Rick,
Thank you for your reply.
I don't see how ICANN could restrict duplicates. They have to accept all
entries, and then chose one (or none) of the duplicate entries. What would
you have preferred. First come, first served?
I have read a lot about pre-registration on the OpenSRS discussion list and
other places, and there are a lot of professional people there that have
been around as long as you have, and the concensus is that your
'pre-registration' idea is a scam. If you can persuade me otherwise, great,
I will tell everybody that you have a great system.
But I do worry greatly about a site that is taking $20 (non-refundable) of
people's hard-earned money for the slight chance that they get a name they
want, in TLDs that haven't even been announced yet. Let's imagine that ICANN
only approve 3 new TLDs. You'll be pocketing the money of all the people
that tried to 'pre-register' the other 17 domains you 'support'. How nice
for you.
And just how exactly is your system so great? You've got a fast link, big
deal. Just who are the registrars that you have done deals with? How could
you, it isn't even known yet which registrars will be operating the new
names. And your queue is no better than my queue or anybody else queue,
because you haven't actually queued the names anywhere worthwhile at all.
They are just sitting on your server.
The only real pre-registration going on is for .CA names, but I see you're
not involved in that.
Sorry, bud. If it looks like a scam, and smells like a scam, chances are it
is a scam.
Just my opinion of course.
Lee Hodgson
http://DomainGuideBook.com
----- Original Message -----
From: Rick Hernandez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, October 06, 2000 11:56 PM
Subject: RE: Affilaite Program
> Lee,
>
> Both David and I came accross several sites that we thought had
partnership
> possibilities with Regland. I was sincere when I said that I liked your
> site. I don't think I should be attacked as a spammer for sending the
same
> message to multiple sites. I visited each site and sent an email when
> appropriate. I did not tell everyone the same thing--I may have typed the
> same thing on some occasions for expediency or for a lack of better words.
> I was trying to inquire to see if there was interest. If there is not
then
> so be it. You have also attacked my company as a SCAM. The biggest SCAM
in
> domain names is ICANN. They were taking $50,000 applications for new tlds
> and they were not restricting duplicates. Our customers know that
> pre-registration is speculative. We tell them that ICANN may not approve
of
> any names. But if they do, we offer a service -an automated solution to
> send names through to be registered--for those that want a shot at a good
> domain name. The fact of the matter is one can choose to be early and
take
> a chance with us for a good domain name and have it submitted as fast as
> possible or to wait until everything is decided and then begin to register
> the name. Who do you think has the best chance of getting the name they
> want?
>
> Rick
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lee Hodgson - DomainGuideBook.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 9:38 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Affilaite Program
>
>
> Firstly, are you David or Rick.
>
> Secondly, you sent the exact same email to many domain sites yesterday (=
> SPAM)
>
> Thirdly, there is no synergism - we both compete registering domains
>
> Fourthly, I have just written an article for DEMC condemning the
> pre-registration scams that are going around.
>
> Fifthly, you can guess that I'm not interested.
>
> Lee
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: David Hernandez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, October 06, 2000 3:15 AM
> Subject: Affilaite Program
>
>
> > Great Site. I came across your site yesterday and I think that your
site
> > has some definite synergism with http://www.Regland.com. Check us out!
> We
> > have terrific affiliate programs for both high volume and low volume
> sites.
> > We believe in long-term and highly profitable partnerships with our
> > affiliates. I hope we can make some money together SOON.
> >
> > Yours truly,
> >
> > Rick Hernandez
> > Director of Sales and Marketing
> > http://www.Regland.com
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > 210-495-9800
> >
> >
>
>
