.us .US - The OFFICIAL Discussion, Showcase and Sales Report Thread

[slaughterbeck]

It appears the domain industry has been starting to take notice of the .us namespace over the past year, read DnJournal.com .us growth and Namepros with even greater expectations for the year to come.

So I thought it would be a good idea to ask everyone to show us your .us domain names. You can post your favorites or your entire portfolio.

 

[John Baron]

Kinda makes one wonder about the auction results. For years we read auction results from Snapnames that were fraudulently inflated due to shill bidding. When you read that a LLL.us sold for $20k, it makes me wonder if it's all on the up and up.

The fact that snapnames have an history of shill bidding makes them to be the safest place to bid without worrying about those kind of things , imo.

 

[HeyNow]

It makes me wonder if you should seek professional help, since you just had a good reason why that domain would sell for that much and here you are rambling about Snapnames again.

Rambling, for sure, but rambling facts, not fiction like many published auction results. Interesting you've never posted that the criminals should seek "professional help," only those that remind others here of the risk of believing auction results in an unregulated industry.

You can stick your head in the sand like an ostrich, or you can stick your head somewhere else for all I care. I have no recourse for the fraud perpetrated on me by auction fraudsters such as Snapnames. My only recourse is to remind potential bidders that auction fraud is a reality, and when you see LLL.us going for $20k (regardless of a cute, popular acronym) it should be eyed with skepticism. I own lots of .us names, so I have an interest in carrying the torch for wonderful auction results. But IMHO there is more to the story of the LLL.us for $20k that we will probably never know.

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The fact that snapnames have an history of shill bidding makes them to be the safest place to bid without worrying about those kind of things , imo.

You're joking, right? The fact is, you'll never know when your pocket has been picked at a domain auction, unless the fraudster taps you on the shoulder and tells you that you've been a sucker. That's what Snapnames did to their customers. They tapped their customers on the shoulder and told us (essentially), that we've been suckers, that we were defrauded many times over a 4-5 year period. Go ahead, give them some of your money while honest auctioneers stand on the sidelines scratching their heads wondering what's the the point of treating the customers honestly and not inflating auction sales with shill bids.

 

[JB Lions]

"But IMHO there is more to the story of the LLL.us for $20k that we will probably never know."

defaultuser gave it to you in post #519. It's not that complicated.

 

[HeyNow]

"But IMHO there is more to the story of the LLL.us for $20k that we will probably never know."

defaultuser gave it to you in post #519. It's not that complicated.

I never doubted that an end-user bought it. I'm just doubting the sales price.

 

[Kate]

I own lots of .us names, so I have an interest in carrying the torch for wonderful auction results.

Unlike some of us, you obviously have never sold .us domains for good money.

Rambling, for sure, but rambling facts, not fiction like many published auction results.

But IMHO there is more to the story of the LLL.us for $20k that we will probably never know.

So much for rambling facts.

 

[HeyNow]

Unlike some of us, you obviously have never sold .us domains for good money.

So much for rambling facts.

You're clueless about me and my history with .us domains. You clumsily guess then label your guess with "obviously" to give your guess implied integrity.

I've not stated anything that wasn't or isn't true. On the other hand, you spew baloney out of your butt and expect naive others here to hold you in high esteem. Perhaps you just need to pat yourself on the back because no one else will. Good luck to you in your guessing game.

 

[DU]

I never doubted that an end-user bought it. I'm just doubting the sales price.

I doubt everything when it comes to domain sales that doesn't come through trusted sources first hand.

 

[nameflake]

I'm sorry you were defrauded in the past through snapnames. Whether more than a domain name was included in this sale or not is yet to be known, and also the validity of every sale can be questioned. It was a surprising yet optimistic piece of news nonetheless.

 

[1john2004]

AED.us
$20.000 sedo

 

[gladdy]

enterprises.us
2,000 EUR
sedo

 

[gladdy]

Famo.us
$25,000
AfternicDLS

 

[nameflake]

famo.us
$25,000
afternicdls

wow

 

[DU]

wow

I know! What the heck is Famo?

 

[nameflake]

It's a hack of famous.. I still can't believe it.
Does anyone know if this name changed hands? Domain name info shows it was "updated" today but that can mean a lot of things I guess.

 

[HeyNow]

wow

Don't believe it until you see proof. Proof is not what DNJournal.com tells you, other heresay, or any other rumors or posted sales "results" from no one who was part of the deal. If real proof of that sale is provided, I will be a believer and accordingly adjust my asking prices.

 

[Kate]

It's just a domain hack, a fluke sale. Doesn't affect the market as a whole.

 

[mwzd]

It's a great sale, even though more so for hacks than .us tbh

Excellent sale in any case.

:tu:

 

[DU]

It's just a domain hack, a fluke sale. Doesn't affect the market as a whole.

What sales do affect the market as a whole ?

When I look most sales are determined by factors that vary from location to location and by seller to seller and buyer to buyer. I rather think that most sales are irrelevant to the market as a whole because there are so few aligning factors in anything.

When buyers vary from domainers to multibillion companies and sellers that vary from unemployed to billionaires.. each transaction is more or less a clash of egos... and money often changes egos.

Exceptions being speculation in measurable niches - like LLLL.com and LLL.co which have a baseline value with spikes.

 

[nameflake]

enterprises.us
2,000 EUR
sedo

Pretty decent as well. Wonder how the singular value fairs.

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It's a great sale, even though more so for hacks than .us tbh

Excellent sale in any case.

:tu:

I see your point of view. I am not very familiar with the hack market.

 

[HeyNow]

One theory circulating is that there are fewer suckers in the domainer ranks (because the new normal in this economy is that no one has any cash), and that unsubstantiated sales results are being used to lure naive domainers and wannabee domainers into the cycle of inflating sales prices by believing sales results posted at the usual domain websites where the owners of those websites own domains they cannot sell for the prices they'd like to get. That's one theory.