I believe he is equating you/your theory/findings to paranoid individuals and/or those believers in conspiracy theories and cover ups — think aliens, UFO’s, faked moonwalk, JFK’s assassination, the Knights Templar, the Masons, the Illuminati, etc…

Some of these believers are also sure that some people/aliens/black-ops organizations are capable of reading minds, hence the tinfoil that prevents the scanning of one’s brain.

Good luck with protecting your gray matter, thanks to the TSA & Homeland Security, they now have sidescanning technology that can come from below to read your brain waves thus bypassing a head based tinfoil wrap. Now one must wrap the entire body with tin foil to avoid a scan… Hahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

**Jamie Says**
Not sure what that means… “tin foil hat wearing”?

When you have 850k names, even a tiny _percentage_ of names sold can equate to what seems an initially impressive number of _actual_ sales. 100 sales a week would only be 0.6% of their inventory a year. Only selling 0.6% fits in with the idea that not all their inventory consists of gems.

**Jamie Says**
I know one thing, Afternic pushes their Phone Number very hard. This is what I think happens and often ~ Somebody may call with a specific domain in mind but if that one is not priced right, not listed or agreements do not come, “other” names are passed around, which will very likely be Afternic owned domains. These callers may also call with their “idea” and pass around several keywords and try to match up the idea with the proper domain. Again, Afternic owned. If nothing comes of those, the last ditch effort would be to pass along “member” listed to see if they can still get 10-20% of that sale. Since Afternic advertises to end-users, I would bet the vast majority have no clue what whois is and have never used it.

IT, it sounds like you think that they can turn a sows ear into a silk purse for $19.95 – if they could do that, they wouldn’t need your domains would they?

**Jamie Says**
I think the “Quality” is no factor what so ever. Afternic owns over 850,000 domain names and we all know they are all not “Gems”. Look at the domains I posted sold… All of those sold for $2,000 or Greater and you can’t tell me TestQ.com or Isoflavones.com or GrannyAnnie.com or GiftAbility.com or CompareTool.com or SaveGreat.com can not be matched or bettered by member domains.

Also to note, do not forget about the 10% or 20% Afternic get’s for selling a Member Listed domain. So it’s not “Just” a $19.95 yearly membership fee to offer your domain names for sale.

Great Post!

I have used them before and didnt really click with them – I still have an active auidance account but never use it and I probally still have names listed there but havent optimized!

I obvious that most of the 500,000 names that NameMedia own / BuyDomains are going to try and sell through Afternic they need revenue and this is one way to gain that and also prove that they can sell name even though they are there own names.

Happy New Year When It Arrives Jamie!

All The Best For 2009!

Warm Regards,

Robbie