Longest running drop auction? Five Nines

offthehandle · Mar 3, 2019

Just went to Dropcatch. Anybody seen this before, this long?
6 hours now. Still going now.

Five Nines has been going on for hours!!!
between 2 bot's or bidders or????

https://www.dropcatch.com/Domain/FiveNines.com $19,506 right now.

6 Hours + now.

FastCars · Mar 3, 2019

I sent an email to DC at 2:29 asking them what was going on and showing them the screen grab stating that FiveNines.com "this auction closed on 2019-03-02".

offthehandle · Mar 3, 2019

FastCars said:
(I have no clue what the 2017 scandal was, for example).

It had nothing to do with DC. Take a look at the thread I posted. this was a shill bidding mess that was caused by a platform that didn't police or keep track or whatever.

FastCars · Mar 3, 2019

offthehandle said:
It had nothing to do with DC. Take a look at the thread I posted. this was a shill bidding mess that was caused by a platform that didn't police or keep track or whatever.

I understood that from your post. Again, I'm not trying to bash DC. I have yet to speak with them on the matter, and I certainly didn't expect to hear from them this weekend. I'm just laying out what I experienced yesterday in part, because of the large curiosity on this thread as to what was going on and why. I look forward to discussing this all with DC, and I'll certainly post back here what their explanation was and what, if anything, might be done about it. That will probably be the last you guys see of me. You've probably had enough of this situation already.

spikedo · Mar 3, 2019

Looking forward to hearing what DC has to say about this.

wwwweb · Mar 3, 2019

FastCars said:
I understood that from your post. Again, I'm not trying to bash DC. I have yet to speak with them on the matter, and I certainly didn't expect to hear from them this weekend. I'm just laying out what I experienced yesterday in part, because of the large curiosity on this thread as to what was going on and why. I look forward to discussing this all with DC, and I'll certainly post back here what their explanation was and what, if anything, might be done about it. That will probably be the last you guys see of me. You've probably had enough of this situation already.

We all been screwed one way or another from various exchanges so we can all relate.

What happend to you was on an epic level, I mean almost $40K, over 10 hours, after seeing it registered as a win at $5K. This one seriously takes the cake.

verbose · Mar 3, 2019

I'm a friend of FastCars, and was watching the auction end live, refreshing the page frequently in that final countdown. Got a text from FastCars that he'd won after he saw the auction close info. I refreshed one last time not too long after the auction "ended", and no longer saw bidding/auction information on the page at all, just whois info. I thought that was a sign that everything was finalized (never used the site before, so if I'm wrong on that, it's inexperience)... until I got a follow-up text a few minutes later from FastCars that said the auction apparently re-opened.

What's amusing to me is that if 420domains intends to resell the domain at a profit... they just outbid probably the only person on the planet who would pay more than a few thousand for that particular name (as some here have noted... it's not an otherwise "valuable" name, it just has unique value to FastCars). I think 420domains just wasted tens of thousands of dollars.

wwwweb · Mar 3, 2019

verbose said:
I'm a friend of FastCars, and was watching the auction end live, refreshing the page frequently in that final countdown. Got a text from FastCars that he'd won after he saw the auction close info. I refreshed one last time not too long after the auction "ended", and no longer saw bidding/auction information on the page at all, just whois info. I thought that was a sign that everything was finalized (never used the site before, so if I'm wrong on that, it's inexperience)... until I got a follow-up text a few minutes later from FastCars that said the auction apparently re-opened.

What's amusing to me is that if 420domains intends to resell the domain at a profit... they just outbid probably the only person on the planet who would pay more than a few thousand for that particular name (as some here have noted... it's not an otherwise "valuable" name, it just has unique value to FastCars). I think 420domains just wasted tens of thousands of dollars.

I think many here are rooting for Fastcars, I hope it doesn't get paid, and they award it to him in default, or better yet they give him his first winning bid, but fat chance that happening knowing he was willing to pay $30k more now. Either way I hope he gets the domain, as it really looks like he has a plan to put it to good use, and build quality content which is what the internet is all about. I am sure everyone here will try to do all they can do to bring attention to this issue, so at least he gets a straight answer to what happend here.

spikedo · Mar 3, 2019

Not sure if it is a joke or bs entry, but I just saw FiveNines.com was added to Afternic's new listings with no price listed.

Update: Here's the pic:

wwwweb · Mar 3, 2019

spikedo said:
Not sure if it is a joke or bs entry, but I just saw FiveNines.com was added to Afternic's new listings with no price listed.

Looks like $900 min offer required for offer. The seller would need to yield a price of $$43,000 just to break even after commissions if it is really them, but I doubt it as it is still unpaid.

FastCars · Mar 3, 2019

verbose said:
I'm a friend of FastCars, and was watching the auction end live, refreshing the page frequently in that final countdown. Got a text from FastCars that he'd won after he saw the auction close info. I refreshed one last time not too long after the auction "ended", and no longer saw bidding/auction information on the page at all, just whois info. I thought that was a sign that everything was finalized (never used the site before, so if I'm wrong on that, it's inexperience)... until I got a follow-up text a few minutes later from FastCars that said the auction apparently re-opened.

What's amusing to me is that if 420domains intends to resell the domain at a profit... they just outbid probably the only person on the planet who would pay more than a few thousand for that particular name (as some here have noted... it's not an otherwise "valuable" name, it just has unique value to FastCars). I think 420domains just wasted tens of thousands of dollars.

Had to join in the fun, huh? If you look at FiveNines.com now, you get the Whois info. So I think what you saw is further evidence that the auction did indeed end as Inhad described it. As that is what happened the second time around.

wwwweb · Mar 3, 2019

FastCars said:
Had to join in the fun, huh? If you look at FiveNines.com now, you get the Whois info. So I think what you saw is further evidence that the auction did indeed end as Inhad described it. As that is what happened the second time around.

No, that happens with all closed auctions. That means the auction is still pending payment.

When it gets paid, it will go to a coming soon page with a construction type graphic with namebright nameservers.

offthehandle · Mar 3, 2019

verbose said:
I refreshed one last time not too long after the auction "ended", and no longer saw bidding/auction information on the page at all, just whois info.

Post a screenshot if you have it, it will have the time stamp when you captured it. I have screenshots but not at that point in $5K time as I only noticed it much later, quite by accident and the time was at the beginning of this thread I started here.

Fastcars has the complete bid history available since he was a bidder, which he go into his account and can print it out. This was my first screenshot, I took just because it interested me. I watched until it closed and posted the final shot above in this thread.

FastCars · Mar 3, 2019

wwwweb said:
No, that happens with all closed auctions. That means the auction is still pending payment.

When it gets paid, it will go to a coming soon page with a construction type graphic with namebright nameservers.

But that is proof that the auction did indeed close when we said it did. So it should have been continuing. Trying to figure out how to attach pictures.

HotKey · Mar 3, 2019

wwwweb said:
Happens all the time with internet lag, you put up a fight, sorry for your loss, tough one to swallow.

I don't see how internet lag accounts for someone being declared a winner, and then auction continuing.

Has anyone ever dealt with 420domains directly, outside of watching his "heavy hitting" on DC?

FastCars · Mar 3, 2019

As a new member, I can’t post a link or pic. If someone wants to post a copy of the email I sent to DC showing the auction was closed long before the debacle was complete, pm me and I’ll give you the URL.

wwwweb · Mar 3, 2019

HotKey said:
I don't see how internet lag accounts for someone being declared a winner, and then auction continuing.

Has anyone ever dealt with 420domains directly, outside of watching his "heavy hitting" on DC?

It happens over at Godaddy all the time, I can’t remember if it has happend to me at DC when that counter clock goes to 0; and there is a last second bid in that 1 second causing that closing scenario.

That screenshot will show a lot to what happend, it will be interesting to see, and how DC responds to it.

FastCars · Mar 3, 2019

Well, I've got the history copied, and I have my emails sent with the images, etc. The real mystery is why someone else wanted that domain more than I did. But that's how auctions work. At this point, I'd still pay above market for the domain, but I'm not sure everything was in good faith, so I'm not going to fork over the winning bid amount. I'm biased, but I'd like it if 420 decided not to pay after all, and they put this back out to auction again. You could all root for me then!

FastCars · Mar 3, 2019

I just did a search on Afternic.com (now that i'm learning about all of this) and FiveNines.com is no longer listed there.

FastCars · Mar 3, 2019

DropCatch support has gotten back to me. Speaks a lot to them that they have responded on a Sunday. I’ll be hearing more tomorrow after they have a chance to fully look into the situation.

Stay tuned...

wwwweb · Mar 3, 2019

FastCars said:
DropCatch support has gotten back to me. Speaks a lot to them that they have responded on a Sunday. I’ll be hearing more tomorrow after they have a chance to fully look into the situation.

Stay tuned...

Dropcatch is part of turncommerce a company that owns 5 million domain names. They should be a company that has support live 7 days a week.

WhoaDomain.com · Mar 4, 2019

are we looking at new "Chinese premiums" market?

Next on the auction block!

ThreeEights.com Starting bid $888,888
OneEight.com Starting bid $88,888,888
TwoEights.com Starting bid $8,888,888
and
EightEights.com Starting bid $88,888

Start your engines boys!!

NOT!

Edit: I guess someone wants that for their Weed Brand? 99,999% pure cbd?

wwwweb · Mar 4, 2019

Avtar629 said:
are we looking at new "Chinese premiums" market?

Next on the auction block!

ThreeEights.com Starting bid $888,888
OneEight.com Starting bid $88,888,888
TwoEights.com Starting bid $8,888,888
and
EightEights.com Starting bid $88,888

Start your engines boys!!

NOT!

Edit: I guess someone wants that for their Weed Brand? 99,999% pure cbd?

Not anyone at that price just 420, I like the Roman numeral play on it VIX.com

Yes, most like a purity play at that price. Could be for IT, or service based uptime also as it equates to less the 5 minutes and 28 seconds of downtime per year.

FastCars · Mar 4, 2019

Avtar629 said:
are we looking at new "Chinese premiums" market?

Next on the auction block!

ThreeEights.com Starting bid $888,888
OneEight.com Starting bid $88,888,888
TwoEights.com Starting bid $8,888,888
and
EightEights.com Starting bid $88,888

Start your engines boys!!

NOT!

Edit: I guess someone wants that for their Weed Brand? 99,999% pure cbd?

That’s funny. I laughed out loud. Five Nines is clearly better than all of those!

Shailendra Mishra · Mar 4, 2019

Why even $5000? If the winner fail to pay, "all" his bids should be cancelled which would bring down the winning bid to just $1,000 (as someone mentioned)

or

Re-auction.

Shailendra Mishra · Mar 4, 2019

And someone please explain this :

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