Stocdoctor said:
Red Hawk Welcome. Good to see you here.
Can you address a few questions that a number of members here have been asking?
1. Does Fabulous run checks on the domains owned by it's customers looking at traffic stats, and use that information to make it's own reg decisions, thereby creating competition for certain keywords or keyword strings with it's own customer's domains?
2. In running those checks above, does Fabulous than reg duplicates of domains owned by it's customers in other available extensions/ For example, if the customer owns boothillsaloon.net and the .com or the .info is available, does Fabulous then reg the .com or an .info etc., thereby taking a reg away from a possible future purchase by the customer?
3. Does Fabulous run these bulk reg and delete programs to test traffic prior to incurring any actual cost in registration?
4. Is Fabulous regging thousands of .infos at no or very cheap costs for it's own accounts, using the registrar advantage combined with the new Afilias discount program?
By the way, I'm a wholesale customer of yours and was deciding whether to add several thousand more domains to your 4.0 program, based on a couple of the answers above.
Doc
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1. Does Fabulous run checks on the domains owned by it's customers looking at traffic stats, and use that information to make it's own reg decisions, thereby creating competition for certain keywords or keyword strings with it's own customer's domains?
No, why would we? We have access to the root zone file, 4 years of extensive market intelligence, and the world's greatest research tools. We know every registration performed every day, what domina phrase the registration was created from, if the domain phrase is a bided phrase and how many people search on the domain phrase through search engines. There is no data available to us that isn't already available to everyone who has a copy of the root zone file. Another place to look is dailychanges.com.
In fact this is usually the opposite for us. We tend to be pioneers in this space and other companies deconstruct our registration techniques and try to copy them. This has led us to do most of the research and then buy everything we want over just a couple of days to prevent post analysis competition.
>>>2. In running those checks above, does Fabulous than reg duplicates of domains owned by it's customers in other available extensions/ For example, if the customer owns boothillsaloon.net and the .com or the .info is available, does Fabulous then reg the .com or an .info etc., thereby taking a reg away from a possible future purchase by the customer?
Dot Com's Rule! We register hardly any other extensions other than .com's. Our domain purchases are traffic focused. If you want to copy our domain buys by changing the extension then be my guest, but don't expect any traffic.
>>>3. Does Fabulous run these bulk reg and delete programs to test traffic prior to incurring any actual cost in registration?
We realize that other registrars do this, but we are a public company and prefer to take the higher road. Unless Verisign changes its terms and conditions on this for registrars its very unlikely we would do this unless its used as it should be. This functionality is intended to reduce credit fraud.
>>>4. Is Fabulous regging thousands of .infos at no or very cheap costs for it's own accounts, using the registrar advantage combined with the new Afilias discount program?
In my opinion most extensions other than .com domains have very little traffic and therefore very little use to us. I don't think we own a single .info. Once again .com's rule!
Always expect an honest answer from me. I don't like people who intentionally misinform the market.
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