...however "DN DC" is a dark art, in some respects a bit like a secret members club that always had free open memberships to anyone that looked hard enough and offered the "Normal Joe" a route out of a dull, online existence, with lots of $ perks... but chill, slow the fire threads and opinions of other DNr's down......
the PRESS and the PUBLICITY around this matter will HARM and DILUTE a lot of peoples new or existing careers in the DN industry... WHY? well if EVERYONE knows how or what is involved in the process and where the information is gathered... it will not be a career for anyone because the same people will know the same things... ...
if news of Nics actions, against Andy spreads the value of the DN's will plummet as others will know how and what to do to acquire DN's...
We know some will agree with our comments, some will not, we are not posting this to be flamed
I am one who does not agree
Domaining is not a top secret club, and the whole point of deleting.co.uk was that anyone could come along with a bog standard 123-REG style account and start registering domain names due to the lists provided.
Knowledge of domaining is growing to the man-in-the-street and I do not see that as a bad thing. The only people to be worried by domaining becoming public are those with infringing names and lots of earnings to be clawed back via passing off and the like. For legit domainers that is not an issue
Values of domains would
not plummet if more people are aware of domaining. The reverse would happen , more are registered, speculation would increase the values as supply of the better names would decrease.
Everyone had to start somewhere and I would like to think those using Deleting.co.uk at a low level would then register / resell / develop nice names and 'build up' into Nominet members and take an active part in the .UK community be it via Nominet or creating useful websites for internet users.
As it has been pointed out elsewhere the main 'winners' in Deleting.co.uk being closed are other domainers (
no more pesky smaller domainers nicking the odd name) or political reasons.
The whole thing reminds me of when I was actively explaining dropcatching to people a few years back , one 'established' domainer told me to 'shut up' as it was effectively giving money away. Since then many of the people I talked to have now got nice domain portfolios, earning a decent whack and are good mates.
There is someone out there who has made a complaint, and I would love to know the reasons behind it
Sadly I cannot see that happening.
