Beware All Domainers!
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How naïve can a Newbie (like me) be! The following is what I learnt to my expense AND by direct experience.

Last month I registered a few interesting .com domains. This was my very first experience as a domainer. I believed those domains were linguistically “well designed” and because monetizing such domains was entirely new to me, I simply decided to put them up for a quick sale. I offered them on eBay as well as (innocently) on several forums, such as domainsocial.com, idomainsite.com and acorndomains.co.uk.

I immediately noticed that those forums had very promptly promoted my offer on the web under their own forum banner, thus promoting themselves in the first place. Ok.
I am still so ignorant and so unaware about the whole situation that I believed it was maybe (even if I thought that it was ‘overzealous” on their part) a good thing to advertise my sale offer in such fashion. WRONG!

A week later, and after further educating myself, I decided to Cash Park my domains instead of selling them. It’s only then that I realized my naïve mistake and how unethical and gruesome this whole business can be. In the first instance, by displaying my sale offer under their own banner, all these forums, including some small fry like ectio.com and freelawusa.com, had effectively “taken” and “occupied” the only web space originally available that Google would allow me to park my individual domains! Thus preventing me from ever making money by parking my well sponsored domains. Can this story get worse? Of course or it wouldn’t be worth a thread! Hold and behold, in the same lap of time I noticed that by entering in Google search 2 of my non-ever (but formerly on sale) parked domains, some unexpected “ghostly portals” suddenly appeared! Actually 4 different portals were displayed for my very 2 inactive domains.

Today, my domains are securely but uselessly parked. And when I traced back those
ghostly portals’ tracks from their original presence on the web, what I found instead was
2 forum banners still hanging: domainsocial and idomainsite.

Can this story get EVEN WORST? YES! Last night I tried several times to logon into domainsocial (from my Thailand IP of course) to post this thread but strangely enough I couldn’t even get access to the forum from Google search. A few moments later, no more than 10-20 seconds, my computer received a virus that entirely disabled my Windows OS! Coincidence? NO! Unbelievable? YES!

It goes without saying that ICANN has already been notified of such “tricky” manipulation with all verifiable details and track records to support my allegation.

I wonder now what Zach has to say now about all this?
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Messages In This Thread
Beware All Domainers! - by investica2008 - 08-01-2008, 05:53 AM
Beware All Domainers! - by zach - 08-01-2008, 11:51 PM
Beware All Domainers! - by investica2008 - 08-02-2008, 12:03 PM
Beware All Domainers! - by itssri - 08-06-2008, 10:47 AM
Beware All Domainers! - by investica2008 - 08-06-2008, 01:01 PM
Beware All Domainers! - by byallnames - 08-02-2008, 08:22 PM
Beware All Domainers! - by investica2008 - 08-03-2008, 06:24 AM
Beware All Domainers! - by byallnames - 08-03-2008, 09:43 PM

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