<div dir="auto">Helluva thing indeed</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, 11 Jul 2018, 8:10 am Carlton Samuels, <<a href="mailto:carlton.samuels@gmail.com">carlton.samuels@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large">Maybe we should track these 'returns/abandonments' and in context, [re]read the recommendations of the Subsequent Procedures WG?  </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large">Saw a story of a domain investor account of his return on investment so far; he's in the red with diminishing prospects.  </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large">On top of these kind of stories that speak to the conditions in the end user market and the 'retired and/or abandoned gLTDs, it just seems 'otherworldly' to me that in all the happy talk of new rounds, this idea that demand has something to do with markets is largely left unmentioned. Helluva thing!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><a href="https://domainnamewire.com/2018/07/10/vistaprint-drops-vista-top-level-domain/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://domainnamewire.com/2018/07/10/vistaprint-drops-vista-top-level-domain/</a></font><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4">-Carlton</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="m_4912737787616458957gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><br>==============================<br><i><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">Carlton A Samuels</font></i><br><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><i>Mobile: 876-818-1799<br><font color="#33CC00">Strategy, Process, Governance, Assessment & Turnaround</font></i></font><br>=============================</div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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