Clements brothers start first auction on new site.
Brothers David and Toby Clements have started their first ever auction on new siteBrannans.com.
Toby previously lead the auction efforts for Rick Latona. Brannans.com uses the same auction provider, Proxibid, that Latona originally used.
The auction features 185 domains selected from over 20,000 submissions. Reserve prices range from $300 to $3 million, but half of the domains are under $5,000 and a third of the domains are under $1,000.
Here are some of the top domains and their starting bid prices:
California.com $3 million
Digital.com $1 million
CreditReports.com/net/org + 2 trademarks $1 million
MusicVideos.com $500,000
Futons.com $400,000
Jewelry.net $100,000
Redmond.com $50,000
The auction runs through April 9.
Steven says
This looks and smells like Rick Latona.
First Toby takes over his email list and now he is trying the auctions using Proxibid.
Ron says
Site, seems very choppy, all white no color.
If you are marketing 8 figures of names, site should be seamless.
John says
The site did not let me see the list of domians for sale. I only saw what was said in the post on Domaining.com
I’ve seen some very funny stuff going on with Proxibid and domains in the past, as if it were being manually halted so certain bidders could not bid and other could.
I and another person actually have some evidence in some old auctions that appears to be manual manipulation of the bidding process so a certain person could win the auction.
I hate to say this here in this thread on their first auction, but I don’t trust that software.
David Clements says
@Andrew – Thanks for the coverage! I am excited to see the activity, the emails, and the submissions after selling cheesecake.com and getting back into the domain auction business.
@Steven – I promise you, it’s 100% mine and Toby’s. There are no other partners involved. It looks and smells the same because I ran the other one as an invested partner before taking a buy out exactly 2 years ago to the day. It was my decision to bring on Proxibid the first time around because their system is stable. That’s why I decided to use them again.
@Ron -Thanks for your comments. You’re right. It’s a bit choppy, but we only launched 15 days ago (on March 19). Please give us a little time to work on that.
FYI – if you’re trying to log into the Proxibid interface, the easiest way is to get there is here: https://www.proxibid.com/brannans. “Bidder Login” and “Create Account” are both in the top right corner.
Lastly, if anyone has any comments, questions, or suggestions please feel free to email me at david [[at]] brannans.com.
Thanks,
David Clements
Brannans.com
Alan says
Some nice names but I think I’ll pass On Futons
for 400k.
Sam says
brannans.com/auctions –
god awful design, scrollbars nested 3 deep?
FX says
good luck with the auction guys.
Ron says
Same domains, same prices, no action…
Rob says
Some great names at all price points – seems like something for everyone. Nice job on securing some excellent domains for the auction!
David Clements says
@John – Good suggestion and it was an oversight on my end. Domains are now listed on the Brannan’s website here: http://www.brannans.com/auction-list.
However, what you said about Proxibid and is absolutely false. It simply can’t be done. There is no way to manipulate the bidding process so a certain person wins. The high bidder wins, plain and simple.
The only thing I can think of that you may be referring to is this: if there is a live auction at a conference and the internet goes out and the auctioneer drops his hammer without knowing that there are bids in cyberspace then that is something entirely different, but please don’t attack Proxibid for that. They’re great folks and they have a great product and I support them 100%.
@Alan, @Sam, @FX, @Ron, @Rob – thank you all for your comments, good and bad – they are all appreciated.