Back in May I wrote about GNAME increasing their number of registrars to 501. The goal to catch more names. They caught a beauty and auctioned it off. Aqueduct.com. Archive.org has info on the site dating back as far as 1996. Here is a look at 2003 where they dubbed themselves, "The architects of selling online" Nothing archived in recent years. It will be interesting to see who won the name and … [Read more...]
RightOfTheDot Domain Auction: Domain Days Dubai 2024 – Register now
RightOfTheDot Domain Auction: Part of Domain Days Dubai 2024 RightOfTheDot will be handling the domain auction event at Domain Days Dubai. The auction will feature hundreds of valuable domain names and digital assets across two segments: Part One: November 6, 2024 from 12:15 PM to 1:15 PM (+4GMT)Venue: Marriott Resort Palm Jumeirah, Dubai, UAETimezones: 12:15 PM (+4GMT), 3:15 AM (ET), … [Read more...]
GNAME has some auction features that other places should emulate
When talking about how to stop game playing at auctions, someone suggested to me that it would be great if you could make bidders have money in the account and freeze a percentage. Well it turns out GNAME does do that. When you look at their auction terms they note, 1. A 20% deposit of the bid amount will be temporarily frozen in your account and will be unfrozen when your bid is exceeded … [Read more...]
Andrew Rosener GBM Auctions close today
GBM Domains has a very unique platform, their co-founder and CEO Hugo McDonaugh was on Domain Sherpa back July 18. Andrew Rosener placed some names on auction and they close today. I have provided the links to Andrew's auctions below: – BrickWeed.com– ChainChoice.com– GetBlazed.com– HigherCaliber.com– NiceRides.com– Synopsis.co– Trippy.co One of the things that stands out at GBM auctions … [Read more...]
Banking.ai top close at Dynadot expired .ai auctions $53,055
First day of July expired .ai auctions at Dynadot/Whois.ai had four 5 figure closes. Banking.ai led the way at $53,055 DomainPriceDateVenuebanking.ai53,055 USD2024-07-08Dynadotestate.ai31,501 USD2024-07-08Dynadotfc.ai18,888 USD2024-07-08Dynadotpendo.ai10,001 USD2024-07-08Dynadotbasecamp.ai9,001 USD2024-07-08Dynadotthinking.ai7,089 USD2024-07-08Dynadotzoox.ai5,101 … [Read more...]
Tiwtter.com auction closing today it’s all about the links
Closing at DropCatch today is the ugly looking domain name Tiwtter.com. A typo for Twitter which is now of course referred to as X. So one might be thinking eventually Elon Musk is going to make the changeover to using X.com so is it worth bothering picking up this typo? Currently at $820 with the high bidder being SeoDomains. Well the domain name has an incredible link profile, has a higher … [Read more...]
Should all auction houses implement a deposit requirement?
.Ai is going to be initiating deposit requirements for their expired auctions. Vincent Cate also doubled down on the fact that only the domain owner will know when their .ai domain name expires. You can click on the below tweet to read the discussion. Would you like to see other auction house follow this move? How would it look if GoDaddy made all potential bidders adhere to a deposit … [Read more...]