11-30-2006, 10:15 PM
Its not about what they want in their site. I was a member for years and myself and others are disgusted at the way the did this. I have removed all my names from them and a lot of other domainers have too.
The reason is they are taking perfectly good names and categories and deleting all that have any notion of the not accepted terms. For instance my popebendeictxv1.org was listed as not acceptable. I assume because it has dick or maybe ope in the the name and the system sees it as porn or dope. Thousands of names like that are not acceptable.
People who own names like gayforum are deleted. Many people are contacting gay rights groups as it is clearly slamming those folks.
NO folks unless you have been in the middle of it you have no idea how communistic their approach has been. They say things like poker is not a good image for the domain industry, hah.. The biggest players on wall st are gambling casinos like ballys, harrahs, sands, etc.
Almost every state in the united states allows gambling in one form or another.
We don't need industry leaders who self proclaim rightousness by saying owners of perfectly legal names and terms are promoting hate and violence. That is done to look good for the new owners who just bought Afternic. Shame on them for doing that.
Plus the fact they did it with one simple email.
So in essence if you paid for a years membership and you see Afternic selling gambling domains you go out and register some, right? So you invest your money and buy some names and think you have the right to do that.
Then without giving you a years notice they fly off a email slamming the owners of such names as those who promote violence and hatred, shame on them for that.
Take your names out of Afternic, do not use them again untill new management owns up to what they have done and they apoligise for their actions.
If we don't do that we will get walked on by all the other places that sell our names.
Thumbs down to Afternic
The reason is they are taking perfectly good names and categories and deleting all that have any notion of the not accepted terms. For instance my popebendeictxv1.org was listed as not acceptable. I assume because it has dick or maybe ope in the the name and the system sees it as porn or dope. Thousands of names like that are not acceptable.
People who own names like gayforum are deleted. Many people are contacting gay rights groups as it is clearly slamming those folks.
NO folks unless you have been in the middle of it you have no idea how communistic their approach has been. They say things like poker is not a good image for the domain industry, hah.. The biggest players on wall st are gambling casinos like ballys, harrahs, sands, etc.
Almost every state in the united states allows gambling in one form or another.
We don't need industry leaders who self proclaim rightousness by saying owners of perfectly legal names and terms are promoting hate and violence. That is done to look good for the new owners who just bought Afternic. Shame on them for doing that.
Plus the fact they did it with one simple email.
So in essence if you paid for a years membership and you see Afternic selling gambling domains you go out and register some, right? So you invest your money and buy some names and think you have the right to do that.
Then without giving you a years notice they fly off a email slamming the owners of such names as those who promote violence and hatred, shame on them for that.
Take your names out of Afternic, do not use them again untill new management owns up to what they have done and they apoligise for their actions.
If we don't do that we will get walked on by all the other places that sell our names.
Thumbs down to Afternic