Cry Baby Domainers Locate Godaddys Warehouse
December 5, 8 Comments
To the left is a secret photo taken inside a leading domainers office. The photo was taken after a recent blog post which alleged that GoDaddy is warehousing domains.
If you look at clause 9 in the ICANN Registrar Agreement it states “Registrar shall abide by any ICANN-adopted policy prohibiting or restricting warehousing of or speculation in domain names by registrars.” As ICANN does not have any adopted policies in this regard, it can’t actually enforce anything.
So, welcome to the world of commercial reality where companies set up subsidiaries to hold their assets. In the case of Godaddy, its been alleged that Standard Tactics LLC performs this activity.
DomainerIncome has recently learned that a rogue group of blonde domainers is heading down to New Mexico to find the actual warehouse belonging to Standard Tactics LLC. Best of luck with the trip.
Hilarious post. I almost spit up my coffee when I saw that photo.
Completely agree.
Doesn’t bother me personally — if I let a domain drop, it’s because I no longer want it. Godaddy is more than reasonable giving you plenty of time after expiration to renew your domain if you actually wanted to keep it.
Besides, we all know anything half decent would end up on Snap/Pool/NameJet anyway, so what’s all the whining about?
Wow….I’m sorry you don’t see the unethical side to this. conflict of interet, etc… but really your post really just seems like flame bait for upset domainers.
The photo is hilarious, though. I’m not sure where/how you got/made it. It’s cool.
@ Johnny: The photo gave me a good laugh
Honestly, with how little ethics exist with most of the domaining companies in this industry, maybe some of us are just immune to really caring about stuff like this anymore.
In comparison to domain sniffing or shill bidding, is this really such a big deal?
Where did you get that picture? It is hilarious!
Very classy post.
I’ve never heard of you or your company in any domain circle before (other than seeing this blog on Domaining.com), however, I know Andrew to be one of the most respected members of the domainer community. Clearly this is an important issue to many (posted in Tech Crunch/Washington Post yesterday). Godaddy takes the moral high road about kiting, yet Andrew found many trademark registrations owned by this Godaddy company.
I don’t see the point of your post, as it just makes you look bad.
Troll, link-baiting, whatever you want to call it. I’m not impressed in the least.
And we wonder how domainers got themselves in the position where we are abused daily by registrars, drop service, and auction houses.