Traffic Domain Auction on Webmasterradio.fm

[idnceo]

if you guys have time you can listen the domain auction live from Traffic Conference right now on

http://www.webmasterradio.fm :)

[thegenius1]

Good find im tuning in !

[lyndonmaxewell]

Tuning now! wow!

[thegenius1]

1.5 Million For Cameras.com

32k for BeachFrontProperties.com

[idnceo]

Who says $100.000 for 日本.com ? i hear $200.000.... who says $300.000?.... Well i hope in two years it is our turn :)

[lyndonmaxewell]

cameras.com million five dollars! wow!

[idnceo]

whoever have cameras.com in idn.com in major languages must be smiling , wow :o

[alex]

Thanks for the link. I've been listening too (and imagining IDNs).

[Drewbert]

sailboat.com $120k

[555]

pdagames.com 8500
beachfrontproperty.com 32k
cdstore.com no sale
deal.us 2k
sweatpants.com 8500
jamaicanmusic.com no sale
vo.net no sale
cd.net 20k
freeporn.us no sale
cameras.com 1,500,000
automotiveimports.com 10k
celebs.mobi 2250
winebuying.com no sale
outsourcing.net 11k
girlscam.com 16k
sexlatino.com no sale
757.com no sale
zn.com no sale
publication.net & publisher.net no sale
sailboat.com 120k
idea.net no sale
computerclass.com no sale
chicabonita.com no sale
uscitizen.com no sale (passed on 50k)
puppet.com no sale
virtualrealty.net no sale
wg.net no sale
palace.com no sale (passed on 200k)
own.com 115k
loanfinance.com 8k
bookrack.com no sale (passed on 20k)
guacamole.us 600
wow.mobi 9k
golfer.org 4750
auction.com no sale


cloud.net no sale
creditscores.net no sale
px.net no sale
rentalhouse.com no sale
hotbabesex.com no sale
fw.com no sale
above.com 50k


gossip.mobi 5k
produce.net no sale
appliances.net no sale (passed on 13k)
dent.com 30,500

so.net 13k
vb.com 130k

[lyndonmaxewell]

auction.com no sale

Ironic that "auction" couldnt be auctioned off yet at an auction. :)

[555]

Ironic that "auction" couldnt be auctioned off yet at an auction. :)

He was looking for 6million bid :o

[idnceo]

He was looking for 6million bid :o

as a domain i like more auction.com than cameras.com but maybe cameras.com is more commercial?

[Rubber Duck]

1.5 Million For Cameras.com


Nice, not sure if all these are correct, but they cannot all be wrong!


xn--mgbaa3bxffj4b.com الكاميرا The camera Arabic
xn--mgbaa3bxffj4b.net الكاميرا The camera Arabic
xn--mgba3a0el4a.com كاميرا camera Arabic
xn--p5b4ccf2ec5d1b.com ক্যামেরা Camera Bangla
xn--11b4cg0d4b.com कैमरा camera HIndi

xn--d9b4cg0d4b.com ਕੈਮਰਾ camera Punjabi
xn--80aaa7cahajmhm.com фотоаппарат photo camera Russian
xn--80aaa7cahajmhm8g.net фотоаппараты Cameras
xn--1oc4axe.com గది camera Telugu

[555]

i would choose auction over cameras anyday..but he did not give a bid option lower the 6mm

[alex]

I wonder how much the parked page at camera.com pulls in.

[thegenius1]

i would choose auction over cameras anyday..but he did not give a bid option lower the 6mm


مزادات.net Auctions.net Taking offers :)

[idnceo]

مزادات.net Auctions.net Taking offers :)

wow you are fast! amazing it was available :eek:

[Rubber Duck]

مزادات.net Auctions.net Taking offers :)

We managed:

xn--mgbayk3gg.com المزاد The auction

[555]

مزادات.net Auctions.net Taking offers :)

Nice to know,

аукционы.com (Auctions) , Not taking offers :)

[thegenius1]

wow you are fast! amazing it was available :eek:


CEO i have had this for a long time , not a new REg

[Rubber Duck]

Nice to know,

аукционы.com (Auctions) , Not taking offers :)

Nice, the best we could do was:

xn--80aqfne1aw.net аукцион auction

[idnceo]

well here is another live link with the information of the next domains to be auctioned
http://xr.com/auction

i guess starting tomorrow we are now gonna see all the IDNs of the sold domains on sale or on auction.

[555]

i guess starting tomorrow we are now gonna see all the IDNs of the sold domains on sale or on auction.

Question is if and when we will ever see anything simular to these amounts in IDN

[alex]

Wow, flowers.mobi ...$200K :confused:

[Olney]

I'm curious to see what the alcohol dot coms get
was it whisky & bourbon?

[domainstosell]

Wow, flowers.mobi ...$200K :confused:

It still boggles my mind that .mobi's command so much, yet the IDN aftermarket remains relatively stagnant.

.mobi (IMO) is much more of a speculation/risk than IDNs. I know people would accuse me of having a biased outlook, but I am thinking in common-sense terms: Any site can be formatted properly to fit on a cell-phone screen, regardless of extension. I have used various handheld PCs and my PSP to access the web, and many of those have functions to reformat the site for a best-fit scenario. I have heard the argument that .mobi will revolutionize the mobile web experience, and maybe I'm being obtuse or niave, but I just don't get it. Plus, many of the same folks who are praising .mobi have slammed IDN in other discussions as a fad, or as being "too difficult to implement," or "too speculative, will probably fail."

Am I missing the mark?

[alex]

I'm curious to see what the alcohol dot coms get
was it whisky & bourbon?

Asking $1.35M... no bids.

[thegenius1]

It still boggles my mind that .mobi's command so much, yet the IDN aftermarket remains relatively stagnant.

.mobi (IMO) is much more of a speculation/risk than IDNs. I know people would accuse me of having a biased outlook, but I am thinking in common-sense terms: Any site can be formatted properly to fit on a cell-phone screen, regardless of extension. I have used various handheld PCs and my PSP to access the web, and many of those have functions to reformat the site for a best-fit scenario. I have heard the argument that .mobi will revolutionize the mobile web experience, and maybe I'm being obtuse or niave, but I just don't get it. Plus, many of the same folks who are praising .mobi have slammed IDN in other discussions as a fad, or as being "too difficult to implement," or "too speculative, will probably fail."

Am I missing the mark?


We will get the last laugh , IDN's are common sense not even business sense, And if it makes "Cents" it will make dollars

You hit in right on the nose , .mobi is very speculative IMO , Just because there may be a couple comapanies backing this doesnt mean this is the best thing out.

Wow, flowers.mobi ...$200K :confused:


IM seriously upping the price of anything premium that i put on the market , this is just literaly un freakn believable


Even this could really piss one off "guacamole.us $600.00" GetTheF@#$Outahere!

[Drewbert]

Someone fire the auctioneer.

[Olney]

I'll wait to hear but did IDNs come up at TRAFFIC?
Or did people just go the register & don't tell route?

[Olney]

Hey this is a good one
meetgirls.com $41,200 pass

I own a real similar ASCII domain
mine starts with "meet" & ends with "ches.com"
Never really tried to sell it yet.
I wanna shoot a web commercial for it & put it on Youtube

It's good to look at what's on sale & what's in your inventory.

[domainstosell]

Hey this is a good one
meetgirls.com $41,200 pass

I own a real similar ASCII domain
mine starts with "meet" & ends with "ches.com"
Never really tried to sell it yet.
I wanna shoot a web commercial for it & put it on Youtube

It's good to look at what's on sale & what's in your inventory.

That's hilarious! I like the sound of that one...

[Rubber Duck]

Well flowers is a very high profitable business and no doubt many will be ordered from the mobile.

I guess the problem that you are having is working on the assumption that $200K is a lot of money. It is not. Have you any idea what the global value of this business is? I guess the truth is that the dot com would be worth between 10 to 50 times as much.

This problem spills over into to IDN. Most "IDNers" have no real concept of the value of the domains. This is why you see so many people flipping them for a pittance and why generally prices are so depressed.

In a years time you will be looking at 6 Figures for top IDNs and in two years it will be nearer 7 figures. Once the traffic starts to flow the value of IDN is going to rise exponentially. It is revenue that will determine values not the biggoted opinions of the armies of half-wits that hang out at DNF.

My advice is to study what is happening in the ASCII market very carefully. Forget all the old bollucks we have been getting from Touchring and Co about current traffic revenue multiples. Ask yourself how is your name going to compare with these ASCII in a years time? in two years time? And then think hard about what it is worth now!


It still boggles my mind that .mobi's command so much, yet the IDN aftermarket remains relatively stagnant.

.mobi (IMO) is much more of a speculation/risk than IDNs. I know people would accuse me of having a biased outlook, but I am thinking in common-sense terms: Any site can be formatted properly to fit on a cell-phone screen, regardless of extension. I have used various handheld PCs and my PSP to access the web, and many of those have functions to reformat the site for a best-fit scenario. I have heard the argument that .mobi will revolutionize the mobile web experience, and maybe I'm being obtuse or niave, but I just don't get it. Plus, many of the same folks who are praising .mobi have slammed IDN in other discussions as a fad, or as being "too difficult to implement," or "too speculative, will probably fail."

Am I missing the mark?

[alex]

I guess the problem that you are having is working on the assumption that $200K is a lot of money.

I was thinking about how many great IDNs could be bought today with that $200K.

[Rubber Duck]

I was thinking about how many great IDNs could be bought today with that $200K.

Yes, which is clearly absurd!

[idnceo]

Yes, which is clearly absurd!

Well i dont think Rick Schwartz is a newbie to have bought it for that price. After all, idns are already registered, that auction was the chance to get premium .mobi -which i dont think are hot except keywords to services you can reach very handy on the mobile. But anyway the real winners are the guys behind the .mobi, those sales yesterday will mean that thousands of new .mobi are gonna be registered today again.

Here are some articles about the auction on newspapers.

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/15869465.htm

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/business/local/sfl-sbdomain28oct28,0,1678916.story?coll=sfla-business-headlines

[Rubber Duck]

Well i dont think Rick Schwartz is a newbie to have bought it for that price. After all, idns are already registered, that auction was the chance to get premium .mobi -which i dont think are hot except keywords to services you can reach very handy on the mobile. But anyway the real winners are the guys behind the .mobi, those sales yesterday will mean that thousands of new .mobi are gonna be registered today again.

Here are some articles about the auction on newspapers.

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/15869465.htm

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/business/local/sfl-sbdomain28oct28,0,1678916.story?coll=sfla-business-headlines

If you are going to quote my remarks please take them in the context they were used.

The ABSURD referers to the fact that you could pick up dozens of good IDN for that price. In my view the risk associated with dot Mobi is as great if not much greater than IDN and its potential is more limited.

I think if Rick Schwartz is choosing dot Mobi over IDN it is because as an investor either is cannot be arsed to put in the extra work associated with IDN or he really doesn't have a credible grasp of domaining outside his own backyard.

I think it an awful shame that Traffics has such a limited perspective, but then look at the hosting venues. They have run about half a dozen of these things so far. Have they even considered a non-US venue. No, and they probably never will. That is the mind set. These guys think they are visionaries. I lump them in the same category as Bush, who took charge of Americas foreign policy before he had even stepped outside its boundaries.

The US really needs to start to wake up. If it wants to be global economic and political power, it is going to have to realise that "you need to be in it to win it!"

[idnceo]

If you are going to quote my remarks please take them in the context they were used.

The ABSURD referes to the fact that you could pick up dozens of good IDN for that price. In my view the risk associated with dot Mobi is as great if not much greater than IDN and its potential is more limited.

Cmon Duck, sorry, im not native english speaker to know all.

Anyway I agree we all feel is nonsense, but im sure our time will come. If we have big budget guys like .mobi for IDNs helping with the advertising things will be faster. Though as you said, people should stop selling for peanuts. If people believe they have a gem that will bring lots of money in a few years, dont sell! :)

What i think is stupid are articles like this one

http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20061028/tc_cmp/193402987

[Rubber Duck]

Apology accepted, but I did actually indicate that this particular dot Mobi was not over priced because the keyword is extremely valuable.

We are still looking for Natives that with language to skills to help Moderate local language forums, if any of you native speakers want to step forward and give us a hand. We already have two Moderators for GotIDN on as full partners and the intention is to fully enfranchise those that make a full contribution.

Yes, people will look back in astonishment to find that good IDN were being sold for a few hundred bucks.

If you have less than 100 domain, how big a struggle is it really going to be hold onto them? A real gambler would be remortgaging the house or moving he family into a mobile home at this stage. Ok, that is high risk, but that is the kind of things that people do to become winners. When we have people on here worrying about were you can register these things cheap, frankly I look on in dismay. The question should be, where can I get something really good before everything is reach? Not, how do I get the crappiest registrar? It is not only Rick Schwatz that lacks vision!

Cmon Duck, sorry, im not native english speaker to know all.

Anyway I agree we all feel is nonsense, but im sure our time will come. If we have big budget guys like .mobi for IDNs helping with the advertising things will be faster. Though as you said, people should stop selling for peanuts. If people believe they have a gem that will bring lots of money in a few years, dont sell! :)

What i think is stupid are articles like this one

http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20061028/tc_cmp/193402987

[idnceo]

Here is an one minute video of the $1.5 million cameras.com auction today -well yesterday for others if you are in US:)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofOmqMGkfuY