Warning against a member...

[Coral Cove]

I strongly urge any of you going into business with Dejan Lesicar (NamePros member @venturefile.com and owner of sites like sexydress.us) to be very cautious. He is about to cost our company Brandroot a lot of stress and money as we pursue serious legal action against him.

In short the details are as follows:

4/08/2014 - Dejan creates a Brandroot account
5/09/2014 - Wuvo.com is accepted and listed for sale at a price of $6750
09/29/2014 - Dejan requests that Wuvo.com be removed from Brandroot because "The name was accepted to an auction event."
10/14/2014 - Brandroot receives a $3,000 offer for wuvo.com
10/14/2104 - Dejan rejects and reminds us that he removed his name

We then remind him of his contractual obligation of keeping Wuvo exclusive to Brandroot for a period of 30 days following the request of removal.

10/15/2014 - In the interested buyer impatience he raises his offer to $4500.

Dejan is intrigued and writes, "Thank you for the update. That is a decent offer and I will seriously consider it." For several days Dejan is unresponsive, ignoring several of our emails.

10/22/2014 - In a matter of minutes of informing Dejan that he is no longer welcome to sell at Brandroot and that Wuvo.com will be removed, Wuvo.com sells at full price for $6750.

10/22/214 - Dejan decides that he does not want to sell Wuvo at Brandroot and that my email stating that his name was removed ended his contractual obligation with Brandroot (which the email in no way stated).

Our financial loss due to Dejan's unprofessionalism is not the concern. Brandroot is now left with one very unhappy customer threatening us with litigation. We have informed Dejan that we will stop at nothing, "making this venture of [his] a lot more expensive and stressful than [he] thought possible."

You've been warned. Dejan Lesicar is very capable of leaving you in one sticky situation if you enter into business with him.

 

[McDuke]

I think Pluto is lucky it wasnt Mr Neely's domain name involved.

It's nice seeing the whole gang here.

 

[DU]

Having a waiting period will prevent the assholes from being assholes.

or bumholes or jacksies or bumholes....

I think changing usernames should be allowed ; however, they should be allowed to change back.

DU is too short!

 

[DU]

Brand awareness.

So don't list names with Pluto?

 

[DnEbook]

Why not Pluto? I am appalled at your insensitivity towards a celestial body which had its pride of place in the Zodiac and was since mercilessly demoted to something lesser....lol

Maybe that is a cryptic clue ?

 

[DnEbook]

or bumholes or jacksies or bumholes....

.... or Nancys

 

[Kate]

Is it Nancys or Nancies ? This is important from a branding POV.

 

[domainventure]

Is it Nancys or Nancies ? This is important from a branding POV.

Let's run it by the internet name calling convention.

 

[carob]

Just noticed this banner at the top of every page on NP today:

Free username change: Learn more

and the link there goes to this page
https://www.namepros.com/threads/username-changes.827092/
which says:

If you want to change your username, you may purchase a self-service username change in the NP$ Store, or Upgrade to a Business Membership to get 1 complementary username change along with all the perks of being a business member.

Is NP keen to promote username changes? Why?

This is a long thread but I don't see any comments from NP here about any lessons they have learned from this situation, or any planned improvements.

 

[hookbox]

Just noticed this banner at the top of every page on NP today:


and the link there goes to this page
https://www.namepros.com/threads/username-changes.827092/
which says:



Is NP keen to promote username changes? Why?

This is a long thread but I don't see any comments from NP here about any lessons they have learned from this situation, or any planned improvements.

That is just a hook to reel you in and hopefully sell you on a paid membership.

 

[DU]

That is just a hook to reel you in and hopefully sell you on a paid membership.

Yes and no.

The free username changes relates to you changing your user profile from Hookbox to Real Name.
I understand the many benefits of this - and most people here you can figure out their real name anyway - but its not much of an incentive.

Especially if people can come on the forum and bash your character

 

[hookbox]

Yes and no.

The free username changes relates to you changing your user profile from Hookbox to Real Name.
I understand the many benefits of this - and most people here you can figure out their real name anyway - but its not much of an incentive.

Especially if people can come on the forum and bash your character

What I meant is the banner is a way of good users to click the link and then once you do this they give you the option to upgrade your membership to a paid membership. It is a marketing ploy and nothing more.

 

[Paul]

Just noticed this banner at the top of every page on NP today:


and the link there goes to this page
https://www.namepros.com/threads/username-changes.827092/
which says:



Is NP keen to promote username changes? Why?

This is a long thread but I don't see any comments from NP here about any lessons they have learned from this situation, or any planned improvements.

@carob, as I'm sure you can imagine, this thread puts us in a tricky situation. On one hand, we don't want our members launching personal attacks against each other. However, we also don't want to censor such significant discussion. While we would normally object to many of the posts in this thread, given the context, we've been pretty lenient with regard to moderation.

That's not to say we've been ignoring the thread, however. We've introduced some internal policies and increased some restrictions based on conflicts that arose here. For example, we've significantly decreased the timespan in which a post can be edited after the initial posting. We've also discussed being less permissive of thread moves in certain cases.

The username change banner that you've noticed has actually been around (off and on) for a while now--several months, I believe. The goal is to encourage accountability and professionalism. Naturally, this doesn't solve all problems, but we're hoping it will help with some basic communication problems that can arise while conducting business online.

 

[DnEbook]

regardless of name changes, it has been an eye opener for many i 'm sure, so good to know the bulk of it remains intact

 

[MasterOfMyDomains]

Name change Pornstar???

Yes and no.

The free username changes relates to you changing your user profile from Hookbox to Real Name.
I understand the many benefits of this - and most people here you can figure out their real name anyway - but its not much of an incentive.

Especially if people can come on the forum and bash your character

 

[DU]

Name change Pornstar???

I was in fear that my reputation had been tied to the awful and terrible person that was the lolly avatar. I felt I had no option as that industry is so hard to escape.

 

[MasterOfMyDomains]

Oh
Ok
All the best

 

[DnEbook]

You can't go wrong with the classics !

 

[MasterOfMyDomains]

It is a good name

 

[Name Trader]

Are any of Pluto's previous incarnations available for a name change at NP, or are they blocked from future use?

 

[Domainzy]

Its amazing how i can be doing one thing, when i search for a thread, only to find this thread.... 14 long pages later.... wow I can't remember what i was searching for in the first place!

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