Originally posted by _Ronnie_
David
Thank you for your post. I do understand your cynicism about the service, and I'm sure that if I were in your position, I'd feel the same way - particularly because we are in the same business!
So to answer your question. All I can do is assure you that we operate on the highest possible business ethics. Sure, we do get bookings for the real top notch names that we failed to spot and as much as it pains us, we let customers book them at 29 quid. These include some 3-letter domains.
I'm sure you spend as much time as us scouring the domains market looking for the best names and as such have become pretty good at finding the best names first.
All I ask, David, is that you graciously accept that there are a number of players in our business, and when you lose out to someone else, that you don't berate their business. You have been getting some excellent names, and we do not take that from you.
Oh, just one final thing...blue.co.uk is registered to Name Magic. Name Magic are customers of detagged.co.uk - we didn't even get blue.co.uk for ourselves!
Kind Regards
Ronnie Davies
I've always been under the impression that you register names using one of a number of 'aliases' for some unknown reason. Whilst you don't have to justify your private business, perhaps you may see where I am getting this impression from. I'd like to reiterate that what I do isn't what you do; i.e. I don't offer a domain registration service to anyone but myself (unless I happen to sell a domain name, and then I make the customer aware of the Nominet T&Cs, and request that they ask me to retag the domain name). It's probably pointless to drag it out any further. If this is not the case, why not say so? Point out which names were secured for customers and which were secured for yourselves. There is no harm in catching for yourselves if you point this out clearly. Then nobody can question it. I've always found that transparency is the best policy. It's all you can do to defeat the cynics.
. Nominet would shoot us out of the sky if they thought we were using different names to 'double up'. In fact, the word on the street is they've rumbled one or two people who've acquired more than one tag and membership! There's obviously no need for any bad feeling and I think we all want to forget what was said in the past , and any bad feeling that may remain . We do operate on a strictly first-come first-served basis and will continue to do so.. On that note, do you operate a site that you advertise your domains for sale on David?.
Originally posted by _Ronnie_
On your comment about being in the same business, all I was referring to was the fact that we are going after the same names. That may precipitate bad feeling or the cynicism I mentioned, particularly when we lose a good name to each other!
One more thing - I am currently working on a user interface for the SnatchBack system. However, there are extra considerations, security and otherwise, that must be taken into account before implementing such a system. These things take a long time to develop, particularly when I spend most of my time studying to be a doctor!
As for your suggestion of putting the registrants' name on the site - I'll look into it. Since it's best practice to only advertise the better catches, most of them will be ours anyway
Okay it's the name of a town in Cornwall but it's not a great name. I've looked at your site too and you can keep the lot, thanks. :laugh:
Also, many of the domains for 3rd parties are not of interest to a potential customer - they're the sort that would have people on this forum rolling around on the floor laughing about .. I mean, if people knew about them then they may be tempted to pitch you an offer for them! I do understand that those who know that they want a domain will find it themselves, without the need to advertise - am only poking fun .. Oh, to have it in a database!
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