James wrote: > Actually the land rush is just heating up. With players such as Google and yahoo >catering to this portion of the market specifically. We feel there is plenty of steam left.
I would agree. Now that Google has implemented an aging filter (sometimes called the sandbox), new domains can take up to 2 years to gain results in the Google SERPs. Everyone is looking for older domains that have already served this time (esp. those before 2001) and have back links. The old domain business is becoming more important than ever. Even if Google makes moves to cut down these benefits, the branding advantages of having a good domain name would keep our interest there. I'm in support of Tucows on this; we need some access to this market. If they weren't making moves in this area I would be quite disappointed. There seems to be a real split here of opinions. I keep finding this is between the people who believe domains are 'owned' and those that see domains as 'rented'. I'm in the latter group. Even with this tightening of the deadlines and the expiry of the invoice date, people are *not* having their domains taken away from them. James has addressed this point here: >The name will be held in escrow, available to the former registrant to renew for the >full 80 days that is currently allowed. Any deviation from this timeframe is >unacceptable to me and us as a company. Even if we have a winning bidder willing to >pay 100K for a domain, the former registrant can get his name back through existing >means. I'm not quite sure what additional safeguards you want them to put into place? It maybe because I'm outside the US, where they seem quicker to call their lawyers than to pull out the credit card - but this looks a good service to me Best Regards, Nick Managing Director e3internet http://www.e3internet.com _______________________________________________ domains-gen mailing list [email protected] http://discuss.tucows.com/mailman/listinfo/domains-gen
