You never let someone else control your business

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As a domain owner you have enough to deal with from ICANN moves to price increases.

You never ever develop anything of importance to you on someone else’s property. Use social media and other apps to feed your website, but the CentralNic retirement of several LL.com domains illustrates why you never trust anyone else with your business. From links to SEO, social mentions etc… A sub-domain is never worth the risk in my opinion.

The owner of Hotel.Kr.com posted this on Namepros:

This is how they respond following deletion of www.hotel.kr.com with offer of new domain such as hotelkr.xyz

Dear Sir

We respect that you are not happy with the services that are being discontinued. We have continually advised that alternative substituted services have been offered to you. You have continued to reject the offers to provide continuity of services. You must accept the consequences if you refuse to take up the new domains and that you may face consequences of your decisions.

We reserve our rights whatsoever nature.

Sincerely.

Colin Mullane
UK Channel Development
CentralNic Group PLC

35-39 Moorgate

London, EC2R 6AR
London Stock Exchange Symbol: CNIC
W: www.centralnic.com

About Raymond Hackney

Raymond is a writer, domain trader and consultant based in Pennsylvania. Raymond is the founder of 3Character.com and TLDInvestors.com.

Comments

  1. Ian Ingram says

    Great point. Those who don’t have any other web presence other than Facebook, or other social media, can be lumped in there as well. When you are completely under someone’s thumb, it just takes a small change to put you out of business.

  2. Rev says

    This continues to show why .com is top tier.

    It is just not only the AM dial, it is the entire broadband spectrum.

    We will continue to hear seesaw gtld news, and other extensions come, and go, .com will always be there under $10!

  3. Jane Doe says

    Always maintain control and where you are limited in doing so, then ensure options.

    Just spent weeks reviewing .art, applied for a token to register the name I wanted, got the token, the name was blocked.

    OK, maybe that name was always going to be blocked, spend the month searching for alternatives that I could afford, finally decide on several and to wait till general availability.

    Pre-order and wait for the rush.

    Oh look, the names I searched for will now (in the past couple of hours) be 5x the cost of acquiring in general as they would have cost me in early access.

    The names I searched for the most are more expensive than the ones I searched for the least.

    With that in mind, .art is a dangerous extension to sign up for.

    …

    You are reliant on 3rd parties for everything you do online, minimise your risk where possible, it is all you can do.

    • Rev says

      Then why do you support them, if you are going for the category killers, they are going to reserve those, and try to get end user money for them. They don’t need domainers reselling their top tier names for top dollar, while they underwrite the extensions. They can’t afford it.

      The big guys have all said GTLD’s are not for domain investors in 2017, and going forward.

      • Jane Doe says

        The point is that no matter what you do online you are relying on 3rd parties to operate so the OP is crap.

        You access the internet via a third party, your web host is most likely a 3rd party, domain names are all 3rd party operated no matter your particular preference regarding extension.

        The point is that you need to weigh up the risk and determine what you are comfortable with.

        How any particular registry operates provides you information to work via.

        Just because you may find .com the only safe choice does not invalidate other extensions for someone else.

        The new extensions are valuable, the only question is one of how stable/trustworthy the operator which determines the risk associated.

        • John Poole says

          “The new extensions are valuable”– to whom? The new extensions (new gTLDs) are about as reliable and trustworthy as a CentralNic dot COM subdomain: not only is pricing subject to abrupt change with little notice, but even the continued availability of your domain name could be disrupted by transfer to a different operator. ICANN rejected the advice of the US Department of Justice Antitrust Division in December 2008 on how to deliver competition in domain names with new gTLDs while also providing consumer (registrant) protections. As a result, for end user registrants, the new gTLDs are an inferior alternative to .COM domain names, and under present circumstances always will be. Caveat Emptor!