SnapNames Silent Auction: Our pickups

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Well as promissed now that the snapnames.com silent auction is completed we can now tell you what domains we bidded on.

These are the domains we acquired:

testtubes.com

organicchocolate.com

autographcollectors.com

shocktherapy.com

endurancetests.com

dailybackups.com

These are the names we bid on but were outbid:

exhibited.com

bodilyinjury.com

collectiblestamps.com

organiccosmetics.com

lasikeyedoctors.com

happybirthday.org

About Michael Berkens

Michael Berkens, Esq. is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also the co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. which sold around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in December 2015 and now owns around 8K domain names . Michael was also one of the 5 Judges selected for the the Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com contest.

Comments

  1. Greg Nelson says

    testtubes.com – I like that and do not even recall seeing it.

    happybirthday.org – Huge search volume on this phrase yet .org was tough on this name I thought.

    dailybackups.com – seems to have a ton of potential

    I really like and appreciate you sharing. Regardless of others praise or criticism, disclosure is a valuable piece of learning – especially if it is information others can learn from without damaging your business.

    As mentioned in previous post, we bought desktops.net and lost pawn.org.

  2. Jason says

    I was definitely giving testtubes.com a hard look. Solid name based on the research I did. Congrats on the new names.

  3. Greg Nelson says

    Not sure what you paid for testtubes.com but it is name that meets the exact criteria we look for initially…product niche, specific exact words, KW Discovery of 1000+,value price (we like $14,000 or less right now, unless KW Discovery or other tool shows huge traffic, then forget the low-end price)

    Nice find.

  4. Franky Tong says

    Congrats on the testtubes.com pickup! I was in the auction too but as you can see I was sleeping…LOL. I would have driven the price up more if I were there 🙂

  7. Allan says

    I was the runner-up for testtubes.com at $14,250. It did not seem like there was a third bidder out there. In hindsight, the name is probably grossly undervalued where it sold. Congrats.

  8. admin says

    Thanks Allan,

    We actually placed the initial bid in on this name at $10K.

    It is a category killer

  9. Allan says

    If I may ask, do you pick up most of your names at auctions or through other means? It just doesn’t seem like there are many “category killers” out there in auction.

  10. admin says

    Allan

    Actually there are some catgory killers in every domain show auction, but they usually sell for much more.

    Sportinggoods.com sold at the Miami traffic auction, a real category killer, but the price was like $495,000.

    We buy a few names from domain show auction, but certainly not a lot. I would say less than 50 a year.

    Most of our domains were acquired in days prior to the drop auctions, or in the early days of those auctions. Over the last couple of years we slowed way down on our purchases at auction as prices have risen.

    We started registering names, back in 1997 and really went full time in 1999.