foz

Just warning others not to take sales listed at DomainLore as "High Traffic" as factual. Bought a couple recently from there and its not looking good. Halving the number at sale end doesn't even come close. Of course I realise its buyer beware and that their would be no representation to the fact but it does create a false impression as a buyer.

If you take a closer look at the counting mechanism you can easily add 50 views in seconds by pressing the F5 button repeatedly. The page doesn't have to wait to resolve to count the hit.

admin

Not sure I understand what you are saying, isn't the number of visits just the number of page views for the auction and nothing to do with traffic on the domain?

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foz

When the auction page surpasses a certain number of "hits" it is marketed as a "high traffic" domain and a special icon appears.

retired_member13

I don't think the icon is due to the number of hits on the auction page, I think it's a separate thing related to the number of hits on the domain (which are counted in with the auction page hits), but I don't know what the level is it appears, for all we know it could be 20 uniques.

Eg the Diamonds.org.uk auction had 1,900 page views at the end (1,400 of these in the last hour or so), but it wasn't marked high traffic as I guess it wasn't getting any type ins on the domain itself.

foz

Will add. This only happens when a domain name resolves to DomainLore and to its corresponding auction page. Not all sellers change their name servers to ns1.domainlore.co.uk & ns2.domainlore.co.uk.

foz

Shall we press F5 a lot and find out

If the uniques were pulled from the namer servers and combined with the auction page views, ending up with domain getting 1 unique per day is not a "high traffic" domain.

rob

Page views are shown and the time of the auction is known, so its possible to work that out.

The F5 effect can be seen on any auction

'Buyer beware' is for all , as 'high traffic' means different things to different people.

GreyWing

I seen this yesterday and posted about it before it ended... Just so buyers didn't think it was a huge type in name.

http://www.acorndomains.co.uk/domain...very-soon.html

Not sure where they come from, I imagine Denys is pretty clued up on the security of his system though and if anyone was F5'ing on purpose he would have them removed from DL pretty quick.

If he isn't aware of the possibility of people doing that, it might be worth dropping him an email so he can look into it.

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ratboy

INCORRECT. Sold a "high traffic" name, this refers to when the page views goes past 500. Name servers don't have anything to do with it.

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foz

Did you set-up a URL redirection to the auction page from the domain you were selling?