Re: [ga] How To Unleash Domain Tasting For $0.20

["Jeffrey A. Williams" <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dominik and all,

  Nice find here Dominik!  And indeed this is yet "another" method
by which Tasting can continue relatively unabated or slowed without
concern about the $0.20 fee/tax retention decision by ICANN.  But
of course the ICANN Board will never admit publicly it's
decision was poor one, now will they?  Of course not! Such would
be tacitly admitting they were either hasty or significantly incompetent
and need to be removed from the Board without further delay...

P.S.  I am sorry Peter old buddy, but this was, as Dominik's find
has indicated, a very bad call....  And so, the ugly ICANN saga
sadly continues...

Regards,

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Dominik Filipp wrote:

> Grand Piece: "Domain Tasting For Everyone - A Splendid Time Guaranteed
> For All"
>
> Let me introduce a new grand model of Domain Tasting adopting the $0.20
> fee provision. I came accross a similar idea unwittingly during browsing
> and it made me stunned when realizing how ingenious ideas can be
> invented to adjust business methods to keep a business running once it
> has been successfully launched.
>
> At POOL.COM (www.pool.com) there is a service called "Catch & Release"
> (www.pool.com/CNRLanding.aspx) offering publicly accessible domain
> evaluation for $0.10 during the first 4 1/2 days after registration:
>
> "Evaluate your domains for approximately 4 1/2 days and decide if you
> want to keep them by simply selecting "Keep" in the Domains in
> Evaluation interface. If you do not explicitly keep a domain it will be
> deleted per the Time Remaining shown. You can also choose to delete a
> domain in advance of the delete schedule by selecting "Discard"."
>
> That is indeed an ingenious idea. Instead of tasting domains and taking
> all the risk by a narrow range of tasting registrars the tasting will be
> shared among many people and made attractive in a big volume. After
> applying the $0.20 fee the "Catch & Release" evaluation fee will add up
> to $0.30 (or $0.25), which is pretty comfortable to many people and
> businesses worldwide. There is no risk at all for tasting
> registrars/providers as the tasting requests will be now demanded by
> people/businesses/organizations themselves willing to pay for the
> service. Just few domains tasted by single entity is perfectly
> affordable, but considering the large scale of entities involved
> worldwide opens undreamed opportunities for the tasting business. The
> tasters thus turn back to its standard for-free mode profiting now from
> fees applied on 'public domain tasting' service subscription, domain
> 'pre-reservations' and, of course, the revenue stream from all the
> standard techniques such as PPC advertising.
> How ingenious. Everybody can now participate on tasting, no more
> complaints. Although just few will be continuing to stuff the pocket on
> regular basis. A real paradise of domain speculation!
>
> Featuring...
>
> 1. Short-Term Registrations
>
> >From now on, everyone can evaluate domains for an arbitrary short time.
> Once a domain is proven useless or not profitable it is discarded at any
> time.
>
> 2. Domain Portfolios
>
> Everyone can build up domain portfolio up to pocket potential. The more
> rich company the more domains for longer time can be retained in
> portfolios.
>
> 3. Micro-Auctions
>
> Domains will occur on auctions for a short time to play Wheel of
> Fortune.
>
> 4. PPC Advertising
>
> All domains will be armed with PPC advertising but the revenue will be
> primarily targeted to the public-taster service. In case of end-user
> interest in being involved in the PPC game, no problem. But just part of
> the revenue, or for recurrent fee.
>
> What a wonderful time! We all are invited to the Grand Domain
> Speculation World.
>
> Dominik Filipp, a GA List member