negotiable 24-Hour Auction for 3-Letter .US Domain - ZLO.us

[Ron Jackson]

To do some market research I am going to let a 3-letter .US domain go in this approximately 24-hour auction which is being run exclusively here at NamePros. The auction for ZLO.us will end at 3:00pm U.S. Eastern Daylight Time Sunday Sept. 17 (forum time stamp must read 3:00pm US EDT Sunday or earlier in order to be valid).

Details & Auction Rules:

Domain Name: ZLO.us
Registrar: Domainut.com (Wild West reseller with low renewal prices)
Expiration Date: Dec. 15, 2006
Google page references to ZLO acronym - more than 5 million!
Minimum Bid to start auction: $75
Minimum Bid Increment: $5 (bid must be $5 above previous high bid to be valid)
All bids must be posted publicly in this thread.
Payment Method: PayPal (to be made within 3 days of auction close)

Good luck!

 

[paxton]

I'll start it rolling...

$75

 

[allabout42]

$80

 

[Zona]

$85

 

[q80ty]

100$

 

[gh]

$105

 

[q80ty]

125$

 

[Ron Jackson]

125$

Thanks your for your winning bid of $125 q80ty. PM coming with transfer details.

 

[ezimedia]

HI Duke...

You going to share your market research with us all here..

Thanks
Tom Dahne

 

[Ron Jackson]

HI Duke...

You going to share your market research with us all here..

Thanks
Tom Dahne

Probably not. It's not something I have an article planned on - I'm just personally curious about current wholesale pricing in certain categories, as well as how much difference selling at one venue as opposed to another might make (or selling in multiple venues at once).

I rarely sell anything at wholesale levels any more, but I may do a few other single name auctions under different conditions to get some first hand results on categories like LLL.us with a single q,x,y or z in them and LLN.coms. The wholesale prices in these categories are below the levels I track for DNJournal so I thought the best way to gauge them firsthand would be to sell a few of them.

It has been amazing to see the LLL.us with one (or more) less popular letters go from reg fee to over $100 consistently in just the past 12 months. LLN.com also seem to have gone up considerably. I have a lot of domains in these categories and am considering whether reseller prices on them have now reached a level that is attractive enough to let some of them go while keeping the best combinations for end user sales.

Late Edit:

Just saw an excellent post Jamie31877 made in a thread you started Tom: http://www.namepros.com/domain-name-discussion/237719-l-l-com-net-org-info.html#post1470745

It has average SnapNames results on some of the categories I mentioned. Very useful info.