Comments on: Music.mobi “Winner” Vows Lawsuit Against Sedo

By: Domain Name Wire » News » .De Domain Name Auction Melts Sedo’s Servers - The Domain Industry's News Source

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:25:17 +0000

[...] last time I recall Sedo melting under traffic was during a .mobi auction in 2007. Sedo retooled after that and has avoided any meltdowns until [...]

By: Hector Cabrera » Las desastrosas subastas de Sedo con dominios .mobi

Hector Cabrera » Las desastrosas subastas de Sedo con dominios .mobi — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 15:24:05 +0000

[...] Roussos, con mucha razón, va a demandar a Sedo, ya que cree que los precios alcanzados durante la primera ronda eran bajos para mTLD, así que se forzó otra segunda ronda, en la que, efectivamente se alcanzaron no solo precio mayores, sino históricos. Su reto ahora será demostrar que los Términos de Servicio de Sedo no se ajustan a la legalidad. [...]

By: Hector Cabrera » La subasta de dominios .mobi alcanza los $2,3M -Por carlos blanco-

Sun, 09 Dec 2007 03:47:53 +0000

[...] A pesar de la gran cantidad de problemas técnicos que dieron por finalizada la subasta inicialmente al no poder realizarse pujas en los últimos minutos y posteriormente extendieron. Por ejemplo Music.mobi se dió como cerrado por 66.000 US$ y posteriormente alcanzó los 616.000 US$, Constantine Giorgio Roussos fue el ganador inicial y ya ha comentado que va a denunciar a Sedo. [...]

By: Jazz

Jazz — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 16:24:24 +0000

I was outbid 1 second before the crash!!! What are you saying ‘thekid’, it’s tough sh1t on end users like me for not getting lucky and winning an auction 7 MINUTES before it was supposed to end???????? Jeez!
It’s not fair on anyone. Stop being so biased.

By: thekid

thekid — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 14:06:43 +0000

I stopped bidding at Pool because they pulled this stunt. I used to buy over $100,000 a year from them. Then in November of 2005 they told me they were restarting auctions for domains caught on Nov 26 2005.

I never used them again. They had the same excuse about server probs. So what. If you wait to the last minute to bid that’s your problem. Namewinner used to crash every other day. They didn’t restart the auctions.

I admit $100k isn’t that much but I used to bid a lot which made them lots of money.

Never had this prob at Snapnames but I won’t use snapnames now that they are owned by the extremely dishonest oversee.net

By: .Mobi Auction Troubles for Sedo » Domain Name News

.Mobi Auction Troubles for Sedo » Domain Name News — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 08:19:08 +0000

[...] According to DomainNameWire.com, the six .mobi domains were purchased by a single buyer who intends on holding them for resale. “The original .mobi auction at Sedo required buyers to create a web site at the domains within 6 months. I’m not sure if later auctions required this. Regardless, this is unwelcome news for .mobi fans — they would have preferred to hear that end users snapped up these domains at astronomical prices.” [...]

By: what?????

what????? — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 00:16:52 +0000

What???

“Due the down time we were not able to extend the auction before the set closing time. Some bidders may have received emails saying that they have won the auction, however because the system was down the highest bid at the time the system failed are not binding according to our terms and conditions.”

1- if the system was down, then how did winning emails magically be sent to the winners?

2- they said the system went down, not screwed up. why would winning emails be sent out prior to an actual win? how does a system go down, and send out winning emails when an auction is not over?

the auction ended, he won, they are revoking it.
this is the ethic make up of the companies we have to deal with. nice.