How does pool.com work?/Afternic question

Ross1982 · Oct 17, 2004

Say I backorder a name that no-one else backordered does it automatically become mine or does it still go into a 2 phase auction? And how much does it cost per domain caught? With Godaddy you can just pay 18.95 and that gets you the domain for one year, I know pool.com are much better at catching domains so why I wanna try them but not 100 per cent sure how it works, tho the domain I am after I doubt anyone else will want, it's been expired since 14th September so won't be long til it deletes.

And how much does it cost to sell domains on there? Is it just like Sedo when listing them? You give them a share of the final selling price?

And I joined Afternic today, but I get this error when trying to list these domains

www.davidbeckham.ws: Unrecognized extension: davidbeckham.ws
www.annakournikova.ws: Unrecognized extension: annakournikova.ws

.ws are allowed aren't they?

Cheers!

Ross1982 · Oct 18, 2004

Is the Afternic forum down for anyone else?

Ross1982 · Oct 18, 2004

Oh C'mon, no-one on the Afternic forums have bothered to help, have I wasted my $9.95?

Also wanna know more about how Pool.com works, someone must know.

pleasedelete · Oct 18, 2004

Hi Ross, I replied to your help request in our help forum.

If you backorder a name that nobody else does and Pool successfully catches it, all you pay is $60 and I believe it is fairly instantaneous. To sell on their site, you need to pay a listing fee up front ($8 to $20) and then 10% of the sales price if it sells.

Ross1982 · Oct 18, 2004

Ok, thanks

Is the listing fee PER domain? Or another one off payment? (I thought the $9.95 I paid was to sell domains, if not what was that for exactly?).

pleasedelete · Oct 19, 2004

If you backorder a name that nobody else does and Pool successfully catches it, all you pay is $60 and I believe it is fairly instantaneous. To sell on their site, you need to pay a listing fee up front ($8 to $20) and then 10% of the sales price if it sells.

That is info about Pool. You probably paid the $9.95 at Afternic.

Ross1982 · Oct 19, 2004

Damnit, I am thinking of 2 things, sorry!

Thanks for the info.

BTW I tried just listing my .ws domains without the 'www' but it won't let me list them?

pleasedelete · Oct 19, 2004

I just added the two names to your account. I clicked Sell -> List Domain For Sale and added them one by one. You can login and set your asking prices or change the min. offer amounts now in your Portfolio view.