions of dollars in sales. I used Namebio and other reported sales to advise and appraise domain names. Brokering domain names and working with people in this industry is my bread and butter and quite frankly you ate my lunch, by going to the buyer directly and offering even a lower amount to them is shooting yourself in the foot and against Uniregistry Terms and Conditions. I strongly suggest you reread them again or risk getting kicked off the platform for going around brokers.

Darryl,

Why did you leave Uniregistry, after all the departures you were one of the more senior brokers on staff behind Ben, and Brooke... given how hot the market is, and NameMedia’s portfolio, and continued investment in .com’s, wouldn’t it be a good time to stay, and broker some good sales.

 

[MasterOfMyDomains]

I saw this post quite a while back and never replied because I was working with Uniregistry. However, I am no longer working for them and therefore my opinions won't reflect that of the company.

How am I supposed to guess you live in BC. Think of that for a second... from my point of view. I dealt with many sellers as a broker when working day to day. I doubt you ever had a phone conversation or emailed me about the weather. I was showing you the Google link so if you are busy or perhaps did not live in BC, you would understand why and I know why I would advise pricing it higher.

Do you want brokers to price your names lower?
Do you want brokers to get less money for you?
Do you want brokers to do no research on your domain names and report trends or spikes in traffic or stories in the news, perhaps you would be unaware of it, let's say if you lived in BC?

I don't think so.

I have experience selling marijuana and weed related domain names, I brokered weedtv.com for $25,000 USD as I told you above and californiagrass.com for $5K, I also have brokered hundreds of other domain names totaling in the millions of dollars in sales. I used Namebio and other reported sales to advise and appraise domain names. Brokering domain names and working with people in this industry is my bread and butter and quite frankly you ate my lunch, by going to the buyer directly and offering even a lower amount to them is shooting yourself in the foot and against Uniregistry Terms and Conditions. I strongly suggest you reread them again or risk getting kicked off the platform for going around brokers.

It was a .ca I live in Canada. Wether I live in BC or Flin Flon, I was asked to quote a price. I quoted $1200
Think of that for a second..

Do you want brokers to price your names lower? I want the broker to quote the price i give him
Do you want brokers to get less money for you? Want the broker to make the sale
Do you want brokers to do no research on your domain names and report trends or spikes in traffic or stories in the news, perhaps you would be unaware of it, let's say if you lived in BC?
I know all about weed buddy, I sit in the clubs, I talk to users and end users, I smoke with them
Gonna miss the french guy, he made great hash. Said he dated an afghani girl and her parents taught him everything they new

To me 1200 bucks is a lot of money, think about that for a second, after the fact. Did you factor in I was into the name for 25$, my financial situation?
Damn happy to get $500 for it. I see it is still parked at sedo, I will do a few things and reveal name shortly.
Got a line on $5 .ca transfers, it's distracting me.
Gonna dump a load of canna .ca soon @Darryl Lopes cannashoppe cannaplaza cannadaddy cannamother suppose those are 3k names too? Not sure i would renew for a fin, got so many

Message from Darryl Lopes at Uniregistry.com:

I am trying to make us both the most amount of money.

 

[tonyk2000]

Uniregistry has a lot to optimize. Just to name a few things: (copying from another thread where @Jeffrey Gabriel was participating at some point of time, but no more)

- I can post a large "collection" of statements from various leads where the buyers explained to Uniregistry brokers that the Uni-originated emails are ending up in spam. Will Uniregistry do something? We are losing sales if the buyers do not receive anything back (or if they do not see a response).

- A lot of new brokers recently. Are they well trained? I had cases where new brokers asked the buyer to make an offer (without asking me anything), or sent an increased quote to the buyer (with or without asking me the seller to provide an actual price). Increased quotes should not happen (at least without asking the seller first).

- Payment plans. I was told once that they will be ready in Jan. this year. It is May now, and the payment plans are not yet available. I mean Uniregistry-powered plans, not escrow.com... Moreover, even though I unlinked escrow.com account from Uniregistry long time ago (as I stopped using escrowcom), Uniregistry bot is still sending automated followups explicitly offering payment plans - I see this in many leads. Should the buyer agree or show interest (and I had such cases), it is unclear how the brokers are supposed to act. In no case will I use escrow.com anymore, so... ?

- Bankwire payouts from Uniregistry do show Cayman Islands based sender. As a matter of fact, Cayman islands is one of suspicious jurisdictions from banking and regulatory points of view. I had to explain to my bank that Uniregistry is fine. Therefore, not all customers may find it comfortable to wire funds to Cayman-based beneficiary, and not all domainers may find it practical (or possible) to receive $$$ from Uni using bank transfers. Yes there are online payment methods for <$5K transactions and also paypal withdrawals, but still... Any chances to eliminate this specific issue? Yes I (personally) know that there is nothing wrong with Cayman Islands or Cayman-based businesses, but banks in other countries and regulatory authorities worldwide are of different opinion, and frequently. I worry that I may be unable to receive wire payouts from Caymans in a long run, so what options do I have? Paypal non-masspayment only? Aren't paypal transactions limited with $4K or $5K, and what the paypal fees would be?

- Parking config is outdated in aspects of categorization. I can still categorize Uni-parked domain as Usenet-Newsgroup related one (yes, I still remember from 199x what were usenet newsgroups), but there is no way to correctly categorize digital currency related domains. Or webhosting-related domains. Etc, etc, etc. Also, an opportunity to set custom fixed related links and multilingual sets of keywords would be greatly appreciated.

- "new" Uniregistry system is still in beta. Imho. I reported various bugs, including via my Uni account manager who promised to deliver the report to "Tech Dept Head" or something... Nothing was fixed.

- I am unsure what is the role of Uniregistry account managers. My account manager set bulk pricing initially, and explained some things about the interface I was unfamiliar with. With any future routine issues, he always opened a ticket on my behalf.

- Uniregistry account managers do not touch market-sales issues. Unfortunately. Is there a way to receive personalized support from somebody "above" brokers, if I have a marketplace-related issue?