TBR Drop - Dec 13, 2023 (4.Viewing)

With all the hype around RM, I was hoping people would forgot about RSS and I could grab it for a reasonable amount. Just logged into MyID and it's already north of $1k lol.
 
MapleDots said:
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@FM

Trying to place my bid and I keep getting this


Edit: Just bid through the WHC control panel instead with no errors
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@MapleDots I haven't been able to reproduce this yet, but can I ask that it was from the main website where it didn't work? Has anybody else experienced this issue?
 
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bmetal said:
Don't get me wrong, I am pleased with our results.

There's no way to prioritize it. I was cursing because I initially laid out 8 threads for rm.ca, and then swapped 2 over to giftbaskets.ca, and since it was the later/failsafe threads that got the better timestamps, it is sure that our 0.301 timestamp was on one of the threads I had initially allocated to rm.ca

A fairly good analogy is grabbing a handful of darts (one for each thread), writing a domain name on each, and throwing them (all at once) at the dartboard. If you've got 100 threads, you're going to write rm.ca on a lot of those darts, giftbasket.ca on quite a few, and some names you'll only write once. Some domains you'll save for the second round. In this case, the timestamp is how close that dart came to a perfect bullseye.

The point being there's a darn good chance that a dart for a lesser valued domain may well get the best score. you don't get to allocate domains to darts after the throw.

WHC got 14 domains in the first throw (4.9 timestamps are second throw). I have NO idea how many times they wrote rm.ca on a dart. I have no idea how WHC chooses which domains to write on which darts. I do know we've recently seen them register 79 domains in a 5 second window, so they're throwing at LEAST that many darts.

Every dart has a cost ($1000/thread, 52 weeks in a year, aproximately, $20 per first round dart ). If you allocate 50 darts to rm.ca, you're guaranteed that 49 will NOT get a domain.

Given that their best rm.ca dart was 5th out of their 14 1st round registrations, you might be able to make a good guess at how many of their darts had rm.ca on them. Anyone here good at statistics? Permutations and combinations? Damn, is my degree really three decades old? Can approximate without permutation... just what percentage or darts have rm.ca on them so that you have to go to the 5th pick before your chance of getting an rm.ca dart exceeds 50% ... about 15-16% of the requests are rm.ca ? Yeah, that seems low/odd or really bad luck (or the bidding wasn't as focused on rm.ca as we might think).

(the dart board is a better example if you cut the dart board in half, anything below a perfect bullseye is too early and doesn't count. Lots of 4.99 and 5.00 registrations today, so there were lots of too earlys.)

Yes, we do spread our actual requests out over an interval (thus the late/failsafe reference above), but it's a surprisingly short window, and there isn't much of a correlation between the timestamp returned and when the thread was launched.

my apologies for rambling/the long post. - Tom
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Could you repeat that please
 
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Kerosene and a lighter can burn money a lot faster.
 
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I just got a mid 5-figure counter offer today so if they actually pay, I'm joining in The Madness™.

🤑 :unsure: :poop: :cry:

P.S. It's an esoteric Word*com so there's at least a 1% chance it's legit. Okay, 0.5% :ROFLMAO:
 
MapleDots said:
Vicki.ca @ $40 is absolute sheer madness o_O
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I like Vicky a LOT better and lately I've been staying away from getting into auctions on first names. If you manage to steal something really good, fine, but I'm not spending real money on anything but the best, especially in .CA.

These prices on non-premium .CAs are kinda out of whack. If you pay $50 for a domain at a generous (for these days) 2% STR you'll need to sell it for almost $3K just to break even at a 15% commission, not counting sales or income taxes and other potential expenses.

I remember Twitter Tony elucidating on this, and he said that when he's bidding $50, it's not $50, it's whether that domain can sell for $4-$5K and is worth renewing for 5-10 years. So he thinks long and hard before bidding.
 
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Man, there's nothing better than getting a couple of 4-figures offers on Dan, then discovering that one is from Nigeria and the other Morocco. :cry:

"Send to Broker". :poop:
 
DomainRecap said:
Man, there's nothing better than getting a couple of 4-figures offers on Dan, then discovering that one is from Nigeria and the other Morocco. :cry:

"Send to Broker". :poop:
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I have one .ca domain that gets multiple offers every week from the Philippines. How bizarre is that?
 
rlm said:
I have one .ca domain that gets multiple offers every week from the Philippines. How bizarre is that?
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I have a few of those that get offers every month from some bizarre corner of the world. I'm thinking it's just crazies.

New update! Dan Brokerage has reached out to the buyer and the negotiation has started. An update will be shared with you once progress is made.

:unsure: :poop:
 
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