TBR Drop - Sep 20, 2023 (3.Viewing)

Here's the updated Active Bid List (presumably from highest to lowest number of bids) on WHC:

Why are they not showing number of bids

That is a key thing to know

MapleDots said:

Why are they not showing number of bids

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There is no more Number of Bids - WHC is emulating CatchDrop's system.

They aren't even supposed to show the domain with bids, but their old system still sorts the same way so anyone can see them. It's even sorted to some extent pricewise, as the ones on the Hot List delineate the price levels, as those get auto-sorted on top.

Lazy asses can't have everything handed to them on a silver platter, or WHC would have zero real bidders like me, RLM or Eby. You can't just remove all the pro-customer features without giving any back, as it would be totally counterproductive and likely put you out of the TBR business pretty quick.

I think even CD knows that they've gone pretty well as far down the anti-consumer path as they possibly can without totally pissing off TBR customers. Even so, I know some people won't bid there because of the design of their system and auctions, and likely won't at WHC either.

And why do you care? You don't pre-order bid anyway.

DomainRecap said:

And why do you care? You don't pre-order bid anyway.

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I actually do, it depends on what I see, I don't have time to peruse thousands of domains but I do have time for a couple hundred.

I don't think one can say who will or who won't bid. I know I have chased domains all over the world, regardless of platform. So in my opinion TBR will only grow in strength when more people have access to them. It will make more money for the TBR carriers who will in return reinvest in their infrastructure and the cycle will continue.

If I were to predict I would probably say there will be a few mergers or acquisitions coming in the future streamlining the system even further.

Why does that excite me?

If I see a domain I want I like to participate to see if I can win it. If I'm busy and I forget to place an order it is to my advantage to be able and join auctions to see if I can win a particular domain.

WHC and Catchdrop have made the process easier and I predict places like BareMetal will follow suit. Why do I think that? They have no choice, they are leaving money on the table with every auction because they exclude users who may have bid the domain up further had they had access to the auction.

I know when I was given access to the Twitter.ca auction at Baremetal I was one of the driving forces for the domain to bid as high as it did. I was even disappointed to lose it but I had a limit in my mind as to how high I would go.

The trick in future TBR's is to find the hidden gold and allow everyone else to bid on the obvious domains. Everyone will be so busy bidding on those domains the sleepers will make it through and the astute domainer will still be able to build a healthy catalog.

PS. I will probably move this discussion into the WHC announcement topic to keep it separate from the TBR topic in a few days.

But you're only talking about the ultra top end, the cream of the cream of the crop of domains, which will likely yield higher prices in open auction, but how high, and what about the meat and potatoes pre-orders that pay the rent each month?

As we've seen with CD, when they don't win the premiums, it's kind of a dead zone in terms of auction activity. Look at the last few weeks where the premium wins were hard to come by, and I don't think there were many bids, if any, on their mid-and low-range wins.

This is simply a byproduct of the auction system they have chosen, but next month could be different, with CD winning a pile of premiums and laughing all the way to the bank... or not.

That's the chance you take when you put all your TBR eggs in the premium basket - you risk ticking off the rank-and-file TBR buyer, who will simply move elsewhere to a registrar with a system more consumer-friendly to hardworking bidders who put in the hard time.

Roll the dice, pay the price.