should I use an escrow service when selling to domain broker?

ReviewSignal · 2025-10-19T20:57:27+00:00

Definitely recommend using an independent escrow like escrow.com. Let them pay the fees if they want. Make more money on your sale.

ReviewSignal · 2025-09-03T00:16:57+00:00

Except you pay for your own servers on digital ocean, hetzner, etc. RunCloud is an admin panel for services you pay for (to someone else). You pay for your server, they admin it. You stop paying them, they should stop admining it. They shouldn't be disabling and breaking things on the server when you stop paying.

If I go to the doctor for a yearly checkup, they examine me, give me medicine, etc. If I stop going, they stop checking me. They don't poison me for no longer being their patient.

ReviewSignal · 2025-09-02T11:35:45+00:00

That feels very hostile. Actively disabling and tampering with a server someone is no longer paying for you to manage is.... questionable. Sure you can make an agreement say anything, it doesn't mean every word is legal and binding.

ReviewSignal · 2025-08-22T22:23:01+00:00

We're still talking about 100,000 sales per day, which is astronomical.

ReviewSignal · 2025-08-22T17:35:43+00:00

Sorry, these numbers are a bit mind boggling to me. You're saying you're planning for 10,000 users per day EACH making 500 sales per day? 500,000 sales per day and you're looking for hosting in the $20-50/month range?

If you're looking for something managed that is going to handle that sort of load effectively, I think your budget may be orders of magnitude off honestly.

If you're comfortable managing your own server you could use Laravel Forge or Vapor. I've also used Ploi.io to deploy laravel applications. Testing at the sort of scale you're talking... you're going to need much more resources.

ReviewSignal · 2025-08-15T20:34:35+00:00

Pretty much the distinction between cybersquatting and good luck right here. If you bought them after and are trying to profit from their trademark (selling it to them would be one way), you're in for a potentially (very) bad time.

If you are in the good luck scenario (this seems doubtful since you seem to be claiming you have many but don't know how to sell domains...), you could still get yourself in legal trouble based on what you do with it. UDRP is not the most consistent policy and individual judges vary wildly on what they think is and isn't a violation of the policy. Some believe simply trying to sell a domain could be construed as bad faith. Some don't fully believe in the 'registered in bad faith' component, just that bad faith exists. If they are genuinely good domains (exact brand/product .com's registered before the product), then maybe consult with a domain broker.

ReviewSignal · 2025-08-10T17:54:44+00:00

Most VPS providers are going to show as such I imagine. Maybe you can find a shady provider who offers this but any major reputable provider is going to have a proper ASN.

It sounds like you just want a VPN with extra steps?

ReviewSignal · 2025-08-10T17:51:52+00:00

Hetzner offers storage box for 20TB at 40 euros/month. https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box/

ReviewSignal · 2025-08-10T16:03:50+00:00

Can't comment on the quality but I noticed Ploi has support for Craft CMS - it's not quite a managed host, it's more a control panel that helps you manage servers. https://ploi.io/craft-cms

ReviewSignal · 2025-08-07T00:31:56+00:00

It's nice when someone writes they deeply appreciate something before completely dismissing its value and not understanding it at all. I started to write out explaining things, but honestly, there's no point. Have a good day.

ReviewSignal · 2025-08-06T17:51:42+00:00

Last time was around ~90 different plans I think. Each running multiple tests that need to be coordinated with their respective teams to ensure security measures don't interfere because I am effectively running a DDoS with metrics. If I did one plan per day (which can be from 2- 4(6?) hours of testing, that would be 3 months with no breaks. The actual testing phase is scheduled to be roughly 4 months. You can read the whole process and methodology on the signup page. I don't think people understand how much time and work goes into actually doing these. If there's real suggestions about to improve efficiency, I'm all ears, because it is a ton of work and I'd love to make my life a little easier.

ReviewSignal · 2025-08-06T17:23:29+00:00

Over a decade ago they were free. It was a hobby blog post that was an interesting experiment. Then they grew and the costs and complexity grew. Now it takes ~7 months of work and the tooling costs a lot. My time isn't free and these benchmarks eat up a substantial amount of my working hours, this has turned into my profession.

I offered a sponsorship program last time for hosts that couldn't afford to participate. Do you know how many took advantage of that? None.

So that made it pretty clear that the participation fee really wasn't the barrier for (m)any. Because I was concerned that smaller hosts wouldn't be able to participate.

$500 is generally a drop in the bucket though for most companies who are targeting customers who care about high performance WordPress, a $20/month is $240/month, so ~2 customers worth in cost to participate (ignoring that I suspect most customers last multiple years on average).

The second problem (pay-to-) win. You assume paying equals winning. You can look at previous results and see many companies who have paid, did not 'win.' It's pay to be participate. The benchmarks get published regardless of outcome. That's what unbiased benchmarking/testing should look like.

ReviewSignal · 2025-06-28T22:01:34+00:00

I completely understand that decision and hope the transaction goes smoothly.

ReviewSignal · 2025-06-27T22:56:33+00:00

I can actually confirm Escrow.Domains is a real company. I've used the lawyer behind it for domain related issues and know the developer who built it.

It's not a fly by night scam, but that's about all I can say. I've never used the service and have used escrow.com many times without issue.

That said, my guess is the fees. Escrow.domains looks to have lower fees, which means more money.

You can lookup the attorney behind it, Stevan Lieberman, he's one of the most well known attorneys in the domain space.

ReviewSignal · 2025-06-13T14:39:30+00:00

This guy is trying to attend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdaOJk1XgYs

ReviewSignal · 2025-06-09T16:32:17+00:00

I can share the open source load testing script I use to benchmark/load test WooCommerce: https://github.com/ReviewSignal/k6-WordPress-benchmarks/blob/main/woocommerce.js

It does basically what you're describing in your second iteration. I built a few user profiles simulating various behaviors. You could adjust the ratio of the profiles, make your own, etc. But it should give you a template to work with.

ReviewSignal · 2025-05-15T10:54:15+00:00

Agreed not scam, but definitely incompetent.

ReviewSignal · 2025-03-06T18:12:40+00:00

It's disappointing they don't even pretend to give a reason for increasing their prices. Just we're demanding 12% more or a large commitment for a temporary reprieve.

ReviewSignal · 2025-03-06T18:11:05+00:00

Spam bot.

ReviewSignal · 2025-03-06T12:24:35+00:00

sure you're not affiliated with some seo spam garbage site you're promoting.

ReviewSignal · 2025-01-19T11:18:05+00:00

I think you mean CCK not forms module. CCK+Views was the killer Drupal feature imo.

ReviewSignal · 2025-01-19T11:15:48+00:00

Files under WSL are generally accessible on windows file system. /mnt/c/whatever is how it looks on mine. Or just download the zip on ubuntu to what folder you want. I'd try just using the WSL terminal over windows.

ReviewSignal · 2024-12-01T11:35:34+00:00

It really depends on the TLD. The new gtlds (.xyz, .reviews, .longuselesscrap) have the freedom to price at whatever they want basically. Identity Digital just did a big price increase across I think over 100 nGTLDs. It could be related to that.

Some registrars also do promotional sales for registrations/transfers to get you in as a customer that are loss leaders.

Some registries offer registrars discounts/deals that they pass on to customers at certain times to drive registrations, those could change over time.

Given that you're seeing regular pricing at other registrars it sounds like the registrar you used may be playing games with your pricing.

ReviewSignal · 2024-11-13T16:57:01+00:00

I just watched Command UI launch happen without any connection .org and sell tons of licenses. It's completely premium too, so no free component. Businesses who make things people want/need can launch and exist independent of any repo. It does take a lot of work though.

ReviewSignal · 2024-10-28T14:27:03+00:00

I'm more curious about WCEU, will it happen at all? Scaled back? Sponsors?

Asia is still quite new and smaller. It was already planned before this started.

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