06-25-2008, 08:03 PM
I am a 74 year old newbie, and will appreciate any help I'm offered, I'll promise to stay out of the way of you younger members (anyone under 60) and try real hard, not to be to obnoxious.
I invested several dollars in Zacks book, and several hours going through the site; I would like to thank, and congratulate him on a job exceedingly well done. The site is very well constructed and responsive, even with dialup.
The following letter, snail mailed to Why Park, LLC Willoughby, OH 44094 USA, to which I was not extended the courtesy of a reply, will serve as both my introduction, and as an opinion thread.
"Hello, my name is Wendall Dennis, though your site is very informative, before I, a 74 years old, stroke impaired man commits, an exchange of information is in order. After reading this letter, you will understand my reluctance.
Shortly before my stroke in June 2004, I had become a URL re-seller through Enom in Bellevue Washington. I, a carpenter, knew nothing about the business, other than the obvious, you canât sell something that you donât have, thus I began creating an inventory, and was soon the proud owner of several hundred names.
The stroke temporarily addled my thinking, while taking my equilibrium and income, thus any means of financing a sales campaign. Though I have managed to maintain about seventy names, most have expired.
My business model has since changed from sales, to the creation of a category registry, and URL rental around the term âAttention,â as in: attentionseniors.com. To this end I have registered both attentiongrabbingurls.com and attentiongrabbingdomains.com Your link was listed, under one of my names.
When I began gathering âAttentionâ names, the category was wide open, and almost any name was available. That soon changed, and within a few days, almost any .com name, with any possible value was no longer available. I soon learned, that if you were not ready to immediately register the name, you had better not inquire as to its availability.
Initially, any person indexing an out of service name parked with Enom, was greeted with a âwho isâ page, furnishing contact information to potential buyers. I had no idea that the policy had changed until a few weeks ago, when, upon indexing one of my names, I was greeted with the current âsystem.â
The reality that my âideaâ was already being implemented by the registrars themselves; registrars with no incentive to aid in the sale of names on their pay per click registry, regardless of who owned them, was a very rude awakening, from an apparently very sound sleep.
Enomâs hosting service allowed up to fifty names to be directed toward one site, by simply creating multiple host headers. It looked like a terrific opportunity to build multiple promotional sites employing my parked names; so, several months ago I bought into it.
Thus began six weeks of constant e-mail consultations with their âtechniciansâ in an attempt to make the system work. Though I had used real time site editing, it wasnât available. Although MS Frontpage, my site builder was supposed to be supported, it wasnât. In addition, it seems my ftp program, and their system wasnât compatible; after trying two of their suggested programs, with mixed results, I gave up.
This last weekend, I traveled from Lewiston Idaho, to meet with their technicians, and perhaps find out what I was doing wrong. When a search of the Seattle area phone directory, both white and yellow pages, revealed no listing for Enom, I was floored. This is a registrar, claiming over ten million registrations, and boasting of being the number one registrar world wide, five years running.
Knowing that their website contained both their address and driving instruction from SeaTac airport, I went to Circuit City and had them open the enom.com site. The address, and driving instructions, finally led to a building in a business park with no signs announcing their presence, either inside or out.
Their âoffice staffâ apparently consisted of a receptionist, or, more correctly, a human telephone answering service and message re-router.
Upon being informed of my desire to talk personally with Mike, the technicians with whom I had been dealing, I was told that they worked offsite, and was handed a business card bearing a Seattle phone number, but no address. Just as well; I am familiar enough with Seattle to know that I didnât care to be anywhere near the vicinity, anywhere near 4:00, on a Friday afternoon.
Enom, now headquartered in Illinois, apparently maintains their Northwest office as a charade, with no desire to be found. But Why?
And now my questions of you.
I understand the process of switching the DNS servers, however, does this transfer my registration from Enom to your company? Are you ICANN certified? If not, who is your registrar, and how much is the annual registration fee.
In your opinion, is my planned attempt at establishing an Attention based registry and rental feasible: If so, is it compatible with your business model?
A partial list of my inventory my be viewed at http://www.4ourvote.net Your opinion of it: my plan, or anything pertaining to the industry as a whole, will be greatly appreciated. Thank you: "
Wendall Dennis
29734 Martin Rd.
Culdesac Idaho 83524
208 843 9170
I invested several dollars in Zacks book, and several hours going through the site; I would like to thank, and congratulate him on a job exceedingly well done. The site is very well constructed and responsive, even with dialup.
The following letter, snail mailed to Why Park, LLC Willoughby, OH 44094 USA, to which I was not extended the courtesy of a reply, will serve as both my introduction, and as an opinion thread.
"Hello, my name is Wendall Dennis, though your site is very informative, before I, a 74 years old, stroke impaired man commits, an exchange of information is in order. After reading this letter, you will understand my reluctance.
Shortly before my stroke in June 2004, I had become a URL re-seller through Enom in Bellevue Washington. I, a carpenter, knew nothing about the business, other than the obvious, you canât sell something that you donât have, thus I began creating an inventory, and was soon the proud owner of several hundred names.
The stroke temporarily addled my thinking, while taking my equilibrium and income, thus any means of financing a sales campaign. Though I have managed to maintain about seventy names, most have expired.
My business model has since changed from sales, to the creation of a category registry, and URL rental around the term âAttention,â as in: attentionseniors.com. To this end I have registered both attentiongrabbingurls.com and attentiongrabbingdomains.com Your link was listed, under one of my names.
When I began gathering âAttentionâ names, the category was wide open, and almost any name was available. That soon changed, and within a few days, almost any .com name, with any possible value was no longer available. I soon learned, that if you were not ready to immediately register the name, you had better not inquire as to its availability.
Initially, any person indexing an out of service name parked with Enom, was greeted with a âwho isâ page, furnishing contact information to potential buyers. I had no idea that the policy had changed until a few weeks ago, when, upon indexing one of my names, I was greeted with the current âsystem.â
The reality that my âideaâ was already being implemented by the registrars themselves; registrars with no incentive to aid in the sale of names on their pay per click registry, regardless of who owned them, was a very rude awakening, from an apparently very sound sleep.
Enomâs hosting service allowed up to fifty names to be directed toward one site, by simply creating multiple host headers. It looked like a terrific opportunity to build multiple promotional sites employing my parked names; so, several months ago I bought into it.
Thus began six weeks of constant e-mail consultations with their âtechniciansâ in an attempt to make the system work. Though I had used real time site editing, it wasnât available. Although MS Frontpage, my site builder was supposed to be supported, it wasnât. In addition, it seems my ftp program, and their system wasnât compatible; after trying two of their suggested programs, with mixed results, I gave up.
This last weekend, I traveled from Lewiston Idaho, to meet with their technicians, and perhaps find out what I was doing wrong. When a search of the Seattle area phone directory, both white and yellow pages, revealed no listing for Enom, I was floored. This is a registrar, claiming over ten million registrations, and boasting of being the number one registrar world wide, five years running.
Knowing that their website contained both their address and driving instruction from SeaTac airport, I went to Circuit City and had them open the enom.com site. The address, and driving instructions, finally led to a building in a business park with no signs announcing their presence, either inside or out.
Their âoffice staffâ apparently consisted of a receptionist, or, more correctly, a human telephone answering service and message re-router.
Upon being informed of my desire to talk personally with Mike, the technicians with whom I had been dealing, I was told that they worked offsite, and was handed a business card bearing a Seattle phone number, but no address. Just as well; I am familiar enough with Seattle to know that I didnât care to be anywhere near the vicinity, anywhere near 4:00, on a Friday afternoon.
Enom, now headquartered in Illinois, apparently maintains their Northwest office as a charade, with no desire to be found. But Why?
And now my questions of you.
I understand the process of switching the DNS servers, however, does this transfer my registration from Enom to your company? Are you ICANN certified? If not, who is your registrar, and how much is the annual registration fee.
In your opinion, is my planned attempt at establishing an Attention based registry and rental feasible: If so, is it compatible with your business model?
A partial list of my inventory my be viewed at http://www.4ourvote.net Your opinion of it: my plan, or anything pertaining to the industry as a whole, will be greatly appreciated. Thank you: "
Wendall Dennis
29734 Martin Rd.
Culdesac Idaho 83524
208 843 9170
Thanks Zack for the warm reception to your forum site. And Again! A Job Well Done!