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<blockquote data-quote="fm1234" data-source="post: 2242210" data-attributes="member: 73699"><p>People said the same sort of thing about eBay and PayPal in the previous decade -- with every new restriction, every price increase, "Looks like eBay is ripe to be overtaken by competition." It didn't happen, because their lock on the "basic consumers" who don't give a rat's ass about policies that don't affect their day-to-day lives in any way at all are the bread and butter of those companies, not the sellers who whine endlessly about policies but can't sell 5% of their eBay volume on another platform. </p><p></p><p>In a similar vein, GoDaddy pretty well has a lock on the non-domainer domain market. They don't need domain investors anymore. People who clip coupons to register a truckload of domains that they will probably never renew even once are not good for business; people who register their stupid dog's name at retail then leave it on autorenew for four years before it occurs to them to cancel it are great for business. So GD is done courting the savvy domain buyers, because savvy domain buyers absolutely suck for business. </p><p></p><p>Switch to someone else, as long as you don't do a lot of end user sales -- in seven years of actively selling to non-domainers, nearly every single sale I've made of a domain that was not registered at GD I ended up paying to get it transferred to GD as part of the sale, because the end users mainly use GD. </p><p></p><p>If you're a developer, or mainly deal with other domainers and more savvy types, then you can survive without GoDaddy. Otherwise you're kind of locked in. </p><p></p><p></p><p>Frank</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="fm1234, post: 2242210, member: 73699"] People said the same sort of thing about eBay and PayPal in the previous decade -- with every new restriction, every price increase, "Looks like eBay is ripe to be overtaken by competition." It didn't happen, because their lock on the "basic consumers" who don't give a rat's ass about policies that don't affect their day-to-day lives in any way at all are the bread and butter of those companies, not the sellers who whine endlessly about policies but can't sell 5% of their eBay volume on another platform. In a similar vein, GoDaddy pretty well has a lock on the non-domainer domain market. They don't need domain investors anymore. People who clip coupons to register a truckload of domains that they will probably never renew even once are not good for business; people who register their stupid dog's name at retail then leave it on autorenew for four years before it occurs to them to cancel it are great for business. So GD is done courting the savvy domain buyers, because savvy domain buyers absolutely suck for business. Switch to someone else, as long as you don't do a lot of end user sales -- in seven years of actively selling to non-domainers, nearly every single sale I've made of a domain that was not registered at GD I ended up paying to get it transferred to GD as part of the sale, because the end users mainly use GD. If you're a developer, or mainly deal with other domainers and more savvy types, then you can survive without GoDaddy. Otherwise you're kind of locked in. Frank [/QUOTE]
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