For Sale Will WLS result in increased values? YES!

[David G]

I feel WLS should increase resale values significantly as instead of the insane drop game, buyers will contact the owners direct, increasing values and resulting in many sales. Do you agree?

Why let NW and Pool get all that money - when the owners can get it? This is one reason I always supported WLS strongly.

A tip I can give is that if you worry about someone taking out a WLS on your name (and do not want to spend the money yourself on a wls), simply renew it for 10-yrs., that should stop them from grabbing the slot.

On a side note, I am leaving the forums for 4-mos or so, until years-end (will not even read posts - too much time spent here!). That's because I need lots of time and energy to devote to more development of my domains and improvements to my many partially developed ones.

Thanks everyone for all your knowledge and friendship, and to the sellers for some good deals on names purchased at the forums. When I return it will be interesting to see how everything worked-out, including WLS and Exclusive Memberships (also competition between the 3 major forums), and I am sure I will be back in the market as a buyer at that time, hopefully with more money too. :-D Thanks again and Good Luck.

 

[clemzonguy]

A tip I can give is that if you worry about someone taking out a WLS on your name (and do not want to spend the money yourself on a wls), simply renew it for 10-yrs., that should stop them from grabbing the slot.

Actually I would think it a better idea to be late on renewing or just simple renew on a yearly basis and watch the person keep wasting their money year after year. If they see it's renewed for 10 yrs they won't renew the WLS again. Why not jerk their chain as long as possible if they are dumb enough to do that.

 

[Ed30]

Yes - it will increase the value of your portfolio, but it would increase anyway over time (if you have decent names).

Have a productive break RealNames.

 

[Duke]

Originally posted by RealNames
On a side note, I am leaving the forums for 4-mos or so, until years-end (will not even read posts - too much time spent here!). That's because I need lots of time and energy to devote to more development of my domains and improvements to my many partially developed ones. I am sure I will be back in the market as a buyer at that time, hopefully with more money too. :-D Thanks again and Good Luck.

Sounds like a smart move Dave - I'm sure you'll make good use of the time. See you in 2004!

 

[clemzonguy]

break = missed opportunities d

 

[Duke]

Originally posted by clemzonguy
break = missed opportunities d

So does no break! I am missing a lot of development opportunities by spending my entire day on name pursuit (which is getting less fruitful with all of the drop services moving to much more expensive models). I have been thinking along the same lines Dave has. Dont plan to completely leave, but I have to make more time to develop and build value into names I already have.

 

[URLtrader]

Originally posted by clemzonguy


Actually I would think it a better idea to be late on renewing or just simple renew on a yearly basis and watch the person keep wasting their money year after year. If they see it's renewed for 10 yrs they won't renew the WLS again. Why not jerk their chain as long as possible if they are dumb enough to do that.

That is right. And I plan to do it. :-D

 

[elequa]

Agree, I am concentrating more on development now. I think i grabbed enough names for this summer.
With WLS I think it will put a balance towards domainers, domain distribution and increase domain value... as for today the only way that works is what I do.... Simply Vacuum Everything Around You... which results in 80% success rate. Again, WLS will make us all behave and the precise will win which is fair.

 

[Nexus]

Originally posted by Duke
Dont plan to completely leave, but I have to make more time to develop and build value into names I already have.

Amen, three cheers for actual development! Kind of thing that Internet's are made of... Now, ifn' I had me some minions, I wouldn't be stretched so thin...

~ Nexus

 

[Deleted member 4749]

Now 2letter domains will never drop, altho they were dropping at a rate of 1 domain per year. Also, cool names will never drop since many catchers will be renewing them.

BuyDomains also expressed an interesting idea:


''Observers say it's "absurd" or "insane" for resellers to pay these prices and surprisingly Mann does not disagree. “We actually think there is no longer any profit to be found buying new domains. We are hoping our aggressive tact will encourage more people to drop out of the market, allowing us and our customers a margin again from new acquisitions.” Before you dismiss this as sheer lunacy, keep in mind that Microsoft took the entire browser market away from Netscape by giving their product away.''

Would it mean that they will be renewing dropping domains that they don't have WLS on to "encourage more people to drop out of the market" ?

NetSol aint stupid, the option than allows anyone to renew any name will be removed if it will harm wls.

In any way, flexibility is all it takes.

 

[actnow]

I know it has been mentioned many times that people in the future might renew domains they don't own just to screw up the WLS.

I wonder if that is legal under U.S. law. You are making a binding commitment for someone to own something they might not want to own anymore.

 

[dvdrip]

It sure doesn't sound legal!

 

[clemzonguy]

NetSol aint stupid, the option than allows anyone to renew any name will be removed if it will harm wls.

Hopefully this will be revoked very soon as it would greatly help my strategy. :-D

 

[Duke]

Originally posted by dvdrip
It sure doesn't sound legal!

Well let's test it out. You guys go ahead and renew all of my domains for me for ten years in advance then see I if sue you for doing it! :-D

 

[Nexus]

Originally posted by Coordinator Inc
NetSol aint stupid, the option than allows anyone to renew any name will be removed if it will harm wls.

I'd hope so, but there's no doubt its already been happening, and as with any beauracracy, I don't think Verisign's "smarts" would have much to do with them taking that down. The "no sign in" renewal form is no doubt a standard entrenched part of Network Solution's business operation. Many customers don't care if they can "log in" as long as they can renew and keep their services going. I predict it will be a rather unfortunately "hole" in the system for the duration. Oh, well.

~ Nexus

 

[mole]

Originally posted by Nexus
Many customers don't care if they can "log in" as long as they can renew and keep their services going.

I agree. I remember that in the old days pre 2000, I could never remember what the hell my Netsol account login was. To get to those names, I just transfered them out. My admin email was working, that's what mattered.