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Namebio reports 5 lll.com sales each one for under $1,000 today 4-4-08!

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Joe,

I am quite aware of what has happened this past week at Afternic. As it turns out, it seems as though iReit opted to list a huge chunk of their portfolio for sale. However, they made a crucial mistake of not pricing domain names out properly. Domain names that were substantially more valuable were sold at a fraction of their reseller prices.

I was aware on Friday of several sales, including Say.org and Gut.org (as well as one that I grabbed - Overwhelm.com) all at $500 each. I spent a good deal of Friday on the phone with BuyDomains trying to determine what teh situation was, and how best to go about buying domains.

I attempted to purchase several LLL.net, but I was too late. (Including Lad.net). They had already pulled most of the valuable domain names by then. Only a lucky few on Friday got their orders filled in time before the mistakes were corrected.

I had not been aware of the 5 LLLL.com's until this morning, when afternic listed them and I did a proper historical check. By my guesstimates iReit lost about 34-40k in potential revenue (easily) just on the LLL.com's and personally, I think the mistake is much closer to 100k in total. As more sales are posted (if they are posted) I will continue to document this critical error, but one of the largest domain holders.

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Party like it's 1989 :D
 

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iLMAO

Anyone got a copy of the domainers e-book laying around that iREIT could borrow? (j/k)

Then again, maybe this is a way to get publicity, as any publicity is good publicity I guess :S
 

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Un-freakin-believable!

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I tried to buy a 2-word .com from them this week. I would have paid maybe $250 for it here. They had a $500 min so I went with that. They came back with min offer $5k so their prices are not good if you inquire. They were way above what Buydomains would have sold it for, at least for that one domain.
 

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Crazy. Sometimes its better to be lucky. Its cool that iREIT honored the sales though.
 

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Some domainers just have very good luck.
 

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A mistake of that magnitude will certainly bring the punters out in droves. For Afternic its a gigantic win with respect to traffic. Unfortunately, it is also vindication for the low ball offers that are tabled day after day on premium names.
 

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Nothing to see here any more, party is over. I doubt they'll give out any more bargains.
 

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(wipes drool from keyboard..)
 

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big f*cking deal..lol
 

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"IREIT" that deal AAA+++! :)
 

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Well known marketing trick ...
 
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