Well as promissed now that the snapnames.com silent auction is completed we can now tell you what domains we bidded on.
These are the domains we acquired:
testtubes.com
organicchocolate.com
autographcollectors.com
shocktherapy.com
endurancetests.com
dailybackups.com
These are the names we bid on but were outbid:
exhibited.com
bodilyinjury.com
collectiblestamps.com
organiccosmetics.com
lasikeyedoctors.com
happybirthday.org
testtubes.com – I like that and do not even recall seeing it.
happybirthday.org – Huge search volume on this phrase yet .org was tough on this name I thought.
dailybackups.com – seems to have a ton of potential
I really like and appreciate you sharing. Regardless of others praise or criticism, disclosure is a valuable piece of learning – especially if it is information others can learn from without damaging your business.
As mentioned in previous post, we bought desktops.net and lost pawn.org.
I was definitely giving testtubes.com a hard look. Solid name based on the research I did. Congrats on the new names.
Not sure what you paid for testtubes.com but it is name that meets the exact criteria we look for initially…product niche, specific exact words, KW Discovery of 1000+,value price (we like $14,000 or less right now, unless KW Discovery or other tool shows huge traffic, then forget the low-end price)
Nice find.
Congrats on the testtubes.com pickup! I was in the auction too but as you can see I was sleeping…LOL. I would have driven the price up more if I were there 🙂
Greg
Thanks final price was $14,750
Franky
Always Miss you when you stay away from the auctions
I was the runner-up for testtubes.com at $14,250. It did not seem like there was a third bidder out there. In hindsight, the name is probably grossly undervalued where it sold. Congrats.
Thanks Allan,
We actually placed the initial bid in on this name at $10K.
It is a category killer
If I may ask, do you pick up most of your names at auctions or through other means? It just doesn’t seem like there are many “category killers” out there in auction.
Allan
Actually there are some catgory killers in every domain show auction, but they usually sell for much more.
Sportinggoods.com sold at the Miami traffic auction, a real category killer, but the price was like $495,000.
We buy a few names from domain show auction, but certainly not a lot. I would say less than 50 a year.
Most of our domains were acquired in days prior to the drop auctions, or in the early days of those auctions. Over the last couple of years we slowed way down on our purchases at auction as prices have risen.
We started registering names, back in 1997 and really went full time in 1999.
Thanks Allan,I really like and appreciate you sharing.
Always Miss you when you stay away from the auctions