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This was an interesting morning. It would seem that both Google and Enom have dropped the ball so to speak. Early in the day all Google search results, when clicked, would advise you that the website you were trying to vew was unsafe. This was ammusing, but if you knew where you wanted to go, easy to bypass.

Enom’s mistake is a little more frustrating. Apparently it seems as if all of Enoms DNS servers, crashed. Causing all domain names that are with Enom, to subsequently pull up nothing. Sites like NamePros and NameJet were and are still currently affected by this problem.

Proving the Domain Drop Market is anything but dead - FlashCards.com expired and finnished its auction run on NameJet today. It started the day at around 10,000 but shot up when two big hitters collided. It ended at a whopping $40,200.

Escrow.com has been a steady and safe mode of payment for me in the past. In my opinion they have only one flaw in their service, which is not securing the Domain from the seller. Today I recieved a phone call from Escrow that troubled me even more.

I was due a small escrow transaction of about $700. I was simply waiting for the ACH to hit my account. This morning I recieved a phone call from Escrow, explaining that on accident, instead of depositing the funds into my account, they had withdrawn them.

In their almost 10 years of business, this has never happened (claims Escrow.com). However, it frightened me that his happened. Fortunately, I was prepared in a case like this, the account that I send and recieve money in, ususally has a balance of less than $100 (in the event something like this happens). Meaning, more than likely the "check" will bounce and i’ll be stuck with a few minor fees.

Escrow insists they will "Make it Right", but I’m not sure I will ever be comfortable using them in the future.

Justin