Recent content by crabfoot

Some conclusions - It takes Brandbucket around 14-15 days to make yea/nay decisions, and when they do decide the nay decision is two days before any yea decision. When you get into the Brandbucket slack channel you can see the ugly side of Brandbucket - people trying to trade off already...

Your link takes me to an Instagram manipulation app called Shorby. Is that what you meant to talk about later?

I haven't been personally insulting. I have revealed the meaning of Mr Hubbard's nickname - there can be no insult when he has chosen it himself. I think everybody would like to make the high price sales, but it costs money and time to get those sales, and we all resent paying up-front for an...

I'm neither defensive or agitated, but I'm not here for you to take the mickey. And I'm quite good at meanings - FOR THE BENEFIT OF ALL MEMBERS THE NAME AZOOZA IS A PHONETIC SPELLING OF A SPANISH SLANG WORD WHICH MEANS $HIT-STIRRER. You can't complain when he tells you upfront what he is...

I've put a few hundred quid into this stupid game, I've got the grace to share my findings with the members, and all you do is make comments like that? Just because you wasted £20 to find out that you lack sufficient imagination doesn't mean that I'm going to fall on my face. nenorocit - that's...

Errrm -yes, I agree it is a bit silly - but not necessarily ridiculous, because people pay out for those domains. And I haven't any clear idea why - that is part of the reason I'm playing their game. And what makes a made-up name dodgy? There can be real virtue in a made-up name. A couple of...

I could be cruel and suggest you try to put those on Brandbucket. I'll tell you why I wouldn't - One rule worth obeying is that you should avoid numbers in domains, either words or digits. Benatio contains enati, which is ninth if you happen to be Greek. And while rivoten has ten in it, what...

Yea - no prior notice to me, but I get a mail to say prentan. com has been published - that was much faster than ravenham. I was under the impression that the decision to publish or not was mine, according to the dashboard controls - but these are BrandBucket controls we're talking about. The...

And today, ravenham.com finally hits their mailshot, over 5 weeks after submission, complete with tacky logo and bs description. Also today, my wife has decided to have a go at this BrandBucket lark. Her 10 free submissions are arafinol .com, bonhein .com, carachic .com, cofetto .com, perfaro...

For some reason this bit is not appearing in the post above - You could still catch a few, in the past. What happened to kill small-time com catchers was that the 1&1 people realised there was money in it, and bought Moniker for catching purposes. After they moved into the market there was...

If you catch one on the drop and register it, it is deemed not to have dropped and retains its original registration date. Ten years ago you could catch a com or two by entering the domain into a registrar's search at the time it dropped and registering it quickly. In a couple of places you...

It cost them more than £5k because they employed an agency to buy it from me. A DRS would not have succeeded immediately, because the domain registration pre-dated their foundation and there was a site up - I had grounds to accuse them of passing off, if I had wanted to fight. The site was...

That's what they tell everybody - and as you said, Belief is very valuable though so I guess if you can trade off of that it works out. But it is not entirely the truth. Whatever, it is too late to squeeze benefit from most Nominet domains.

I'm not going to explain this - unless someone pays me - because I'm still surviving on the scraps I can glean - but one reason .co.uk and uk domains do not fetch big prices is because they do not hold their age. There is truth in the saying that an aged domain is better than a freshly...

packedwarehouse.com - nice 12yearold domain previously used by US stationery and promo gift supplier - £120 with a free push at GoDaddy.