Gratitude.
I read about the Domaining.com acquisition of DN Gator both over on Theo’s blog (creator of DN Gator) and on DN Forum and I really can’t understand what some people are all worked up about… Did you own a stake in the business? Did you pay to use the service? Did you contribute any money to the day to day operations of DN Gator?
I find it pretty incredible that Theo runs a free service for months and then gets people calling him a “sell-out”, implying that he’s a liar, etc because he makes a business decision to sell DN Gator to Francois from Domaining.com. Another thing I can’t understand is the hatred some domainers seem to have for Francois and Domaining.com.. What exactly has he done to you? He’s fixed everything most domainers were complaining about and he’s provided us all with a free service which you can choose to use or choose not to use.
Criticism is one thing, however going out and attacking someone’s character isn’t necessary or appreciated — especially after people such as Theo and Francois have been generous enough with their time and money to provide the domaining community with a service free of charge.
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July 5th, 2009 at 7:25 pm
I think a lot of domainers and domainer wanna be’s just have plain old fashioned envy for Francios. What I do not understand is 99.99999% of domainers are in domaining for money, so why do they get wired up when they think somebody might just be making some money.
July 5th, 2009 at 7:37 pm
A clear sky fears no thunder. Old Greek proverb, although it’s not by Aesop
I developed a service, offered it for free, sold it when I felt it was taking too much of my time and resources. That’s all there is to it. The challenge lies upon those that grumble to create alternatives. For the record, Francois is French and there is a huge language and cultural barrier to overcome daily but he manages pretty well. He’s a smart person and it let to this agreement and sale.
July 5th, 2009 at 11:37 pm
Reece I have never visited either site ever, are they the same thing ? I thought both were just an rss aggregator which I just had a friends 12 year old build one for video games not domaining. Is there value in domaining acquiring DnGator ? I have no idea but I know you know. Thank you
July 6th, 2009 at 3:11 am
Hi Ray,
Yes - they were both RSS aggregators. I’m not exactly sure what kind of (or if an) overlap existed between Domaining.com visitors and DN Gator visitors, so I wouldn’t honestly have much of an idea either about how valuable an acquisition this will be for Domaining.com.
July 6th, 2009 at 5:15 pm
The only thing I can say is Francois can be rude sometimes.
Not pleasant to deal with.
July 6th, 2009 at 8:24 pm
I don’t know either person but I have heard nothing but nice things about Theo and the opposite about Francois but until I meet either I form no judgements. I already respect Francois for what he’s built and I’ll wait until I work with him to take it from there
July 6th, 2009 at 11:05 pm
Shane, thank you for the kind compliments. I must say that Francois has been misunderstood, by myself included. He made some business decisions, he changed them per the feedback and the bottom line is, he offers a concentrated source of daily info for free. I need to emphasize the FREE part: it means, that complaints on a free product show a character flaw.