Comments on: Escrow Services Reviewed

By: Kia Foster

Kia Foster — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:27:55 +0000

In fairness to escrow.com they replied ;
“”Escrow.com reserves the right to provide the Buyer a written 48-hour notice if an Inspection Period has ended without the Buyer’s involvement “”

Make of that what you will. So in other words FORGET what number of days that you say is inspection period, if buyer fails to formally advise escrow.com that they accept the domain then escrow.com add another 2 days on for good measure. Not happy with that.

By: Kia Foster

Kia Foster — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:24:26 +0000

I would like to add my 2 pence worth to this discussion if I may. I have used escrow.com a lot, under different account name in case they are reading, and until about 12-18 months ago was impressed by their speed of payout BUT now I am wholly unimpressed as even when I have chosen 1 days as inspection period and buyer HAS accepted the domain is in their possession still it takes escrow.com 2-3 days to even despatch the money. I asked them “why” and they failed to answer (as they probably have no real answer). Also ,I agree that any buyer with ill intent could easily con escrow.com into believing they did not have the domain name and get out of paying.

Next time I am trying escrowdns.com and see how they perform. If better than escrow.com then I will close my escrow.com acct and tell them why !!.

By: Justin Godfrey

Justin Godfrey — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:52:42 +0000

Elliot, thanks for the review. I have also used Escrow.com for $100,000s in transactions and I really liked their system. The point of creating EscrowDNS.com was to combine an Escrow.com service with the ability to interact with the customers and help the transaction flow smoothly. Obviously Moniker knows domain names and I’m not sure if I have ever used the service but I’m sure they offer a good service. I didn’t open EscrowDNS to compete with any escrow services that are currently established. I wanted to start EscrowDNS to offer a service that people want with the added security that is needed with this transactions. By having us push the domain names to the buyer we can eliminate any concerns with the buyer adding privacy to the whois information. We also have credit card and paypal authorization forms in place that a buyer must complete in order to pay with these methods. For anyone that hasn’t tried us out or is skeptical about us go ahead and drop us an email. We’ll let you try our service out for free and you can be the judge.

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 00:15:25 +0000

Interesting how this blog censors comments that are contrary to their own. You just lost a reader.

***UPDATED BY ELLIOT***

Huh? What did I sensor?

By: Steve M

Steve M — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 01:16:39 +0000

Thanks for the info, Monte.

Based on it; and the other comments of how domain escrows can be gamed (that I hadn’t been aware of); I think I’ll probably stick w/Moniker for escrows from here on out; especially so for the high value ones.

Again; would be nice to hear from the other cos on this important matter.