flip.uk - .UK Domain Auctions and Marketplace

[DJ]

No doubt it takes time, just disappointed not to see any of the recent catches on there. I guess if they prefer to give money to domainlore it's their choice. The eyeball argument is nonsense, people will go wherever the name is if they really want it.

I agree, I sold Floorplans.co.uk and made a nice little profit and a number of others.

 

[lazarus]

people will go wherever the name is if they really want it.

This is very true. It has the members just not the recent catches. No doubt the buyers will go to the place where the domain is.
It's the seller that is making this preference of selling elsewhere. Thinking that they would get more bids and in turn making more money.

One thing for sure is flip is getting new members and new domains every day at an increasing rate so it's heading in the right direction.

 

[DomainMagic]

No doubt it takes time, just disappointed not to see any of the recent catches on there.

All of my catches last week are on my Flip marketplace account and listed for offers, do you mean listed for auction?

 

[lazarus]

All of my catches last week are on my Flip marketplace account and listed for offers, do you mean listed for auction?

Yea, Auctions
But you make a good point. The marketplace has grown very nicely lately .

 

[Scrat]

I believe that flip.uk main challenge has been targeting the message right.
Example: All Acorners know by now what flip.uk is and there is no such a high volume new members that come and join with the community every month. Some folks have been Acorn member from the time when Buffy the Vampire Slayer was running on the primetime on tv … so there is no reason why should you introduce yourself to the same people over and over and over again…

Make it simple and focus on domainers expectations - they want to get the best domains, buy, sell, flip.

@lazarus if you have such a great opportunity to show flip.uk add on acorn main first sections then I suggest you show the main reason (for typical profile Acorners) why people should go to your site - show domains | auctions, recently added, popular listing.

* Popular listing = makes probably at least a few domain owners think that they are genius hackers if they make more clicks on their domain and direct traffic to get their domains free listed on Acorn homepage for FREEEEE ... but at least they are more motivated to share the link to your platform where their domains are listed.



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[webber]

Agree. It would be nice to see a tighter integration between acorn and flip.
Both should win from it

 

[LCHappy]

The one thing that stops us bidding is that Denys is ruthless with shill bidders. The ones he has banned have found themselves on flip.uk

Whether they did it or not isn't so much the point here and I don't want to get involved in that argument. Flip will have that image whereas Domainlore doesn't. I don't know how you overcome that but from our point of view, it's a negative for buying.

I hope you don't shoot the messenger on this one

LC

 

[Admin]

@super-whois - these things take time. I cannot see DL being used in the medium/long-term as there is now, finally, a much, much better offering

 

[webber]

You really can't expect such a level of scrutiny on a free platform. Maybe if you outsource it to the community, but then there are privacy concerns.
Shill bidding is pointless on a platform that allows you to set any reserve price without charging for it.
IP address could be displayed (partially masked) against every bid. And you might say ip can be changed, but a pattern would form.
Domainlore is stuck in the 90s

 

[Wortle]

domainlore is dead in the water and that's only what its owner deserves

 

[super-whois]

I've submitted some recent catches for auction, lets see the eyeballs rolling!

 

[lazarus]

You have some crackers there! Plenty for the Showcase section!

 

[DomainMagic]

I've submitted some recent catches for auction, lets see the eyeballs rolling!

I don't see them, have they not started yet?

 

[lazarus]

I don't see them, have they not started yet?

Scheduled for today

 

[DJ]

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I've submitted some recent catches for auction, lets see the eyeballs rolling!

Looking forward to them going live and interested to see if they are no reserve auctions?

 

[super-whois]

And the bidding has commenced. No reserves (other than the starting bid).

 

[DomainMagic]

Ok I'm joining the party... added 4 of my recent catches to start tomorrow

Lets get the flip auctions going

 

[lazarus]

Hi, A few updates.

2 Minutes are added to the auction for any bidding action, previously it was just for anti snipping and if the auction had a new high bidder.

Notifications on the day (10:00am) of auctions finishing if you have bid on or have that specific auction in your wishlist
Also if you add a Marketplace listing in your wishlist, You will be notified on the last day if it is sent to auction.

I am also working on a notification 1 hour before the auction finishes for bidders or if you have it in your wishlist.

I will rename the current wishlist to watchlist.

 

[webber]

Minutes are added to the auction for any bidding action, previously it was just for anti snipping and if the auction had a new high bidder.

Make it 5 or 10 in my opinion

Also, it would be nice to have a simple marketplace import form where you can just paste a long list of domains like on Dan.com

 

[lazarus]

Hi Webber,
I did shorten it from 5 minutes to 2 as it can drag on a bit and I think 2 minutes is long enough to get a bid in.
What do others think?

I will go with the masses on this one.
I will put the cut / paste import form into the development list.