“it’s just business… nothing personal”

selling your domain for $10 or selling another for maybe $1000 is a big difference… in commissions… in press… etc.

It is always about MONEY.

Best,
Mike

http://www.wannadevelop.com

If I had really wanted to get a domain into the auction I have way better ones (IMO) I could have submitted. I just thought that those ones were in the proper spirit of “down under” and I still think that regardless of whether “calgarypersonals.com” is worth more or less than “australiarobotics.com” that the auction would be better served by having my domains instead of those from (contextually) meaningless locations.

If it were “melbournepersonals.com” or “brisbaneproperty.com” I would totally agree with the selections but I don’t think that “calgarypersonals.com” will sell for even $500 while I think that “australiarobotics.com” would be a deal for someone at $10 and add even more of an Australian “flavor” to the auction.

I was not expecting to have mine included but I was shocked to find a Calgary geogeneric included. I can’t help it if I feel that these auctions are “rigged” in many ways – if it were the maximum potential value of a domain that was the determining factor of inclusion I’d bet (and give odds) that there were hundreds of better ones submitted than “calgarypersonals.com” or “chulavistaproperty.com”.

Which begs the question ( which I asked to begin with) “is it that you need to be a friend or pay them or what? “.

Many of the people in the domain industry call them pro or experts but they do not have a clue at all – that is a sad reality but fact.

Do NOT let them sell YOUR domain names because if you do they will resell your domain name for next to no money.

Respect Yourself – do not let Idiots decide what goes and what does not.

Be smart – respect starts from within.

You gave a great pitch above… unfortunately to the wrong crowd.

A great domain says everything right when you see it… When you have to get into the details and start explaining stuff…there is a disconnect and you get the point. Great domains have instant recognition and of course potential.

Your domains are OK but have very limited potential going for them for the reasons mentioned above in the previous posts.

How much were you looking to sell them for anyways, if no secret?

Likewise I wouldn’t mind having “ChulaVistaProperty.com” – again I own a few California cities and “homes”, or “property”, etc (most cities I have are larger than ChulaVista) so I’m hoping it gets a good price – however, I fail to see (at first glance) why it was selected.

Robotics and robots will be perhaps the biggest industry ever. Today sales of robot toys are 500 million annually and exponentially growing. I mention this only because I think that CalgaryPersonals and ChulaVistaProperties will not make good “holding domains” and I’ve seen no signs of any advertising directed at end-users for the down under auction. Whereas a cheap “australiarobots.com” might have a chance of getting 100′s of times its current auction value in 5 years.

Forbes magazine – “a new technology era will be born and soon enough a host of new companies will explode into the headlines with extravagant business models and unbelievable valuations. A new tech cycle will begin.”

And .. “Though sales of toy robots garner nearly $500 million in annual revenue today and outsell utilitarian robots by about three to one, ABI Research predicts that by 2015 task-based robots will overtake robotic toys to pull in $8.7 billion annually. ”

I really didn’t intend on getting into a discussion of the worth of my domains though (or the future robotics industry), it is just that I’ve been suspicious for quite awhile about the actions of the various domain auction companies – if I had had any other domains with an Aussie flavor I would have submitted them but I tend to buy domains based on where I live (Canada) and the robot domains were the only Aussie ones I have outside of a fairly large pure geo which I’m not planning on selling.

At any rate, thanks for the advice to contact companies directly but that wasn’t/isn’t my intention. I sort of figured that some domainer who likes to market a domain might have liked to pick up those domains and do just that – whereas I have a tougher time imagining a domainer getting 100x the selling price for CalgaryPersonals – if this were an auction aimed at endusers I would understand but surely domainers could see the value in grabbing a domain with a future potential rather than an immediate one.

Or is this an auction aimed at end-users?

The domain will sell if it is not missed

Best,
Mike

http://www.wannadevelop.com

If you look at Google results your domain returns just 293 results with no ads either under the search or on the right.

The term Calgary Personals returns 8,490 results with 3 ads under the search term and a full page of ads on the right.

I agree with Mike, this domain has a VERY narrow range of buyers which would best be found by going to companies engaged in this business in that country.

As for domains in an auction for domainers, the personals domain, has a much better chance of selling than yours and at a higher price.

That’s my opinion

I haven’t tried to sell the robot domains at all and wasn’t really looking for any evaluation of them except as compared to the other geo-generics ie “CalgaryPersonals.com”.