Domain Shane’s Daily List of Domains at Auction for Thursday, December 21st, 2017

I emailed Dennis Toeppen about the name FlipFlop.  Most of you probably don’t know Dennis unless you are an old school domain investor.  Back in 1995 he registered a bunch of domains that were popular trademarks under the thought that they couldn’t be trademarked.  He fought it in court with his lawyer who happens to be a good friend of mine. They lost their cases.  Essentially setting the precedent for trademark law in domains. My friend specialized in telecommunication law and at that time, domains pretty much fell into that category so he worked the case.  He is not proud he was on the losing side of a case of precedence.

Dennis wasn’t too happy either.  When I mentioned my friend’s name in the email he said “He is no friend of mine”.   Dennis has made some good money in domains as he also registered other great names and some good Geos.  But Dennis is not very well liked. He has always been known as eccentric but he really got into heat lately.  Dennis’ main business is owning Suburban Express which is a bus service that caters to the local student population here at the University of Illinois. Taking them to Chicago and to the airport during holidays and weekends.   You can read more about all his antics on his wikipedia page but the latest stunt he paid made national news this past few weeks.

In an ad he listed one of the perks of taking his buses during the holiday season was “Passengers like you. You won’t feel like you’re in China when you’re on our buses” .  Illinois has been increasingly accepting overseas students, especially Asian.  They are willing to pay full tuition and spend a ton of money in our community.   Undoubtedly it has been a noticeable change on campus but his marketing against the change was not well received.  There were articles about him all over the country and it brought up all the crazy things he’s done over the years.  Of course I remember him for his domain registrations but those didn’t come up in the articles.  Nor did the fact that he is an asshat, but you don’t have to say that in an article to see it.  His actions clearly define the term.  PS. He came back at $100,000 for flipflop.com  Here are today’s names. They don’t work unless you click on them

Quote of the Day:    “What seems too high and risky to the majority generally goes higher and what seems low and cheap generally goes lower.” -William O’Neil

Domain of the Day:  MarijuanaBlockChain.com   Why not, its as good as some of the other wonderful crypto names that are selling. But the price is pretty high

Namejet and Sedo Names at Auction

6883.com  Love seeing these prices.  Bitcoin smitcoin.  We all missed a lot of money on these too

Veggies.com  Met reserve.  Looks like it is going to hit five figures

Evaders.com   Sports team name.  Dictionary word with no bidders

BestItem.com   People look for the best.  Nobody is looking for ordinary

TalkingShirts.com      BIN at $99.  Buy this in your instantly in the novelty shirt business

MellowDate.com    Canna dating service.  $99 BIN

Schnauzer.com  Someone is selling off their dog names.  The other days was a terrier name

BitcoinMiners.com  Getting the bids you would expect

BetterMusic.com   Nice brand.  Of course better is completely personal

CryptoEvaluation.com  Met reserve at four figures

Dinosaur.net  Everybody wants to own a dinosaur as a kid.  Now you can

858.xyz     Been a while since one of these sold.  Reserve under $500

BetterPayout.com  Good marketing name for a gambling site that wants to push this thought

Go.UK   Not sure of the value of LL.uk but sure is a nice name

Godaddy Domains That I Like With Multiple Bids