Last night I was involved in one of those auctions that never end. I understand why and agree that auctions should be extended when a bidder becomes the high bidder. It gives the previous bidder time to counter and avoids sniper. Flippa’s hour extension is a but much but I’m fine with the time BUT…… not when the bidder hasn’t beat the high price. Flippa extends it an hour on every single bid in the last hour. For example. I put in $700 and the current bid is $300 and a bidder put in $310. BAM!!!!! it gets extended an hour. In 50 minutes he puts in $320…..BAM!!!!! extended another hour. At the rate that bidder was bidding the auction would have lasted another 40 hours. Not exaggerating. It would be extended 40 times and he hasn’t even passed my bid yet. I just went to bed and woke to see what happened. I did end up getting the name just 6 hours after it was supposed to end and deep into my beauty sleep. . Here are today’s names
YIM.net 18 years old. Under $1000
Spotty.com Would not be surprised to see this hit $5K
ORGU.com 15 Years old. Better as a pronounceable than an acronym Sounds like the name of a killer whale
CreativeBaking.com No bidder. Solid cooking name. As long as creative doesn’t mean cilantro I’ll eat it
ILoveAnything.com Not sure if it has any value but a few bidders think it does
HeatYourFloor.com No bidders. Great marketing name for heated floor installers
HeatYourFeet.com Might as well pick this one up as well
9949.net Not surprised it’s gotten this high. May have another $1K to run
2p.cc The highest price I’ve ever seen for a dot cc
Whittling.com I learned to do it from Andy Griffith. God rest his soul. Although he may still be alive.
ZZIZ.com The worst acronym ever. And that’s why I love it
VEWU.com Officially a CVCV but a middle of the road one. Still valuable
QYTY.com Doing better than I expected. I am still getting used to this new resurgence of Q and X
NEW GODADDY COUPON CODE: $1.99 Transfer into Godaddy VARIANT
FreeChess.com Buildout name. Nothing makes money like Free
Surfboard.net Ends today. Dot com is taken and built out forever. Modem site. Leaving this as the best domain in the world to actually sell or discuss surfboards
BookBag.org Ends today. Low reserve. Sell bookbags At $50
Timeliness.com A lesson on how not to list a domain. Evidently doesn’t know how to use a reserve
700X.com In my opinion these NNNL.com are undervalued right now
DomainBid.com Reserve met. Nice domain auction name
SEDO’s Live Auctions Going on Now
CashWagon.com 16 years old and no bidders. I’m hooking it up to truck
DMLL.com 130 bids can’t be wrong
OrganicFarmer.com Organic is always hot. Nice to see a farmer name doing well.
Asho.com I’ve been called this a few times
GameViewer.com After the billion dollar sale of Twitch, this one went way up in value
Zaxy.com Should do well. Has a $400 prebid
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Your Andy Griffith comment made me spit out my coffee 🙂
Concerning the Flippa time issue, I thought you can bid below the high price or am I missing somethibg?
Sahel,
You can bid below. What I am saying is, in the last hour if anyone bids at all, the auction is extended an hour.
Godaddy has the same process but only extends the auction to 5 minutes right? So if I bid $500 but the auction is only at $10 then someone can bid $5 every 5 minutes and keep extending the auction. I’m only asking because I recall godaddy saying that they do not extend the auctions if the high bidder is not changed but I have seen differently.
Brock,
5 minutes is fine, high bidder or not. But an hour without the high bidder changing takes forever
Yeah i completely agree that one hour is way too long.