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Originally posted by hiOsilver
Yaakov,
First of all, this is not about me.
It's not about anyone it's about the game.
Originally posted by hiOsilver
Yaakov,
First of all, this is not about me.
Originally posted by strongvis
"In any case, you are focusing on the wrong thing. Without WLS, most of the profit in the expiring domain business will end up with the registrars."
so who do you want to make the money??
The dollar talks ... no matter what you do a domain name will always end up in the hands of the person willing to pay the most.
oh yea and for once (ITS SCARY) I agree with Yakov.
Originally posted by _Yakov_
The problem is not in the system, the problem is in your willingness and your ability to compete. Imo
It's not about anyone it's about the game.
Originally posted by hiOsilver
Yakov, Your posts conflict with each other.
hiOsilver said:The money should be made by anyone willing to apply themselves. Not just the registrars who happen to have a franchise to register names. That includes me, and it includes most of the people at DNForum.
The question is not who ends up with the name. It is who makes the $ getting that name to the end user. Without WLS, most of that $ will be made by NW, Pool and their affiliated registrars.
Really? Brutal.Domainut said:Funny that Pool supposedly has all this money, yet I just recieved an affiliate check back that bounced all the way back from the bank.
mole said:It's getting extremely expensive to try to win auctions for good names. You should see the kind of max proxies people put on names - effectively you don't have a chance unless you have bags of money.
Between the devil and the deep blue sea, the deep blue sea is starting to look very tempting.
hiOsilver said:"will buy wls's for all the good names"
Hmm. So, is sex.com a good one? Let's look at sex.com:
Domain Name: SEX.COM
Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, INC.
Creation Date: 18-oct-1995
Expiration Date: 17-oct-2010
Would you pay for a WLS on this one? Perhaps you would. Do you think that BD is stupid enough to pay for a WLs on sex.com? I don't think so.
I picked an extreme example, but the reasoning applies equaly to each and every WLS:
Value of WLS on Name.com = function (N, P, E)
where N = value of Name.com
P = probability that the name will drop at the time of expiration
E = time until expiration.
In the case of sex.com, time until expiration is large and P = .0000000001. Even if the name is worth $20M, the WLS on it is nearly worthless.
Figuring which names to WLS and when will become the game. And, it is not a simple game. And, YOU CAN BE JUST AS GOOD AT IT AS BD OR ULT!!!!!!!!
In any case, without WLS, the direction that things are headed will transfer most of the profit from expiring domains to the registrars, especially those affiliated with NW, Pool, etc.
dvdrip said:I would like to have the WLS on sex.com even if it never drops!
It's cool to say you own the wls for sex.com and you can always dream!
hiOsilver said:The money should be made by anyone willing to apply themselves. Not just the registrars who happen to have a franchise to register names. That includes me, and it includes most of the people at DNForum.
The question is not who ends up with the name. It is who makes the $ getting that name to the end user. Without WLS, most of that $ will be made by NW, Pool and their affiliated registrars.
mole said:What is currently so scary about the auction system is you never know who is bidding against you and it could be a shill player who somehow knows your max bid and is just playing you up and up so you end up paying far more.
I'm not saying this is happening. But the doubt always lingers with non-transparent systems.
BD and Ult have hundreds of underpaid employees scouring for these domains up to 6 months in advance.
Steen said:I believe BD has 5-10 employees.