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17 Jun, 2009

Domain Patience

Posted by: drivelocity In: On The Web

A while back I was contacted by someone who owned a web site that was direct competition of one of my own. He was offering to sell the site to me at some absurd price because it included the domain name, site, database, decals, etc. Since I already had a similar site, so all I [...]

11 Mar, 2009

Selling Domain Names

Posted by: drivelocity In: On The Web

As someone who is constantly trying to unload old domain names, I have a great interest in this topic, but not a lot of success. I’ve only sold one domain in my time and the buyer came to me directly. Essentially, they wanted to eliminate their competition, or where their competition advertised. I have purchased [...]

02 Mar, 2009

GoDaddy’s DomainsByProxy Service is BS

Posted by: drivelocity In: On The Web

I had all but forgotten an incident involving the DomainsByProxy.com service provided by GoDaddy.com until I read a post about a bad GoDaddy’s experience at SapientSoft.com that reminded me of my own…
A few years ago I ran a site and, for personal reasons, wanted the WHOIS information to remain private. Since I had registered the [...]