Comments on: Why Am I Missing Out On Great Deals? http://www.conceptualist.com/2008/02/29/why-am-i-missing-out-on-great-deals/ Sun, 14 Mar 2010 16:48:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Abigail Harris http://www.conceptualist.com/2008/02/29/why-am-i-missing-out-on-great-deals/#comment-6292 Abigail Harris Mon, 17 Mar 2008 23:46:36 +0000 http://www.conceptualist.com/2008/02/29/why-am-i-missing-out-on-great-deals/#comment-6292 As a domain owner/seller, I love Kelly's suggestions of sellers having enough advance time for promoting the upcoming name for auction to the appropriate industry. While Moniker does a great job putting together all the names for auction,there isn't much time for a seller to do any advance marketing to that name-related industry. As a seller, I submit my names 3 months in advance, but only know a few weeks beforehand if it is selected for auction. This doesn't leave much time for industry press releases, contacting prominent industry players, etc. Thanks for your blog! Best, Abigail (P.S. SyntheticDiamond.com--in the silent auction--was one of my and Maxam's gem portfolio names. We also had DiamondNecklace.com in the live auction, but two weeks in advance certainly wasn't enough time to do any real marketing.) As a domain owner/seller, I love Kelly’s suggestions of sellers having enough advance time for promoting the upcoming name for auction to the appropriate industry. While Moniker does a great job putting together all the names for auction,there isn’t much time for a seller to do any advance marketing to that name-related industry. As a seller, I submit my names 3 months in advance, but only know a few weeks beforehand if it is selected for auction. This doesn’t leave much time for industry press releases, contacting prominent industry players, etc.

Thanks for your blog!

Best,
Abigail

(P.S. SyntheticDiamond.com–in the silent auction–was one of my and Maxam’s gem portfolio names. We also had DiamondNecklace.com in the live auction, but two weeks in advance certainly wasn’t enough time to do any real marketing.)

]]> By: Buy My Domain Name Portfolio » Blog Archive » SecureRFID.com http://www.conceptualist.com/2008/02/29/why-am-i-missing-out-on-great-deals/#comment-6174 Buy My Domain Name Portfolio » Blog Archive » SecureRFID.com Tue, 11 Mar 2008 04:14:09 +0000 http://www.conceptualist.com/2008/02/29/why-am-i-missing-out-on-great-deals/#comment-6174 [...] wait around and then complain about missing the good investments?  Why buy domain names at auction when you can do better, have more upside, and save a ton of time [...] […] wait around and then complain about missing the good investments?  Why buy domain names at auction when you can do better, have more upside, and save a ton of time […]

]]> By: Smith http://www.conceptualist.com/2008/02/29/why-am-i-missing-out-on-great-deals/#comment-5976 Smith Sun, 02 Mar 2008 22:17:03 +0000 http://www.conceptualist.com/2008/02/29/why-am-i-missing-out-on-great-deals/#comment-5976 This service looks great, but I think domainers are missing on spanish language domain names, wich is a great market too. We just launched our new free auction service at www.subastasdedominios.info and we get all kind of congratulation emails but buyers seem to be not really interested, why? I think is better to invest your money in some spanish high quality domains instead of other low quality english domains like those found daily in ebay. (or even some poor quality LLLL.com) Back to Bido: Please include some spanish names! Thanks, ----answer---- We'll include what we'll be comfortable guaranteeing. Some Spanish names definitely fall into that category. Cheers Sahar This service looks great, but I think domainers are missing on spanish language domain names, wich is a great market too.

We just launched our new free auction service at http://www.subastasdedominios.info and we get all kind of congratulation emails but buyers seem to be not really interested, why?

I think is better to invest your money in some spanish high quality domains instead of other low quality english domains like those found daily in ebay. (or even some poor quality LLLL.com)

Back to Bido: Please include some spanish names!

Thanks,

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We’ll include what we’ll be comfortable guaranteeing. Some Spanish names definitely fall into that category.
Cheers
Sahar

]]> By: Bob DeCecco http://www.conceptualist.com/2008/02/29/why-am-i-missing-out-on-great-deals/#comment-5961 Bob DeCecco Sat, 01 Mar 2008 14:48:56 +0000 http://www.conceptualist.com/2008/02/29/why-am-i-missing-out-on-great-deals/#comment-5961 I am not sure if the issue is one of 'liquidity' as much as it is an issue of 'volume'. If you think about it, you can relate this to almost any type of product one can view or purchase on the web (e.g., real estate, automobiles, etc.). Just imagine if you didn't search 'locally' to narrow your search for that perfect used car within a 25 mile radius of where you lived to tried to find the best deal close to you? Or, what if you had to search ALL the real estate MLS's across the country to find the 'best deal' for your next home without narrowing your search to a particular county, town, city or neighborhood...imagine how daunting that task would be?! I think that domain names suffer the same fate, but the trouble is, aside from geo-domains and/or limiting your criteria to ppc revenue type metrics, it's very hard to narrow the list because there are so many domains available and much of the value of any domain (real value) is in the eye of the (potential) beholder. I have been thinking about this a lot lately myself, as I too have seen some remarkable deals pass by and said to myself, if only I could have known that domain was available, I might have paid 2x - 5x what it sold for. Imagine how many other domains are being sold for less than what they could be sold for if there was some way to unify the DLSs...but even then, we still would have the trouble of sorting through all the domains available for sale....hmmmmm....I know there is an answer to this...I just don't have the solution yet :-) just my 2 cents... ----answer---- Few years ago we were spending six figures a month amount buying domains via auction houses. For us, the main problem has been sorting through weak inventory, thousands of domains, sometimes, tens of thousands a day. We know from experience, the purchasing equation is bigger then domain pricing/traffic/potential. With the serious buyer, it includes invested time, auction house willingness and commitment to save you time. In the current marketplace there is no auction house which focuses on buyers needs to save time and sellers needs to move inventory quick. We plan to change that. Cheers Sahar I am not sure if the issue is one of ‘liquidity’ as much as it is an issue of ‘volume’. If you think about it, you can relate this to almost any type of product one can view or purchase on the web (e.g., real estate, automobiles, etc.). Just imagine if you didn’t search ‘locally’ to narrow your search for that perfect used car within a 25 mile radius of where you lived to tried to find the best deal close to you?

Or, what if you had to search ALL the real estate MLS’s across the country to find the ‘best deal’ for your next home without narrowing your search to a particular county, town, city or neighborhood…imagine how daunting that task would be?!

I think that domain names suffer the same fate, but the trouble is, aside from geo-domains and/or limiting your criteria to ppc revenue type metrics, it’s very hard to narrow the list because there are so many domains available and much of the value of any domain (real value) is in the eye of the (potential) beholder.

I have been thinking about this a lot lately myself, as I too have seen some remarkable deals pass by and said to myself, if only I could have known that domain was available, I might have paid 2x - 5x what it sold for. Imagine how many other domains are being sold for less than what they could be sold for if there was some way to unify the DLSs…but even then, we still would have the trouble of sorting through all the domains available for sale….hmmmmm….I know there is an answer to this…I just don’t have the solution yet :-)

just my 2 cents…

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Few years ago we were spending six figures a month amount buying domains via auction houses. For us, the main problem has been sorting through weak inventory, thousands of domains, sometimes, tens of thousands a day. We know from experience, the purchasing equation is bigger then domain pricing/traffic/potential. With the serious buyer, it includes invested time, auction house willingness and commitment to save you time. In the current marketplace there is no auction house which focuses on buyers needs to save time and sellers needs to move inventory quick. We plan to change that.
Cheers
Sahar

]]> By: Tim Davids http://www.conceptualist.com/2008/02/29/why-am-i-missing-out-on-great-deals/#comment-5959 Tim Davids Sat, 01 Mar 2008 02:07:32 +0000 http://www.conceptualist.com/2008/02/29/why-am-i-missing-out-on-great-deals/#comment-5959 Howard...they're not ridiculously low...the public sets the current price...I think most domainers are aware of that page...imo it's the ridiculously high prices being paid for crap that make those look low. Howard…they’re not ridiculously low…the public sets the current price…I think most domainers are aware of that page…imo it’s the ridiculously high prices being paid for crap that make those look low.

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