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Lost My First Serious .IO Auction to an End User

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Elliot Silver

September 1, 2020

For the first time I can recall, there was a .IO domain name in auction at Park.IO that I was interested enough in buying that I was willing to pay 4 figures to buy it. The auction ended on Sunday, and I was a loser, despite bidding more than $1,000 for the domain name.

I shared this on Twitter, as I think it is important to show people I am not solely interested in buying .com domain names:

Thought I was going to win my first .IO domain name in auction yesterday at @io_domains. I bid over $1k but lost. Maybe next time.

— Elliot Silver (@DInvesting) August 31, 2020

How I Find Expiry Domain Names

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Elliot Silver

August 26, 2020

One of the best sources of domain name inventory for my portfolio is expiry auctions. I spend a fair amount of my time analyzing and bidding on domain names at GoDaddy Auctions, NameJet, and DropCatch.com. I have also bid on a couple of domain names at Park.io and Dynadot, although I have not yet won an auction on either of those platforms.

I think everyone has their own ways to analyze expiry and deleted domain names that are in auction, and I thought I would share a few ways I find them:

DropCatch: Private Auction Names to be Registered at NameBright

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Elliot Silver

August 23, 2020

In 2017, DropCatch.com began allowing domain investors to sell their domain names via the platform. You can now see two types of auction on DropCatch – “Dropped,” which are domain names that expired and were deleted, and “Private Seller,” which are privately owned domain names that were put into auction by the domain registrant.

In approximately one week, a change is coming to DropCatch that will impact private sellers. The change was shared with me by Abdu Tarabichi, who noticed the following message when he attempted to list domain names for auction:

Fanbase.com Sells for $151,000 on GoDaddy Auctions

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GoDaddy

Elliot Silver

August 16, 2020

The expiry auction for Fanbase.com ended today at GoDaddy Auctions, and the domain name sold for $151,000. There were 229 bids placed from 29 bidders in the three day expiry auction.

The sale of Fanbase.com is the largest expiry auction at GoDaddy Auctions that I can recall. In looking at NameBio, the next three highest value expiry auctions at GoDaddy in the last 5 years include:

VA Gets GIBill.com and Domain Name Expired

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Elliot Silver

August 13, 2020

I was looking at DropCatch.com this morning, and the largest auction on the platform is GIBill.com. The high bid on GIBill.com is $1,700 with a little more than 2 days remaining in the auction. The GIBill.com domain name has quite an interesting history, and it looks like someone dropped the ball at some point in time to let this domain name expire.

According to a 2012 article on The US Department of Veterans Affairs website, the GIBill.com domain name was taken over by the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) as a result of a legal settlement. Here’s what was written in the VA.gov article from eight years ago:

NamesCon Auction Now Live on GoDaddy Auctions

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NamesCon

Elliot Silver

August 11, 2020

NamesCon is going to look much, much different this year. Not only is the event being held exclusively online, but it is also being held in September instead of January. One other major change is that the NamesCon domain name auction will be held on GoDaddy Auctions this year, and it appears that the auction is being run entirely in-house.

GoDaddy’s Joe Styler tweeted that the NamesCon auction is now live on GoDaddy Auctions. To access the auction, visit GoDaddy Auctions and choose the NamesCon Auction in the Popular Searches dropdown menu:

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Lost My First Serious .IO Auction to an End User

How I Find Expiry Domain Names

DropCatch: Private Auction Names to be Registered at NameBright

Fanbase.com Sells for $151,000 on GoDaddy Auctions

VA Gets GIBill.com and Domain Name Expired

NamesCon Auction Now Live on GoDaddy Auctions

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