End of Domain Tasting

[draggar]

large registrars like enom don't give a flying fart about what domainers think, and we are too fractured to have any real voice anyhow

(Edited the quote). I tend to agree, in today's economy, especially in the USA, most corporations seem to care about the little guy more as they grow larger. Sure, there are a few exceptions but overall they just want to pull in millions / billions of dollars for their executives to hoard.

And yes, domainers are too fractured. Sure, we have communities like this one where a few dozen domainers, maybe even a couple hundred, might band together but in the big picture it is still small beans unless you get some very big names involved.

If this is true then in a few years Enom will control a large portion of the .com market (assuming they stick to .com) and can push prices of modest domains very high. And I doubt that they will be the only ones doing this.

What I've noticed is that a lot of the drop-catch services (Enom and Pool come to mind) purchase many names then sell them on "5 day auctions" where the price lowers as time goes by. IMO - are they abusing the 5 day rule? I am willing to bet if you checked the lowest priced domain 2 days after it goes off the "lower auction" block it will be available to register.