Wall Street Journal - "Drop Catchers" Article

[DaddyHalbucks]

Don't mean to ruin the party here, but reposting an entire story like this is copyright infringement. I know it sucks that WSJ makes you pay to read online, but it is a business.

DNFers are branching out.

The cybersquatters started with trademark infringement, now they may be branching out into copyright infringement.

Someday, when they get really sophisticated, perhaps they will graduate to patent infringement.

 

[RatherGood]

99% of the RE agents I've dealt with will screw anyone out of every penny they can and call it "making a living". I don't see why domainers can't do the same.

Hopefully the new owner sees the story and ups the price to $25,000.

 

[DomainFatigue]

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[David G]

99% of the RE agents I've dealt with will screw anyone out of every penny they can and call it "making a living". I don't see why domainers can't do the same. Hopefully the new owner sees the story and ups the price to $25,000.

Actually Realtors are an extremely honest group. Their backgrounds are checked by the states and they are non-licensed if they have felonies, even a DUI can stop a licensee from working.

They do not screw people but some think because the commissions are so high and often they earn tens of thousands of $ with little or no real work involved they are 'screwing' you. That is incorrect. The impression is 99% due to the way commission is structured and it being not based on actual work done as in other occupations where you are paid for work performed.

 

[FineE]

Don't mean to ruin the party here, but reposting an entire story like this is copyright infringement. I know it sucks that WSJ makes you pay to read online, but it is a business.

Where is the copyright infringement here? What was posted here was a link the redirects to the WSJ. The article is actually on the WSJ servers not copied somewhere else.

As for the point of the article. There is an important lesson here

Never host a domain with the same company it was registered through.

This goes against what many in the industry are promoting, which is why I am not so quick to blame the person who lost the domain, but it will save at lot of grief for the registrant in the long term.

 

[daniel]

Hi - We orginally posted the entire story in the forum. After speaking with the articles editor David Kesmodel, he provided me with a link to the article. Since we were quoted in the story, we though it would be fine to post it, however he suggested providing the forum with the link to the story. I have
since edited the post and replaced it with a link.

 

[RatherGood]

Never host a domain with the same company it was registered through.

This goes against what many in the industry are promoting, which is why I am not so quick to blame the person who lost the domain, but it will save at lot of grief for the registrant in the long term.

Makes me wonder how many renewal notices are being spam filtered by ISPs without registrants even knowing.

Especially in the case of GoDaddy since they are so keen on sending out "savings" every day once they get their hands on an email address.

 

[namewaiter]

I am a REALTOR, and at my office, we generally receive 3% of the sales price, as either the listing agent or the buyers agent. Of the 3%, my broker receives 36%

$200,000 | 3% = $6000
My commission would only be $3840

In addition to the above fee, there are alot of other expenses; Realtor fees, office fees, signs, marketing, gas, copies, etc... Color copies at my office are .20 each, and are even more expensive at Staples, Office Max, Kinkos, etc. It's very expensive.

I'm a licensed Realtor also, and I must say .. you get a nice split, on the same deal I would only get @ $2700 here in OHIO

Trader ... get yourself a real estate license, drive around a potential buyer for weeks on end, when they buy a house 2 months later tell me you don't deserve the $2700. You make it sound soooo easy .. really wish it was!

 

[Ovicide]

Hopefully the new owner sees the story and ups the price to $25,000.

Yes, he's certainly done a good deed.

The name is pointed at PPC:
oak-lawn-real-estate.com

Feel free to check it out.

 

[FineE]

Makes me wonder how many renewal notices are being spam filtered by ISPs without registrants even knowing.

Especially in the case of GoDaddy since they are so keen on sending out "savings" every day once they get their hands on an email address.

Two very valid points.

Call me paranoid but I suggest using one's own domain for email. Host with a company that gives the user complete control over spam filtering. Trusting a large consumer oriented ISP or a free service with important email is just asking for trouble.

Some of my favorite examples are when AOL blocked email from an Ivy League University advising prospective students that they had gained admission or when hotmail went down because Microsoft forgot to renew the domain, and let us not forget the bankruptcy of @home.

As for registrars that trigger spam filters with their marketing dribble it is simple to change to one that does not, and there is no disruption whatsoever of the websites involved.