Vampire Domainers – they suck the life out of you!

How many times have you made the mistake of publicly offering to assist someone with their domaining questions – only to start receiving an onslaught of both public and private inquiries for assistance from a mob of people?

The moment that you appear to be handing out advice, assistance, guidance and support to a select few of your choice, that’s the time that the Vampire Domainers appear.

These creatures live off the kindness and support of people like you. They lack personal motivation and want things explained in ultra-fine detail; instead of utilizing your directions and suggestions they are asking for hand-outs, ready-made solutions and pretty much a five-course “dinner served” on their plate.

“I got that email from a person I hardly knew and he was so pushy with his requests about me becoming his mentor in domaining that I wanted to slap him”, says John, a well-known domainer from San Diego. “I don’t mind answering a few questions but man, if one needs a babysitter they have to pay me. I worked hard to become who I am”, he added, visibly frustrated.

Many Vampire Domainers frequent domain forums and PM their victims or ask for their instant messenger info, phone numbers or attempt to add them in Facebook or MySpace. Quite often, their obsessive and annoying behavior is coupled with public acts of affection towards their unsuspected target.

“I’m so done answering questions that lead to more questions which lead to emails and even phonecalls”, says Timothy – an unpaid moderator at a large domain forum. “I have no problem directing people that seem lost, but there are  lot of newbs that simply want to remain newbs forever and they never read the freaking manual or do research on their own!”

In the world of domaining, as in every industry, time equals money and when Vampire Domainers attack like leeches, you are bound to lose a lot of both.

The best solution seems to be never to offer your professional advice and assistance for freeexcept to the select few of your choice.

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