TBR Musings - May 11, 2022 (1.Viewing)

A few nice domains were in auction

whiteknight said:

Well i won thong everyone else happy with this week

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Happy for you.. Had I won, that would have been the most expensive thong I have ever bought.

Lol

What did Babe sell for?

silentg said:

What did Babe sell for?

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I heard it was for $5K

Eby said:

I heard it was for $5K

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It was already at 6k before the backorder deadline. So 6k was the selling price?

silentg said:

It was already at 6k before the backorder deadline. So 6k was the selling price?

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I think what you saw was the “next bid” you could have placed and was not the “last bid”

So seems like it was not bid up during the auction and closed at the last bid prior to the auction.

FM could correct me if I am wrong.

I skipped this past week's drop.

Flux.ca is a fantastic domain for a brand. Congrats to whoever snagged that.

Babe.ca is so-so domain for a brand, has negative connotations. Congrats to buyer regardless. Probably best for a baby/infant brand, the dating folks are too cheap to pay good money for that or any domain.

Top of my list for cheapskate buyers:
- adult industry
- gambling industry
- dating industry
most of whom are quite content to use domains with dashes or ending in .net, LOL

MaiTaiMan said:

Flux.ca is a fantastic domain for a brand. Congrats to whoever snagged that.

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Agreed, and I think it went for a pretty reasonable price too.

MaiTaiMan said:

Babe.ca is so-so domain for a brand, has negative connotations. Congrats to buyer regardless. Probably best for a baby/infant brand, the dating folks are too cheap to pay good money for that or any domain.

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Also agreed. I didn't even both bidding on it since the pre-bidding already put it beyond reason, IMHO.

However, it was interesting that two good four-letter-1-word domains dropped on the same day. That can't happen very often! And not by the same owner either, so two people screwed up big time.

MaiTaiMan said:

Top of my list for cheapskate buyers:
- adult industry
- gambling industry
- dating industry
most of whom are quite content to use domains with dashes or ending in .net, LOL

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Yeah, I've always felt the same way, but I did sell a pair of 2-word .CA domains for $32K USD last year that I guess you'd say fell into the dating category. But I guess you could also say it was the adult industry. Or more clearly you might say it is a cross between dating industry and the job seeker industry if you know what I mean. And I could argue you'd be gambling every time you participated in the adult or dating industries... So I guess those domains kinda covered all of them, lol.

Eby said:

I think what you saw was the “next bid” you could have placed and was not the “last bid”

So seems like it was not bid up during the auction and closed at the last bid prior to the auction.

FM could correct me if I am wrong.

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Yeah, the bid increment was $1000, and I remember seeing the next bid was $6K on Sibername, so assuming there were no bids in the after-auction, then the price would've been $5000.

But that's a really big if in assuming WHC and Sibername bids were in sync. I've only been using sibername for actual bidding, but occasionally have tried to compare bid prices between WHC & Siber and have been concerned that they are not always in sync. I can't understand how WHC can be letting that happen or how that would work with them auctioning off the same domain on two separate platforms that aren't in sync. And if they can't keep them in sync on pre-bidding, I can only imagine the mess of keeping them in sync in the after-auction bidding. Thankfully I haven't had any problems with my Sibername auctions so far. Only one more week and I guess the issue is a moot point anyways.

Your post was prophetic Rob


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