You’re not being honest on multiple levels, Andrew. That includes deceiving your own heart. Read Jeremiah 17:9 for an accurate description of the human condition when it comes to matters like that.

It’s not like your own political disposition has not been clear to anyone who’s been around these blogs for years now. Or that of some of the other most famous people in domaining.

If I showed a copy of the support issue I alluded to, anyone and everyone would see immediately that something was extremely “not right in Denmark,” and something kind of crazy, not believable, and clearly just bad was afoot.

As for my almost certainly stolen backorder – if people knew what the domain was they would know that no domainer on earth would ever have been interested in the domain, not even to hand reg if it were available. And in fact, after putting it up for sale as it was, it was allowed to expire and drop again and has remained unregistered all this time because I also lost interest. I could get it right now if I wanted. But somehow, magically, someone was not only interested enough to catch it on the drop, but do so at Sav itself. Oh no – it’s not that some Sav insider knew there was a backorder there for someone who might be willing to pay $x,xxx – it was just some magical coincidence that the hand regger not only registered it at Sav, but even defeated Sav’s own backorder to do so. Not GoDaddy. Not Register.com. Not eNom or Tucows. But Sav itself. Well lions and tigers and bears… As in, as non-credible as it gets, even to a 12 year old. In my generation, more like even to any 6 year old an up.

So no, there is no “narcissistic take.” I’ve been dealing with “human nature” all my life, probably more so than most, and it’s all just “101” as to what not only “likely” happened but also what simply did happen in most cases. Just like when I was blocked by a discount reseller from completing payment for a domain in 2001 that wound up with one of the most famous big markets then three days later, while the domain did not exist and could not even be registered during those three days; just like how a very famous name not that long ago falsely charged my payment source $x,xxx’s when they knew they shouldn’t and had no basis to, requiring fixing that; just like everything that occurred at RegisterFly; just like how a formerly more well known registrar apparently tried to steal one of the biggest prize domains from one of the big releases of the past 25 years, possibly even working with a famous domain market for that as well; and just like how another obscure registrar in Canada had to have a registry itself intervene when they were “behaving badly.”

I actually regret even commenting at all here, but I’ve reached that point in life where you don’t care anymore and would rather just do it. The reality is that there been too much “human nature” going on among some players in the industry at times. So sure, strictly speaking it’s not logically impossible that there was nothing “rotten in Denmark” going on with Sav for every experience, but I do doubt it. As one who’s been around the block more than most.