Congratulations Ryan (AKA RDCE80)

[Jack Bean]

Great news on your super sale of the premium domain energydollar.com!!!

https://twitter.com/x/status/1929943680950907137

The 'Moonshot experiment' is a marvellous idea, and the fact that you are sharing this magic is purely biblical. Like Jesus you have risen from obscurity to save the domain industry once again. You have many domaining disciples I see, but I fear you could be having a 'Moonshine experiment' on this occasion

PS: Where's Krista's dosh my dear king of ghosting?

 

[jerrydomains]

 

[dn]

Yeah, it's kinda telling how all these hyped enterprises - brandable, digital candy, and (what was that 4letter platform he recently acquired?) must have demanded so much real, tedious, behind the scenes labour, that the revelation has struck like a bolt from the blue - why work on them, in a world where exists GoDaddy?

Not sure now, how his platforms are going to be bought for 4bn, with GoDaddy as the only contender.

If you can't sell to them - switch to them

 

[Jeff]

Strange thing to tweet.

If the customer has already paid, seeing this is only going to piss them off. Why would you do that to someone who's just given you $28k, and may be interested in acquiring other domains? And if the customer hasn't paid yet, there's a good chance that they'll renege, or at least try to renegotiate the price.

But most of all, he's basically saying that people should use Afternic/GoDaddy rather than any of his own sales platforms. I wonder what his partners make of that message?

 

[rob]

I wonder what his partners make of that message?

What partners?

 

[dn]

What partners?

these:

DOT UK GROUP LTD people - Find and update company information - GOV.UK

DOT UK GROUP LTD - Free company information from Companies House including registered office address, filing history, accounts, annual return, officers, charges, business activity

find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk

already gone..
I wonder if there is litigation in place.

 

[Jeff]

these:

DOT UK GROUP LTD people - Find and update company information - GOV.UK

DOT UK GROUP LTD - Free company information from Companies House including registered office address, filing history, accounts, annual return, officers, charges, business activity

find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk

already gone..
I wonder if there is litigation in place.

That's interesting, because they're still showing on the Brandable website - although technically they remain the founders, even if two of them are no longer involved.

But who can blame them? I'm surprised they put up with his antics for as long as they did.

 

[jerrydomains]

is anyone using brandable .uk platform, what is it like? link on homepage to popular domains doesnt work

 

[Jack Bean]

is anyone using brandable .uk platform, what is it like? link on homepage to popular domains doesnt work

I doubt it after the public assassination of his own brands by stating Godadda/Afterprick is vastly superior to his own. He can't give them away on his own platforms but he can sell them at over 10x the asking price at Godadda/Afterpric. Did he really sell it my question? I am now making an educated analysis based on his previous announcements and statements. We have to be very careful who we believe in the industry don't we?

https://twitter.com/x/status/1918360347133821195

https://twitter.com/x/status/1918743237583651126

I have my own investigative report to publish here very shortly, stay tuned.

 

[Jack Bean]

Strange thing to tweet.

If the customer has already paid, seeing this is only going to piss them off. Why would you do that to someone who's just given you $28k, and may be interested in acquiring other domains? And if the customer hasn't paid yet, there's a good chance that they'll renege, or at least try to renegotiate the price.

But most of all, he's basically saying that people should use Afternic/GoDaddy rather than any of his own sales platforms. I wonder what his partners make of that message?

Denys has found another piece to the puzzle with his latest investigation.

I'm not one for casting aspersions, but if partners in business are heading off in different directions, then I assume the assets will need to be divided equally. If one partner remains, then it would suit the remaining individual to have the assets as near to worthless as possible and making a statement like he has made about how shite his platforms are compared the most well know competitor is a damn good start on the road to ruin. Get my drift? This is just a possibility, not a factual claim. The last thing I would want to do is blacken such a wonderful character the the wee chappy we all know and admire as an industry pioneer

 

[AlistairH]

Ryan has a peculiar take on how to market / manage a new platform. Lets start by immediately around the launch by attacking the very community who are likely to be your biggest potential user base by getting their new forum shut down through legal threats to the forum owner, simply because on that forum it had been highlighted there was some serious data breach occurring at the platform. All he had to do was hold his hands up and demonstrate it was being dealt with and thank whoever it was who brought it to their attention and most people would have respected that and moved on and potentially considered using the platform (not least because there was actually some good people involved in the platform).

And now this? Basically saying move your portfolio to Godaddy where you'll likely get a much better sale than on his own platform. I've probably missed loads of other events that have happened over the timeline, I haven't followed it all however he's not quite the "domain guru" he apparently thinks he is!

 

[Jack Bean]

I decided to examine the evidence more closely in a way that could be independently verified by anyone on this forum. So, I decided on this occasion to utilise AI and upload 2 images that were taken directly from Twitter, yes, Twitter, not X. The right click and save as was of two alleged Afterprick emails informing the recipient that they had just sold a domain. The first image I am uploading is one taken from the Twitter feed of a young lady who resides over in the good old US of A and goes by the name of Miss Krista Gable (AKA Domain Domme) and the second uploaded image has been taken from a mystery domain guru who just happens to be worshipped by the entire world. Can you guess the wee fellow's name??? The AI ran what is known as an ‘Error Level Analysis’ (ELA) on both images, and the results are extraordinary. I am still in deep shock by the result, however, I will post them here for nostalgic purposes. Anyone wishing to replicate this test just needs to grab the images from their respective Twitter feeds and upload them to the AI. Ask the AI if it thinks anyone is a little fibber!

Happy scrutinising chaps.


First ELA and young Krista's email:

Here's the Error Level Analysis (ELA) for the second image (the aiwashing.com Afternic email), and here’s what it shows:

Positive Indicators of Authenticity:

• Uniform compression throughout:
  • The text, logo, and $1,888.00 price all show similar error levels.
  • There are no bright anomalies or patchy areas around the price, unlike in the previous doctored image
• Consistent compression in branded elements:
  • The Afternic logo and footer panel both glow lightly, but this is typical for graphic elements embedded in emails.
  • The ELA glow is smooth and consistent, not abrupt or layered.
• Body text & domain name ("aiwashing.com") behave as expected, showing normal text compression without signs of digital tampering.

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Interpretation:

• This image does not show signs of doctoring.
• The price ($1,888.00), domain name, and overall layout appear genuinely part of the same email rendering and compression
• It looks like a real Afternic transaction confirmation.

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Summary:

Criterion	Result
Price field consistency	Looks natural
Font/element uniformity	Matches overall style
ELA glow around edits	No suspicious edits
Likelihood of authenticity	High

 

[Jack Bean]

And Now the mystery domain guru's results:

 

[username]

Is the green highlight just how outlook displays emails when you search for a word/phrase and click an email result?

It says about afternic having usual clean formatting, I don't associate anything to do with afternic or GoDaddy as having clean formatting or design. If it said crappy and clunky I might agree. But the point is a bit moot, as they are just using a font. Who doesn't have a "clean font" when they're freely available for anyone to use, plus the spacing is modifiable vs CSS very easily. The point being that font spacing is variable, so without comparison to a genuine article it is meaningless.

Anyone can download the HTML file for an email and load it in a browser in order to display an email as it would be displayed, so there would be no need for pixelation as editing an afternic email is pretty trivial.

The point about not having a universal formatting for the date and time, I would suggest there isn't a "universal format" for everyone worldwide and nobody in a place would set their formatting to universal formatting - it's displaying UK formatting with a 24 HR clock dd/mm/yyyy hh:mm. Nothing abnormal there as far as I can tell. Is it suggesting we should all have US formatting?