Hi All.
This is our first stab at listing our stock of domains, so your comments are welcome. Just thought I'd offer a little insight on this one for you! Our "premium" stock comprises of 1500 or so odd names that we accumulate daily through fraud and a couple of other avenues. Fraud is the single biggest industry in the registrar market by the way! If you are going to commit online fraud, you start by buying a domain name and you don't use a good card or address! We don't catch all in time so get stuck with them.
The search and download file doesn't contain all of them, but they all appear as "premium" in regular search results. Right now, "premium names" probably show varying content, but we intend to fix that, watch this space..stage 1 was listing them!
90% of these we offer at around the $20 mark (What it costs us to hand them basically, otherwise we simply drop them when they get to renewal - Again, we don't list these persay, only if you stumble upon one in search results - Mainly nonsense fraud purchases). The remainder we do consider premium and attach the price we are looking for. If you think, its too much, make us an offer, we have to start somewhere!!
In terms of TM domains, we'd give them up in a heart beat. We don't intend to sit on them and I think there is only a couple in that list. I don't know the story to each one, but my guess is user registered TM domains in a launch, then realised and contacted us saying he doesn't want them, so they get put into here. If the brand owner were to contact us, we'd hand it over within the hour, no question. We are gamekeeper not poacher for sure and intend to always stay that way.
If you check out our ICANN and/or Nominet compliance record you will see its faultless and we've had some interesting UDRP processes to join the party on; Lufthansa, Virgin and Hoover all spring to mind as recent ones.
I played with the SQL injection comment and couldn't replicate. So it was either a schoolboy error that has since been fixed or feel free to tell me some more.
Thanks for comments and hope you like the expired domains stuff too at
Expired Domains. Domains that are expiring, dropping and deleting in the next five days.. We've got quite some list on how we want to improve this even further (Stored search matches, sort by length etc etc), but again, Stage 1!
Thanks all and please feel free to send us your comments on twitter.com/domainmonster or
support@domainmonster.com.
Rgds,
Matt Mansell, CEO