Comments on: DENIC -> Epic FAIL

By: friendship gift

friendship gift — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 04:43:30 +0000

The real fail here is the drawing of that red circle. What mutt wouldn’t notice the coffin if that red circle wasn’t drawn? The guy who created this pic thinks we’re all retards. Bastard!!!

By: Andrei

Andrei — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 19:20:50 +0000

@Lewis: to be perfectly honest, I have no idea. They didn’t make their partnerships public, so it’s hard to determine how many domains they’ve managed to grab for their customers at this point. But after the negotiation phase is over (as per the terms customers had to agree to, Sedo can act as brokers and buy domains from the people who’ve managed to snag them within 14 days), I’m pretty sure that they’ll draw the line and realize that they’ve made over a million bucks. Again, I’d have to be the biggest hypocrite ever to blame companies like Sedo for trying to make some fast cash, the people who run the German registry are at fault for not making the best decisions.

By: LewisJ

LewisJ — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 10:27:39 +0000

I wonder how much sedo’s profit from all this was… well over a million? Not many details about the partnerships with other companies, it’s only a guess.

By: nmwando

nmwando — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 23:47:31 +0000

There’s been a frenzy around these domains and I think auctioning them through their own platform would have resulted in even higher sales. Maybe it’s just me but I think people would have been even more tempted to bid if they knew for sure that they would get the domains if they win.

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:28:30 +0000

I see what you mean, it’s like they just wanted to get it behind them. Doing a charitable auction would have also changed the way the domain industry is perceived by traditional media, at least European traditional media.