Interesting Idea By Stephen Douglas At SuccessClick.com
Stephen Douglas over at SuccessClick.com has written a post asking for readers to comment or email him with their thoughts on what the biggest domain scandals have. Knowing Stephen I really think what he puts together around this could be very interesting.
We have had our fair share of scandal lately with the Snapnames/Halvarez/Nelson Brady fiasco but, as one commenter brought up, RegisterFly would be considered another pretty big scandal and some would even consider insider bidding on Tdnam auctions at Godaddy.com a bit of a scandal (although taken care of rather rapidly).
Here is the text of Stephens request:
Question: What scandals have occured in the last five years that you believe were the WORST scandals for our industry?
I welcome all comments, all problems you’ve encountered, whether they were resolved, and what your personal feelings were about the final outcome of the scandal/s you suggest. You can submit several problems you’ve encountered if you like. Tell us your story, and what kind of “impression” about the domain industry was left in your mind, with either a good or bad resolution.
I think this could be an interesting story, if anything just to see what peoples perceptions are of "big" when it comes to scandal. Head over to SuccessClick.com or contact Stephen.
I agree. It should be very interesting to see what shows up from Stephen’s survey. I’ve seen some shady things happen in Namejet auctions when I was the only bidder involved. I was able to resolve them only after drawing attention to it.
Network Solutions registering (front running) the domains searched by all its customers was a big one although rightly so they did remove it pretty quickly !
It was a good outcome on that one.
@ Nameclerk and Gazzip!
Go ahead and send me your thoughts at “successclick [at] gmaildotcom” I will add them to the list, although I’m getting some serious feedback on Namejet and NetSol at this point so you’re both tracking in a similar direction. What’s even more interesting are forgotten scandals from many years ago that are outrageous (when I see them again), and we seem to have either learned from them, or not. This is what I’m leaving up to my readers and submitters to determine with their opinions. It’s become an amazing variety of scandals of all types, but ironically, nothing you wouldn’t see from any other “investment community”. Very exciting to see the stories, keep them coming!
Thanks Bruce, for the alert on submissions.
No problem Stephen, I look forward to seeing what you put together:)
The biggest scandal so far is the inclusion of DomainGang.com to the Domaining.com newsfeed
How dare they! LOL
@Acro – You are sooooo right, how did they let that in!!!!!
DomainGang.com should be at the top of every Domaining.com newsfeed because we all need a good healthy laugh every day. The satire on DomainGang.com opens up some serious questions too.
Theo, back on topic, I’d like to hear from you one way or another regarding your opinion of the domain industry’s biggest scandals. Email me or post on my blog or here. Thanks bro.