The biggest obstacle in this idea might be the 60 day holding period for registrations which is beyond his control. He could "hold" the domain "in escow" on the honour system until they can be legitimately transferred every 60 days. Most domainers are honest people and even the dishonest ones wouldn't want their dishonesty published all over the internet. He could move up the process to every Friday evening. Otherwise there may be no need for domain names by the time he gets done, although I can't think of what could possibly replace them. He also is looking at other ways to keep up interest in his site. Anyway, I wish him well as it at least is an interesting site to follow.
That doesn't seem to be a limitation anymore because he's changed the offering period to 2 weeks now. Something about the 60 day holding period only applying to domain transfers between registrars, not change of ownership within the same registrar.
How come no one spotted that sooner? Anyway, it seems like the owners of NamePros are to thank for that one.
And it's a good thing he reduced it to 2 weeks because I would have lost interest by week 4.
I know the offering period isn't over yet, but of the ones currently on offer, which do you guys think is the best?
I personally think SeekWork.com is best. It fits the job-seeking industry nicely and is generic. It would be a damn good trade up from oneuglydomain.net
OK, he's apparently appraised the domains and I was wrong.
The highest appraised domain was ReleaseParty.com for $3,500. But I wasn't too far off because SeekWork.com was the second highest appraised at $1,326.
If he's not lying about those numbers, then I think that answers my original question: he DOES have a chance to get the $1 million.
Voting begins tomorrow, I'll probably go for SeekWork.com (yes, I'm stubborn).
Where has everyone gone, by the way? No one answered my last post. I'm still new here, but since I've answered my own original post, should we close this thread? How do I close it?
to be honest, my opinion is that all he has done is swapped one very average domain for another repeatedly, and I can't see that scenario changing. He might get a domain that is 'appraised' for $1million one day, but selling a domain for that figure is a very different kettle of fish.
OK, it's official, he's traded OneUglyDomain.net for ReleaseParty.com. That's a pretty good tradeup, better than I expected at least. He's now accepting offers for ReleaseParty.com and he's even accepting .MOBI's.
OneUglyDomain.net was a pretty bad domain, but what do you guys think of ReleaseParty.com?
ReleaseParty.com is pretty hot, he will probably reject a lot of offers at this stage as it will take something pretty good to be a fair trade for that one.
A release party cound be all of the above...music,movies etc.Limited market unless your well connected and know the right people.
Another idea could be another social networking site capitalizing on the user generated content market of music,video,film etc similiar to myspace.
I voted for the worst domain, and have found that the novelty wore off pretty quick.
It would have been much more interesting going up in small increments, but to from a $6 domain to a $3500 domain is a big jump, and now he's going to start struggling so early on.
I wonder if oneuglydomain.net will ever earn that $3500...
He bit... he chose to accept IHD.mobi and CelebrityAffairs.com for the next round of voting. Wish me luck! So far I have the only 2 domains he's chosen from 23 he's been offered. Not too shabby!
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