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January 10th, 2008 by 
Jay Westerdal
We sold 16 domains in the auction today. The biggest bidding war was on Builder Loans.com. I expected more domains to sell. We had 150 viewers online during the auction. There was one technical glitch in the first 3 minutes, it seemed server lag. We started the process over again from the first lot and everything else ran good in the auction from that point. The software is still beta at this point but we are learning lessons every time we hold an auction.
There are a few domains that got bids after the auctioneer past on the lot with no bids, we are going to keep those lots open until the February auction.
Lessons learned from this auction:
- Pick better domains
- Pre-qualify metrics on domains using parking stats from parking companies.
- Make the user notes easier to write.
- Put a Chat Channel in the bidding room
- User count was 167 People watching, we should display user count.
- Pick better domains
- Good domains will always sell (BuilderLoans.com)
The bidding war on BuilderLoans.com took the domain from the $1,000 reserve to $8,000.
We have a 60 day contract right now to sell the remaining domains. If you have any interest in buying one of them please contact us at auctions@domaintools.com, we will be happy to work with you in trying to get you the domain.
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January 10th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
Just to clarify, you had a 60 day contract considering the original date the auction was scheduled for, January 3rd, not January 10th - that is the contract we all signed. What a dud of an auction …
UPDATE BY JAY: yep, 60 days from January 3rd. The contract ends on March 2nd.
January 10th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
Oh and one more thing… Pick better names.
Should have also used the “voting” system which was used in the first auction prior to names being finalized.
Multiple eyes on is better than one. I just hope my names are actually reviewed this time around for the next auction.
January 10th, 2008 at 2:21 pm
At least I see the conclusions are nice ones Jay. Yes, certainly pick up better names. Better names means more sales, more sales means more better names submitted in the next auction, more better names submitted … well, everyone got it.
The chat is a good idea.
Don’t know about the voting though. Maybe you can select a handful of domainers who would voluntarily evaluate the submitted domains separately.
Also, I think that 99% of the bidders were domainers. This must be changed in time to a maximum of 80%. It needs to be better advertised (and I do not refer to the domainer world). Advertise more. This could be another conclusion. No. Advertise better. Target your advertisement better.
And if you target domainers, some more liquid names may be good to throw in the list. LLL’s, maybe some great brandables too, like CVCV.com’s. Those would surely get bids.
And just as a last note, that ad on namepros was really really annoying.
Regards,
Alex
January 10th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
Jay,
The holidays killed you. I would not schedule auctions around major holidays.
In addition, the sexier auctions seem to be centered around actual live events–like your Domain Roundtable. If you are going to continue to do these live, online auctions I suggest that you team up with a major media player–like USATODAY. Split the revenue with them and conduct the live auction on their site so that you get a ton of press and a lot of non-domainers bidding. This would also work with Forbes or The Wall Street Journal. Let me know if you need any help with this type of strategy–I’ve been putting major media partnerships/alliances together for a long time.
Finally, you need to seriously consider hosting “Themed Auctions” (Industry specific auctions). This would give domainers something different to shoot for. It would also give Fortune 500 companies a reason to show up to bid on domains that are centered around their biz.
Keep up the good work. I know that this was a learning experience. You’ll do great next time around!
David Sams
DavidSams.com
January 10th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
Jay, I think you need to make a shift in your perspective when picking names. From the past two auctions you ran it is evident that you really like names that are brandable and would do well for an end user or a developer. However, this auction was only marketed to domainers. If you want domainers to buy, you have to have names that either get real traffic, or that can be bought at a cheap enough price to flip to an end user.
Healthyheart is a good name, and your explanation was spot on, but only to an end user. If only domainers know about the auction, no one will pay end user pricing.
Just a thought.
January 10th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
Sams, every once in awhile you amaze me.
January 10th, 2008 at 4:30 pm
I LOVE David’s idea of themed auctions!
January 10th, 2008 at 5:53 pm
I am the current owner of BuilderLoans.com and started the reserve low to intice bidding… After watching the first 40 ish domains, I was a bit worried. I also had 6 other domains in the auction and thought atleast 2 or 3 others would get bids. Not to promote, but GenuineGold.com is a great deal at $1K as well. I was happy to see the bidding frenzy on Builder Loans and I think with better domains in the up coming auctions, we will see a lot of this!
As I stated before, Myself and Justin (namebio.com) will be glad to assist in helping you pick domains for the next auction. Feel free to contact me or Justin.
January 10th, 2008 at 7:01 pm
I have a question and suggestions:
The question is - how would parking stats play into this? I’ve got over 750 domains and in the past years have moved them around to Afternic, Sedo, GoDaddy and even DomainTools’ programs and have experienced greatly different metrics on each domain depending on where they are parked. I totally understand that traffic is important but how can it be properly measured when my experiences have show such differing metrics?
There doesnt seem to be any rhyme or reason to these stats. Some names seem to do better at Afternic, some at GoDaddy and so on. Am I missing something with that?
I think sticking with good names, REALLY good names, is key. How can you determine good names? Thats the key question. I guess have a voting period and advertise it to as many people as possible. I think you did something like this last summer. We were able to vote. How do you reduce multiple votes for a domain by the same person (trying to pad their own domain so that it rises to the top?) I dont know for sure. Maybe force people to be registered and log in and log their IP address and vote? That would cut that down a lot I guess.
I dont know. I dont have all of the answers or I’d be running something like this myself on my own. Its just a suggestion. I know I submitted some very good names and compared to the domains that were chosen, mine are actually still in “Pending Review” status *and* they were submitted weeks before Christmas - so it was plenty of time for review.
Another suggestion would be to actually change the status of the domains. Its confusing to see the same status since December 4th when I submitted my names - even though I realized when the list came out that the names were not selected for the auction. If they were rejected then show “Rejected” or “Removed”, etc. If they were accepted then “Accepted”. I’ve actually deleted some domains which I wanted to remove from the list but left some that I wanted to hopefully get into future auctions. But they are all still sitting in “Pending Review” status since like December 4th. So a change in status would be very informative.
Just some suggestions - and a question…
January 10th, 2008 at 7:14 pm
The relative number of buyers who know about the auctions is extremely tiny. Until the reach is greatly expanded, and targeted marketing utilized, the auctions will all be limited in scope.
January 10th, 2008 at 7:31 pm
Jay,
IMO, most of the people spending big money at the domain auctions are other domain investors who want premium domain names. The names in this auction were mostly low end names, so many domain investors didn’t show up to bid. In order to draw the interest in the domain community, great names need to be offered. Of course it would be great if end users showed up, but I don’t think we’ve seen that en masse yet.
I think it would behoove domain owners to email potential buyers prior to an auction. Instead of complaining that auction houses aren’t doing enough to promote individual domain names, domain owners should focus on attracting buyers for their own names.
Best,
Elliot
January 10th, 2008 at 10:09 pm
The best athletes are usually wedded tightly to a team. Generally, those who are excellent at what they do are most often ‘busy’ working and are not looking or available to be recruited to a new job.
Quality domain portfolio owners and savvy corporations hold a very high percentage of what could be called the ‘first round domain picks’. Those domains are already working and not generally available.
While it is desired to hold as many of that type of domain as possible the fact is that the ‘franchise’ domains are for the most part happily working somewhere.
Even though domains can be many things and have value for many reasons I view domains predominately as the nano tech of advertising or adnano. Good domains get your attention. You remember them. They make you think.
To me, it seems that limiting the selection of domains for an auction to a small set of metrics, seeks only franchise domains and excludes many domains in the bulk of the domains offered which are excellent domains looking for a new ‘team’ or ‘job’.
The first and second rounds of the draft are over. The domains trading today are the best of what’s left sprinkled with a few diamonds in the rough.
The main problems for anyone managing a domain auction seem to be, attracting a few high profile ‘franchise’ domains, selecting for inclusion exciting, magnetic, memorable, and thought provoking domains from the pool of domains submitted for the auction, and effectively creating awareness of the auction outside the ‘domain industry’.
January 11th, 2008 at 1:31 am
Elliot,
I’m reading your post and it look likes targeted to me, I don’t like it because it’s not justified.
Auction houses (not specifically this one) SHOULD better advertise their events.
Unfortunately it look likes that Jay persits in this direction because it’s not something he added in his list of learned lessons.
150 viewers it’s a low number (at least THANKS for your honesty/transparency Jay).
As I already said: you cannot get x% of sales commisssion just because you have created a web 2.00 auction application.
Market and advertise the auction is a main part of your mission.
You need to justify this money you take when the domain is sold or the domain sale blocked for 60 days.
If I need to search buyers myself then I don’t need an auction, or simply a very low cost system that allows me to create a private auction between the buyers I found.
I will add:
I advertised for FREE this week the Jay event in DNF and NP (large leaderboards), and it was NOT done egoistly because I never advertised my own domains for auction but the DomainTools Live Domain event. So Elliot, I think having done my part of help.
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Jay,
To clarify: I appreciate your WHOIS service, and your blog is part of the more interesting domaining blogs. There is really nothing personal when I pest about the low promotion of your event. I simply want you integrate the marketing aspect in your business plan.
On a positive note I will congratulate you to at least make it happen and I wish you more sucess for the next auctions.
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A lot of comments here make sense.
I will just confirm there was a lack of domains for investors, those having significant domain metrics (term frequency, search popularity, average cpc…).
January 11th, 2008 at 2:17 am
I think more or less the names were ok, but when that said, I believe the reserve prices were way too high. When im attending an auction im looking at the possible value on the name, but in this auction I thought that I could get better deals around.
January 11th, 2008 at 2:57 am
Jay,
I appreciate the service you provide and thoroughly enjoy reading your blog. Over time I have become to think of you as a person who genuinely understands all about domain names. A DN Oracle before which all others interested in this industry should bow.
My confidence was severely dented by this auction.
I own something like 1300 domain names and although, like many, I intend to build-up the majority, the fact is that there are a few I want to sell. My reasons for this are two-fold - they are either too good for my purposes (in other words a bigger player needs to own them to build them up) or they are totally rubbish and I obviously bought them too late at night.
I looked to the auction to get a feel for pricing - my eye being caught by MoneyTV.com. When I first saw the list I thought it was simply the first names that fell in the door had been put up for the public to see and that it would change and filter as better names replaced the duffers- incredibly the list stayed the same.
The timing of the event (the is it, isn’t it date), the false start, the lack of good names, the poor marketing of the event, and the fact that the only people interested were those who put their own domains up or those who were hoping to do so at some later auction, made the whole event a shambles.
I agree with many of the comments posted here already and would add, that although this was shambolic from start to finish, that my estimation of you and your organisation is still very high. I feel that many others who have commented also feel as positive towards you.
The auction failed - but thank you for having the balls to put it together in the first place. I for one appreciate the technical efforts you went to but would suggest that when the next auction is announced (and it most certainly should be announced), it will include 300 brilliant names that everyone can see are either super-domainer-friendly (like Grampa.com) or are absolutely-brandable by people who are not from the domain community (like MoneyTV.com). The new auction should also link with some major domain event.
The most important thing is that the people bidding should never have heard of you or Domain Tools before - but will have found out that Grampa.com is up for sale by watching a story on the BBC,CNN,ABC, etc about how this is the ideal gift to buy their Grandfather for his birthday. Similarly, the Financial Times, CNBC, and all others involved with any aspect of finance or money will have heard via their own business grapevine (mags, blogs, newspapers, websites,etc) OR direct contact, that something like moneyTV.com is up for sale.
Jay, as a long time print journalist who has made the move to internet TV, I would request that you please talk to the earlier correspondent, MrHit (or someone similar), about his ideas for hosting the auction. If you are looking to get considerably more than 150 people watching then I would also consider employing a truly smart PR company to create a buzz about the event.
Please do not be disheartened by the auction. You’ve found the pan, made the fire, and cooked the food - all you need now is to get people to hear the sizzle and smell the bacon and they’ll come running over.
If you want a chat about promoting the next auction I’ll gladly fly over from England.
Finally, thank you for the other 99% of what DomainTools do. My life, and that of the majority of people in this post, is a lot easier thanks to your efforts and those of your team.
January 11th, 2008 at 6:11 am
>>I’m reading your post and it look likes targeted to me, I don’t like it because it’s not justified.
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Targeted in what way? As I said, I had no domain names submitted for this auction and I wasn’t a bidder nor intend to make an offer on any name, so how is what I wrote targeted? I use Jay’s services all the time and have thanked/complimented Jay many times, so this is obviously nothing personal either.
>>150 viewers it’s a low number
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I agree
>>Market and advertise the auction is a main part of your mission.
You need to justify this money you take when the domain is sold or the domain sale blocked for 60 days.
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I don’t think it was the advertising that was the problem. Many industry professionals use DomainTools daily to do due dilligence on domain purchases, and it was difficult to use the tools and not see banners. Also, anyone that has Jay on RSS knew about the auction.
It was the lack of quality domain names in the auction that killed it. Many industry people knew about this event but the names weren’t good enough to make them want to drop things and participate.
>>I advertised for FREE this week the Jay event in DNF and NP (large leaderboards), and it was NOT done egoistly because I never advertised my own domains for auction but the DomainTools Live Domain event. So Elliot, I think having done my part of help.
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No amount of publicity is going to get people to bid $3,000 on a name that might sell for $300. As you said, you had names in the auction, so it was in your best interest to publicize it so bidders would show up. I know plenty of people in the industry knew about the auction and chose not to show up because there weren’t names of interest.
January 11th, 2008 at 6:51 am
I agree we need more ‘opinions’ on the names selected for the auction. Why not allow all domain submitters to send you their top fifty saleable names (using quality of name and reserve as criteria) excluding any of their own submissions.
We could send them to you in an excel file. You could merge the excel files then sort alphebetically which will make it simple to count how many submissions each name got. You choose the top how ever many you wish to include and place them in the auction roster in order with the concensus ‘most saleable name’ last.
Having the concensus most saleable names at the end of the auction should maintain interest through out the entire auction process… for instance in this auction theoretically BuilderLoans.com (with a $1000 reserve) would have appeared last.
Jim K
January 11th, 2008 at 10:42 am
1) Where are results of the auction posted?
2) I submitted 7 domains. One was in the auction and about the other 6 the website has said for several weeks, “we will send you an email when we finish reviewing 6 of your domains.” What is the status of these, were they rejected, overlooked, or are they being considered for future auctions? All of them were surely better than some domains that were in the auction.
3) It couldn’t have helped get bidders that your website continued to list the auction date as Jan 3 after it was changed to Jan 10. Even today, it still says Jan 3.
Bill
January 11th, 2008 at 11:34 am
Jay,
Some very good feedback has been given in the comments posted above and I’m sure that you and your team will think critically about how to continue to improve the process and the success of your auctions. Since there are already established players in the domain auction house business, you really need to think about how to distinguish your services from those of everyone else.
Domaintools definitely has the a solid reputation in the domain industry, but not necessarily in the auction arena and so you need to create the step up and establish that Domain Auctions is now an everyday part of your business. Since the investment has been made in the auction software, I would suggest that you put it to full use. Move the system into to daily use. Allow anyone to submit a domain in and allow them to set it for a 3 to 7 day auction. Establish a flat pricing structure with a stepped percentage for various price levels for anything over $X. Initially, maybe for the first two to three months, just offer the auctioning service for a small flat rate to create the vibrant marketplace that will make your larger, targeted auctions extremely successful. You could create a separate blog just for the auction segment of the business that would have picks of the day. If you want to have successful, large domain auctions, in addition to the other suggestions that have been provided, I believe you need to be doing it everyday. Thanks as always for all the great work and effort you put into making your services helpful.
January 11th, 2008 at 4:36 pm
I think the problem was two fold:
1. From a buyer’s perspective, the names were not worth my time to follow the auction. Not one domain interested me. (No offense to those who had domains listed) I DID purchase at the first/last auction you had 1 domain and bid on a few others. Plus, knowing that the reserve price would drop 10% after the auction - if there had been any domains that interested me that didn’t have bids, what was the incentive for me to make a bid then rather than wait?
2. From a seller’s perspective, the 60 day lock in was a disincentive for me to consider listing anything. For a relatively unproven model and new entrant into the domain auction business, this was a lot to ask of potential submitters. I suspect the same is true of many who did not submit or that submitted their better quality names/ones they want to move. I DID sell a domain in the last auction (1 was in it).
FWIW, I haven’t submitted anything to auctions of any kind in quite a while because of the exclusivity bit being added.
January 12th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
One important feedback I would give is that, Jay take feedback into account. Before the event took place I was looking at forums, blogs, etc, and most people very not very excited and most were negative about it. It was evident to me that it would fail. Main points were that being after holiday would not attract enough bidders, which turned out to be the case; not enough visibility, which turned out to be the case; very high prices so that many of the domains would not be sold, which turned out to be the case and such. Trying and learning from lessons is not good strategy (rather than researching and learning from experienced domainers). Extending deadlines also hurt your credibility. Why rush? Domainers would not submit their BEST domains to your auctions next time due to the disappointment they had. Given that there are many auctions out there (some very good), how do you brand yourself, what is the difference that you have. If it is yet another auction, you would definitely see more failures.
One suggestion I would have is if you want to do this every month, do not pick many domain names. I would rather pick 20-30 really good domain names with REASONABLE reserve prices. Good domain names eventually hit their right value anyways.
January 12th, 2008 at 1:55 pm
A lot of people criticize the quality of the domains at auction but Jay had to choose from what domains were submitted. So he was somewhat limited by the choices there.
Some people say the auction was a failure. The sales reflect what was saleable. The after auction sales might surprise us yet.
My advice to Jay would be to listen to the critics just a little and the good suggestions just a little then keep doing the auctions. That’s the way to get it right!
January 12th, 2008 at 4:53 pm
Well maybe next time it will be better I do agree with these comments I do not agree however with the way the auction was run. It sounded like to me it was a dysfunctional one but look at Bill Gates…he made many mistakes and look at him now he has billions of dollars why? Because he has learned from his mistakes. When you have a company or an Organization you will have many failures. I did not even see this auction advertised except on http://www.whois.sc I just have a word of advice. I own a business to make money I have to spend money sometimes I spend more then I make most of the time I make more then I spend. Keep in mind Marketing or Advertising is your whole company from the Customers point of view. And The CUSTOMER is your BOSS not you…
January 12th, 2008 at 5:23 pm
One day I am going to write book, the title “The Customer IS NOT ALWAYS Right”, constructive criticism, not just criticism makes things better-
January 13th, 2008 at 4:45 pm
Where are the results of 16 names sold listed on this site?
—AND—where are the names posted for bid at the reduced reserve??
Your software is good but too much which people don’t need or read.
The things that were not good:
1) extending the date ruined it.
2) no/late advertising
3) poor quality names IE: healthyheart.com with a 225K reserve??
4) no hot .mobi names means missed mobi madness action - ask sedo.
5) too much bs anaylizing - most domains sell big simply due to what the traffic(buyer) will bare - if it sounds good and makes sense someone will buy it.
(We all know this to be true and have all been ASTONISHED at the past sale $$ amount of domain names which we all desire.)
6) lower reserve after the fact is a huge negative thet killed it.
7) final, a lock in period of 30, 60, 90 days is no good and states from the start lack of confidence in name selection and quality of names - pioneer no lock in period. With good names at low reserves they’ll sell so the time wasted wondering and tracking if some jerk is selling the name submitted after the auction won’t be a factor.
(if it didn’t sell who needs it let it go)
Jay,
If this is what you think your “friends” in the business want, it’s obviously not. The big hitters didn’t even bid on those choices.
I would like to offer you our consulting services to help select the next round of inventory as we have picked many winners in the past.
Did you ever think of what a name like youtube.com would have sold for back then or even would sell for now if we didn’t know what it is?
zippo - just another two word .com domain - who knew?
(or maybe huge to what the creative buyer would bare)
LI Mark
January 13th, 2008 at 5:37 pm
As others have already pointed out, a commitment period beyond the end of the auction is dumb and self-defeating … if the names are good, they will sell in the auction venue. There was no extended commitment period for the auction back in August and it was a huge success.
Ron
January 14th, 2008 at 4:12 am
The commitment period does have to be rethought. If there are other upcoming auctions I would be very hesitant to submit a good name to this auction which would preclude me from submitting it to subsequent venues.
If someone sees a name at auction and does not bid because no one else has and feels they can pick it up cheaper after the auction do they really need sixty days to make up their mind?
I prefer no commitment… but 10 days would be reasonable and give ’second chance’ buyers more than enough time to make a move on it.
Are these unsold names being actively marketed by domain tools? If not where is the benefit to the owner OR to domain tools for the lock up period. How about a banner on the homepage and the auction homepage with “Great Names at Buy it Now Prices. Click here!”
January 14th, 2008 at 5:50 am
It seems for me that Jay learns from his own experience but not from others or other’s experience.I feel he is more of a practical person.
I raised the quality of domains issue long back before the auction started, so i no wondered when only 16 domain sold out of 170.Lessons learnt posted here and looks good but what are the changes for next auction? I am against for 60 day commitment period and the way he selects the names for auction. He is getting profit from business, so he has to spend for advertisement for the auction over the internet or has to get connected to other auctions sites
Let us watch this place
January 14th, 2008 at 8:53 am
Pick better names?
You should’ve learned that lesson the last time around. This past auction I was beside myself looking at some of the ridiculous names you picked.
Stop picking names like TimbuktuHousing.com.
Stop picking misspelled words!
Stop changing the rules midway, or changing the dates, or changing whatever it is you feel like today - you will never get it perfectly right.
Start listening to people around you. Where there’s smoke, there’s fire.
60 day commitment - you’ve been taking one too many lessons from Moniker, who simply don’t have a clue, they just get lucky every now and then.
Jay, you’ve built some great tools that a lot of us come to rely on - but the last two auctions were disasters in my opinion - the next one will tell the tale - PLEASE get it right, I’d much rather be here than Moniker.
January 14th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
Could there have been better names? Probably, but at what price range. I think the domains selected are mostly sellable. I think my three included were priced right and reasonable, they just didn’t get in front of the right buyers or enough potential buyers to compete for them. I don’t see the real problem as an inventory problem but an attendance problem. If there were 150 viewers, probably half or more were sellers. That leaves 75 potential buyers of which many were probably just curious domainers. A couple dozen real buyers doesn’t create enough competition to get a real auction going.
I agree there were many setbacks here including timing, no event to tie it to, date changes, change in submission format, etc. Here are some of my suggestions for improvement:
1. Tie it to an event, preferably with at least some non-domainer visitors. Why couldn’t it be done live from a booth at the Consumer Electronics show in Vegas last week? How about MacWorld, and auto show, or a non-domainer national convention. Have a themed show of auto names with a car show, boating names with a boat show, or home names with a home show. Even if a regional show, it’s likely some of the attending vendors might be END USER BUYERS.
2. Pick a theme (which was a great suggestion), at least then you know where to target promotion of a particular auction. The themes could be by domain keyword or market or even by types of domains such as ccTLD’s generic, typo, single word, acronyms, numbers, traffic names, multi-domain portfolios, etc.
3. Pick a dedicated domain location to have the auction. Burried several levels deep in domaintools isn’t the way to get end users. Promote it from domaintools.com, but have a separate auction domain where the auction IS the front page. Even as a seller I find it hard to navigate the auction in domaintools.com. Non domainers aren’t going to even find the name when looking for it. Godaddy picked a lousy domain in TDNAM.com for their auciton, but at least they have a dedicated site. Domaintools is mostly a domainers tool. A dedicated site might get some end user followers.
4. Use domaintools to promote domains coming up on auction. When someone does a whois for something like boatparts.com, have some text pop up with suggestions that “boatsomething” or “somethingparts” are in an upcoming auction on x date.
5. Don’t classify all domains the same. There is money to be made in sub-$1000 non-com domains. Now its difficult to get them accepted or get starting bids with a starting price of $1000 unless you bundle them. You might attract more buyers for the six figure premiums if more people were drawn to $300-500 domains that actually sold. If nothing else, at least it would get the word out that the auction actually sells domains.
6. Don’t reserve for longer than needed. 60 days precludes selling at other venues unless you show you will be actively marketing the domains after the event. I agree with others that 10 to maybe 30 days max would allow any stragglers to buy.
January 14th, 2008 at 7:58 pm
That separate website ain’t a bad idea at all. It is a little hard to navigate through the Domaintools site to the auction pages.
Tie-ins to external events are good. You don’t even need to be at the event but you might want a “spokesperson” there.
January 15th, 2008 at 3:01 am
Jay,
I agree totally with AdoptableDomains and others; they have offered some great suggestions for future auctions.
You have some of the greatest domaining tools out there, so I suspect that you will develop a wonderful auction platform as well. You do command a lot of respect in this field, which is why you’re getting a lot of advice.
Some appropriate and constructive suggestions have been offered here.
Best,
Ms Domainer
January 17th, 2008 at 10:26 pm
From your post of January 10:
‘The next auction will be in February, it will also be an entirely online Live auction format. We will begin accepting domains for this auction at the conclusion of this auction.’
Any further word on auction date? submission deadline? other rules?
= Tiki =
January 17th, 2008 at 10:28 pm
To clarify, I was referring to your first post of January 10 …
January 23rd, 2008 at 9:25 am
Hey What do you think of the name digital marketing specialist.com thinking of buying it for $15,000 does anyone think this is a good deal my attorney sd I try $12,000,help me please need some ideas
January 28th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
digitial marketing specialist .com is a very long domain name. Definitely not worth $15,000 or $12,000 in my opinion.
I don’t think I’d pay over $100 for that domain.