Comments on: Moniker Limits Submissions for April Domain Name Auction

By: EM @ KING.NET

EM @ KING.NET — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 22:12:02 +0000

@Jarred
I agree with you, the sellers need to provide a quality domain soon before the community stop visiting Bido. As gate keeper, you have the last word to decline a bad domain or let the community decide which ones go to the auction (Great idea Andrew).

Cheers.

Emil @ KING.NET

By: Andrew Allemann

Andrew Allemann — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 21:57:49 +0000

@ Jarred- I do like the idea of publishing posted domains and letting the community decide which ones go to auction.

By: Jarred

Jarred — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 21:51:29 +0000

Emil, the domains you see at Bido are really the best of whats being submitted, the burden is also on the community to step forward and decide to sell their better domains with us.
There are ready, willing, and able sellers out there, we just need to locate them and educate them about the platform and how it will help them and command maximum market value for their domains. One thing missing from that equation that will come is simply “time”.
It really goes both ways, selection process is one aspect, submission process is another.

By: Chef Patrick

Chef Patrick — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:45:11 +0000

Thanks for the info Andrew. I always forget to submit domain names to the auctions.

By: Duhmains

Duhmains — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:29:32 +0000

So who is verifying these stats? What happens when the buyer gets the domain and finds they were duped? Not too hard to do really.

Regarding Ricks push on this. Isn’t it ironic that the guy who doesn’t sell domains based on stats and preaches to us for years not to sell based on stats and to tell buyers who want to know your stats to go away… now wants everyone else to sell domains based on stats now ? cool!

It’s good to see this stuff happening for sure. When it works with another auction, all the other auctions need to follow suit. Getting sellers to bring reserves in realistically, stop sending in crap domains, and provide more info on the domains is all good

btw. edwards did you see what happened last time moniker brought an end user to the auctions? (cowboys.com) The auctions aren’t bringing in the “end users” because they don’t really care and when they do care they obviously don’t have the same amount of knowledge and info that a domainer has. One at a time is the best we can hope for and that’s a slow process at that.

By: Anunt

Anunt — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:31:20 +0000

Maximum submission should be 10 domains with traffic and revenue stats.

If they do not provide revenue or stats, you should completely delete it from the auction!!!

By: edwards

edwards — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:24:14 +0000

Two other much-needed improvements in these auctions is 1) simplification of the process (it’s annoying to have to deal with Moniker AND SnapNames accounts — merge them!), and 2) publicity for the auctions. Domain industry insiders know about these events, but the broad public doesn’t have a clue that they’re happening. With some good publicity, lots of new “investors” could be attracted to domaineering, and that would drive up sales and profits for all.