OHSAS-18001-OCCUPATIONAL-HEALTH-AND-SAFETY.COM Sells on DropCatch.com

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I bid in auctions on most of the major auction platforms, including on DropCatch.com. This afternoon while checking out some of the auctions there, I noticed an interesting auction for a domain name with 42 characters and 5 hyphens: OHSAS-18001-OCCUPATIONAL-HEALTH-AND-SAFETY.COM. Wow – that is a pretty hefty domain name.

I followed the auction as it was closing, and it looks like the domain name sold for $420. There were 8 bidders who placed 18 bids during the course of the auction. Not surprisingly, it looks like the .com is the only extension registered for this particular phrase.

I would imagine this has to be one of the highest selling domain names of this length and with this many hyphens, aside from brandable names that have hyphens between each letter. I presume the team at NameBio could probably say where this domain name ranks in terms of length and hyphenation amongst other sales like it.

An Archive.org entry likely reveals why this domain name was of interest

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eName Hosting “Lucky Number” .Club Auction

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eName will be hosting an auction for .Club domain names. The “Lucky Number” auction is live now, and auctions begin closing from June 10th through June 15th. The .Club registry published a blog post listing the domain names that are coming up for auction along with their closing dates.

All of the domain names, with the exception of 8.Club, are listed without a reserve price. In addition, the auctions have standard .Club renewal rates. You can read the .Club registry blog post for details, and you can also view the video below to learn more about the auction:

Share Your Thoughts About GoDaddy Auctions Valuations

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GoDaddy LogoYesterday morning, I wrote an article discussing  that an updated valuation tool was being released by GoDaddy in conjunction with expiring domain name inventory coming up for auction at GoDaddy Auctions. The refined  domain appraisal tool takes the Afternic sales database into account and predicts the retail value based on its proprietary algorithm.

I think it will be helpful for domain owners to find “hidden” inventory by performing searches based on valuation, and I also believe this will become  a revenue driver for GoDaddy.

One thing you will notice is that when you hover over a valuation, GoDaddy displays the following disclaimer to ensure that people understand what the valuation is and what its limitations are:

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See What The Prior Price Was Before Buying

Elliot Silver
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I was backordering some domain names at NameJet when I decided to see what brought them to the auction block. Specifically, I wanted to see if the domain names were expiring or if they were being offered by a private seller. After doing a Whois search on DomainTools, I noticed that they had been owned by a large portfolio owned because of the screenshot shown on DomainTools.

There were two important pieces of  information that I could see to help guide me on my backorder and my bidding strategy:

  • I could see the domain names from the prior had been listed for sale for a number of years
  • I could see the asking price and historical asking prices using the  Screenshots.com Screenshot History Tool

This was critical information for me. If

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Sale of 1515.com Leads March Great Domains Auction (Updated)

Elliot Silver
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SedoSedo’s Great Domains auction ended this afternoon, and the leading sale was the largest Great Domains auction sale that I can recall in quite some time. The 4 number 1515.com domain name sold today for $121,000. The auction grossed over $165,000 in total sales.  In total, 26 domain names were sold in this month’s auction. (Update: Sedo sent me a new file with the actual sales prices, which have been corrected in the article and below.)

Rounding out the top five sales of this month’s auction were Website.de (sold for 23,500 EUR), ASY.com (sold for $15,000), zocken.de (sold for 9,900 EUR), and XY1.com (sold for $1,600).

Because the auction finished today, these deals have most likely not closed yet. Sedo will officially report them publicly on its sold domain names RSS feed once the deals are transacted and completed. There were quite a few other domain names that saw serious bids, but the reserve prices were not met. Interested parties could contact Sedo if they would like to try and work out a post-auction deal.

Here is the full list of sales from the March Great Domains auction:

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NameFind Lists Names for Sale via GoDaddy Auctions

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If you visit GoDaddy Auctions regularly, you probably noticed a banner on top of the page announcing a special auction of domain names that “have never been at auction.”

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Clicking through the link takes visitors to a page with 21 domain names listed for sale. Whois records show that these domain names are part of GoDaddy’s NameFind portfolio. A cursory check shows the starting prices (and some reserve prices) are below the price level the company had been asking.

At the time of publication, several of these domain names have hit their reserve prices and will sell to the highest bidder, including the following:

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