eShop.com has expired and dropping today

[twiki]

Top domain.

Will be very curious to see where the eventual DropCatch auction might push the price up to.

 

[tourismtourism]

Short, the beginning of "E" has many meanings

 

[CraigD]

Online articles about this have been pulled in the last few hours, though still cached by Google for now.

Whois has been updated.

Interesting...

 

[DuDD]

SO ,what`s the price? and who is the owner

 

[bbboy5]

It is really rare to see this kind of name get dropped. I think may be owner died due to corona, and no one knows in family about domain etc.

 

[topdom]

I think in big auctions like this shillling always happen, not necessarily to scam people, but just to see how far people would go,... and then the catcher would keep the domain..

 

[CraigD]

I think in big auctions like this shillling always happen, not necessarily to scam people, but just to see how far people would go,... and then the catcher would keep the domain..

Wait...
How is shill bidding not scamming honest bidders?

 

[topdom]

Wait...
How is shill bidding not scamming honest bidders?

If they have no intention of selling to a bidder (we can't know for sure..) , and they outbid everyone whatever their price, then noone is scammned.. this would just mean they wasted our time. still a bad thing, but not much can be done about it.

 

[CraigD]

If they have no intention of selling to a bidder (we can't know for sure..) , and they outbid everyone whatever their price, then noone is scammned.. this would just mean they wasted our time. still a bad thing, but not much can be done about it.

But it's dropped, so doesn't it go to highest bidder?
I'm not sure exactly how these auctions work, but that was my assumption.

 

[DOMAIN ILLUMINATI]

It's just a .com - domain name, so why bother at all?

 

[topdom]

But it's dropped, so doesn't it go to highest bidder?
I'm not sure exactly how these auctions work, but that was my assumption.

Their brothers can become the high bidder. They can place 10M proxy bid and forget about it. So it can sell for any price, and no money needs to change hands. But if someone else buys for 11M, then this would be a big scam of course, even if this happens by accident.

 

[CraigD]

Their brothers can become the high bidder. They can place 10M proxy bid and forget about it. So it can sell for any price, and no money needs to change hands. But if someone else buys for 11M, then this would be a big scam of course, even if this happens by accident.

... even if this happens by accident ?

 

[topdom]

... even if this happens by accident ?

They can place 10M proxy bid assuming: "noone would get close, and they would win with a 5 figure bid", and forget about it, and they assume they reserved it for themselves, and later they learn someone else with 11M offer won. This would count as accident, because it would mean they didn't plan to scam, they just did it unintentionally.

 

[MediaCode]

The problem is nowadays there's no need to explicitly state that your shop is electronic, online etc. Many people shop online as their first choice and for them it's simply a shop.

The "E" at the beginning doesn't mean anything special.

It's still extremely valuable, but I think its value peaked somewhere in 2012.

Tell that to eSports.

 

[MediaCode]

I grabbed eShop.gg on March 18, 2021 after it dropped recently. Don't know if it was also dropped by Microsoft but the timing is similar. 'e' and 'gg' seem well-suited together for eSports.

 

[skshogun]

Tell that to eSports.

esports is distinctive enough from "normal" sports though. When you say "eSport" and "Sport" I already picture 2 different things in my mind.

Not so much with "Shop" and "eShop".

Don't get me wrong, I still think it's ultra premium name, worth 6 figures. But I think the term "e-shop" already reached its peak in popularity.

 

[tonyk2000]

With the current high bid around ~50K, assuming that the winner is (would be) a domainer, I'd be curious to see his asking price for an enduser, and, should it be sold to an enduser someday, what the price would be. Yeah it is good and valuable domain - no questions here. The truth is that some domains, including this one, are too generic. I mean that a business owner who sells earphones (made-up example) may prefer to to invest in EarphonesShop dot something instead... not in eShop.... and "big boys" may rather prefer to build an own brand (google is google and not "Search Engine dot something"). It reminds me b/e/s/p/o/k/e dot com case - dropped in 2014, a serious bidding war, high price paid by the domainer (for 2014 of course) - and it is still not sold to an enduser as a matter of fact.

 

[EJS]

Online articles about this have been pulled in the last few hours, though still cached by Google for now.

Whois has been updated.

Interesting...

Are you referring to my article? https://domaininvesting.com/previously-owned-by-microsoft-eshop-com-deleted-and-in-auction/

I wrote it over the weekend, and instead of scheduling it for Monday morning as intended, I accidentally hit the wrong date and it was published too early. I unpublished it, finished up the article and rescheduled for today.

 

[topdom]

Ask yourself, would you bid 50K on ebusiness.com, ecommerce.com, estock.com, ecomputer.com, etravel.com, as a domainer.. this is crazy. eresearch.com was sold for 10k to an enduser.
cash may become the king soon, because of Suez canal blockage. Sell, sell, sell.. the problem is, everyone will be in the same mood. Also I'm worried about April 1 surprise: Trump may be declared as the new president,.. (a good thing) but then lots of other things would happen as well. I suspect, maybe I made the current bid 50K. Another thing to worry about: reverse hijacking attempt.
It is difficult to guess how big corporations would behave. For example UPS spent 46M in a few months while promoting "Brown", on tv, magazines etc.. and .tv registry made price for brown.tv 250K per year. What if the price was 10K , one time payment, would it sell quickly. Probably not. They may be paying a million to renew junk domains every year, but they won't invest in any brown.tld .
But I keep my promise, I would pay 51K if purchased directly from SN. But can't go much (if any) higher.
Also I wouldn't give photo id (but can provide alternatives). I won't take a vaccine either.

 

[CraigD]

Are you referring to my article? https://domaininvesting.com/previously-owned-by-microsoft-eshop-com-deleted-and-in-auction/

I wrote it over the weekend, and instead of scheduling it for Monday morning as intended, I accidentally hit the wrong date and it was published too early. I unpublished it, finished up the article and rescheduled for today.

Yes I was actually.

Thanks for the clarification Elliot

 

[privatne]

Are you referring to my article?
I wrote it over the weekend, and instead of scheduling it for Monday morning as intended, I accidentally hit the wrong date and it was published too early. I unpublished it, finished up the article and rescheduled for today.

As you wrote, this auction is on the way to become the deleted name of the decade. The actual bid is 62k.

 

[Kingslayer]

I never look at expired listings, but I wish i knew about this before now, i might have tried compete for it as I'm on the hunt for another domain 'if' the right one comes along (ideally single word .com), but that's only if something really special comes along, i don't have an hole burning in my pocket and i have to really like something to buy it.

I don't think i would have gone to $62k for this particular one, i like it but not that much.

But if an investor buys it for under $100k, i think it's a great investment as it's low 7 figure potenital domain (end-user) for sure.

Edit:- have to laugh at good old estibot valuabling this at $18k.

 

[DOMAIN ILLUMINATI]

The (reserved) domain name "e.shop" looks better and has more value than the domain name "eshop.com" because ".com" is a redundant cut off - appendix.

 

[privatne]

That is the point. You could (theoretically) register an excellent one letter matching name in the .shop extension. But how can it help if the name is reserved for an unknown time and not available?

 

[DOMAIN ILLUMINATI]

That is the point. You could (theoretically) register an excellent one letter matching name in the .shop extension. But how can it help if the name is reserved for an unknown time and not available?

I am sure it is only reserved until someone pays them (registry) the right amount of money.

 

[topdom]

Closed? What is the price?