A group of angry domainers gathered yesterday at an Applebee’s restaurant – at an undisclosed location.
The subject of discussion at the meeting: transparency in the domain industry.
Late in 2009, the domain industry was rocked by the “Hank Alvarez” scandal while another new controversial incident appears to have stirred a lot of anger.
“The large corporations that essentially make money from domainers don’t seem to give a rat’s ass”, said J.K – a domainer from Peoria.
“I would trust televangelists more before I trusted those ass-clowns!” he added, pointing the middle finger at the web site of a popular corporation that oversees – among other companies – a domain registrar.
Transparency means one thing: stop beating around the bush when security incidents occur, offer valid explanations, compensate the victims and punish the wrong-doers. This way, a corporation would maintain its domainer customers instead of pissing them off to the point of losing their business.
“Nobody seems to listen to the domainer community”, said Thomas – a full time domainer from Quebec.
“The larger the corporation, the more of a deaf ear they turn on the issues that we face. It’s sickening, eh!”, he added.
More and more domainers are willing to not just protest but to take their business elsewhere or even form companies that are built from the ground up by domainers.
“I think we need to teach those f*ckers a lesson”, said Bertha, a female domainer from Louisville.
“It’s my domains that you make money from, b*tch. I want to know when some assh*le snoops into my account, I don’t even let my wimp boyfriend do that!”, she added, flexing her tattooed arms.
Time will tell whether the companies involved in domaining will wake up and smell the proverbial coffee, or if they will continue to function as if they were above the law and with questionable business ethics.
