domain Why people are fighting to buy some longer domains?

If they're end user bids, then whatever. That specific domain means something to that specific end user(s). The logic is with the "right buyer", unexpected things may happen. Exceptions exist, but as a domain investor, you should still reg quality, than believe in the exceptional situation. IMO

Denismth said:

I was observing Godaddy auctions and people are dying to buy
fromtheowners.com

with a hefty price. What is the logic behind such bids??
Can anyone explain why ? Thx.

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Many obscure domains that go for decent prices were formerly established websites with great traffic/backlinks.

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Your mentioned domain has no bids and never got sold through GD auctions (for a higher pricing than >$99 according to namebio datas).

Or do you mean why it get no bids?

Go to auctions.godaddy.com and search for fromtheowners
You will see it then

Some bid on them because they were once established and they have high quality backlinks.

That is not an auction listing. It's a regular marketplace listing and you can list any name for a million dollars and still have 250 offers of 100 dollars each.

Denismth said:

Go to auctions.godaddy.com and search for fromtheowners
You will see it then

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These are no auction bids. This are bids everybody can do for any domain (listed as MO). It is a "make offer" listing with a BIN price. It has no value and nothing to mean (in this case).

Why in this case?

Someone is trying to push a garbage domain. I'd bet the owner send these offers (40x $20) to himself and then set the min offer to $48,000 to tell the world how much bids he got. The domain has no backlink profile, only 6 (!) matched domains at Dotdb overall, is taken in 2 TLDS (.co.uk is not developed), has no clear enduser catergory/niche and is priced waaaaaay to high.

Don't be fooled.

Domainication said:

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Your mentioned domain has no bids and never got sold through GD auctions (for a higher pricing than >$99 according to namebio datas).

Or do you mean why it get no bids?

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From the GD auctions page, it mentions it has 48 bids. This isn't an expired auction, but a member listing.

Joe123 said:

Many obscure domains that go for decent prices were formerly established websites with great traffic/backlinks.

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mkasanga said:

Some bid on them because they were once established and they have high quality backlinks.

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In this case, I doubt it's because of the backlink profile. I can't find much of one at all from Ahrefs or Majestic.

AEProgram said:

That is not an auction listing. It's a regular marketplace listing and you can list any name for a million dollars and still have 250 offers of 100 dollars each.

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Beat me to it. I was going to say that it could easily have been set at $20 and just had a ton of those offers before jacking the price up to give the perceived value.

Long story short, @Denismth, this isn't a fight at all. You'd see more of a fight in expired auctions. This is really just an attempt in manipulating the domain name in their favor by using the number of bids to give it perceived value in the case of, "Man, it has 48 bids!? Where can I get $50k real quick before someone snatches it up?" Doubt it'll sell for that much, but you never know.

But what does bids/offers = 43 mean? is it 43 different people bidding for it or one man can put a bid repeatedly and it can be 8 or 10 people bidding against each other for a forty third time?

Yes. It can be only one bidder who made 43x a $20 offer (when the min. offer was at $20).

It is not related to bidders count. It counts how many bids were send for this domain.

This is what I read in the godaddy page: offer 48,000 or more. And the the BIN price is set @ 49,999.

This was my assumption, not sure if it was correct though.

I thought people bid to the point of less than 48k and the godaddy system is telling me the next accepted bid to be 48,000. So on and on it continues.

Is that correct or not?

Not correct. Like i said. It is no auction listing where a bid is over past bids with an enddate of the auction when it sold to the leading bid. It is listed as "maker offer"! When time is up the listing start again with 90 days and it will not be sold! The owner surely has listed the domain previously with a minimum bid $20. Then (mysterious) 43x offers came in and then he set the min offer to $48,000 with a BIN of $49,990. Whole listing looks a bit scammy. I'd agree to 43x offers if it is a premium valuable name. So the owner set this high pricing to avoid lowball offers. But this do not happen to a domain like "fromtheowners.com" imo.

But i agree with you that it looks a bit confusing for someone who is totally new in domaining.

What interests me - how did you find this domain?

Domainication said:

What interests me - how did you find this domain?

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I'm curious about this as well, especially since it only got regged a couple of months ago. I'm even more convinced the current owner just had a friend of two make random bids on it to give the appearance that it's valuable.

I'm going to assume that deni must have used the bid filter to find this one, cause I can't think of any reason why someone could randomly pull this one out of nowhere. My worldview could be limited, but I really don't think this is one people are truly making that many bids on without being a previously established website.

KTC said:

I'm going to assume that deni must have used the bid filter to find this one,

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And here is the point. Even if he used the bids filter at the auction landingpage he would not find this domain as the bids filter on that page include only bids from auction listings. Would take some more filter settings to find a domain like this expect he used ED but then it would be clear that it is no auction listing.




But maybe OP can clearify....

I wanted to see how much of the featured listing are getting bids. So I clicked on Advanced search, Selected only .com from the list of TLDs. Selected 'featured listing' from Attributes/categories and at least 1 bid from #of bids.
I added no keyword and hit the search button.
Then I filtered with descending order of bids. I found the biggest bid domain on top. The fourth one is fromtheowners.com . A longer domain with many bids. That is what caught my attention.

Denismth said:

I wanted to see how much of the featured listing are getting bids. So I clicked on Advanced search, Selected only .com from the list of TLDs. Selected 'featured listing' from Attributes/categories and at least 1 bid from #of bids.
I added no keyword and hit the search button.
Then I filtered with descending order of bids. I found the biggest bid domain on top. The fourth one is fromtheowners.com . A longer domain with many bids. That is what caught my attention.

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Alright, that makes way more sense. Thank you for clarifying. All I know is the domain owner isn't going to particularly like that this thread will probably get indexed in Google....but it's whatever.

Yeah, definitely have to do your due diligence when it comes to buying domain names cause there are some nifty little tricks that we could use for our own portfolios to make a domain look valuable. Will it work? Potentially, but doubtful for this name. Look for it to eventually make its way on NP for resell value cause from an English standpoint, it doesn't make much sense imo. From the owners of what? Meta? Apple? Any other joe schmoe business? And that's me thinking of adding to the end of the name. If they wanted to add straight(fromtheowners), then that'd make a bit more sense. Not $40k, but not as bad as from the owners as a regular standpoint.

I don't think this was a good reg on the domain owner's part. And definitely a good lesson in something you shouldn't bank on being one to sell.