When It Comes To Predicting Auction Results, This Week, You Guys Suck

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We ran two polls over the past couple weeks, one for the auction of Slots.com and one for the Domainfest Live auction.

You guys suck.

Out of 196 votes on the Slots.com auction only 13 of you correctly predicted that the domain would sell between $5M-$7.5M and only 22 predicted the domain would sell for over $5M at all.

Yikes.

For Domainfest over 25% of you didn’t think any of the $100K+ reserve domains would sell.

2 did.

To your credit, of those of who voted for any domain to sell at DomainFest, the majority, 37, voted for dating.com and in second place came boardgames.com selected by 15 of you.

Now there was a bunch of you who got both the slots.com and Domainfest auction wrong.

Here are the names and e-mail address of all those who got it wrong:

Ok just kidding, voting as always remains anonymous (but I know who you are).

Thanks for playing and look for a new poll soon.

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. No surprise says

    My quote in another thread –
    “As a general rule, I ignore valuations by domainers. Most have there own agenda and a lowballing mindset.”

    I’m happy to see this successful auction.
    I was surprised how many domains did not sell but received bids.

  4. The Dot Stop says

    HA!

    I got it.
    I was one of the 2.

    Ok, I’m really not that cocky.

    I did comment in that Post and said Dating absolutely will be #1…
    But I shoulda stopped while I was ahead because…

    I then said Safety.com would definitely be #2…Doh!

    Another Killer Domain Sale in the worst Economy ever.
    Awesome!

    Vito.

  5. Bob says

    Hey! I KNEW that with the recent buzz on ‘game’ names that BoardGames.com was a no-brainer! Not surprised at all that it sold! I was way more surprised that Dating went to 1.75M! Curious to see who bought that puppy, and what their plan is….

  6. corporate events says

    must admit i called dating.com selling, although think was low. worth much more imho

    slots.com i feel overpriced tbh
    but a good sale and well done Monte and team