Comments on: .De Domain Name Auction Melts Sedo’s Servers

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By: Andrew Allemann

Andrew Allemann — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:47:22 +0000

I understand where you’re coming from, Craig. I’m sure in the rush to get things up they had to make some gut calls. Hopefully they will address concerns of GD sellers.

By: Aron

Aron — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:43:00 +0000

True.

And I’m not bashing Sedo.
I have a great relationship with many people there.

The .mobi issue was so crazy… I was one that had lawyers fight on our behalf (as a bidder).

I just hope this doesn’t happen again (for Sedo’s sake).

Aron

By: Craig

Craig — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:42:45 +0000

What kills me is that they’ve focused on the .DE cash cow domains versus make things right with their Great Domains sellers not to mention the bidders that missed out the last 5-10 minutes.

By: Andrew Allemann

Andrew Allemann — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:42:05 +0000

..I suspect the problem this time was too many auctions, not necessarily too many bids. If you went to their auction page this week there were over 700 paginations. I think their system was created for a relatively small number of auctions at the same time.

By: Andrew Allemann

Andrew Allemann — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:38:49 +0000

Aron – to be fair, I think they did figure it out after .mobi…whatever they did between now and then worked until now. Although I’d question why both the GD and .de auctions ended at the same time.

By: Aron

Aron — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:22:34 +0000

When will they learn?

This is rediculous.

After the .mobi fiasco, you’d think they
could figure it out.