Francois? English please.

Dale Hubbard · Jul 27, 2007

"Sellers are abusing of the "Premium Domain" term.

Who on earth is doing your copy? That is NOT English.

Drop the "of".

DomainingCom · Jul 27, 2007

Grrr... and I do very short slogans to avoid errors...

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abuse of something ...
For me the of is needed, no?

- I abuse of Coca Cola
- I was abusing of cigarettes
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But Ok, you are english and I am french, so statistically it's more reasonable that I hear you.

Thanks profesor.

Very appreciated when I know by experience that thousands people will see the ad and none will say anything if there is a gramatical error.

Keynes · Jul 27, 2007

In the term "abuse of", 'abuse' is a noun; to use 'abuse' as a verb, it would be "I abuse Coca Cola", "I abused cigarettes", etc.

Also, the term "premium" is highly subjective, and not defined by any single entity (red sirens not withstanding.)

DomainingCom · Jul 27, 2007

There is ABSOLUTELY nothing subjective in the way we classify a name as Premium or no. Valuation is only based in domain metrics, nothing else.
This has been discussed many times in the past.
We set the minium level for have a name considered as Premium very low (to respect the current market).
But some entities are abusing naming garbage as premium name, it happen everywhere, on threads, on marketplaces, on mails, ...
The idea is simply help the newbie or the domainer that don't have time to calculate metrics to know the quality of a domain.

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Biggie · Jul 27, 2007

premium only means you pay more

just like at the gas pump, you got regular, silver and premium grades

it's all the same gas if you ask me or my car

to those newbies and other domainers who don't know....premium domains never have to be labeled as "premium".

you will know one when you see one

Bill Roy · Jul 27, 2007

I for one understood what was 'meant', and Cybertonic's English is not as bad as some I have seen on here. Please let us not get into a situation where we pick up on someone's grammer, spelling, or punctuation, and especially of a forum member whose first language is not English.

Let us remember this is a business forum and as such try to conduct business here without personal remarks or digs at another member that in reality have no bearing on the domaining business.

Just my 2 penny worth.

Biggie · Jul 27, 2007

BILLBO said:
I for one understood what was 'meant', and Cybertonic's English is not as bad as some I have seen on here. Please let us not get into a situation where we pick up on someone's grammer, spelling, or punctuation, and especially of a forum member whose first language is not English.

Let us remember this is a business forum and as such try to conduct business here without personal remarks or digs at another member that in reality have no bearing on the domaining business.

Just my 2 penny worth.

I think Azooza was just trying to help "cybertonic", since his target audience is majority English speaking.

incorrect grammar within an advertising spot or a website could hurt the credibility of the advertiser.

DomainingCom · Jul 27, 2007

It's allways welcome to tell me about any english typo or error you can see in my sites or ads.
Again, as crazy it may appears, you can show a banner 100,000 times with a big english error and none will have the kindness to drop a note to have the text fixed. That's the ways thing use to happen these days. So again THANKS aZooZa and thanks in advance to those that will drop me a note if they see some errors.

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petrosc · Jul 27, 2007

Kudos to Dale for pointing it out. Picking on someone whose English is not his mother tongue is ridiculous(although many here do that and it's sad), however I'm sure Dale was trying to help here not criticize

Bill Roy · Jul 27, 2007

My post was not actually aimed at 'Zoo' (who by the way I respect a lot), it was basically to try and stop the 'tag-on brigade' that unfortunately seems to latch on to such threads.

One thing is great here though, it shows that a few very active members are speaking up in a supportive role, this is what should happen, unfortunately it has not always occured in the past as we all know.

Dale Hubbard · Jul 28, 2007

Francois, if it was in a post; of course, it would not be my business to criticise. I just hate to see people running ads with errors. Absolutely meant in the best of spirit.

DomainingCom · Jul 28, 2007

aZooZa, there is no problem, I understood.

And as I said, thanks for the note otherwise maybe I have to wait a week to see someone having the kindness to inform me about the glitch.

You are welcome to do the same if you see again something horrible in my ads or sites.

Thanks again!

Keynes · Jul 28, 2007

cybertonic said:
There is ABSOLUTELY nothing subjective in the way we classify a name as Premium or no. Valuation is only based in domain metrics, nothing else.

The weight of your algorithm is subjective, and so, by construction, its output is as well. That being said, my main point is that you don't have a monopoly on deciding what a "premium" domain is - while I do appreciate you bringing more objectivity to appraisals, keep in mind that the term "premium" is a superlative that has been used in this industry well before your site existed and will continue to be used in a context unrelated to your algorithm. Cheers

Seraphim · Jul 28, 2007

I just clicked on your ad, thinking it was GreatDomains.com [I was hoping to see the auction results]. I would think you could find yourself in some hot water over using their logo in your ad, as it's misleading.

Bayu · Jul 28, 2007

Funny.

Sellers are abusing the "Premium Domain" term.

We are all sellers here

and in my opinion, the one that badly abuse the term "premium domain", is premiumdomains.com itself :idea:

Maybe you should change that ad? :smilewinkgrin:

* dont hate me for saying this...