That's a theory that could be tested.... I just checked "overpriced.tv" on
the dot.tv site, and it now goes for $50. Let's all check it often to see
if it goes up!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Joy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Kirk Fletcher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 9:44 AM
Subject: RE: TV rorts?
> I think they base their definition of 'high profile' on the number of
> lookups without purchases for a specific domain...so checking probably
> doesn't help. I'm not 100% on that though....
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ken
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kirk Fletcher
> > Sent: April 22, 2001 9:30 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: TV rorts?
> >
> >
> > Hey all,
> >
> > We started selling tv names from our website at the beginning
> > of the month - haven't sold many of them, but that's not the
> > problem. I had a customer claim that the premium names are a
> > scam.
> >
> > He says that he searched for a couple names which were available
> > and not premium. But when he searched later, the name he wanted
> > was now a premium name, whereas it wasn't previously.
> >
> > My initial thoughts on this were that the client had maybe put
> > in a slightly different spelling - or that the lookup from
> > osrs returned incorrect result the first time. It's not that
> > I blindly trust dot.TV (far from it), its just that I like
> > to give the benefit of the doubt.
> >
> > Anyway, I thought I'd check with others on the list to see
> > if they have experienced similar circumstances. I was thinking
> > of moving the premium names off our site anyway, because I
> > don't like re-directing to a competitor (especially when
> > they provide specials that undercut their resellers), but
> > if there are these other problems as well, then I may need
> > to get rid of them altogether.
> >
> > Kirk
> >
> >
