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I am a client of NameSilo.com as I am sure a lot of you are too. I have been visiting their expired auctions in the last 2-3 months on a regular basis, mainly due to their ads on a popular podcast.
All was well, they have some ok names on the expired auctions which a few users bid on here and there. So it was easy to search decent names on a daily basis as most (like 99%) did not have any bids. So to see what was ‘trending’, all you have to do is sort by highest bids and about 20 to 50 names would pop up and the rest would sit idle, at $0 bid, waiting to be claimed and brought back to life.
That all appeared to change about 4 weeks ago when bids appeared of at least $1 or more on 99.9% of expired names. Questions for fellow NP fam – is this normal in the domain world?
I have contacted their support who are most likely responding from a 3rd world country with little knowledge about expired domain names and their value. In a 15-minute conversation, all I got was ‘expired domain names have value and people are bidding them up. The said people will flip them for a profit.’ – that’s it in a nutshell.
I tried to explain that the chance of every name being bid on every single day is almost impossible. Their response to my question was that about 400 domains from about 70,000 did not have bids. This was where the conversation finished.
Has anyone else seen this and has anyone contacted NameSilo.com and received a more appropriate response?
If NameSilo.com has a NP account, it would be great to get a response as to why almost all their expired domains now have at least $1 bid or more?
Any thoughts or debate would be great.
All was well, they have some ok names on the expired auctions which a few users bid on here and there. So it was easy to search decent names on a daily basis as most (like 99%) did not have any bids. So to see what was ‘trending’, all you have to do is sort by highest bids and about 20 to 50 names would pop up and the rest would sit idle, at $0 bid, waiting to be claimed and brought back to life.
That all appeared to change about 4 weeks ago when bids appeared of at least $1 or more on 99.9% of expired names. Questions for fellow NP fam – is this normal in the domain world?
I have contacted their support who are most likely responding from a 3rd world country with little knowledge about expired domain names and their value. In a 15-minute conversation, all I got was ‘expired domain names have value and people are bidding them up. The said people will flip them for a profit.’ – that’s it in a nutshell.
I tried to explain that the chance of every name being bid on every single day is almost impossible. Their response to my question was that about 400 domains from about 70,000 did not have bids. This was where the conversation finished.
Has anyone else seen this and has anyone contacted NameSilo.com and received a more appropriate response?
If NameSilo.com has a NP account, it would be great to get a response as to why almost all their expired domains now have at least $1 bid or more?
Any thoughts or debate would be great.