Comments on: GoDaddy Delivers a Blow to Dark Blue Sea

By: Domain Name Wire » News » Dark Blue Sea and GoDaddy Get Back Together - The Domain Industry's News Source

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:59:31 +0000

[...] parent company of Fabulous, has had a rough year. It probably hit bottom back in July, when GoDaddy pulled out of a sales distribution agreement with the [...]

By: Domain Name Wire » News » Domain Distribution Network Partners with Moniker - The Domain Industry's News Source

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:53:20 +0000

[...] is a nice win for DDN and Dark Blue Sea, although it is still reeling from the loss of a sales agreement with GoDaddy earlier this [...]

By: Anthony Mitchell

Anthony Mitchell — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 01:47:12 +0000

Great points above by Robert Haastrup-Timmi, especially on educating the public.

Where does the public have most of its contact with the industry? In the process of attempting to register fresh domains. Are GoDaddy, eNom or BuyDomains doing a good job of educating potential buyers about the benefits of the secondary market?

More to the point, is the happy path between a lookup for a fresh registration and the presentation of options in the secondary market smooth, quick or transparent?

Do interfaces on GD and BuyDomains-partner-registrars have high abandon rates on the path to seeing what domains are available in the secondary market? What are those rates?

How many GD or BD employees does it take to fix a broken UI? How hard is it to create an ecommerce experience that pulls visitors into viewing available domains, then converts them into buyers?

By: D

Sat, 18 Jul 2009 00:19:05 +0000

Fabulous is just bunch of big-headed individuals who made lots of bad decisions and burned shareholders money

By: FX

FX — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 23:55:20 +0000

i feel like all domainers should support Fabulous and DBS in one way or another. They have done a lot for the industry over the years and continue to innovate and push the industry forward. Fabulous is by far the best registrar in this industry. No other registrar even comes close. No other registrar offers a comprehensive set of tools such as Fabulous. If you’ve never used Fabulous, you should check it out. Not to mention parking program at fabulous performs well too.

.. just a satisfied Fabulous client.

By: global biz

global biz — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:05:22 +0000

I consider GD the same as kmart.

By: Johnny

Johnny — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:04:56 +0000

I hate to see this happen to this nice group of people.