3 Expensive “Super” Domain Names Pending Delete

Elliot Silver
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Several years ago, a few “Super” domain names sold for somewhat substantial sums of money. The domain names were acquired by SuperMedia LLC / Idearc Media LLC. I believe they were related to the company’s Super Pages phone directory.

I was looking through a list of pending delete domain names, and it looks like some of these domain names are dropping. Because of the pending delete status, I believe these will be auctioned should people backorder them via platforms such as DropCatch.com, NameJet, and SnapNames.

Here are some of the Super domain names in pending delete status. Next to the name is the sale price as recorded by NameBio:

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Sedo Great Domains December Auction Results

Elliot Silver
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Sedo’s monthly Great Domains auction for December ended yesterday, and nearly $150,000 worth of domain names was sold. The largest sale of the auction was App.net, a domain name that sold for $70,000. Assuming this sale closes, it will be tied for the second largest public .net domain name sale of 2017, tied with Odds.net. Only CO.net, which sold for $100,000 earlier this year, is larger.

A couple of other notable sales this month include EXG.com, which sold for 24999 EUR (approximately $29,474 USD) and CUZ.com, which sold for $18,000.

Since the auctions just concluded yesterday, it is likely that they have not yet been paid for or closed. Sedo will report its closed sales to NameBio and DNJournal for recordkeeping once the deals have fully transacted.

The full Great Domains auction results for December 2017 are below:

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I Think Valuations are Giving a Big Boost at GoDaddy Auctions

Elliot Silver
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Several months ago, GoDaddy Auctions added an “Estimated Value” column to its auction pages. Based on my own observations, I think this addition has considerably boosted auction revenue for the company.

I have two saved searches I use just about every morning at GoDaddy Auctions. One of the searches has nothing to do with the number of bids placed. I used the advanced search functionality to create a specialized search based on a variety of parameters I set. I would guesstimate there are between 150 – 300 domain names that come up each day in this particular search. Typically, only a handful of domain names would have bids, but it appears to me that there are many more auctions with bids these days and I attribute it to the Estimated Value column.

I find myself using the Estimated Value column when I am searching for names to bid on

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DropCatch.com Giving Some Auction Refunds

Elliot Silver
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A friend of mine told me about an email he received from DropCatch.com yesterday informing him of a refund that he is being given because of “bidding activity from users that were later suspended for non-payment might have affected the final price.”

There is an active thread on NamePros about the topic of non-paying bidders on DropCatch.com. The founders of DropCatch, Andrew Reberry and Jeff Reberry of TurnCommerce, addressed members’ concerns about non-paying bidders and the alleged irregular bidding activity in the NamePros thread. Andrew and Jeff also promised to investigate this issue, and it looks like they are taking action based on their findings. The objective was to identify what went wrong, make bidders whole, and improve the platform for the future to restore trust.

In the email sent to my friend, DropCatch referenced a blog post the company published in conjunction with the email. The blog post has additional information about the situation, what the company is doing to remedy it, and a go-forward plan to reduce the problem of non-paying bidders on the platform.

Here’s what the company said about the number of affected auctions and how bidders will be made whole:

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Emoji Auction on NameJet

Elliot Silver
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When I was taking care of my backorders on NameJet last night, I noticed a banner for an Emoji domain name auction. It looks like there are somewhere around 150+/- Emoji .WS domain names coming up for auction between 5 days and three weeks from now.

So far, it looks like there are quite a few bids for the upcoming auctions. Many of the domain names with bids also have reserve prices that have not yet been met. It looks like 13 of the auctions with bids do not have a reserve price and will sell (assuming the high bidder continues through to the auction).

Emoji domain names seem to be somewhat popular, at least amongst domain investors. Back in September, I reported that the ☯.com domain name (yin yang Emoji) was sold for $11,201. Vice News recently had a news segment with Page Howe covering Emoji domain names as well. Aside from

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NamesCon 2018 Auctions Up on NameJet

Elliot Silver
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The NameJet live and silent domain name auctions are starting to take shape on NameJet. If you visit NameJet from now until the end of February (give or take), you can see the “NamesCon” link in the top menu. Clicking that will take you to the current list of domain names that have been entered into the auction.

At this point, it is unclear what domain names will be included in the live auction and what domain names will only be in the silent auction, but it is probably fairly clear which domain names are the best of the bunch right now. Knowing how this works, I am pretty sure this is only a preliminary list, and more domain names will be added to the auction as we get closer.

In my opinion, 10 of the best names include the following domain names, as of the time of publication:

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