I have become much less active in bidding within the popular domains that are being auctioned. Prices have gone up, up, up and I’m really struggling to understand how the buyers are going to be flipping these domains for a decent profit. I have a handful of bidder alias names on Namejet in my head [...] Continue reading →

We all add a backorder (or a few) at a point in time that later down the road we decide we no longer want. I have 30,531 domains on backorder at Namejet so it’s not really reasonable for me to go through them all and remove the ones I don’t want, so what I [...] Continue reading →

The minimum offer price on the domains that Godaddy purchased from Marchex has come out and 99.99% of the domains are priced with minimum offers and the sum of those is a little over $110,000,000. Some of the names have a minimum offer that is well below what the domain would sell for, so there’s [...] Continue reading →

Numeric domains are very hot nowadays and looking at GoDaddy auctions it looks like the market for NNNNN.com domains is up significantly even though there’s one hundred thousand of them.  Here’s some of the top numeric auctions, middle of the road, and ones at the bottom (all these domains will sell, nothing here that is [...] Continue reading →

Sedo has a running auction they are calling “Handpicked Generic dotCom Domains”.  See the screenshot: Excited to check it out?  Handpicked says that Sedo created an auction and someone handpicked the domains in it.  It also refers to them as generic which probably won’t mean the same thing to you or I when we [...] Continue reading →

Here’s 10 random domain thoughts I’ve had over the past week: 1.  The prices on Namejet have been rising.  Domains that would have sold for $2k a year ago seem to be selling for double that or more today.  Two word .com prices have really skyrocketed as well.  There’s a couple guys really driving up [...] Continue reading →

I decided to submit two domains to the Great Domains auction.  I’m no longer a fan of these auctions but what the hell, if you put a reserve on them then where’s the harm and its been a while since I submitted any domains to one.  I submitted a N-N.com domain (number dash number domain [...] Continue reading →