Still living in 2008..

[JMI]

Let them carry on I guess!

 

[philiporchard]

Seems to be a good time to be selling domains Julian...

Come on, join the fun!

 

[Nigel]

I was never a supporter of Nominet's grand plan - and it caused a depression in the uk domain market for at least 6 years - but it's good to see some activity again and a chance for domainers to make up for the lost years.

 

[RobM]

The market might already be running out of steam. watch.uk been sitting at the same low price for ages and some low prices at all places. Maybe it was a 'flourish'.

 

[Johnp]

I think we are just seeing a lot of different tactics by bidders playing out, with auction Snipping being the order of the day. I have sold in the past LLLs on domainlore where the last bid was hours or even the day before. Even the latest LLL I have sold today at UKBackorder.com the last bid was just an hour before the auction closed.

Watching Glasgow.uk climb ever upwards but all last minute / overtime bidding.


JohnP

 

[Domaintial]

??? Sniping doesn't work as auctions auto-extend.

 

[Domaintial]

The market might already be running out of steam. watch.uk been sitting at the same low price for ages and some low prices at all places. Maybe it was a 'flourish'.

This is basically what I was talking about on another thread. Capital is coming from domainers/domain investors, so its a relatively closed pool. Next few weeks will be interesting in terms of price action.

 

[RobM]

yeah after I said that watch more than doubled in price lol people waiting until the last hours/mins

 

[Domaintial]

Gonna leave my soap box under my desk this time

s/people/domainers. "people" != end-users.

 

[cloud]

What does the bit about 2008 mean?

 

[Nigel]

you'll have to ask JMI - but among the sales that year cruises.co.uk sold for over $1m and PPC income was still strong (but had probably peaked) - so a heyday for domainers. Not sure we've returned to those halcyon days.

 

[BG]

??? Sniping doesn't work as auctions auto-extend.

The reasoning for people last minute bidding isn't normally down to trying to snipe the domain as most of us know the rules on domainlore / ukbackorder etc.. In most cases its down to people trying to wear the other parties down e.g. Hoping they have a meeting to go to or maybe time isn't on their side - I've never been one for putting in my max bid 'straight off' the bat as it makes no sense to do so..

 

[Domaintial]

Yep, agreed, but in the context of JohnP post suggestion seemed to be that the bid was sniped to win.

I think everyones fed up of me talking about the brokenness of domain auctions

Edit: very interested to see whats going to happen when RobM implements his end time changes...

 

[RobM]

Well I think the RoR auctions will all be over by then anyway so will really only affect people buying my catches