Bids on your expired names at Namejet

[BiggieBiggie is verified member.]

was browsing Nj and saw a couple of my expired names listed....and they had 4 bidders with min. at $80!

i had offered these names for sale here and didn't even get an offer


so i guess i'll renew them, just to piss-off a few bidders

 

[katherine]

It's funny what exposure can get
I let a few names expire to find out they were grabbed by vaxis or buydomains (perhaps they ended up in auctions as well). Maybe I was doing something right after all

 

[denny007]

Well frankly it is impossible to go through all this garbage for sale on DNForum to find the good ones. I stopped checking domains for sale here long time ago. Only if I see something obviously great at first sight I click and check.

BTW I am rodering domains from Namejet just few minutes before deadline so nobody can live of my hard work

I let a few names expire to find out they were grabbed by vaxis or buydomains

Yeah this happens quite often. These guys portfolios must be full of crap domains which does not make even reg. fee. Someone from Fabulous (DBS) published some stats - in their 500K domains portfolio they have 375K crappy domains which make in average just $1/year. So they are loosing like $6 per each of such domain, every year.
Schilling and Vaxis will have similar shit, maybe not so bad but still lot of shit.

I drop every domain which does not earn at least reg. fee as such domain is worthless in my books. I do not care market. I dropped even a lot of LNL.com and did not care I could sell it $50 a pop because it is too much hassle for me not worth the money.

 

[BiggieBiggie is verified member.]

Well frankly it is impossible to go through all this garbage for sale on DNForum to find the good ones. I stopped checking domains for sale here long time ago. Only if I see something obviously great at first sight I click and check.

BTW I am rodering domains from Namejet just few minutes before deadline so nobody can live of my hard work


Yeah this happens quite often. These guys portfolios must be full of crap domains which does not make even reg. fee. Someone from Fabulous (DBS) published some stats - in their 500K domains portfolio they have 375K crappy domains which make in average just $1/year. So they are loosing like $6 per each of such domain, every year.
Schilling and Vaxis will have similar shit, maybe not so bad but still lot of shit.

I drop every domain which does not earn at least reg. fee as such domain is worthless in my books. I do not care market. I dropped even a lot of LNL.com and did not care I could sell it $50 a pop because it is too much hassle for me not worth the money.

the last minute order is good strategy, glad you shared.

the spam lists from namejet of 'most backordered' makes it damn near impossible to 'steal' a goodie anymore.


as for 3 char com's, i posted some for sale and only got min offers or less.
each year resell price goes up, so no problem with keeping them.

lately, been selling a few multi-word, "very low revenue" domains to unknowns from incoming email/phone inquiries, so that rev is supporting my patience!




check'n my names on Nj....

 

[denny007]

each year resell price goes up, so no problem with keeping them.

Till the bubble bursts

 

[Theo]

Anyone else has trouble removing domains from their wishlists using Firefox? The checkboxes next to each name won't get checked.

 

[jasdon11]

was browsing Nj and saw a couple of my expired names listed....and they had 4 bidders with min. at $80!

i had offered these names for sale here and didn't even get an offer


so i guess i'll renew them, just to piss-off a few bidders

Not the same but related - last month got an email request for a name (.us) I was letting drop. The name was already a couple of days in at TDNAM, so I went back with a $XXXX price which was accepted.

Paid the $80 happily to renew the name and escrowed the deal. Another week he could've got if for $10 plus renewal.

 

[denny007]

Lot of trouble with Namejet, that's why it is called LAMEJET now by insiders. I already saw their ERROR messages like thousand times. They have special stupid messages like "ERROR - Your domain has been succesfulyl added".

When I yesterday opened a ticket to ventilate frustration they told me I am frist ever to complain. WTF ? can not believe nobody complained about errors. So pls everyone who gets error message open an ticket so they REALLY KNOW.

 

[thevirtual]

I have found that most people are over-bidding on names, even going above end user prices. Some of the names selling on Namejet for $70 minimum each would never pay for themselves.

I think Namejet has some bugs in their site. For some reason yesterday I couldn't load the auctions page for 10 minutes just before auctions were ending.

How does Namejet choose the winning bidder when the bids are the same, do they give the domain to the first bidder?

 

[denny007]

How does Namejet choose the winning bidder when the bids are the same, do they give the domain to the first bidder?

Yeah first bidder but I noticed they already changed it - either you see green flag, you get it for 70 or red flag, you nneed to bid.

Anyway I do not understand why Lamejet and Pool simply do not copy SNAPNAMES - best live online auction platform in the universe...

 

[thevirtual]

I think Namejet got the bidding system partially right. You can see if you're getting a name or if there are other bidders. No userid shown. Snapnames doesn't show any information until bidding starts, and you don't know which domains are Pre-release or fresh regs.

 

[denny007]

Snapnames doesn't show any information until bidding starts

Huh ? Snapnames show every information - if you are current winning bid, how much the bid is, your proxy bid, and who is in the auction

you don't know which domains are Pre-release or fresh regs.

Thats very simple - domains with CURRENT reg. date are dropped, domains with older reg. date are from partners or private sales.

Also love Snap auction that all aucitons are SAME TIME, who wants to sit 3 hours at Lamejet ? Because thats the spread when the auctions are ending, sometimes even longer...

 

[thevirtual]

Namejet shows the number of bidders even before the auction starts. I think that is better than Snapnames system.

I have had a few backorders with Snapnames I thought were from partner registrars that were dropped. Also it is difficult to tell which is a partner registrar with all the different registrar names they use.

 

[denny007]

Namejet shows the number of bidders even before the auction starts. I think that is better than Snapnames system.

FFS click HIGH BIDDER and you will see lit of all bidders

Also it is difficult to tell which is a partner registrar with all the different registrar names they use.

FFS check DATE !
Regged now = dropped and catched
Regged before = partner registrar OR private sale.

 

[thevirtual]

FFS click HIGH BIDDER and you will see lit of all bidders

My point: You CANNOT check the high bidder BEFORE the auction starts.

FFS check DATE !
Regged now = dropped and catched
Regged before = partner registrar OR private sale.

As I mentioned earlier, this information is only available AFTER the domain is backordered.

 

[denny007]

My point: You CANNOT check the high bidder BEFORE the auction starts.

Oh you mean like someone backorders domain and you see it - yeah because of this shit I add domains into Lamejet minutes before deadline. I am also telling everyone do same.

As I mentioned earlier, this information is only available AFTER the domain is backordered.

Besides I do not see much different from WHERE comes the domain, also Snapnames has SEPARATE RAW LISTS. https://www.snapnames.com/download.jsp

I think I know what you would like - people go through 100K rubbish domains/day, then comming you, checking what people sorted out and backordered etc...

 

[thevirtual]

I think I know what you would like - people go through 100K rubbish domains/day, then comming you, checking what people sorted out and backordered etc...

Lol

I don't even check the Top backorders lists. I spend hours each day researching backorders. I was just checking my backorders and there is a bid on a Generic name I would have gotten, now there are two bidders.

 

[denny007]

So I really do not understand why you need to know before backordering how many people backordered already.

 

[acronym007]

was browsing Nj and saw a couple of my expired names listed....and they had 4 bidders with min. at $80!

i had offered these names for sale here and didn't even get an offer


so i guess i'll renew them, just to piss-off a few bidders

That has always puzzled me to about this business. Some of the domain sales just don't make any sense whatsoever. No one buys here then pays $3k at a drop, umm ok.

 

[thevirtual]

So I really do not understand why you need to know before backordering how many people backordered already.

It is not necessary but it helps to know which domains I have a chance of getting. I would rather know which domain I am going to win instantly or if there is an auction with 87 bidders or something.