D&D Consulting Ltd. is offering a $10,000 finder’s fee to anyone who refers the individual who buys the company’s Internet domain, Disaster.com. The silent auction started Oct. 22 with a minimum asking bid of $850,000. It’s expected to conclude on Nov. 20. The company registered the domain name Disaster.com in 1994. For more information about the auction, call Janice Haney at (518) … [Read more...]
12,000 Auctions, 8,900 Bidders and 350,000 Bids: We Conclude Halvarez Was The Only Shill Bidder At Snapnames
When Snapnames put each user's entire auction history into there respective Snapnames.com account last Saturday night, we went to work. We scraped all the data from every auction. We got every bid, every bidder, and organized them into a searchable database. We then computed how many auctions each bidder was involved in, how many of those auctions the bidder had placed a bid other than … [Read more...]
12,000 Auctions: The Halvarez Effect On Our Account (So Far)
Now that Snapnames put all auction history into the system going back to its first auction in August 2004 (prior to that Snapnames gave the domain to the person who backordered it first) I can make a preliminary report. We were involved in 11,997 auctions from August 2004 until today. We know snapnames.com by its own admission had around 1 million auctions, so while my history only … [Read more...]
Moniker.com Extended TRAFFIC Auction Nets $278K
Here are the results for the Moniker.com extended TRAFFIC auction which was held on SnapNames.com yesterday which generated $278,338 in sales. In all, 139 domains sold and I'm sure none of you would have picked the highest selling domain as OneOfAKind.com which went from its reserve of $5K all the way up to $26K. A pretty good results especially considering all of the news surrounding … [Read more...]
Our Picks For The RickLatona.com TRAFFIC Extended Auction Today
The extended auction of the RickLatona.com TRAFFIC auction will be held today online at 1:30pm EDT. There are about 600 domain in the extended auction including those that did not sell in the live auction To view the full catalog or to bid click here Here are our top picks for the auction today: … [Read more...]
Namejet Plays The “This Can’t Happen To Us” Card & That’s Troubling
Late today, we received a notice from NameJet.com, basically saying that what happened at Snapnames.com could not happen at NameJet.com """At NameJet we have the necessary security protocols in place to prevent this kind of incident.""" ""We have security procedures and policies in place that monitor all activities to ensure that “shill” bidding does not occur. "" All of the domain … [Read more...]
TechCrunch.com Crunches Snapnames.com Calling The Domain Business “Dirty”
Michael Arrington, wrote the story for TechCrunch on the Snapnames.com bidding scandal and the opening paragraph should give you an idea of how the rest of the story reads: ""Anyone who doesn’t know how dirty the domain name business is, just doesn’t know the domain name business."" Mr. Arrington says he a consultant to Pool.com years ago when he says it was pulling in over $1 Million … [Read more...]