It's very easy to sort Sedo auctions to find exactly what you're looking for. By sorting "no hyphens, no numbers, exactly 4 characters, .com only" in example, I get a list of all LLLL.coms currently on Sedo auction.
This is what's so great about Sedo -- I can get a list of all the LLLL.coms that are on auction within a couple minutes and know that if I have the high bid (and there's no reserve) that I'll win the name. Compare this to going through 20,000+ LLLL.com listings at Sedo, having no clue if the owner wants $60 or $60000 for their name... I'm a full time domainer and even I don't have time for that
For those that understand the LLLL.com market, consider this... Suppose you're interested in getting a cheap CVCV. What are your current alternatives at Sedo? There is no "find all CVCV" button. You'd have to go letter by letter, vowel by vowel BABA, BABE, BABI, BABO, BABU, BACA, BACE, BACI, etc until you found a cheap one. Do you really want to submit what will likely amount to 1000+ offers at Sedo for the small chance you might actually get a decent deal on a CVCV? I'd much rather start someone's CVCV auction @ $60 and hope for the best. It works both ways... I highly doubt anyone at Namepros would have offered $15000+ like Popa.com went for at Sedo.
This is about giving domainers more freedom. If you want the absolute truth, some of the biggest domainers in this industry are shillers (not that I'm condoning shill bidding)... Look no further than "the other forum" and you'll find a few domain millionaires who always like to give their buddies "good but not good enough" offers -- offers just good enough to make sure the domain doesn't go cheap but not good enough to likely win. Ever come across something along the lines of:
"I'll start you off with... "
" (offer) Just to get this thing rolling..."
Who would honestly say either if they were actually serious about winning an auction? Calling your bid a "starting bid" is essentially saying "my bid isn't good enough to win, but I'll place it anyway".
My personal opinion is that a thread to start Sedo auctions will do nothing to encourage shilling and may actually discourage a bit of it, because some would-be shillers may be willing to take this approach instead.
It's not even just about getting the auction started... Statistics show that auctions that end Tuesday/Wednesday during the American evening tend to receive higher bid than domains ending at 3 a.m. American time on a Sunday.
Sedo's currently in place system cripples a domainer's ability to decide when an auction should end or even on which day it should start, which is somewhat disappointing considering the day of the week and the time of auction ending are 2 of the largest contributors to overall auction success.
Such a thread would give the domainer more control over when an auction should start -- both at approximately which time and on which day, maximizing the likelihood of reaching top dollar for that particular domain.
Red Rock said:
Do you realize that Blue-Rey.net just sold for $20,000+!!!
That was listed in the "Another reported hyphen sale" thread.
Now what would everyone have said here, if THAT was in a domain appraisal thread?
Send it back!
It isnt even worth reg fee cuz its a typo and has a hyphen!
So, was that a good or bad name?
I guess a bigger market for us, could only IMROVE the Quality of names available for end-users!
innovation said:
Doesn't anybody think a flood of $60 auctions, both for good and bad domains, would somehow devalue our investments? It's bad enough with all the FIRE sales of crap domains going on right now. It's funny, IMHO, now is the ideal time to accumulate, not dump! :wave: