advice ATOM auctions - Risk Vs. Rewards

[Inframan]

I think the successes happen in situations where those auctioning are happy getting a lower profit and moving more domains.

If I buy a 4L for $200, I might have it priced for 8k but if it ended up at auction for $2k I'd be fine with that. Actually right now I have 40 4Ls listed at Atom's auction and the reserves on them are what I feel are considerably lower. A couple actually only have a $300 reserve because I bought them for less than half of that and they aren't million dollar domain names. There's a domain Atom recommended I price for $30k retail and my reserve is at $1500 because that's enough for me to go out and acquire a name that hopefully Atom will recommend I price for $150k and maybe I'll have a reserve of $3-7.5k on it depending.

My attitude would probably be similar with SEDO if it were free to submit domains to their auctions.

I brought up the issue on the ATOM thread before the 4L auction started. I requested that the seller be able to set the reserve price.

My reserve price was set to 22% of their evaluation.

Basically everyone on this thread recognizes that the chances of bidding above the reserve price is little to none.

These auctions 90% benefit the buyer.

I will give ATOM an edge over SEDO based on the vague quality requirements of SEDO's auctions.

I've submitted 1 word dictionary [COM] domains to SEDO's great auction and rejected with no specification as to why. I look at the auction list, 2 word domains, domains over 12 characters, any gTLD [especially domain names that have zero coherence with the gTLD ( ex. casinobtccoinbetting.cars), hyphenated domains, ect.

If ATOM allows you to set the reserve they will be the premier auction marketplace.

 

[Inframan]

I have some 4 Letter .com's that I'm contemplating submitting to this auction, but the $99 price seems a bit risky as the majority of my names are on the lower end of the LLLL quality range so not sure they would attract too much competition having letters Q and Z.

My names are sorted into these categories:

CVCV = My premium names, pronounceable, NO letter Q, Z, W, X
CCVV = Includes letters: Q, Z
CCVC = Includes letters: Q, Z
CCCC = Includes letters: Q, Z, J
VCCC = Includes letters: Q, Z
VVCC = Have no letteer: Q, Z
CCCV = Includes letters: Q

Should i bother with this auction or try selling on other platforms such as Atom, Afternic, Brandbucket, GoDaddy or NamePros?

What is the average price for lower quality LLLL on NamePros these days?

The reserve on ATOM's auction is based on a percentage of their online estimate.

It took a minimum of 40 days for Brandbucket to accept my domains. I now have 2 domains locked on their website due to the selling contract.

I used NP's landers, no takers, 1 inquiry.

Currently the market places I'm listed at.

SEDO - 80%
ATOM - 13%
Porkbun - 5%
Brandbucket - 2%

Previously
SEDO - 50%
DAN - 30%
Squadhelp - 10%
Afternic - 5%
Brandbucket - 2%
Namecheap - 2%
Dynadot - 1%

 

[URL Stream]

It'll be interesting to see what happens with the Atom auctions.

There’s a filter on Atom Auction to view only ‘ended’ auctions. Here are the (curated) 4L sales from today...

On the bright side, they all outperformed Sedo's $99 baseline

 

[scithe]

The Atom auctions were pretty disappointing. I was the high bidder on at least 50 of the 100 auctions I bid on but the reserve was not met for 48 of them.

I listed I think 42 4Ls and none of them sold.

 

[Inframan]

The Atom auctions were pretty disappointing. I was the high bidder on at least 50 of the 100 auctions I bid on but the reserve was not met for 48 of them.

I listed I think 42 4Ls and none of them sold.

You and Domain Booth were bidding on multiple auctions. I didn't look at all the 4L's but I don't think Domain Booth won any.

 

[Kyle Tully]

Atom had waaaay too many names for their first auction and reserves too high.

Also the display format for the collection listing not conducive to amping up urgency bidding. Need to show time remaining and bids etc in an easy to see/scan way.

Staggering end times would also have helped. But only with the above fixed.

 

[scithe]

There's a 4L going now that's ending today and tomorrow and there's actually been some better bids. At least one of mine has met its sub-$500 reserve and there's a few bids over $500.