I just noticed a pretty interesting auction going on Godaddy.com right now
The domain is ReTweet.com
The high bid as of publication is $11,250
There are 127 bids as of the moment and 19 bidders
The auction closes at 01:09 PM (PDT) subject to Godaddy’s auction closing rules.
I’m not going to get into the possible TM issues, or lack thereof, but its a very interesting domain that appears will sell for some decent to big money.
Its not my domain, I’m not bidding in the auction, nor do I own Godaddy or Twitter, so that should cover the disclaimers on this one.
If your interested in bidding or watching the auction here is the link
According to our friends at dnpric.es the domain name Tweet.me was sold by the .Me registry in 2009 for $11,505.
Tweet.me is going to a placeholder at Godaddy.
Ho About ReIBM.com or ReGoDaddy.com ?
Why is this name in a expiring auction? Whois says it was updated on 5-15-2014 and expires on 5-14-2015…………
GoDaddy often clocks the domain names in the auctions, then let them all expire if there are no interested buyers.
I’ve written a lot of code to perform bulk validations — meaning determinations of expired versus non-expired domain auctions. My algorithm marks auctions as Yes, No, and indeterminate.
Although I haven’t manually investigated the Retweet.com data, the Whois information shows all the usual signs of a legitimate expired auction — making it a Yes.
The update date you’re seeing would correspond to the moment when name servers are changed by GoDaddy, and it conforms to standard calendar for an expiration process.
If anybody sees any clear sign that this auction was NOT an expired auction, please let me know. I’m always trying to make my algorithm more accurate — ensuring that the Yes’s are Yes’s, the No’s and No’s, and ideally identifying the Maybes as one or the other.
I have no idea but the domain sold for $24,500 we will see if it will go through
How? Even if the domain was truly an expired auction (as the evidence does indicate), there is probably no way of validating the sale itself.
GoDaddy may be going dark due to its IPO filing; so we may never see this auction reported as a sale.
Maybe we’ll see the Whois information stay constant, in which case we have evidence of no sale. But even if we see the Whois information change, that won’t constitute positive evidence of a sale.
I’m not suggesting that the Retweet.com sale isn’t real necessarily. But I think I’m right to point out the limits of what we can know. A scam would produce exactly the same visible signs.