Not too many days you see a .info auction ending in four figures. But today on Go Daddy on a sleepy Sunday morning, Jugantor.info sold for $2,442. Go Daddy assigns valuations to many of the names expiring and they had a much larger valuation for Jugantor.info. $10,248 to be exact. Jugantor was according to Wikipedia, […]
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With possible buyout coming, Go Daddy does away with $1 auctions
For those not familiar with Go Daddy auctions, when an expiring name gets no bid at its starting price of $12 it moves to what is called “Closeouts.” Now you do not have to even have a membership to Go Daddy Auctions to participate in closeout auctions. The names start at $11, you have 24 […]
Continue ReadingABCTeacher.com auction closes at $3805 on Go Daddy
The bidding was fast and furious as the bids kept going back and forth. You only have to increase the bid by $5, so it makes sense if someone was bidding $3500 another $5 won't make them go away. ABCTeacher.com expiring auction had 179 bids and sold for $3805. The domain is 12 years old […]
Continue ReadingTube32.com Godaddy puts the value at $113,169
Tube32.com is an expiring auction at Go Daddy. The name has four days left and is at $555. Go Daddy shows the name gets estimated monthly traffic of 24,168. Check the listing here
Continue ReadingA domain that Godaddy values at $24,528 at $805 with 10 hours left
LiveCyberTV.com is currently at Godaddy auctions with 55 bids and high bid of $805. Godaddy states the traffic to the site at 11,910 hits. The domain is 3 years old, the site has an Alexa ranking of 4.3 million http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/livecybertv.com# Should be interesting to see where this one goes.
Continue ReadingLuckyVidz.com sells for $3500 on Godaddy
LuckyVidz.com expired and sold today on GoDaddy for $3500. The auction had 159 bids. Godaddy valued the domain at $14,520 Estimated Monthly Traffic: 58568 There was even a yahoo answers thread about the domain. http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100502160911AAuyY65
Continue ReadingYou got to move fast in this game even at 4 am
I was up checking stuff on Godaddy and went to Godaddy auctions. Checking on the closeouts a name popped up that was somewhat interesting. CustomKeychains.us. Godaddy said the name has 204 hits per month, regged for eight years and they placed their value at $111 and the name was for sale for $11. I went to the […]
Continue ReadingIts not emotional its called standing up for what you believe in
Over the past few weeks there have been those on the other side of the Godaddy coin. That moving domains based on what someone who runs the company is bad for business and purely emotional. Their opinion and certainly entitled to it. But its their individual opinion, not universal advice. First off money is not […]
Continue ReadingElephant vs The King
Over the last week many have expressed they would be moving out of Go Daddy because of Bob Parsons hunting excursion in Zimbabwe where he took down an elephant. Now Rick Schwartz has posted that he is moving his 4500 domains out of Moniker. http://www.ricksblog.com/my_weblog/2011/04/bye-bye-birdie-i-mean-bye-bye-moniker.html From the comments on Rick's blog many seem to have been feeling […]
Continue ReadingIs now a chance for registrars to make in dent in the Go Daddy market share
Everyone by now knows of the video in which Bob Parsons hunts an elephant in Zimbabwe. The story has made mainstream news. Along with everything going on PETA has transferred their domains from Go Daddy to Register.com (That was first reported by Andrew at www.domainnamewire.com) Namecheap came out and sent this email to customers: It’s […]
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