All the recent Namebright publicity got me to thinking recently about the conflict of interest that a company has with its customers. I have it with my nursery in the fact I have a landscaping company but we sell to over 100 landscapers. It’s something I have to manage every day. They essentially buy from their competitor. I solve this by pulling out of every lead or bid that one of my customers is also bidding. We have to back out of hundreds of thousands of bids a year. But my customers know that they are more important than a one time landscape. Namebright’s owner is the biggest expired domain catcher in the world. He uses all his registrars to try and beat customers to names. I prefer a registrar that doesn’t. I don’t mind them selling off the expired names but its hard enough getting names without your registrar bidding against you. Here are today’s names.
Streams.com If it were just stream.com it would easily be worth this price
Hackster.com 14 years old and almost 500 backlinks. Would probably hit four figures without
MyFantasyWedding.com I wouldn’t think this has any value but I’m married and have a daughter. Women are crazy when it comes to weddings
LetsGarden.com Yes, I know. I should probably be buying this one
Zit.net A lot of money to be made in acne. Ask ProActive
HomePicker.com For $10 you do worse for a home buyer site
5954.com Ends in four so should end somewhere over $2K
MegaWager.com I bet you can sell this for more than $12
Featured Offer – 32% off new products at GoDaddy! -CAD)
GoodJobs.com Because nobody is really looking for shitty jobs
Barrington.net Fairly big, very rich suburb of Chicago
YourMovies.com Jokes on them. I don’t own any movies
RDTV.com Expiring so make sure to backorder at a few different places
Have an auction ending that isn’t getting any attention? Contact me to see how I can help
Maintaining trust with your competitor-customers is a tough job. The suspicion that you will steal their retail customers is always there.
Every registrar is your competitor, some more blatantly than others.
Adam – I totally agree. It’s scary when your registrar privacy protects their ownership of domains or hides it through another entity. That is shady. We don’t do that.