Chris.C
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OK so I have been having some naughty thoughts of late, you know the ones where you go "can you imagine if" and I thought I'd start a discussion about one of them..
So I was doing some research into some potential domains to hand reg the other day, and I often come across a lot of domains that I think are "decent", as in you could be confident they'd fetch between $50 and $100 on the expiry auctions but I don't think they are the sort of domains that are worth investing in from a domainers point of view (ie I feel if you are unlikely to be able to sell a domain for $500+ to a retail buyer it's rarely worth the $20 investment once you factor your time and risk etc)
But it got me thinking what's stopping NetFleet or Drop going around registering these "decent" yet marginal domains and then just deleting them so they expire and go to their expiry auctions where they can more than recoup their $20 reg fee?
Or better yet registers those typical trademark domains that everyone registers but eventually get them PDed for trademark infringement yet they still somehow get loads of bids on NF and Drop when they are expiring - seems like easy money for NF and Drop.
Or even better NF and Drop could pay domainers some sort of "fee" to and convince domainers to liquidate some of the more marginal domains from their portfolios rather than continuing to renew them.
I guess my point is with NF and Drop having a lot of incentive to get domains up on their expiry auctions why don't they don't "manufacture" environments where more domains end up on the expiry lists...
So I was doing some research into some potential domains to hand reg the other day, and I often come across a lot of domains that I think are "decent", as in you could be confident they'd fetch between $50 and $100 on the expiry auctions but I don't think they are the sort of domains that are worth investing in from a domainers point of view (ie I feel if you are unlikely to be able to sell a domain for $500+ to a retail buyer it's rarely worth the $20 investment once you factor your time and risk etc)
But it got me thinking what's stopping NetFleet or Drop going around registering these "decent" yet marginal domains and then just deleting them so they expire and go to their expiry auctions where they can more than recoup their $20 reg fee?
Or better yet registers those typical trademark domains that everyone registers but eventually get them PDed for trademark infringement yet they still somehow get loads of bids on NF and Drop when they are expiring - seems like easy money for NF and Drop.
Or even better NF and Drop could pay domainers some sort of "fee" to and convince domainers to liquidate some of the more marginal domains from their portfolios rather than continuing to renew them.
I guess my point is with NF and Drop having a lot of incentive to get domains up on their expiry auctions why don't they don't "manufacture" environments where more domains end up on the expiry lists...
