NP live auctions - suggestions.

[Midano]

Hi guys.

Last Friday's live auction was a huge success (IMO) and lots of fun. Sold a couple of domains myself - very cheap, but what the heck.

A couple of suggestions for the future, please add yours if you have any:

- We need a better exposure for auctioned names. The domains for the auction should be submitted beforehand (at least 2 days prior to the official auction) and posted publicly. This will increase visibility for the sellers and allow the buyers to preview the names thus increasing the turnout. More people - more auction action.

- When the list is posted, allow "pre-bidding". If the seller gets a satisfactory offer and accepts it - the domain is removed from the auction. If the seller gets offers, but doesn't accept them - the domain goes into auction, but the bidding starts from a highest off-live-auction bid instead of 1NP$. This will save our time in the auction and make it much more dynamic.

- The auctioneer gets overwhelmed with bidding, replying to PMs, keeping track of the queue, and updating the results. Would it be possible to split these responsibilities between two people?

Another auction idea.
Many of us run websites of all walks of life. We are always looking for the ways to promote our sites and we're always looking for advertisers to bring some revenue.
Let's have a live adspace auction for NP$! Format:
<website name>
<site type> - ie shopping, adult, forum
<site profile> - traffic, basic demography
<ad type> - ie banner, text link, popup, popunder
<ad location> - page(s), position on the page
<ad classification> - per impression, per click, fixed date range
<restrictions> - ie "no adult ads", "web design related only", etc.

Example:
10.000 impressions on <website name> homepage. 468x60 banner on top. Rotating. 200 uniques/day. Related to hosting.

 

[IAmAllanShore]

Moved to NP Info and Suggestions for further discussion.

-Allan

 

[aween]

Hi guys.

Last Friday's live auction was a huge success (IMO) and lots of fun. Sold a couple of domains myself - very cheap, but what the heck.

A couple of suggestions for the future, please add yours if you have any:

- We need a better exposure for auctioned names. The domains for the auction should be submitted beforehand (at least 2 days prior to the official auction) and posted publicly. This will increase visibility for the sellers and allow the buyers to preview the names thus increasing the turnout. More people - more auction action.

- When the list is posted, allow "pre-bidding". If the seller gets a satisfactory offer and accepts it - the domain is removed from the auction. If the seller gets offers, but doesn't accept them - the domain goes into auction, but the bidding starts from a highest off-live-auction bid instead of 1NP$. This will save our time in the auction and make it much more dynamic.

- The auctioneer gets overwhelmed with bidding, replying to PMs, keeping track of the queue, and updating the results. Would it be possible to split these responsibilities between two people?

Another auction idea.
Many of us run websites of all walks of life. We are always looking for the ways to promote our sites and we're always looking for advertisers to bring some revenue.
Let's have a live adspace auction for NP$! Format:
<website name>
<site type> - ie shopping, adult, forum
<site profile> - traffic, basic demography
<ad type> - ie banner, text link, popup, popunder
<ad location> - page(s), position on the page
<ad classification> - per impression, per click, fixed date range
<restrictions> - ie "no adult ads", "web design related only", etc.

Example:
10.000 impressions on <website name> homepage. 468x60 banner on top. Rotating. 200 uniques/day. Related to hosting.

Hey,

Friday or Thursday was a chaos but fun. Later on i created a syste called NPG ( www.npgeek.com ) Which allows you to keep easy tracking of the domains for the buyer/seller and the auctioneer without getting 15 open PM windows saying add my domain.

Further on i have made some rules of my own including basic NP auction chat rules which can be found here:

http://www.npgeek.com/rules.php

Browse to the site and you will see that this is system is very handy during auctions. There for NPG is going to be integrated with the Forum for official auctions

Karim

 

[True_Snake]

I agree with many of the points you suggested; I think they are legitimate and some are very practical and needed.

I especially agree with more auctioneers and a site-type category.

I can help out with somethings, just PM me :tu: !

Thanks :] !


True_Snake

 

[dgaussin]

I agree domains could be posted publicly some days before the auction, but I'm not sure for pre-bidding...

The new submission form is nice but need to be tuned I think Maybe better integration in NamePros and some new checkbox like : website includes (Yes/No), and PayPal accepted (Yes/No). The script could do some things too like whois to found registar and whois date itself to avoid mistake and why not PR and backlink checking..

Last night auction was great, but really long, and after 3 AM I'd go to bed and the auction was not finished ! Maybe I miss a great name What think you of the idea to make shorter bids but more often?

 

[Sabre]

I think the domains should be posted publicly, and submissions start a couple of days before... :tu:

 

[aween]

i think so to, that they should be made public. but RJ doesnt want that i guess. on www.npgeek.com it allows you to see what domains have been sold and which not

 

[mustang394]

I like the idea of the domains being publicly posted, but not the pre-pay deal.

 

[jeter4982]

I think the domains should definitely be listed ahead of time. I think it may be alright for bids to be entered the day of, but not have it so you are entering bids a week in advance. Also, maybe the preauction should be a closed auction, where you are only allowed one bid, and not allowed to know what the current high offer is.

Tom