There was a name I had on Friday’s list that I decided to keep off the list, because I loved the name, it had no bids so I was hoping there was some way everyone had missed it and I could pick it up in closeouts, and I could also use the name for my own business if I wanted to. The name was SiteSimple.com. By Friday morning, the name had one $12 bid so closeouts was out of the question. When the bidding was done, the name ended at $1,009 with 63 bids. I stopped at $1,000, and who knows how high it would have gone if we both kept at it. I really do love the name, but there is already a SimpleSite.com with a trademark. I don’t think that matters, but a court could find the names confusing if SimpleSite.com decided to take action.
Other Names at Auction
yadkinville.com a town in North Carolina near Winston-Salem
MakeSongs.com time to get the band back together
UnitedExchange.com only a few more dollars to meet the reserve
California.dev has a $5,000 bid and has met reserve
BuyEco.com met reserve with a $3,000 bid
Cannabis.net domain and site with a low low starting price of only $10,000,000 and a BIN of $15,000,000
Godaddy Domains With Multiple Bids
Dive.net several very nice one-word .net domains expiring
65966.com a nice 5N with a price that is already more than double the GoDaddy valuation
rb6.com looking at recent 3C sales, I can’t tell where this is going to end up. $1,400 maybe?
xiqy.com a couple terrible 4L’s
MetroCorpCounsel.com highest number of bids on the board all going after backlinks I guess
osoris.com a last name but not a common one and too much like osiris to make it worth much in my opinion
UltraFinance.com ultra is a great way to start a name
EliteProductions.com so is elite
GoodCustomer.com really not sure who the end user of this would be
TableMatters.com interesting name for a blog or food journal (which it used to be) – bids are for the backlinks and traffic I think
TheHomePro.com this will end up on the side of a truck or van at some point
brandingu.com branding university
HotelAccommodation.com highest GoDaddy valuation on the board, but it isn’t a very good name
PetEase.com any number of pet related uses for this one
BluBear.com took me a minute to see it. expireddomains had this correctly camel-cased as BlubEar.com and I couldn’t figure out why it had bids
RealtyMiami.com big market – remember, realtor trademarked – realty not trademarked
RogueRobot.com going to be scary when it happens
MechanicalPencil.com exact match – going to need to sell mechanical pencils
Earth1.com really like this one
CoinUniversity.com crypto investment training program
scBakery.com South Carolina bakery
GodGroup.com start your own church
Godaddy Domains With One Or No Bids
IAmResponsible.com it’s memorable
FrownedUpon.com common term but not very positive
MonsterSecurity.com excessively large security
KushKraft.com the K in Kush makes the K in Kraft look right
DallasNerd.com tech recruiting in Dallas
ThemeWire.com decent name for a theme site
TheIslandGroup.com Caribbean real estate name
ColorsMedia.com wish colors wasn’t plural, but then it wouldn’t have zero bids
HereHoney.com would be funny to see this on the label of a honey jar
CardiacConsultant.com I think the plural of this is the valuable name, and it is in use
EarthAnimals.com excessively descriptive since we don’t know of any other animals, but it would be a fun site to build out
NortheastSigns.com that is a pretty big area with lots of signs
FrenchCountryStore.com nice name with no bids
ColoradoTools.com large tool and machinery rental
AboveSolar.com rise above the rest
Brandables
Seems like these should have political value
Other Names with 2 or more bids ordered by descending bid count
56cp.com
Today24News.com
valenciaterraimar.org
Newsletters.net
WaltEssays.com
zjjguide.com
ClydeCruises.com
NorthCountryChamber.org
AirgunForum.net
cgmusic.com
BigFishOnMain.com
StereoSubversion.com
ScienceFlora.org
njseos.com
antiquusmorbus.com
SportsRadioInterviews.com
ezscribe.com
thewpfblog.com
bimweb.com
AuctionSupplies.com
EastbourneTriathlon.com
spofga.org
PortugueseFoundation.org
Diamond-Head.net
RevelationAudio.com
CapistranoDepot.com
stompybot.com
RealFamiliesRealFun.com
SpaceSaversWallBeds.com
GoldenLandPages.com
WorldHelpers.com
ThosePeople.com
WebDatingExperts.com
hnsyufeng.com
souliciouslife.com
martinjemoore.com
WeCraveGamesToo.com
NewsPrelease.com
ElseNorStudio.com
yesom.com
tajmahalprescott.com
ahjryg.com
barvirage.com
myforexx.info
mobihouse.com
adoptanegotiator.org
eligo.net
sensatronics.com
kno3.com
wxjkxh.com
rongmaisoft.com
qdfangke.com
wakaligong.com
Pay6699.com
shdanmei.com
xmyunmai.com
ChinaStretch.com
szdjtzzx.com
syxrtg.com
qddhsg.com
ffayy.com
86Cache.com
9166qp.com
sanmaogu.com
rbudai.com
dayujike.com
hsdbuy.com
lylxsw.com
shanxidingyi.com
zblujin.com
TreeHouse-Bungalows.com
droee.com
nbcityjournal.com
CigarettesReporter.com
hdsyqc.com
StudentHotels.com
forexgn.com
InstAtAsk.com
stopdrm.info
MicroDoc-News.info
WeesToriesTheatre.org
DiegoLugano.org
potian8.com
WestWindGolf.com
BeyondFunerals.com
Car-Truck-Bumpers.com
vodoy.com
rondani.com
swautosales.net
SubsMovies.tv
mivenu.com
BladeHog.com
nmshsa.com
Digi-Tents.com
MyBless.com
CloudFor.com
cq638.com
d3head.com
fmotion.com
SandiegoPuppy.info
BestJuicerExtractor.com
RedStateDate.com
FreedomForLife.org
nhcopenhouse.org
hk2s.com
GoTissues.com
PolyKids.com
KingwoodHomes.com
bbinnob.com
drtenney.com
JonnyBones.com
rewpost.com
CinePicks.com
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Hi Travis, I can understand your feeling of losing out on SiteSimple.com. Instead of waiting to pick up good domains after they become Closeouts, how about not looking at the auction but instead just focusing on domain actually available in the Closeout session? In this case, you only see what’s available that you can pick up for $11. What do you think?
Hi Kassay – waiting for a name with no bids to hit closeouts is a strategy to avoid drawing attention to a name. You see it happen all the time. Someone puts 1 bid on a name and then everyone searching the auction list for names with bids sees it and the bidding soars. For this reason, there are a subset of users that fight for names as they drop into closeouts. These users may also be the reason that the bidding soars as they jump in once the initial bid took away the closeout chance. I wouldn’t have minded paying much more than $11 for SiteSimple.com – just not more than around $1,000. Looking at just the Closeouts is certainly a strategy to use. Personally, I feel like I find better names on the drop than I do in the closetouts lists, but I haven’t looked at it in a while.
Agreed. 99.999% of Closeouts are junk. How do you manage to look at many different marketplaces, filtering out junks, and doing research, while still maintaining a busy job? Amazing!
Easy, I don’t have a busy job. I semi-retired around 5 years ago. I contract / consult on a regular basis, but I wouldn’t call it a busy job. Beyond that, I don’t look through the lists every day either. Josh may like managing 20k plus names, but I’m fine staying around 1k, and that’s about where I am.
Great. Keep up the good work, Travis. Once in a while, if you can talk about the tools you use to analyze domains, that would be great.