Projects.com Drops To SnapNames & Is Over $20K Only 1 Hour Into The Auction

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The domain name Projects.com just dropped and went to Snapnames.com closed auction about an hour ago and already has already topped $20,000.

The domain name expired on April 11, 2015.

The domain was registered under privacy at Fabulous.com.

The last registered owner of the domain was Merlin Kauffman of True Magic in 2014.

I cannot find a reported sale of the domain name, which if it sold in the aftermarket, I would assume sold in the six figures.

Estibot.com has the domain name Projects.com valued at $158,000

The Snapnames.com auction closes on Thursday at 3:15 PM EST according to SnapNames closing rules.

There are 196 bidders

We just opened our poll to see how much you think the domain will sell for.

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

  2. cmac says

    so why did this domain go into pending delete and not to enom? and why did it expire in the first place. boggles the mind. i can only assume merlin sold it someone, they never changed the whois info and then passed away.

  4. phil says

    It should have went to NJ first in pre-release

    I assume this is the problem Fabulous had with not adding years in renewals, i had few domains that had this problem. But then again Merlin should have noticed this

    • jZ says

      if this is true, its pretty terrible. i have never checked my domains to make sure they are actually getting renewed at fabulous. guess i better start checking.

  6. Acro says

    Like many others, I expected it would be caught by Dropcatch, but Snapnames pulled a fast one.

    I have a bad feeling it was a renewal failure, and an expensive one at that.

  7. Anunt says

    my guess is that he sold the domain as a package deal with several other domains and the new owner did not update Whois info for this particular domain and the domain dropped…

    all of Merlin’s domains are most likely on auto-renew…
    no way it can get expired and dropped…

  8. Dan says

    The domain was available at NameJet, Snapnames, and for other DropCatching services to pick up and put into auction. Snapnames’ process and resources beat everyone else to the punch this time. Realizing the value of the domain in an auction, they apparently dedicated more resources to ensure that the domain was secure by them.