Mass mailings about dropping domains amount to spam.
If you’ve ever been relentlessly spammed by an organized “expiring domain mafia” you know the signs: an email arrives, offering you to express interest in a domain soon to drop.
The email arrives with hidden/falsified headers, or uses offshore “bulletproof” web hosting companies in Eastern Europe or Central America.
Supposedly, it contains links to remove oneself from further emailings, but these links only serve as confirmations of your email’s validity.
Some have claimed that Backorderzone, a drop-catching service, is associated with a large amount of such spam, and despite a lot of such accusations at forums, there is no concrete evidence supporting this claim.
The COO of Backorderzone made an announcement dispelling those common “myths”:
“First, our company is privately owned by Argam Poghosian. He is the CEO and has not been involved with any other company referenced here, unless it is related to capturing domains with us. Just like any other backorder service, we do business with many different companies. We currently outright own 40+ domain registrars, which means that many of those registrars were purchased from companies that originally used their own brand as the registrar name. To clarify, we are NOT owned by intrustdomains, epik or any other company in this thread. You can call us, email us, etc. and you will never talk to someone at our company that does not work directly for backorderzone.com or bellnames.com (our domain platform)
Second, someone accused our company of “stealing” domains. As other users in this thread have said, we are very strict with our auction rules. Once an auction begins we do not let ANY other users in the auction, even if they offer us all of the money in the world to do so. (And trust me, we have been offered a lot.) In addition to this, we strictly disallow any of our own staff members to use our backorder service if there is more than one backorder for the domain.
Third, regarding bellnames.com. This is our domain landing platform, this is where our backorderzone.com domains are managed. Just like any other registrar/host, anyone can use our platform and point it to hosting, email servers, etc. We do not spam, because we have no reason to spam. We offer backorder services and we profit off of our auctions and credit purchases, we upsell on hosting, domain registration and email services at bellnames. When we get any reports of spamming from our hosting servers, the issue is immediately handled and the TOS offender is removed. We manage over 100,000 domains, all owned by many different users, and unfortunately we can not police them all.”
With this announcement, Backorderzone is now open to responses, and anyone who disagrees with this announcement can definitely share their thoughts.
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