The conversation has officially gone full circle ... (please see first post in thread)

Hey Taboo,

What is your DNForum screenname? I want to send you a PM.

please go to DomainIncubator and email me instead.

anybody in on the refurbished.com auction at pool? less than 2 days left and already at $9,000. what do you think it'll go for? prd.com at enom, 1 day left, is at $4,300.

(not imortant) domain news:
Domain name and shame
The web's plethora of domain extensions can lead to embarrassment
http://www.vnunet.com/comment/1157321


CD.com: One of the Last Great Domain Names Up for Sale; After Twelve Years the Domain Name CD.com is Available in Auction Starting August 23, 2004 $1M+
http://home.businesswire.com/portal/... 3&newsLang=en
http://www.cd.com

sorry, but, LOLOLOL, :1orglaugh, they sure waited long enough. now that DVDs have taken over. maybe some bank will pick it up. 75,000 type-ins a month...

but at least cd.com has a nice $million sales chart on the site.

i thought this guys domain was funny:

http://www.URLsGoneWild.net.

Wild Man Destroys Price Structure of Web Hosting Industry
URLs Gone Wild .net sticks a finger in the eye of traditional web hosting companies by offering the ?insane? hosting price of under 18 cents per month per domain for 100 domains on a fast web server.
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/8/prweb148819.htm

Taboo, you've got mail. :thumbsup

go here to read about the refurbished.com - domain auction
http://bbs.gofuckyourself.com/showth...hreadid=341272

I own beachwooddrive.com and beachwooddr.com

That is the street in Hollywood that leads to the Hollywood sign so tourists flock to it. It is also the main road up Beachwood Canyon (Hollywood Hills) so it would be valuable to real estate companies.

If anybody wants to help me sell it I will give you a cut.

[email protected]

Ok, I have a CEO of a company interested in buying a domain name and I have an order in at both GoDaddy.com and Pool.com

The name is currently registered with GoDaddy.com so is there still a chance that Pool.com will still catch it?

I will post the results later today.

anyone have any decent sample contract for leasing domains? Sedo is supposed to have one up, but their damn link is wrong.

godaddy doesnt catch shit... get snapnames on it too

sexforsell.com

currently in negotiations over it.

Cover it at eNom, Pool and SnapNames. I doubt anyone else will get it.

also have

drifttrack.com

and

drifttracks.com


its big with the import crowd and catching on fast. drifting races and competitions. tracks opening up around the US for just this very thing.

>>godaddy doesnt catch shit... get snapnames on it too

But shouldn't it help GoDaddy that the name is already registered with them? I would think it would matter if a name is registered with Enom and then you backorder it through them and the same with GoDaddy. Does that make sense?


also have it at Enom as well, so this will be interesting :)

Snapnames does not even have it listed as a possible drop name so I can't try it there. I have used them before but was on a domain that was not in high demand.

Monster: The domain is deleted by the registry (VeriSign, for .com/.net) according to a set schedule, so no registrar has any advantage being its prior registrar. You can see a chart of the process at:

http://www.snapnames.com/deleteprocess.html

Here's results from a drop test (6 domains) I ran last week.
http://bbs.gofuckyourself.com/showth...hreadid=339006

second test results ready later today (20 domains)

just posted my 2nd domain drop test results:
http://bbs.gofuckyourself.com/showth...hreadid=341595

23 domains.

hm, I wonder what the domain biz will be in like 5 years.. should be interesting. I dont own great ones but some I do like.

damn, someone registered it via domainplaza.ca but I see that is namescout and they use pool.com for their backordering so how the fuck did he get it? . I had my order in at pool.com but it shows some guy in Newark,DE as the new owner.

what is the exact time the domains are release? Is it at 6 am or at 6:15 am ?

imagine what people said 5 years ago... all I know is they won't be cheaper. plus all the new TLDs they've added (.info, .biz, .pro, .name, etc) haven't made a dent in .COM at all. so .COM will only rise, hopefully back to million dollar days. and if they ever approve .SEX or .XXX, maybe that TLD will be the one to watch.

if you're backordering at drop sites, the cut off time is 1-2PM EST. if you're domain was being deleted today, it has NOT dropped yet.

some of us are posting Recent Domain Sales here:
http://bbs.gofuckyourself.com/showth...hreadid=341282

check it out.

if you need to reach me:
sponsorcash (at) mail .com
put "domain question" in subject or will get lost in sponsor spamdrive I'm doing. if anyone has sent me a question or info and did not get a reply yet, go ahead and send it again. :)

:thumbsup

won't be cheaper.

but they could be non existant :p

Technology moves so fast you really don't know.

For my sake, I hope not!
;)

Good point. For all we know, the Internet as we know it might not even exist anymore in 5 years.

Internet, non existant? :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

Yup

The internet will last longer than any of us here. Even when the Govt launches SecureNET and Nexternet/Internet2, we'll still use domains to navigate. the Internet will evolve, but not die. in 5 years the only domains that may be left to register will be like this:

www.hdsjahdjashsnjdj23kdjskjdkasjdak43094.com

:)

but in case the domain market dies, be sure to diversify OFFLINE. if you need opportunities/ideas for businesses, drop me a line. It won't be inexpensive ($10k-$150K+), but you have to diversify, just in case. especially if an event similar to 9-Eleven happens again and targets the web, most people willl be lost and have no backup plan and no revenue stream. but I'm not going to discuss all this mumbojumbo and jinx myself. nuff said.

The Internet will, but the World Wide Web might not.

Internet is strong like bull!

The only thing I don't like about this domian drop biz is how the hell do we know that Enom and the others are not just in there acting as shills in the acutions?

Taboo ...

I can't find the thread you posted earlier today with the 'drop results' for various companies. Can you post the link please?

Thanks!

:winkwink: i worry about that all the time. nothing beats ebay's bidder ratings system.

Here you go:

drop tests

1st round:
http://bbs.gofuckyourself.com/showth...hreadid=339006

2nd round:
http://bbs.gofuckyourself.com/showth...hreadid=341595

recent domain sales (updated):
http://bbs.gofuckyourself.com/showth...hreadid=341282

drop services:
http://SnapNames.com
http://Enom.com or http://ClubDrop.com
http://Pool.com
http://GoDaddy.com
http://NameWinner.com

other domain suggestions, ideas to register:
http://bbs.gofuckyourself.com/showt...threadid=339367

3rd round of drop tests coming soon.

Plus I'm launching http://DomainNews.com any day now.

Hey Taboo, I really like your concept for Official.

Also-

Could you enlighten me as to why some people bid up the domain before the domain even drops?

re: OFFICIAL.com

Thanks...

re: drops

LOL. I have no idea, except to scare away competition. still does not work because as low as $10-$60 will buy you in elsewhere. back in the day, I use to call pool and beg them to try "harder" to get a domain and I'd offer to pay $X whether or not someone else bid on it. not sure if they ever did listen to me :) but I got some "ok" domains thru them.