It's "escrow.com", not "escrow". They try to do a funky thing with their logo to separate the escrow part of it from .com, but they aren't brash enough to leave off the suffix. If they did, I don't think it would fly.
I searched for "escrow.com" reviews and found some negative ones. So there's one reason why someone might not use it.
Another reason would be that as a general escrow service they may not understand the domain escrow process as well as a company that only does DNS escrow.
Escrow.com has been the gold standard in the domain industry for years. I've personally seen hundreds of thousands of dollars in sales take place with them with no problems,
"I searched for "escrow.com" reviews and found some negative ones. So there's one reason why someone might not use it."
With all due respect (as they say) does this really add anything helpful to a discussion? It's like "I've searched online and people say that wordpress has security issues..."
First of all, as pointed out by others in this thread, that is not the case with escrow.com who I have personally used over the years (and seen used) for numerous transactions. And it is who people use for these transactions, is a specialist licensed in all 50 states (no small feat). Additionally the process is as close to bullet proof in terms of protecting both buyer and seller. And they aren't so large (ala ebay) that if you have a problem you can't get someone on the phone to rectify. Lastly, the President (Brandon Abbey) replies to emails (and in fact adopted a suggestion that I had into escrow.com service).
"Another reason would be that as a general escrow service they may not understand the domain escrow process as well as a company that only does DNS escrow."
Let me assure you that they know that process very well and the industry has responded to that. They are used by buyers, sellers, attorneys, everyone. I get the point you are making which in a general sense can be a valid one. But not applicable here.
> With all due respect (as they say) does this really add anything helpful to a discussion? It's like "I've searched online and people say that wordpress has security issues..."
I wasn't arguing against escrow.com. I was arguing against the comment I replied to, where the author presented escrow.com as an obvious choice, with the incorrect name, and no reasons in support of using them.
That's why I said "might" instead of "should". My point is that one can always find reasons not to use something, in absence of reasons why they should use things.
I don't want my comment to be taken without taking into account the comment I replied to, and if that's the only way people are going to read it, I retract it.
I searched for "escrow.com" reviews and found some negative ones. So there's one reason why someone might not use it.
Another reason would be that as a general escrow service they may not understand the domain escrow process as well as a company that only does DNS escrow.