TBR Drop - Aug 23, 2023 (1.Viewing)

Eby said:

Might have deflated the huge enthusiasm.

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LOL, I highly doubt it and a price tag of almost $5K is certainly good enough for that one. I'm a minnow and they're big-pocketed whales and could care less what I think.

Since the registrars broke up the band and each picked a different day to end their auctions (rather than All-In Thursday's) I have noticed that big domains get bid up early and high, and then nothing happens at the very end.

It's a natural byproduct of Wed-Thurs-Fri auctions, as before you just needed to take an "extended lunch" on Thursdays, but not everyone can be available for 3 days straight to play late-bidder TBR Auction games.

So they just lay it out there well before-hand.

DomainRecap said:

And that's where it ended - this "bid high & early" technique is quickly becoming the auction strategy of choice.

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resolving to the new owner

MacMan said:

resolving to the new owner

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Hardly a surprise there, as he clearly stated his intentions.

I agree with @DomainRecap, but, while that price didn't make sense to the rest of us for that domain, I think there's more to it for Maple. Remember what his moneymaker business is with his wife, then look at the .com, then look at the fact there is no trademark for that term and particular usage in Canada. He's essentially already in that line of business, so It's a very small stretch to think he could just mirror that usage or make a deal with the .com to be their distributor in Canada. That would easily justify the price and more.

rlm said:

It's a very small stretch to think he could just mirror that usage or make a deal with the .com to be their distributor in Canada. That would easily justify the price and more.

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Although the male enhancement market is big (I have a site dedicated to it) the market cannot touch the body building industry. The site I have for it does over 300k a year in sales and I barely market it.

The right domain name could possibly unite the body building and male enhancement market into a super site.

So paying end user price would not have been an issue, it's a complete write down in my advertising account if I decide to use it for business.

MapleDots said:

So paying end user price would not have been an issue, it's a complete write down in my advertising account if I decide to use it for business.

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Exactly why I didn't waste a second of time pursuing this. I put in an initial bid just to watch the auction but that was it. You were the right buyer - I certainly wouldn't have been.

MapleDots said:

I am using desktop with chrome browser, sessions are around 30-60 minutes and then I get signed out.

It feels like I am always logging in and last time right when I was going to bid. It does not say I am logged out, I see the screen, I interact, then I get the login screen.

I even tried editing the cookies but it works only sporadically

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Do you usually check the "Remember Me" box at login? @MapleDots

Weird Fact of the TBR Week:

I just noticed that Scena.ca was picked #1 overall on the TBR, but strangely, on my original list of 44 domains I started with (before whittling them down), it was rated at the very bottom in the 44th spot.

I guess one of us is crazy here.

FM said:

Do you usually check the "Remember Me" box at login? @MapleDots

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An update here...

My password manager was pre-filling the field without this box check.

I deleted the login from my password manager and then have it remember it again but no luck. I know lastpass will remember the state of that field but bitwarden does not seem to recognize it. So I will enable it manually every time.

I did not think that field was important because remember me usually indicates for the browser to remember the login name (email address) and not the length of time you stay logged in.

Maybe that field should be reworded to "stay logged in" or "set this computer as trusted"

Anyways, thank's @FM that seems to have fixed it today, have not been logged out so far.