TaiwanMobile.com topped the NameJet auctions for the past days at $25,599.
However, how the domain was even at auction is quite confusing, as TaiwanMobile.com appears to be the site of that phone company and continues to resolve to them.
Normally an expired domain ceases to work upon expiration.
Moreover, the domain does not even appear expired, as the whois is showing and expiration date of May 18, 2011 and the record was last update all the way back in March, so its not the case of the domain being recently renewed. The whois record also clearly shows it being owned by the phone company and
For a short time last week the domain, Retweet.com was listed for pre-auction on NameJet.com, and was pulled, after it was pointed out by the domain blog, Dotweekly, that the domain had not expired. Maybe TaiwanMobile.com is the same situation. Even stranger is that the domains registrar is Register.com, which I believe drops all their expired domains with SnapNames.com.
We will check on this and get an answer for you tomorrow.
Here are some other notable sales from NameJet.com over the past couple of days:
trainings.com $10,000
bunk.com $9,300
alike.com $9,100
yse.com $7,600
share.me $5,300
worldtalk.com $4,001
jeffs.com $3,701
techscout.com $3,400
bankruptcyattorney.org $3,144
toread.com $2,099
worldlotto.com $2,001
converted.com $1,613
desires.net $1,580
grilling.net $1,402
We should also note that this was the first week that NameJet started reserve price auctions, and of the 4 reserve domains that NameJet auctioned off this week, none of them met reserve, although they show as “sold”, the high bidder is clearly “NameJet reserve”.
The Register.com is some reseller and it’s legit have asked Nelson about it long time ago
Register.com is a top 10 domain name registrar.
Not theregister.com
I had called namejet once about non-expired names at auction, because I wanted to list one. I was told that some names may be for auction due to other reasons such as invalid whois violations, etc… If you lose your domain for some other kind of reason it can end up there as well I believe.
BTW, I wasn’t allowed to list my domain of course.
^^^ I am saying “The Register.com” (not the space) and I know what I amtalking about as I asked Nelson about it when I noticed that on Namejet
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So your saying register.com is on NameJet.com.
Got you.
However even if so that wouldn’t explain why this domain was auctioned off when it was not expired and still in use by the registrant
Well of course TaiwanMobile.com auction must have been a mistake, it’s one of the biggest (if not the biggest) mobile operator in Taiwan and this auction is as abusrd as would be auction of virginmobileusa.com that’s why I even did not bother to bid on it
wow, that’s a lot of garbage that sold for a lot of money. I only see one domain in this list of sales worth looking at?
Ed
I agree.
My picks for namejet.com from the other day are much better