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DomainEscrows.com
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What would you appraise it at?

 

If I had it I'd be asking $5k-$10k end user.

There seems to be a pretty big gap in the market for a *good* specialist domain escrow service and its the best domain for that application imo.

 

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Thanks for the appraisel safesys.

 

[domaingator]

safesys is wrong again. escrow.com handles domain escrow services and performs the function very well. domainescrow.com might be good, but the plural is senseless. Recommend non renewal on both domains.

 

escrow have increased their rates substantially and have a very poor system when it comes to domain transactions (like their not requesting the whois details they want from the buyer for example). I use escrow.com for many of my transactions these days, but good competition that is domain specific would be useful.

I see your point re the plural, but a search on google shows lots of companies using the plural (including the likes of wells fargo).

 

[DnPowerful]

Just a quick note about escrow.com. Safesys and I have talked about escrow.com's substantial rate increase, and yes, their system is not very elegant for domains, however, I have received absolutely spectacular customer service as of late from escrow.com. I mean, instant phone service on any issue I have. They are also being extra vigilant on transfers now, and are much more savvy about how one buyer can screw another (via opensrs sub-users, etc). For me, the money is worth it when you need rock solid service.

I had, for example, in the last two weeks, the most challenging escrow process I've ever had. A loophole in a particular registrar made it so the buyer tried to claim he didn't take possession, and then demanded his money back, and escrow had the whole thing beautifully double-jeopardied so he couldn't pull it off. A year ago, I know for a fact that they simply didn't know enough about domains to have done so. Additionally, they phoned both parties every step of the way to keep us up-to-date.

That said, I run a massive amount of cash through escrow, and get service probably not reserved for smaller fry. I hope I'm wrong, but suspect not.

I personally think domainescrows.com is next to useless as a name.

 

I used escrow.com a few times and I was always surprised how low the fees used to be considering the amount of work they used do. For example a $1000 transaction they used to charge around $40-50 for credit card payments, and thats including merchant fees. Doesn't leave much profit when your mailing checks overseas and asking for people to confirm payment arrangements via email, rather than through more automated processes.

 

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I guess thats why they put their prices up snoop.

I too have had good service from them overall, but thats because I check things like the admin email address in the whois being identical to the email address the escrow account is created in. Some of my friends havn't been so lucky and have had problems due to discrepencies like that.

Having said that, escrow.com did pull back a wire transfer for $20k on me - which is not the best thing in the world to happen. They had overpaid us by $1k and we had already wired back the additional $1k (as per their request) - but they pulled the wire anyway. Tense times, but it all came good in the wash and they were on the ball communicationwise the whole time.

Given other peoples reactions to this domain name I'm beginning to feel i'm in the minority in liking it.