Moniker.com Sends Out emails Promoting .Biz Registrations; You Have To See This One (If Your Over 18)

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Moniker.com is sending out emails to customer promoting .Biz domain name registrations.

Fair enough.

The ad is promoting a 35% savings off the list price of $10.59 and selling registrations for  $6.79.

Of course the extension .Biz is meant to represent “Business” so as we always talk about,  the words to the left of the dot, should be ones that matches the extension and this one is about business.

So I was pretty surprised to get this email from Moniker.com suggesting the domain it suggested.

I own some 75,000 domain names and do own the matching .com, which is where they got this domain to suggest to me,but you would think there would be better choices of .Biz domains to suggest from the 75,000 domains.  You you would also  think they would have some sort of filter on the domains they select before they let the emails fly, anyway if your over 18 here you go:

 

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About Michael Berkens

Michael Berkens, Esq. is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also the co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. which sold around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in December 2015 and now owns around 8K domain names . Michael was also one of the 5 Judges selected for the the Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com contest.

Comments

  3. Rick Schwartz says

    LOLOL!!!

    Network Solutions did a promo in 1999 I think it was and they sent a tshirt for every domain name you owned with your domain name imprinted on it. I have about 500 tshirts and 90% are adult related. Some are pretty funny!

  4. Ryan Jenkins says

    Here is the big question, if this was part of the pending gtld release, most domainers would be licking their chops to get their hands on a one .biz, considering the dire situation in drops in .biz, they have cut the price, and are INFORMING uninformed domainers of the huge potential in the .biz extension.

    So what does this tell you Mr.XYZ

  5. George Kirikos says

    Moniker would have better off trying to figure out an “improved” domain name that Mike could have acquired in .biz, rather than simply promoting the same string in an inferior TLD.

    E.g. if someone has fuckmytits.com, they could promote “fuck.TLD” or “tits.TLD”. It would still be a tough sell, though.

  6. DomainNameSales.co says

    hahaha, that is hilarious!

    Sometimes ad campaigns thought up in the boardroom don’t work out so well in reality. It sounds like Rick has a very colourful closet, thanks to one of these campaigns.

    @Ryan, I agree with your point. .biz would sound like a great new TLD, but we all know how well they’ve done…

  7. Danny Pryor says

    Hilarious! 😀

    I got an email for one of my domains, too. I suppose the system scraped a list and selected from the list at random, that way there would not be dozens or hundreds or thousands of emails going out to a single domain investor. So it is pretty funny that of all the domains across all the web, they had to pick the beaver domain.

    Of course, .biz is a terrible TLD, in my opinion.

  8. Louise says

    Moniker sent me one for GeoForums.biz.

    Dot biz/dot us might not be such bad choices, if ICANN/Verisign/Insider Registrars start stealing dot coms. More stability.

  10. Michael Berkens says

    Well .Biz actually has almost 2.5 million registrations and a wholesale cost of $6 a year that’s $15 Million coming in for the registry.

    Personally I would take a business hauling in $15M a year with minimal costs.

    As I have been saying for well over 4 years now you have to separate out the business of being a domain registrant from being a domain registry.

  14. Acro says

    Mike, register it and have a t-shirt made with the URL and the byline “Moniker means business” underneath – then auction it at TRAFFIC 😛

  16. Louise says

    Footage courtesy of HybridDomainer:

    17 seconds of Moore Tornado
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOqKKB7L6WM

    Watch it, and think about item #6 of DomainIt’s service agreement:

    failure to respond for over three (3) calendar days to inquiries by the Registrar concerning the accuracy of contact details associated with the Registrant’s registration shall constitute a material breach of this Registration Agreement and shall be a basis for cancellation of the domain name registration.

    And yet, I transferred louisemarketing there, because it seems to be one of the last honest registrars standing.

  17. fizz says

    LOL Mike.

    Reminds of when Sedo about seven years or so ago mailed out a postcard with a wintery scene and a snowman wishing everyone Season’s Greetings, which was a very nice thought, except that their system automatically selected the domain with the highest traffic of each member and printed that prominently on the front of the postcard. At the time mine was also an adult name lol.