Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2012 11:56 am
I thought we'd seen the end of most of these chancers but another one has crawled out from beneath a particularly ugly stone.
Basically, they are emailing paving contractors up and down the country offering to sell domains which they have bought for a few pennies, but the price has miraculously escalated to three figures or more. There's an element of cyber-squatting too, that old ruse where they buy up, say smithpaving.net and then try to sell it to the legitimate owners of smithpaving.co.uk or smithpaving.ie on the pretext that valuable business leads are at risk of being lost.
In the last fortnight they've been touting pavingcontractor, patiocontractor, drivewaycontractor and several others with ludicrous claims about how potentially valuable and attractive these domains are.
Take it from me: I've been running this website for over 15 years and a domain name is worth chuffing NOTHING until it has some decent content. You could have worldsgreatestpaving.com and it would not even register on a search engine until some poor sod had spent many a long hour creating usuable content that can be indexed by the search bots.
Sadly, the person doing the emailing is threatening to bombard you with 'false lead' calls if you challenge their business practices, and freely admit that they will waste your time in retaliation.
It's hard enough to make a living in this trade at the moment without these Olympic standard masturbators muddying the water. So, unless you have a real hankering for a particular domain name and plan to use it effectively, steer well clear of these eejits.
Basically, they are emailing paving contractors up and down the country offering to sell domains which they have bought for a few pennies, but the price has miraculously escalated to three figures or more. There's an element of cyber-squatting too, that old ruse where they buy up, say smithpaving.net and then try to sell it to the legitimate owners of smithpaving.co.uk or smithpaving.ie on the pretext that valuable business leads are at risk of being lost.
In the last fortnight they've been touting pavingcontractor, patiocontractor, drivewaycontractor and several others with ludicrous claims about how potentially valuable and attractive these domains are.
Take it from me: I've been running this website for over 15 years and a domain name is worth chuffing NOTHING until it has some decent content. You could have worldsgreatestpaving.com and it would not even register on a search engine until some poor sod had spent many a long hour creating usuable content that can be indexed by the search bots.
Sadly, the person doing the emailing is threatening to bombard you with 'false lead' calls if you challenge their business practices, and freely admit that they will waste your time in retaliation.
It's hard enough to make a living in this trade at the moment without these Olympic standard masturbators muddying the water. So, unless you have a real hankering for a particular domain name and plan to use it effectively, steer well clear of these eejits.
