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The proposals now competing disagree about almost everything except the starting point. The listing database is valuable because working brokers build it, one listing and one represented client at a time. Every proposal on the table is, at bottom, an argument about how to honor that fact
Arguments about real estate data are conducted in a specialized vocabulary, and the vocabulary is doing real work. These terms decide who may see your home listing, who may build products from your sale price, and who pays whom for what.
That trade has broken down, because some firms now take data out without putting listings in, and others want to hold listings back while staying in. In the summer of 2026, three documents from three organizations proposed three different repairs. Here they are, in plain language.
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TBT – 1998…
Before we were “The Data Advocates,” we were the “InternetCrusade.”
We traveled North America teaching about the miracle that was the Internet, and sold domains when the only place to buy them was Network Solutions.
There was no profit in the domain business at the time — we sold them for our cost — but they were essential for one’s “Internet Presence,” (email address and web address) and that was a big part of our message to the real estate industry — own your own domain.
Anyone here buy their domain from us? John, Saul, Terri, and Mike Barnett