There is a reason why Namejet is the best auction house. They listen to their users. They are always improving the system. It gets better every year. The result is more bidders, higher prices, and record number of sales. Then there is Flippa. It’s a good auction house. Their improvements are made from a group of owners sitting around a table. I said it in a comment last night. They (and Kevin Fink) have built the only auction platform that doesn’t get fed expiring names. That is amazing all by itself. But the frustrations of a few things actually costs them bidders.
Two quick examples, proxy bids. If a name is at $40 and I put in a bid at $700, then the new bid is $50 and it works up as people bid it up. Right now its put in at $700. Now Fixed. Actually it was always fixed. I made an error. If you are bidding under the reserve it automatically takes your bid up to max since it doesn’t really matter since you haven’t met reserve. Once it HAS made reserve it is a true proxy bid. I guess I had never bid over reserve :). Two, an HOUR extension at the end of the auction? Sure, I don’t need sleep, I’ll stay up 10 hours while the auction keeps getting extended. That’s a start if you want me to bid. I got plenty more for later. Here are today’s names. Click for current prices. Buy some please
877.io Numeric dot io have gained traction and have moved up quite a bit in the last month
.Runing.com Are people so dumb they think this is how you spell Running? Maybe I’m the dumb one and don’t know the word runing. Tons of bidders and almost at $4K
TinySheet.com 16 years old. Short two word brand that’s at a good price under $25 at press time
MHPD.com Western and Chinese premium. Investment quality. There I go again, sounding like a stock broker. Although I am a much better domain investor than stock investor right now. F’n Chipotle
SoftDiet.com This is what I am always on. Not soft foods but a diet I’m not trying very hard at. 7 bids
InfinityLoans.com This is what all payday loans should be required to be called. Because that’s how long it takes you to pay them off. No bidders
FFTalk.com Fantasy Football talk. No bidders, only $12
Glodo.com Nice 5L.com for under $20
LegalRiver.com I don’t like swimming up this one. But the backlinks and traffic sure are nice
ARYR.com Getting a good bid. The Chinese LOVE A. That’s not exactly true, just trying to start something.
EOFM.com Going to get overlooked because its not a CHiP. Take advantage. Good Western acronym
GNKA.com Same here. The Chinese LOVE A. Still kidding
MFN.co Surprised how high this dot co is already
339222.com Buy every triple repeater you can in 6N.com Opinion/Advice of the day
WLNN.com Top tier non Pattern. I am a bidder
GSMN.net The best letter dot nets continue to climb with the LLLL.com market. 5% is the ratio to use IMO.
A big bag of LLL.co today. My favorites of the group are….
PQQ.co, PMI, YNY, BJT, DKP, and PNK.co
C928.com These are getting regular bids now. Secrets out
588845.com Triple 8s against a 4. 4 always wins
BBNJ.net Very nice LLLL.net
TZZZJ.com Maybe worth a shot at $17
Condone.com If I knew the difference between condone and condom I would be more accepting and would have one less kid. Auction is a few days out.
WP7.com Also up in a few days. These LLN are really climbing lately. People are figuring out they make good online brands and are more rare
JS8228.com There are a ton of these JS names. This is my favorite
JS3883.com And one more
EmmaJane.com A true business for sale. Probably won’t meet reserve but love to hear the story behind this one. Built a heck of a company
8880858.com If translated to English, it will be “get rich, get rich, get rich, you get rich and I get rich”. And I’m not making that up. At $1
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TJLZ.com From Ebay to the Top now we’re here. Ugly duckling became a CHiP
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MaxForce.com Sounds like an upgraded engine for your truck. Which is a good thing. 20 years old
Photogs.com Evidently what photographers call each other. Or at least somebody calls them this. 20 years old
ETCD.com Love this one. Great acronym
SBOC.com Another nice Western acronym. C at the end is the best IMO. Reserve is very high
LittleVillage.com Two known words. Upgrade name for quite a few people. We can’t forget about these nice two word dot coms. They two are becoming scarce.
SpreadEagleRanch.com Definitely not sending my daughter here for summer camp
ZHP.net Streak
ZHC.net Double streak
3For1.com Interesting name. I can see it being used in a marketing campaign.
9MR.com Very nice shorty. See above, or yesterday, or really any day. I say the same thing every day. Sorry
Jodie.org Worth a few hundred just as an email for all the Jodies out there
4196.com Last chance to get an ever rare NNNN.com
SelfHelpGuide.com Because you know people will read it
Isothermal.com The physics term actually makes a nice brand. Just a few brands
Parrots.com Ends today. Sell or info are your two choices.
FloorMaintenance. Info or perform the service. 348 million Google results
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The one hour extension enables seller to get the most out of their properties as it prevents sniping. The best the buyer can do is to place his maximum bid and forget the auction, at least for sometime.
Frank,
Of course you have to extend the auction. This isn’t 1997, sniping is done. Extend the auction for 5 or 10 minutes and give the bidders time to up their bid. Of course you can eliminate 90% of it by allowing me to play a nice proxy bid. These rules hurt the buyer and sellers don’t get jack if the buyers aren’t happy. You need both sides to be happy with the process to succeed long term. In order to get the best price for the seller you have to give the buyer the best and easiest way to place more bids.
I don’t follow on the proxy bidding thing. Flippa does use a proxy bidding process.
https://support.flippa.com/hc/en-us/articles/202469934-What-is-proxy-bidding-
Are you referring to bidding when the reserve hasn’t been met? If that is the case, then the max bid should go in as long as it is under or at the reserve price. That is one of the most frustrating things about the GoDaddy proxy bidding process. They don’t put your max bid in if it is under the reserve.
Travis,
If that is true then I need to apologize. Perhaps each time I am bidding under the reserve. Looks like I need to edit my complaints.
Good morning ,
Read your article this morning so funny always enjoy, love your humor!!
Shane Dog, Keep up the good work. Its the first page i look at when i get to work. sweet names today thanks for the heads up as always.
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Runing is a funny one it will get a couple hundred type-ins a month tops, but cpc will be pretty low on runing. So @4k is a bit high but if a China buyer just wants to make a few hundred in parking per year then it would be good. But I would not except to get 500 or 1000 type in’s a month.
Once stock China market goes down even further like last night domains are going to be looking even better. It will work opposite of the doom and gloom everyone is writing about.
Donny,
It is funny how many of the people I consider very intelligent have no clue how the Chinese stock market effects domains
What does this translate too? It is in NamesCon