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WhatAboutWatermelon.com closes at $1,975

May 29, 2017 by Raymond Hackney

Sometimes you see a name close at auction and you just say, “Wait, what?”

WhatAboutWatermelon.com closed on GoDaddy auctions at $1,975, GoDaddy had a valuation of $1,294.

The domain was actually developed into a website about what else? Watermelon.

Solid backlink profile, data courtesy of Majestic SEO

External
Backlinks

11,408

Referring
Domains

541

Referring
IPs

498

Referring
Subnets

384

The site was 8 years old and was fairly active up until last year. Click the thumbnail below, courtesy of Screenshots.com, to see what the website looked like.

This is why it’s always important to have the story behind as many sales as possible. Seeing this sale on just a sales chart would seem like a crazy sale that made no sense.

Bidder 1 was the winner as they never gave up until securing the auction win.

Bid Date Bid Expires Bidder Bid Amount
2017/05/28 04:38 AM (PDT) 2017/05/28 09:40 AM (PDT) Bidder 1 $1,975
Comment: Automatic Bid
2017/05/28 04:38 AM (PDT) 2017/05/28 09:40 AM (PDT) Bidder 6 $1,950
Comment:
2017/05/26 11:54 AM (PDT) 2017/05/28 09:40 AM (PDT) Bidder 1 $1,825
Comment: Automatic Bid
2017/05/26 11:54 AM (PDT) 2017/05/28 09:40 AM (PDT) Bidder 6 $1,800
Comment:
2017/05/26 11:54 AM (PDT) 2017/05/28 09:40 AM (PDT) Bidder 1 $1,775
Comment: Automatic Bid
2017/05/26 11:54 AM (PDT) 2017/05/28 09:40 AM (PDT) Bidder 6 $1,750
Comment:
2017/05/26 05:25 AM (PDT) 2017/05/28 09:40 AM (PDT) Bidder 1 $1,725
Comment: Automatic Bid
2017/05/26 05:25 AM (PDT) 2017/05/28 09:40 AM (PDT) Bidder 5 $1,700
Comment:
2017/05/25 09:22 PM (PDT) 2017/05/28 09:40 AM (PDT) Bidder 1 $1,525
Comment: Automatic Bid
2017/05/25 08:40 PM (PDT) 2017/05/28 09:40 AM (PDT) Bidder 4 $1,500
Comment:
2017/05/25 09:22 PM (PDT) 2017/05/28 09:40 AM (PDT) Bidder 1 $1,500
Comment:
2017/05/25 08:40 PM (PDT) 2017/05/28 09:40 AM (PDT) Bidder 4 $1,025
Comment: Automatic Bid
2017/05/21 07:53 PM (PDT) 2017/05/28 09:40 AM (PDT) Bidder 1 $1,000
Comment:
2017/05/21 07:53 PM (PDT) 2017/05/28 09:40 AM (PDT) Bidder 1 $710
Comment: Automatic Bid
2017/05/21 07:13 PM (PDT) 2017/05/28 09:40 AM (PDT) Bidder 3 $700
Comment:
2017/05/21 07:13 PM (PDT) 2017/05/28 09:40 AM (PDT) Bidder 3 $510
Comment: Automatic Bid
2017/05/21 06:18 AM (PDT) 2017/05/28 09:40 AM (PDT) Bidder 1 $500
Comment:
2017/05/21 07:13 PM (PDT) 2017/05/28 09:40 AM (PDT) Bidder 3 $500
Comment:
2017/05/21 07:13 PM (PDT) 2017/05/28 09:40 AM (PDT) Bidder 1 $205
Comment: Automatic Bid
2017/05/21 07:13 PM (PDT) 2017/05/28 09:40 AM (PDT) Bidder 3 $200
Comment:
2017/05/21 07:13 PM (PDT) 2017/05/28 09:40 AM (PDT) Bidder 1 $105
Comment: Automatic Bid
2017/05/21 07:13 PM (PDT) 2017/05/28 09:40 AM (PDT) Bidder 3 $100
Comment:
2017/05/21 01:36 PM (PDT) 2017/05/28 09:40 AM (PDT) Bidder 1 $78
Comment: Automatic Bid
2017/05/21 01:36 PM (PDT) 2017/05/28 09:40 AM (PDT) Bidder 2 $73
Comment:
2017/05/21 06:18 AM (PDT) 2017/05/28 09:40 AM (PDT) Bidder 1 $12

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Filed Under: Auctions, Domain Sales, Go Daddy

About Raymond Hackney

Raymond Hackney has been involved with domain names since 1997. One of the most prolific writers in the domain industry and founder of TLDinvestors.com and 3Character.com

Comments

  1. AbdulBasit Makrani says

    May 29, 2017 at 2:30 am

    Crazy bidders.

  2. Ryan says

    May 29, 2017 at 9:57 am

    Could be Scott Day for all you know

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