In a blog post that appeared in Medium.com entitled “Trading domain names should be banned ; Why? Because it hurts businesses and does not generate any value for anybody”
The post was written by Zsombor Lacza “scientist, orthopedic, skier, sailor, biker, inventor, and photographer”
Apparently the author who started his own company had to do without the .com because he was unwilling to pay $5K to a “Domain Shark…A shady biznizman hiding behind a Cayman island tax number.”
Yeah I’m sure you will enjoy the read:
“I started a company called Surgeonfish. It develops and sells sportscare products. ”
“It owns the following domains .eu, .de, .hu .info .org .biz and with a dash surgeon-fish.com. :
“You noticed one omission? The dotcom is missing.”
At the time of founding the surgeonfish.com domain had a sort of search engine on it.
It did not interfere with us, so we did not care.
Then they went defunct and the domain got into the hands of some domain sharks.
The lowest offer I could type in in their online contact form was 3,000 USD, so I did so in order to get in touch.
This is the conclusion of the correspondence I had with them.
“Thanks very much for your update but unfortunately I need an offer of at LEAST $5000 USD to be able to represent the offer for consideration. Thus we cannot move forward now or in a couple of weeks at $3000 USD — Sorry! Let me know if your budget increases in the future!
Best
Maureen “
“As a startup on a shoestring budget we cannot afford buying it.”
“Hell, if we do so we need to increase prices and rob our customers in order to feed some shady biznizman hiding behind a Cayman island tax number.”
“This is a no-go.”
“Since we own every other meaningful surgeonfish domains and the original owner is now defunct, only a new company may buy it. No sensible founder would name his startup ‘surgeonfish’ if all the domains are in the hands of another small fish and the shark is not willing to release the dotcom.”
“A deadlock.”
“That is why trading domains should be banned.”
Great article and great closing conclusion. I wish I had a tax number in the Cayman Islands too!
At least, he has some creative ideas about DSLR cameras 😀
https://medium.com/tech-blogging/ca09f5e34576
PS Mike why provide a link if you copy 99% of the text? 😉
Geez I didn’t know they had tax in the Caymans. Sure he didn’t mean Ip number?
Btw ms sullivan nice letter my friend
“Man—every man—is an end in himself, not a means to the ends of others; he must live for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself; he must work for his rational self-interest, with the achievement of his own happiness as the highest moral purpose of his life.” – Ayn Rand
Well, at least that blog post (currently) isn’t an editor’s pick at Medium.com. That should be at the sidelines soon enough, if not later enough.
“When you are dead, you don’t know you’re dead. It becomes difficult on others.
It is the same when you are stupid. ”
This guy obviously has no logic and clearly 5k for that domain is a steal. What baffles me is that these poor shmucks think they are the first ones to come up with these domain names and they are the only ones that make offers on them.
Sometimes i want to smack them upside the head and tell them that if a savvy buyer didn’t have it up for sale. Someone else would have registered it and they would be without the opportunity of owning a name they would be interested in.
What’s amusing is that Morgan Linton proudly publishes posts there:
http://morganlinton.com/read-more-from-morgan-on-medium-com/
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sell domains is a business like thousands other
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just we want that who sell domains pays taxes
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Meanwhile, this guy’s .eu, .info, .org and hyphenated variations lead nowhere. So who’s the real squatter? At least surgeonfish.com takes you to a page with related content. And if I wanted any of those domains, only the dot com has a method to get it.
Zsombor Lacza is an idiot.
Sounds like a good communist too.
He probably wants his neighbor’s vacant lot so he can put a swing set on it.
Jerk.
The truly amazing thing to me is that from where I am sitting today in the office, it’s less than a one minute walk across West Bay Road to the beach where you can stand in the water and actually SEE surgeonfish and many other members of the family Acanthuridae.
There be plenty of fish in the sea. But only one surgeonfish.com.
Informative post. We have pay texes 🙂