Got around to looking up info
.link is an old Schilling tld
It was auctioned to a Malta Company
The stuff we are doing in .network is operated by Donuts the biggest new TLD player with 300+ tlds
Schilling was big player but like I said, his registration were bad
It's why he only netted $200 per name in his big GD play
.link peaked in 2016 with 400k registrations
Half were Schilling
I'm comfortable with Donut a USA company
Now that I see .link is under control of a new unknown player in Malta...
Well that's a red flag for me
Good luck
Thanks for your analysis. You may have heard me say that I don't trust the likes Go Daddy, Schilling/UNR or the new owners of
.LINK Nova Registry. While I don't know the details of Schillings sale of .link to the group out of Malta, i already know I don't trust them
Why?.....when I first started accumulating/binging .link domains six weeks ago i made contact with Vaughn Liley, General Manager .link TLD. Vaughn hails from Granada Spain where i'd visited 25 years ago, and when I learned from his
Linkedin bio that he was a graduate o the University of Maryland I knew right away we had something in common.
So here's how my connection with Vaughn went down....upon learning that he was the GM of .link i reached out to him via email and he called me from Spain. He was pretty excited to learn that I was a new loyalist for the .link tld., and if you'd have been a fly on the wall listening to our conversation you might have thought this was an engagement/marriage made in heaven
Well, about a week passed and I'd accumulated about 200 .link domains via Namecheap when i started receiving notices from Namecheap's legal department about 3-4 domains I'd purchased that had some issues involving "SPAM"....their notices seemed to implicate me, and I was to jump through some hoops to return them. Frankly I didn't have the time to jump through the hoops, but I clearly stated they could have them back, but I did expect to get my money back. Then when I copied Vaughn Liley, the GM at .link about all this, he responded "don't include me with the problems you're having with our registrar Namecheap????" I still don't understand why, but that was a
red flag to me as well. The other red flag was when he attempted to discourage me from buying any more .link domains after I'd already accumulated 200.
Finally, the mere fact that he now ignores me and my emails speaks volumes. Much to his/heir chagrin I now own about 1,200 .link domains, and the fact that neither the registrar or the registry will reimburse me for the "illegal" domains they sold me also speaks volumes.
As you can tell, i'm a pretty determined guy and this is far from over......btw, i've had a decent relationship with Matt Overman at Donuts as well as with Rob Monster at Epik, and if you would like to learn more about what I know, just reach out.