« More HowTo diagrams - MySQL, Tomcat and Java | Main | The Longest Possible Day »
August 25, 2008
Ken Palm, iTime, and Domain Name Tasting
Have you come across "domain name tasting" - try before you buy from ICANN. It is the practice of registering a domain name (and placing pay-per-click ads on it for a few days) to gauge whether the ads will make more than the annual cost of the domain. Read more about it here (link opens in separate window). Apparently, "domain name tasting" has developed from a five day grace period on domain registration which allows people to turn in domains that they have registered by mistake.
How did I come across Domain Name Tasting? From researching a Ken Palm of i-Time Marketing, Falcon, Colorado ... or of flkdomaindiscovery.com or of thepreferredurl.com or of Davenport, Iowa.
|
Ken wrote to me on Monday, offering to sell me phpquiz.com for $557. He wrote to me on Tuesday, with something he had forgotten to mention. On Thursday, he sent me a reminder and a nice link I could buy through. Saturday, and he tells me about a limited period discount he's offering. And on Sunday he writes "Make me an offer" ... |
I don't actually want to register phpquiz.com - we already have www.phpquiz.co.uk, but something in Ken's emails - his extravagant claims for the domain - made me have a look into him and I discovered what appears to be a "scam", where he tastes a domain for a few days, during which time he tries to sell it to interested parties in exactly the way he has tried to sell to us. I understand that if you are REALLY interested in a domain that Ken Palm is looking to sell, are willing to take a very slight risk and wait a few days for him to return it, you'll be able to register it for $10 or so. I learned that from here and here
Posted by gje at August 25, 2008 12:47 AM