Yesterday in a post I thought we have some fun and see if you would buy or sell these domains at the following prices:
Videospark.com $8,500
Wet.net $6,500
55R.com $6,000
LejourPlus.com $3,000
Monroe.net $3,000
The results that while some of you would have bought buy wet.net and a few others voted for Monroe.net, the rest would sell all the domain.
All these domains are currently at auction at Godaddy.com with time to go:
So the good news is, if you voted that you would buy one or more of the domains, you still can.
Here is the link to each auction:
Videospark.com $8,500
Wet.net $6,500
55R.com $6,000
LejourPlus.com $3,000
Monroe.net $3,000
Yes for the record I would pass on buying any of these domains.
wet.net is the best, but at over $6K is getting up there. The rest either don’t make sense and/or are priced well out of any reasonable price.
IMHO, people who continuous buy these kind of domains, at these prices, are the domainers that are going to get themselves into financial problems.
Thanks to those who played along (except for Sahar would said he wouldn’t come out and play, love you anyway).
For everyone, here are a couple of what I consider good buys, also on auction at Godaddy.com (current high bid reflected)
pathology.org $704
Mundo.org $315 (Mundo = “world” in spanish & Mundo.com was recently at auction, in the six figures.
Mike, when I checked yesterday, and again today, VideoSpark.com resolves to a website, and not as an available domain on Godaddy. The rest did show they were dropped, and at GD. So I took your question as a ‘trick’ question, as there would be ‘value’ in an operating/functioning site, as opposed to the rest which were available to backorder (B/O) and thus coulda been gotten perhaps cheaper than the prices you noted. Thought I had beaten your ‘fun query’. 🙁 You might want to check that name again and the link.
Wet.net is over $10,000 now with 6 days left in auction… one of the funny things, Godaddy’s “Valuation” is $12! Just shows how accurate the valuation system gd has in place. LOL
Pathology.org is now over $1K as well.
Kevin
videospark.com currently at expired domain auction check out the link:
https://auctions.godaddy.com/trpItemListing.aspx?miid=25347586
MHB
Then something is amiss, because if you type videospark.com into a browser, you get a website selling video products.
I see that, according to the whois however the domain expired yesterday.
This maybe one of those companies that wakes up one day to find there site gone, sold at auction.
I just checked the whois on DomainTools, and it says it’s regged till 2010. It is regged thru Wild West Domains, so I think this may be a GD screw up.
I’ll write Adam at Godaddy and see what he says
IMO, VideoSpark.com expired, then got renewed from what I can tell via Whois. Godaddy and “other” similar services are what one could say… sloooow to remove some domains that are renewed. Almost like they use them as bait!
Registered through: Domain Name Dog
Domain Name: VIDEOSPARK.COM
Created on: 24-Jun-03
Expires on: 24-Jun-09
Last Updated on: 23-Aug-08
That expiration is a month ago…
Yes, it is expired. Yes it still resolves. Yes, that is an F’d up thing to do to someone as a Registrar…
“No, sir.. your domain was expired and we sold it”
“But it was working just fine yesterday…”
“Too bad sir. Thank you for calling customer service.”
@cartoonz
“”That expiration is a month ago…
Yes, it is expired. Yes it still resolves. Yes, that is an F’d up thing to do to someone as a Registrar…””
If one looks closely on the “top” area of the whois –
ICANN Registrar: WILD WEST DOMAINS, INC.
Created: 2003-06-24
Expires: 2010-06-24
Updated: 2009-06-29
Registrar Status: clientDeleteProhibited
Registrar Status: clientRenewProhibited
So it looks like it was renewed, but I don’t think it was recorded or updated in GD’s records.
@Kevin… That’s not how it works.
The Registry (Verislime) auto-renews and the Registrar has 45 days to release the name back to the Registry (by the Delete command) and recover the registry costs for the name. If this happens, the name is put into Redemption for another 30 days (by the Registry, not the Registrar as some mistakenly suppose) but only if the Registrar actually deletes the name. Some Registrars (like GoDiddy) test the sales value of the name before the 45 day window has elapsed and, if it gets interest, actually sell the name to another party. Should a name not get interest, it is deleted back to the Registry, the Registrar recovers the Registry fees and the name continues on through the RGP death march until it is finally released back to the wild.
Basically, names “Auto Renew” at the Registry level and the Registry whois output will always reflect that, regardless of what the Registrar’s feed says. However, it is the Registrar’s data that is the one to watch on this one, it shows expired. The Registrar is actually trying to sell it, so they obviously have reason to believe it was not renewed by the Registrant.
Confusing the Registry Output with the Registrar output is a common mistake and that line in whatever whois source you quoted is only the Registry’s output. Basically meaningless in this situation.
The problem here is that the name was never de-activated, so the Registrant does not realize there is an issue. Emails get lost all the time. ISP’s sometimes lose stuff into ever changing spam filter algorithms too, so it is conceivable that the Registrant never saw that his CC was expired and the name did not actually renew as planned.
But the de-activation of the domain is crucial, IMO, to ensure the Registrant truly receives notice that his name needs attention – I’d say having your website/domain not resolve for 30 days would be considered constructive notice, wouldn’t you? To NOT de-activate names and then sell them off like this, no matter what the time frame is, is an egregious breach on GoDaddy’s part. This basically screams that they are more interested in selling a client’s domain to someone else for more money than to protect the Registrant’s interest.
No worries, guys.
I’ll contact the owner on Monday to renew his domain.
what a great post