Comments on: DomainState.com Auction Is Canceled

By: domains

domains — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:36:19 +0000

this thread is a hoot, you must be loving the traffic chef?
i have read all comments and am still unclear who is buying ds? is it snoop doggy dogg or someone else??

By: Kevin Ohashi

Kevin Ohashi — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 11:46:48 +0000

I suppose that is where we will agree to disagree. I don’t see many good candidates at all. I don’t think most of the regular members really see any outsider capable of coming in and running it successfully. Unless you’ve been active there for a while, it’s hard to really grasp the size of the shoes a new owner would have to fill.

By: ForumNDD

ForumNDD — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:09:37 +0000

Yep.
Wish you the best with the new (or “old”, I dunno ^^) DS snoop.

By: EM @ KING.NET

EM @ KING.NET — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:08:54 +0000

In a minute I thought I am in DS forum. Tsk.

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:55:48 +0000

Agree, but at this point there’s a choice to whom will take control. Even though there’s a lot of talk of getting to wrong hands, there are many of us who would like to see the forum continue and be successful. In this respect there’s a plenty of good candidates.

By: Chef Patrick

Chef Patrick — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:00:50 +0000

The article itself is neutral. I try not to stir up any drama on the blog. However, people seem to reveal themselves and drama in comments.

By: Kevin Ohashi

Kevin Ohashi — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 11:16:00 +0000

I am pretty sure there is more to it than money. Why would they suddenly be so greedy? Does that make sense? Perhaps they saw that the people who might be likely to buy out the forum would probably ruin it and they would watch 7 years of their hard work get thrown away? I would guess that would be change their minds a lot more than the money.

By: stephen douglas

stephen douglas — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 09:19:49 +0000

I’m with Adam on this…

However, Chef, you did the domain industry a big favor by revealing the character and ethical behavior of certain parties in this blog article. You even captured “not so subtle threats” coming from one writer, who lately seems to be “warning” those who he imagines are “after him”, which is oddly humorous, since some certain parties commenting here base their businesses predicated on making fun/attacking other domainers.

By: t

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 05:27:46 +0000

It may not be proper but People have the right to change their mind, unless there’s a contract involved. People are understandably upset as they saw an opportunity just vanish after putting in effort,time, and some even money, like cohen if he’s paying for the sponsored listing on domaining.com. I say at the end of the day its better that one of your peers owns the forum rather than the Man.

One word………….Transparency.

p.s. They should have just taken in another partner they trust that would have managed and moderated the forums in exchange for a stake.

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 03:53:04 +0000

Seems to be a lot of unnecessary hate/animosity in these posts.
The process has been strange and poorly thought out, but not like that doesn’t happen to the best of us. Partnerships can make for messy exits.