You usually don’t see three 3L.coms closing at once on GoDaddy auctions, yesterday SWP.com was a public auction that met reserve at $14,500 and I saw it at $15,500 but did not see the close as my browser crashed. This was a public auction so there is no record on Namebio.
Tomorrow there are three separate 3L.com public auctions, UDA.com, BPS.com and ZTD.com. Looking at the histories here it looks like all three are now at Namecheap, but two of them UDA.com and BPS.com moved from Network Solutions as it looks like an investor was successful at purchasing these names from established businesses that no longer needed their domain name.
The problem with the auctions is they are closing at 11pm Pacific time on a Saturday night. So it will be 2 am Eastern time, 7 am in England, 8 am and 2 pm in the afternoon in China. I think you get a lot more eyeballs closing the auctions on a weekday and at a better time that is favorable to more time zones.
It will be interesting to see where they end. None of the auctions have met reserve yet.
SWP= short form of Swap?
It could be steal for the buyer if it sold at $15k USD and easy flip for the buyer at 20k or 28k!
Let me make clear I did not see the close, it got to reserve with two hours left, I knew it was closing at 6 my time, and when I went to my computer the browser crashed and by the time refreshed and back up the auction was over and not on the GoDaddy auctions page, I did not participate so I did not have a record of the close and Namebio does not track GoDaddy Public Auctions. It may have closed higher. Probably did.
SWP.com ended at $15,500
UDA.com ended at $17,600 (reserve not met)
BPS.com ended at $51,000 (reserve met)
ZTD.com ended at $9,588 (reserve not met)
https://shortnames.com/lll/sales
Yeah I tracked those three and sent BPS to Michael at Namebio did not see SWP.com closed there figured there would be more bids but like I said browser crashed, that price is ridiculous.
I agree that’s not an impressive price for SWP. For whatever reason, It seems most Godaddy public auctions don’t receive the same attention/bids as their expired auctions.
Here’s another fun fact about those 3 LLL.com’s from our database: They were also all recently listed on Godaddy auctions in the first week of September (last month) with these opening bids:
UDA: $30k
BPS: $35k
ZTD: $18k
They all ended with no bidders.
This time the seller started them all much lower, and the bidding took BPS beyond their reserve.