Quote Originally Posted by VirtualT View Post
large registrars like enom don't give a flying fart about what domainers think, and we are too fractured to have any real voice anyhow
(Edited the quote). I tend to agree, in today's economy, especially in the USA, most corporations seem to care about the little guy more as they grow larger. Sure, there are a few exceptions but overall they just want to pull in millions / billions of dollars for their executives to hoard.

And yes, domainers are too fractured. Sure, we have communities like this one where a few dozen domainers, maybe even a couple hundred, might band together but in the big picture it is still small beans unless you get some very big names involved.

Quote Originally Posted by accent View Post
If this is true then in a few years Enom will control a large portion of the .com market (assuming they stick to .com) and can push prices of modest domains very high. And I doubt that they will be the only ones doing this.
What I've noticed is that a lot of the drop-catch services (Enom and Pool come to mind) purchase many names then sell them on "5 day auctions" where the price lowers as time goes by. IMO - are they abusing the 5 day rule? I am willing to bet if you checked the lowest priced domain 2 days after it goes off the "lower auction" block it will be available to register.