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auctions The NamesCon 2019 Live Auction Results - Including OL.com for $900,000

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The Live NamesCon auction in Las Vegas has just finished with some impressive domain name sales posted. Here are the auction results, as recorded live at the event. I believe these listings are correct, but there may be discrepancies. If there are, please add a comment, and the list will be amended.

LasVegas.events - $400

Sharp.net - $1,100

SolarBackPack.com - $400

TMS.net - $1,800

Tourism.global - $700

VAP.net - $2,100

WelcomeGift.com - $900

Start-up.com - $3,500

XM.co - $4,500

SmartDrugs.com - $9,500

BG.net - $20,000

VOK.net - $600

Chelsy.com - $1,200

FK.org - $9,000

Surgical.center - $1,200

Stop.com - $110,000

Salvager.com - $1,200

WeddingParty.com (including .NET, .ORG, .BIZ, .INFO, .TV) - Not Sold, continuing online

TraceRoute.com - $14,300

Ringtones.com - Not Sold, continuing online

RFC.net - $1,460

Piano.com - Not Sold, continuing online

QT.club - $600

DomainNames.com - $370,000

Prostitute.org - $500

Memo.com - Not Sold, continuing online

XGA.com - $20,000

Vaporizers.com - Not Sold, continuing online

SafeVape.com - $3,600

1942.com - Not Sold, continuing online

BAB.org - $600

Baja.com - Not Sold, continuing online

BathroomSink.com - $900

Bride.com - Not Sold, continuing online

BellybuttonRings.com - $800

Chop.com - Not Sold, continuing online

City.directory - $1,000

Cleavage.com - Not Sold, continuing online

Leads.com - $435,000

iBar.com - $5,500

Edit.com - Not Sold, continuing online

CannabisCompany.com - $12,000

Multiplexer.com - $3,500

IBF.com - Not Sold, continuing online

RKN.net - $900

1794.com - Not Sold, continuing online

70s.com - $6,000

Athlete.com - Not Sold, continuing online

CheapFlights.global - $400

Uno.com - Not Sold, continuing online

CPU.com - Not Sold, continuing online

Insurance.us - $7,000

Broker.com - Not Sold, continuing online

DebtPrograms.com - $900

Drone.com - Not Sold, continuing online

EEN.org - $500

Give.com - Not Sold, continuing online

ENFL.com - $1,100

Lucky.com - Not Sold, continuing online

MedSchools.com - $1,200

Prize.com - Not Sold, continuing online

Numerals.com - $4,000

NP.net - $13,000

QV.net - $7,000

OL.com - $900,000

VAB.net - $500

Shit.com - Not Sold, continuing online

StartupFunding.com - $4,000

BYGA.com - $1,000

1895.com - Not Sold, continuing online

BilliardGames.com - $900

Armed.com - Not Sold, continuing online

CarpetFlooring.com - $1,200

CUZ.com - Not Sold, continuing online

Dieticians.com - $4,000

DietSupplements.com - $5,500

Dingy.com - $4,000

Coat.net - $1,500

Hero.com - Not Sold, continuing online

InternetMarketingServices.com - $800

Leukemia.com - Not Sold, continuing online

LocalApp.com - $2,600

ElectricMotorcycles.com - Not Sold, continuing online

CorporateBrand.com - $3,200

Abdul.com - $13,000

NutritionalProducts.com - $1,000

Pen.com - Not Sold, continuing online

ReadingLessons.com - $800

ShaverReviews.com - Not Sold, continuing online

MEZ.com - $29,000

Lotus.net - $3,100

HomeDevelopment.com - Not Sold, continuing online

MakingNoise.com - $1,100

Hogs.com - Not Sold, continuing online

Slowly.com - Not Sold, continuing online

VM.club - $400

Downers.com - Not Sold, continuing online

Equation.org - $400

4054.com - Not Sold, continuing online

BZL.net - $500

7864.com - Not Sold, continuing online

Glucose.org - $4,000

Abomination.com - $2,300

AntiqueAppraisals.com - $1,500

BYUC.com - $1,600

Coordination.com - $8,000

Craft.info - $310

DJS.com - $130,000

EMD.org - Not Sold, continuing online

Escort.io - $500

Tablets.com - Not Sold, continuing online

Flexible.org - $1,300

FM.co - Not Sold, continuing online

ILLC.com - $4,000

LCSM.com - $500

LLU.com - Not Sold, continuing online

MPM.net - $1,200

Pathological.com - $4,200

PEB.com - Not Sold, continuing online

PFKC.com - $700

POOV.com - $1,900

Purged.com - $1,800

NCB.net - $1,200

Repossession.com - $11,000

XAF.net - $400

RFQ.com - Not Sold, continuing online

Thebes.com - $3,000

Shoerack.com - $6,000

Solvent.com - $7,600

Sportswear.co - $400

Toil.com - Not Sold, continuing online

VTI.net - $600
 
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Owntype should’ve taken this court and obviously didn’t.

Well Yinan is in China, very busy, domain names are more of a hobby as his main business takes up a lot of his time. and I don't know that he would have won, the TOS usually holds up, I don't agree with that and maybe someone with greater expertise like @jberryhill can weigh in and give his opinion on how a battle with NetSol/Web.com would most likely go?

So you have the full picture John, basically this name according to NetSol should have never been offered for sale, but it was at $2,577, a member here purchased it, and then a day later it was removed from his account and NetSol used their TOS as a reason why they could take it back and refund him.
 
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Owntype should’ve taken this court and obviously didn’t.

I’m guessing he had a lawyer give it a quick look. But if the TOS says they can correct mistakes within a certain amount of time, then it may have been a losing battle. That’s obviously why the don’t give auth codes for 3 days.

I hate it and think it is ridiculous, but when its their market and they get to create the TOS, i guess we play by their rules...
 
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I’m guessing he had a lawyer give it a quick look. But if the TOS says they can correct mistakes within a certain amount of time, then it may have been a losing battle. That’s obviously why the don’t give auth codes for 3 days.

I hate it and think it is ridiculous, but when its their market and they get to create the TOS, i guess we play by their rules...
Agreed, he might of stood a chance if he could have got it out of NetSol's eco system, and to another registry maybe like Epik. It would have been one more day for the auth code, and 5 more days for transfer out, doesn't look like he ever stood a chance.
 
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NetSol TOS reminds me of Vegas Casinos. You loose the mortgage money, kids college tuition and everything in between, and they’ll gladly take your money. But as soon as you start winning, they’ll state your game is too strong and ask you to leave. Is what it is.
 
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I’m guessing he had a lawyer give it a quick look. But if the TOS says they can correct mistakes within a certain amount of time, then it may have been a losing battle. That’s obviously why the don’t give auth codes for 3 days.

I hate it and think it is ridiculous, but when its their market and they get to create the TOS, i guess we play by their rules...
Correct what mistake? The owner listed it for sale, not the registrar.
 
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Anyone know who got the other web.com gem leads.com?
 
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Correct what mistake? The owner listed it for sale, not the registrar.

Well the registrar was the owner and if you look at the whois history from a couple weeks ago there was a guy from Canada who became the admin name, NetSol was listed as the owner and then two weeks later back to New Ventures Corp. Really weird.
 
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Well the registrar was the owner and if you look at the whois history from a couple weeks ago there was a guy from Canada who became the admin name, NetSol was listed as the owner and then two weeks later back to New Ventures Corp. Really weird.
Weird which is exactly why a proper lawsuit is in order. These corrupt registrars get away with murder because they go unchallenged.
 
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Weird which is exactly why a proper lawsuit is in order. These corrupt registrars get away with murder because they go unchallenged.
Couldn’t have said it better. Not exclusive to registrars either.
 
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Weird which is exactly why a proper lawsuit is in order. These corrupt registrars get away with murder because they go unchallenged.
Same thing happened to me with BuyCar.com

If you check Whois history you'll see it was in my name for a little while before they decided it was sold too cheap.
 
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In case you have not seen it, NameAgency tweeted a video of the sale of DomainNames at the auction. Gives a sense of the setting in the room for those not there.

You don't need a Twitter account to see the video.

Bob
Great stuff. Thanks again!
 
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370k for domainnames dot com is cheap compared to buying your own gtld to help sell domains.
 
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your right, the reserve should be reserved. lol

I have poor hearing (any stereo system that has response to 200 Hz is all I need :xf.wink:) and may well have misunderstood what was said at the NamesCon session explaining the auction (held the day before, which I attended) and the beginning of the auction itself, but it was my impression that Monte said that some reserves had been lowered and that both the owner and he (Monte) might shave their shares to make the deal happen if the bidding got close to the reserve. He seemed in communication periodically on some of the names, and it seemed some they were really trying to get to a level. The auctioneer would look to Monte for a shake of the head, or not, before announcing whether the name was sold or would go to online further bidding. So my impression (as I said possibly wrong or misheard) was that the actual final reserves were not known. I presume that is why no reserves were shown on the screens.

Bob
 
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I have poor hearing (any stereo system that has response to 200 Hz is all I need :xf.wink:) and may well have misunderstood what was said at the NamesCon session explaining the auction (held the day before, which I attended) and the beginning of the auction itself, but it was my impression that Monte said that some reserves had been lowered and that both the owner and he (Monte) might shave their shares to make the deal happen if the bidding got close to the reserve. He seemed in communication periodically on some of the names, and it seemed some they were really trying to get to a level. The auctioneer would look to Monte for a shake of the head, or not, before announcing whether the name was sold or would go to online further bidding. So my impression (as I said possibly wrong or misheard) was that the actual final reserves were not known. I presume that is why no reserves were shown on the screens.

Bob
awesome, thx Bob.
 
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I have poor hearing (any stereo system that has response to 200 Hz is all I need :xf.wink:) and may well have misunderstood what was said at the NamesCon session explaining the auction (held the day before, which I attended) and the beginning of the auction itself, but it was my impression that Monte said that some reserves had been lowered and that both the owner and he (Monte) might shave their shares to make the deal happen if the bidding got close to the reserve. He seemed in communication periodically on some of the names, and it seemed some they were really trying to get to a level. The auctioneer would look to Monte for a shake of the head, or not, before announcing whether the name was sold or would go to online further bidding. So my impression (as I said possibly wrong or misheard) was that the actual final reserves were not known. I presume that is why no reserves were shown on the screens.

Bob
How can you have a reserve auction without knowing the reserves. Obviously he wants them to lower the reserve so he can get the commission, but sometimes in big names people have paid up, and after commissions don’t want to be underwater. The same thing happens year over year, more domains go unsold, than sold, it’s better if they focus on getting everyone involved in finding willing sellers of solid sub $50k names, rather than teasing people with untouchables, and putting everyone to sleep. I think it’s time to shake up the format, and spend some money on technology, the online auction portion of it was horrendous. You could easily make a life long mistake with one wrong click, as many times there was 10x the price differences between the floor, and the online button.
 
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one wrong click, as many times there was 10x the price differences between the floor, and the online button.

Certainly it was more challenging being online (I only watched it live, although some people around me were using online as well as live). What they seemed to do was at times give up on keeping them in synch when the bidding was live fast and furious, but Monte did always, at least on major ones, specifically call out to the online clerk to get it right, and then wait about 8 to 10 seconds for any additional bids. On at least one case a higher bid came in just after the auctioneer had claimed sold on the floor. In that case they kept the lower floor bid as the sale price.

I think it is challenging no matter how you do a combined live and online auction. It would be simpler to have two auctions, one only online and one only live, but that would exclude those who could not be at NamesCon.

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How can you have a reserve auction without knowing the reserves.

Well I can only report on what was done in the live room. Clearly people knew what reserve had been listed online. It was my understanding that a few of these reserves were lowered in the day before the auction (most stayed at same levels), and it was announced that others might further lower. There was no mention orally or on screen of any reserve price for any name, except at end of bidding when Monte indicated it if had reached level to sell.

I have never quite seen the purpose of bidding below a reserve price, but accept it is a standard psychological way to get bidding action.

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Anybody see if end users who have created 301’s or websites now on names purchased and the end users attended the auction or were online buying any names?
 
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I saw cannabiscompany came from namefind portfolio, smart move by Frank acquiring that name, big mistake by godaddy by not acquiring that one considering how much they spend buying portfolios.

Overpriced! What do they think an enduser would pay 150k? It is a $200 nom.
 
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The new Tld's really didn't have a fair chance. There are many people holding good combinations, but they were rejected entrance. Quite frankly, the auction was rigged against them from the start.

Yeah brah, people are rigging it to keep NTLDS down, ok.
 
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CPU.com sold for $140,000 recently, why would anyone pay more? Only stupid person, 600k?
That domain has been thrown around for awhile now. I highly doubt that sale is legit.
 
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