Hand Registration Contest - March 2019 - DOT COM only

[BrandCougar]

Let's see who can acquire the best .COM hand registration during the month of March? "Best" will be determined by your peers. You have to create it during the month of March 2019. As long as it says created 03-2019 it could have been a name born before that died and lost its age. Let me be clear, for this March contest the name has to be a new DOT COM hand reg that you own.

Here are the rules of this DOT COM HAND REG MARCH 2019 contest:

1. Hand registration during the month of March 2019.
2. You may submit up to 7 domain names. (Each name submitted must have it's OWN Reply post).
3. So if you want to submit 7 names, submit SEVEN separate Reply posts.
4. I am excluding myself from entering the contest, since I am facilitating the event!
5. The Top 20 Finalist will be selected the following way .---> (10) "Likes" entries with the most "Likes" in the thread and (10) Wildcard entries selected by a team of 5 panelist from the NamePros community. The 5 panelist will be announced after month end to avoid mid-month lobbying. Additionally, the 5 panelist (Wildcard pickers) will be be non-participants in the contest to avoid a conflict of interest and will be respected NPros members that have a wealth of experience in domaining. The panelist members will be a familiar lot.
6. The WINNER will be selected by your peers via a TOP 20 POLL from the Top 20 Finalist mentioned above.
7. The TOP 20 POLL will occur at the end of the month. This will be a 72 hour poll.
8. We welcome EVERYONE to participate in selecting the WINNER from the Top 20 Finalist list.
9. In the event of a TIE during with winner polling, the tie-breaker will go to the WINNER with the earlier submission posted to this thread. (a plan to avoid any misunderstand should a tie occur)


TOP 20 Finalist

• Finalist Pick 10 - those 10 names with the most "likes" make it to the Top 20 (user involvement).
• Finalist Pick 10 - those 10 names that a panel selects make it to the Top 20 (panel involvement).
• Top 20 Poll - this involves everyone, but only for a 72 hour window at month end (ALL involvement).

What do you win?

• Number one, props and recognition here at Namepros.
• I will personally pay $20 JACKPOT (via PayPal) to the WINNER.
• Anyone wishing to contribute an additional $0.30 to the Jackpot - contact me via PM - and I will add your contribution on top of the $20 Jackpot I have committed (let's see how large a Jackpot we can build).

* Sponsors welcome. Send me a PM.



JACKPOT UPDATE:

* We have had (9) NP members generously contribute additional funds to the JACKPOT.
* The JACKPOT is now at $200 Total + 1 Efty Growth subscription

 

[BrandCougar]

--- TOP 27 FINALIST POLL is NOW LIVE ---


Hello -

The finalist poll is now LIVE and will be open for the next 72 hours.

You may select up to 3 choices. (see the top of your screen)

Thank you for all your submissions this month.

Best of luck to the finalist!.

-Cougar


ps: My apologies for the delay in getting the poll started. Unbeknownst to me, the standard poll feature had a limitation of 20 entries. Eric (Npros) generously increased the Poll Choice Limitation to accommodate our need for 27 entries. Thank you Eric!


@1Darko @4better
@Abdel @ANDIE COX
@Angelo Thurman @AryanB
@autobot @awwalmb
@Axc @BabayS
@ben pedri @Bertrell
@blumutt @BrandableDomain
@BrandsOpen @cabotower
@Cannuck @capiche @cipcip @Corey @creataweb
@crodomainhub @Cypherpunk
@darrenc @Dave
@DefinitelyDomains @dexdn
@Dimitris @DomainBeam
@DomainFQ.com @Domaining Ocean
@Domains - Wanted [USER=991012]@dorje
@dtagr @EbookLover
@efizi @elevator
@eNqyddn @Enwych
@ethereumaddress @Fadi H
@FeDomain @GinQt204
@Giroud @handpicked
@HappyW @Haroon Basha @Haykay2005
@headsupp @Hizzyjnr
@H Malsawmtluanga @hn
@hookbox @Hustling
@iGreen @imadoer
@Isibor Imieka @jamesall
@Jay Ha @Jevsim
@jmaurya @Joe Nichols
@Jonathan Beadle @Joseph CA
@joshr @J Sokol
@karmaco @Kpett
@L2 Media @Lagunaboy
@legendarynames @Leo_winner
@Leo Angelo @Lesson
@Levi_charlz @mani0307
@marcreative
@martbele @mistressbellek
@Mohammed Azheruddin @monktonk
@mrm_1 @MS-Domains
@NameLlama @NamePrime
@NameSplice
@NameZest @Namulator
@Natto @Nikhil Jain Jain
@nivadriver @okmachan
@Omar Ashraf @OnlineDomainShop
@Partha Borthakur @profile
@Puneet Malhotra @Radu054
@Ramesh Kumar G @ramkumaritrvs @rdom888
@Recons.Com @Rex73
@ROC Domains @rubencouto
@Sakirmahmad
@sarahsdomains @Shamiul Alam
@Silentptnr
@slkn @smartwebby
@stoneroses85 @SuperBrander
@Telodomains @ThatDomainGuy
@TheBestPlanet @tldboss
@treasure28
@UncleBrand @VijaiZ
@Vito @vravis9
@Want2learn @WillW
@wormfood @yjann
@Yusupbabay @Zameer24x7
@zeff[/USER]

 

[BrandCougar]

--- CONTEST FINALIST POLL is NOW LIVE ---


Hello -

The finalist poll is now LIVE and will be open for the next 72 hours.

You may select up to 3 choices.

3 clicks and 1 submit is all it takes --->>> Have you voted yet?


(see the Finalist List at the top of your screen)

-Cougar

 

[BrandCougar]

Do you want to see the Finalist List?



Help pick the Winner. ( see the Finalist List at the top of your screen )

Voting is now LIVE and will be open for the next 68 hours.

You may select up to 3 choices.

3 clicks and 1 submit is all it takes.


Please vote!

-Cougar

 

[BRANDERX]

Hey Cougar,

Congratulations on your achievement. Perhaps 25% of the next prize, should be awarded to the CH, to cover coffee expenses at least

Are we allowed to share how we voted?

Anyway, I just voted, I struggled with the 3rd vote. 1 & 2 are were easy. Clear winner, at least in my view.

Great stuff..

 

[NameLlama]

Clear winner, at least in my view.

Bedependable?

 

[BRANDERX]

Bedependable?

lol, patience. Let's see what the CH says about that.

 

[dncafe]

Protip for next contest: Pick an "A" domain so you're at the top of the voting list. I've won countless contests with this one simple hack.

 

[EbookLover]

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[Want2learn]

You have totally done a jam up job! I am thoroughly impressed. There was a commercial years ago. I do not recall the company name, but the jist was, "We don't make the things you need for life, we make the things for life better." I love ideas! And they are certainly not germane to me! I love that you took a seed and look at us all here now seeing a full bloom!

 

[WatchDogue]

3rd vote? How are you voting 3 times? I am only able to vote once.

I just cast my 3 votes too - I checked 3 boxes on the ballot on the top of this page, then hit submit and all 3 votes went through and all 3 were counted in the results.

 

[EbookLover]

I just cast my 3 votes too - I checked 3 boxes on the ballot on top of the page, then hit submit and all 3 votes went through and all 3 were counted in the results.

Yeah, I figured it out. Earlier today when the voting was first started, you could only choose one (radio buttons). After I posted that, I clicked to change my vote and saw it was changed to check boxes.

 

[vravis9]

Done my part of voting...

This is harder than I thought...

Deciding which one to get your support is complicated...

Personally I tried to see usability and casted my votes without checking results before...

Sure I don't like some names at all and some are gems....now community decides who gets the prize...

It can only be judged fairly and with good intentions if more number of members utilise their votes....
Please all members do give their part of decision...


Good luck

 

[Want2learn]

I wonder which domain has the highest GoDaddy value of the bunch?

 

[EbookLover]

I checked all 27 as quickly as I could. If I recall correctly,
1 was $3xx, 2 were $6xx and the rest were all between $1100 and $1800.

Of course, it means nothing.

 

[wormfood]

ElectionAlliance

https://www.godaddy.com/domain-value-appraisal/appraisal/?domainToCheck=electionalliance.com
sweet

 

[BRANDERX]

People should consider possible uses for that domain before voting.

The more possible uses, the better, & the more valuable a domain can be.

Be fair in your voting.

imo

 

[Ategy]

For those interested, this is how I told @BrandCougar I would be judging the domains ...

Basically I'm looking for the ones I'd want most in my portfolio. The ones I'd think would get me the best return and have the best chance of selling. So effectively while some might be really cool or original, if there's no end user, it's going to be a no for me.

Then based on that I did 3 elimination rounds going down to 113 domains, then 52 domains and finally 36.

I then put the final ones through Estibot just to make sure none had any traffic or CPC stats on keyword domains which might have merited extra attention (I didn't look at the actual Estibot value at all). In the end the Estibot part didn't really change much from what I already would have thought.

However, 6 keyword domains that I thought could maybe have traffic value (the reason I kept them until my Estibot round) didn't have enough for me to consider them investment grade, so that brought me down to 30. From there I made a top10 (no order) and "the next 5" (again no order) as I wasn't sure if BC needed 10 or 15 names.

Congrats to all the finalists and the eventual winner!

 

[mrm_1]

Hello @BrandCougar ,
I want give you one big THANK YOU for the amazing job this month and for all efforts and time that you invest in this contest.
Great job really.

....and one correction, it's not so important but the name D/u/e/l/L/a/b is with "s" in the end, i mean it is "labs".

 

[BrandCougar]

Protip for next contest: Pick an "A" domain so you're at the top of the voting list. I've won countless contests with this one simple hack.

@dncafe -

Good point.. but who said I will always sort by Alpha?

Thanks for posting. You are correct there are a lot of "A1 Plumbing" companies listed in the old yellow pages (both online & in print).
.
-Cougar

 

[BrandCougar]

I just cast my 3 votes too - I checked 3 boxes on the ballot on the top of this page, then hit submit and all 3 votes went through and all 3 were counted in the results.

@WatchDogue & @EbookLover -


You are correct. You may select up to 3 choices.

@EbookLover - Your post # 748 was also correct. I originally created the Poll with a "Single Pick" model, then within a 1/2 hour of creating the poll decided it would be more flexible for the participants to have more selection options so upgraded the poll to the "up to 3 choices" option to provide more voting flexibility for the participants.. Please feel free to re-vote and see if it allows you to select 2 additional choices.

The poll will remain at the "up to 3 choices" option for the remainder of the 3 day voting window.

Thanks for mentioning the topic.

-Cougar