Archive for October 23rd, 2014

AbdulBasit.com is now 2 years old

AbdulBasit.com-is-now-2-years-oldHello and Assalamo Alaikum,

Time really flies and it’s over 2 years since the launch of AbdulBasit.com and when it completed the first year I wasn’t aware at all. But this time I thought to remember it and still missed the shot. I still can’t believe it’s over 2 years and it’s an amazing journey. I would like to thank specially those friends like Jason Thompson, Mark, Konstantinos, Paul, Tauseef, Michael Law, Vincent who shook hand with me when my blog was relatively new and gave me respect. Also big thanks to Francois of providing me the platform to share my views, experiences about domains. It’s a great feeling to have my blog at Domaining.com. I may have missed few more to list down.

And without my loyal readers and specially the commenters, it would not be easy to operate the blog. You guys are the boosters and are always needed.

During this period, I saw many ups and down in domain business. Learned many things from fellow friends in domain space. It all started when I acquired AbdulBasit.com and I wanted to share my experience and how I operate my domain business with everyone else and to grasp knowledge from fellow domainers. Although English language is not my preferred language which was a barrier for me to start off at the very beginning but gradually things got smooth and steady.

Pheenix.com domain backordering service review

pheenix-backordering-companyHello and Assalamo Alaikum,

I haven’t published previous month’s parking revenue and it will be done by next month which will have combo of two months together.

It’s been several months since I have started backordering domains at Pheenix.com seriously. The word ‘seriously’ was added because when Pheenix.com was launched I jumped in to see the new service but it didn’t work in my favor because almost every time someone had already placed the backorder and that time Pheenix was taking backorders on first come first serve basis. I am always in favor of such system so I was trying my best to place backorders as quickly as possible.

When they got known to many of the domainers, they changed to auction system similar to NameJet and Snapnames since the start of 2013-08-01. I got an email from the CEO Tan Tran letting me know that from now onwards Pheenix will allow multiple backorders on domains.  For all domain names caught after 2013-08-01, if there are multiple backorders placed on the domain, then a 3 day private auction will be held.  Only customers that have an active backorder on the domain name prior to the domain name being caught will be allowed to participate in the private auction.

I just stopped backordering because I was attracted towards them with first come first serve basis and later it was changed. Tan was good enough to offer me 2 additional backorder credits which I refused to take at that time and took my credit back.

I still see the competition is a touch low at Pheenix compare to other platforms which are known to everyone but since I am sharing with you guys, the competition is going to be stronger now 😉

Fast forward today, I am actively using their service and quite happy with their success ratio. I would strongly suggest to use them along with NameJet and Snapnames to backorder domains.

What’s your experience with Pheenix and how things go with you while using that company to backorder domain names?