uk domainer £4 million house

No need to be skeptical — Barry’s the real deal. He was the poster boy, the David Beckham of the domain world! We've done business and spoken on the phone over the years, but never actually met in person or at any of the early meetups. Great to see he still bears a strong resemblance to his avatar!🙂
 
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I really don’t see the need or benefit to investigate like this (looking for problem's).

On another note dealt with Barry many times also over the last 15 years, he is a gent.
 
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There are too many tossers associated with our exclusive little industry, especially in the UK, so I sincerely hope BG is the real deal. That's what I'm thinking Jerry.
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fair point, perhaps others have created this issue and lack of trust, but this is easy to prove if both companies are in the uk right, the company buying the parking platform and the company that sold it will both show the transaction in the accounts. the uk is very open and all accounts are open to see.

so easy to check this and prove even if there is a non disclose agreement, what was the parking company name that was bought and what company bought it, are they both uk
 
Barry's an open book, any questions you may have just ask him.

Been a great help over the years, never misses a beat if his advice is needed.

Appalling taste in shirts but that's small potatoes.

No need to try and find a bogey man
 
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The parking platform was Domainparking.co.uk (Domain Parking International) LLP, which 123-REG / Webfusion later acquired and rebranded as 123-parking.co.uk. In addition to the parking companies mentioned above (e.g., NameDrive; Ed was a good friend too), there was also Streamic (James Dale and Paul Harwood), who remain close friends to this day. Not forgetting my other friends in the States, Ammar Kubba (TrafficZ), DomainSponsor (Lawrence Ng & Fred), and the legend Igal Lichtman (DomainSpa), also known as Mrs Jello, who sadly passed away in 2013. There was also Bodis (Matt Wegryzn), which a person we all know and love, James Tublin, later joined.

It became a pretty busy space, and although 123 ultimately bought the company, prior to the acquisition, NameDrive had expressed interest, and DomainSponsor flew my wife and me out to LA to see if they could better 123’s offer. (Both Andrew Bennett and Jim Davis can confirm this, as they were involved in the acquisition process with Thomas Vollrath at the time.) You can still see loads of old posts and mentions of the platform across the forums (Acorn and NP), along with all the old faces, for example: https://www.acorndomains.co.uk/threads/domainparking-co-uk.28418/

You’ll also find old sites and timestamps in the Archive if that helps clarify things too. There’s also a mention back in 2009 on HostSearch: https://www.hostsearch.com/news/123-reg-drives-revenue-to-dormant-domains.asp Plus to further back up it was all real, you can see the change of hands and name changes of the company here: https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/search?q=domain+parking+international+llp

I hope this helps clarify, guys.
 
One of my very first sales as a domainer was to Barry many years ago, was very straight forward and a good example of how to conduct business.

Streamic... now that brings me back, I'd completely forgotten about it.
 
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so the company was started on 17 Jul 2007 now XDPI LLP and then sold for millions less that 2 years later, well done barry. have you managed to repeat the success again
 
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The parking platform was Domainparking.co.uk (Domain Parking International) LLP, which 123-REG / Webfusion later acquired and rebranded as 123-parking.co.uk. In addition to the parking companies mentioned above (e.g., NameDrive; Ed was a good friend too), there was also Streamic (James Dale and Paul Harwood), who remain close friends to this day. Not forgetting my other friends in the States, Ammar Kubba (TrafficZ), DomainSponsor (Lawrence Ng & Fred), and the legend Igal Lichtman (DomainSpa), also known as Mrs Jello, who sadly passed away in 2013. There was also Bodis (Matt Wegryzn), which a person we all know and love, James Tublin, later joined.

It became a pretty busy space, and although 123 ultimately bought the company, prior to the acquisition, NameDrive had expressed interest, and DomainSponsor flew my wife and me out to LA to see if they could better 123’s offer. (Both Andrew Bennett and Jim Davis can confirm this, as they were involved in the acquisition process with Thomas Vollrath at the time.) You can still see loads of old posts and mentions of the platform across the forums (Acorn and NP), along with all the old faces, for example: https://www.acorndomains.co.uk/threads/domainparking-co-uk.28418/

You’ll also find old sites and timestamps in the Archive if that helps clarify things too. There’s also a mention back in 2009 on HostSearch: https://www.hostsearch.com/news/123-reg-drives-revenue-to-dormant-domains.asp Plus to further back up it was all real, you can see the change of hands and name changes of the company here: https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/search?q=domain+parking+international+llp

I hope this helps clarify, guys.
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Hey Barry, appreciate the reminder about the state of play back then.. yes - all familiar names, I think I am now starting to re-collect seeing DomainParking.co.uk too (and certainly we all know 123-parking.co.uk, once it became prolific on every unused or past renewal domain with 123-Reg..). But for some reason I had little idea it was your brain child. Were you not hosting pub beer parties for domainers, as Namedrive did? Maybe that's the reason 😉
 
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jerrydomains said:
so the company was started on 17 Jul 2007 now XDPI LLP and then sold for millions less that 2 years later, well done barry. have you managed to repeat the success again
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Thank you for the kind words! I’ve yet to repeat that level of success with another company, but I’ve been fortunate to make some good investment choices over the years. Ironically, Doug Scott (Redbrain.com) and I are business partners, and we're launching a new domain platform that we hope the community will find useful. At some point, when ready, I’ll start a thread to invite feedback.
 
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Hey Barry, appreciate the reminder about the state of play back then.. yes - all familiar names, I think I am now starting to re-collect seeing DomainParking.co.uk too (and certainly we all know 123-parking.co.uk, once it became prolific on every unused or past renewal domain with 123-Reg..). But for some reason I had little idea it was your brain child. Were you not hosting pub beer parties for domainers, as Namedrive did? Maybe that's the reason 😉
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Yes, we had a few drunken domainer get togethers, handing out DP pens and bits, haha! Just like the old NameDrive and SafeNames (Stock Brothers) days with their BigYobi launch. Great times! It would be amazing to try and recreate those moments with the community again. There are still some brilliant minds floating around the UK forums, and you never know what kind of magic can come from these meetups. Maybe someone should start a new thread to arrange a get-together in a location that suits everyone, maybe around Sept/Oct after the school holidays? I’m sure most of us remember how great Angie’s meetups were. Andy Bennett was always brilliant at organising them... Aaandy, where are you, lol
 
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Was this launched on AD?

https://app.domainpark.com/sign-in and https://precisiontime.co.uk as an example.
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Yes, but it was launched a little prematurely, which is why I haven’t officially started promoting it myself yet.. it’s still a work in progress. There’s a significant amount of code and templates still to deploy, but we’re nearly there. That said, early testing has been promising: for example, we’ve been working closely with E.L.F to deploy in-site checkout (so users stay on-site), and we’ve already managed to get CloudSkin.co.uk ranking near the top of Google for the exact-match term “cloud skin.” But this is just the basic stuff, the real magic comes with the v2 deployment. I’ll keep you posted if you’re interested.
 
Fair play to whoever did your breast augmentation Baz! That son is a nice pair of norks you've got there :p:love:
 
alwena said:
Fair play to whoever did your breast augmentation Baz! That son is a nice pair of norks you've got there :p:love:
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I'm in touch with my feminine side, don't hate.. 😜
 
Legend has it that Barry Garner prowled the glowing veins of the early Internet—his lantern a battered laptop adorned with dragon-scale stickers. He planted names and pathways like seeds of magic, each one a hidden realm waiting to awaken. By day he toiled in silicon bazaars, weaving charmed pages for noble merchants; by night he slipped into shadowed data-alleys, scripting secret forums and crystalline galleries unseen by ordinary eyes.


When the Dot-Com Collapse thundered across the land, toppling fortunes like fragile towers, Barry’s creations stood unwavering—each URL humming with enduring enchantment. Some whisper he ascended into the Cloud itself, a spectral guardian still perfecting the next digital kingdom. And on moonlit nights, webmasters swear they hear a lone ping in their server logs—a soft reminder that Barry Garner lives on in every whispered corner of the web he once called home.
 
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I am a little skeptical about how BG is depicted by this program. A guy that 'Made his millions' buying dot com domains in the mid 90's and selling them, making millions, I was around back in the day and I am confident I would have had an inkling if it was factual, however, BG has clarified his route to mega wealth which was via a sale of a company that I can find no trace of. Again, I was familiar with most of the parking platforms 20 years ago, such as GoldKey, Name Drive, Park, Parking Panel, etc. Maybe BG owned one that I missed. I know TV shows want to glamorise and spice things up for better viewing, but the show made little sense in what it was trying to get the audience to swallow. I believe the Porsche 911 Turbo belongs to BG, as the number plate indicates this to be the case. Too many gaps for me to swallow the narrative hook, line, and sinker. There are too many tossers associated with our exclusive little industry, especially in the UK, so I sincerely hope BG is the real deal. That's what I'm thinking Jerry.
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did u get this one wrong jb
 
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Legend has it that Barry Garner prowled the glowing veins of the early Internet—his lantern a battered laptop adorned with dragon-scale stickers. He planted names and pathways like seeds of magic, each one a hidden realm waiting to awaken. By day he toiled in silicon bazaars, weaving charmed pages for noble merchants; by night he slipped into shadowed data-alleys, scripting secret forums and crystalline galleries unseen by ordinary eyes.


When the Dot-Com Collapse thundered across the land, toppling fortunes like fragile towers, Barry’s creations stood unwavering—each URL humming with enduring enchantment. Some whisper he ascended into the Cloud itself, a spectral guardian still perfecting the next digital kingdom. And on moonlit nights, webmasters swear they hear a lone ping in their server logs—a soft reminder that Barry Garner lives on in every whispered corner of the web he once called home.
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