Oil.Center was registered by a gentleman in Kuala Lumpur on 3/16/14 and is now on Sedo auctions with a day and a half left at 11,000 GBP. There is only one bid which looks like the owner received the bid and pushed it to auction on 3/24/14.
If its a legit bid, its kind of a ballsy move to send to auction, I personally would want to get that deal closed asap. I think if you have a legitimate buyer interested in something brand new like .center, you don’t want to allow time for buyer’s remorse to set in.
Link to the listing here
OilCenter.com has been registered since 1996, the company that owns it also owns the net, org and info. They are based out of Louisiana and don’t appear to be in the oil business but rather technology.
There were about a dozen of new TLDs “sales:
oregon.bike January 2014 1,982.00 USD
rent.clothing February 2014 100.00 USD Sedo auction
cheap.diamonds March 2014 465.00 USD Sedo auction
swimsuit.photos March 2014 3,550.00 USD AfterNIC/GoDaddy
finde.singles January 2014 2,760.00 USD Sedo
pizza.today January 2014 4,005.00 USD AfterNIC/GoDaddy
istanbul.today January 2014 1,325.00 USD
vdi.guru January 2014 1,525.00 USD
yoga.guru February 2014 1,171.00 USD Sedo auction
Those sold via Sedo are still all listed for sale…
Quite typical.
I’m not sure if I find it more interesting that oil.center is going to auction so quickly, or that oilcenter.com is owned by someone not involved in oil. I own the ultra-short EUOil.com and have had it for years, only recently deciding to sell it. The EU is scrambling to consider other oil sources, than the one they’ve relied on lately. (Russia provides 34% of EU’s oil, and has used it several times even before this recent aggression, as a geopolitical tool to coerce the EU and countries it used to transport the oil, most notably, the Ukraine.) Several oil and gas companies have announced a new collaboration on a gas pipeline to be threaded through Turkey, to Europe, but for crude oil, they are still left with the Middle East for supply, for the most part.
Meanwhile, in the U.S. there has been an increase in oil wells in many areas, including the panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma. I would think a domain like oil.center, and more specifically, oilcenter.com would have wide appeal to businesses in these ventures.
shill shill shill shill
what was the deal that closed at $100K and after the fraud was removed a domain sold for $54K
correction – sold for $5K after the fraud was removed
the recent auction for gab.com also looked awful fishy…
closed at 202,000 USD
same bidder pushing against himself 🙂
The owners of OilCenter.com do make lubricants, seals etc.. for the oil industry and have sales close to 50 million.
The owners of TheOilCenter.com could also be a potential buyer. Both of these companies are based out of Lafayette Louisiana. The name “Oil Center” actually refers to a certain part of the city similar to “South Beach” just not as large. TheOilCenter.com has about 800 restaurant, bar, business listings so they could also be a potential buyer.
Fair enough Todd –
I just want to see if the domain is even used EVER.
I mean I even sell stuff a long time back – and it still resolves to my ppc page.
And Domo:
“same bidder pushing against himself”
well are we talking about bidding fraud or what some do in front of the mirror every morning – or maybe it is one in the same ?
Currency is fishy… Say US buyer, MY seller… GBP?
Good point Richard, thank you
I’m with you Brian I’m not sure if it’s real or not but I just like to know all the facts to make it easier to come up with a realistic conclusion.
I am not 100% in love or hate with the new Gs but something I just thought about that I have not read anywhere before is the universal acceptance these domains will have (should have) from country to country. We all know .com is a U.S. loved extension, and co.uk has it’s following in the UK and .de has it’s following in Germany etc……but the true universal extension is going to be the one that really doesn’t have a country specific extension because the word after the dot becomes the extension. A gtld would actually become the only truly universal extension unless you are talking about a country that is not English based or an accepted language.
Something for us all to really think about when considering these new extensions.
i’ve never considered .com to be a us extension. sure its the most common in the us but you’ll find it used all over the world. I have sold .com’s to businesses in so many different countries around the world that didn’t always speak english as i’m sure most here have.
.com is not language specific. in the end .com makes more sense to be a universally accepted extension because you can put any kind of language (aside from some languages that use characters) before it and you are not restricted to the word combos that the new gtld registries purchase/release.
Nice post, Todd.
Smells fishy. being that part of the world, nothing can be trusted.
MAS- is Missing Airlines system.