Why last 2 bids of “xu.com “ retracted and price dropped from $185,000 to $90,000 ?

Do you know, only 3days still available for completion of auction, but 2 bid prices were retracted.

Few weeks ago all these 2 char domains were at dnforum for auctions but the minimum price doesn't exceeded 85k. Note: sedo is also a member there. If you complain about sedo regarding any problem in their service at dnforum you will be responded faster. But it is a paid forum (It has a Membership fee)

Okay we come to the topic, then these domains were placed at sedo as premium domains and broker initiated the auction. Only 2 domains were on the home page xu.com at 90,000 USD and zr.com at 85,000 USD. After 2 days suddenly xp.com came in the game and placed on top of "featured auctions listing" at 499,000 USD (maximum bid)

xu.com initial bid is 30,000 USD, 6 (or) 7 bids were received up to 185,000 USD (3 days remaining)but the last few bids were cancelled (when 1 day remains), similar to dollars.com. Such fake bids are made at each and every auctions and currently 5th bid is 85,000 USD (reserve is 200,000 to 499,999 – so reserve not met)

zr.com initial bid is 1000 USD, 6 bids were received up to 90,000 USD (3 days remaining) each and every auctions and currently 5th bid is 85,000 USD ( reserve is 200,000 to 500,000 - not met ) i noted when only 4 hr remains for auction completion.

xp.com initial bid 5,000 USD and final bid is 499,000 USD only i noted when only 4 hr remains for auction completion.9 bidders made 9 bids (no multiple or repeated bids) if some guy make 501,500 as the next higher bid,he will win and reserve is also met (reserve is 500,000 to 1,000,000 –here reserve is not met)

SEDO wishes to "Check some recent LL. com sale prices below”

ON.com - $635,000.00
AZ.com - $500,000.00
LI.com - $500,000.00
ME.com - $460,000.00
UI.com - $275,000.00
CD.com - $275,000.00
AR.com - $225,000.00
ET.com - $225,000.00
OL.com - $150,000.00

All these prices are quite high but xu.com and zr.com are quite low, Do you know why ?

The alphabets (or) characters are divided in to three types they are
(Premium quality letters – a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, I, l, m, n, o, p, r, s, t) - costly.
(Average quality letters – j, k, u, v, w) - average price.
(Low / bad quality letters – q, x, y, z) - low price compared to other.

If a domain name has a bad quality letter either in full or part its market value gets reduced, provided it will have some special meaning like xp.com.

Is FUSU.com is useful for Domainers?

Fusu.com "domain stock exchange" sells shares of premium domain names to public, similar to equity share. Market value of the domain name is calculated and 45% of total value "maximum" will be sold as shares to public. Share prices may vary from $ 0.1 to $ 1.0 as per the owners wish. For the sake of safety to their investors, domains are to registered (or) transferred to their approved registrars currently "Euro DNS" and if the domain owner wishes to sell the domain, secure transactions via escrow is done. Payments to the share holders are settled and remaining payment goes to domain owner

Domains can be sold with out the knowledge of share holders, provided selling price is 150% of the market value. As the market value of the domain increases simultaneously the share value also increases, hence gain for investors FUSU charges a brokerage commission of 1% for purchase and 1 % for sale, same procedure is followed for domain owners also.

The scheme is very good. I am also eager to submit few of my valuable domains in this, but i have to transfer my domains to Euro DNS. The company charges renewals @ 18 Euro per year (~ $ 28 you will pay renewal for 4 domains from this amount) this is the only problem. I also mailed to my registrar to become a FUSU approved registrar, but they refused to take part in such activities. If they get other registrars in their business with cheaper registration cost there are chances that their business will succeed. More over they have not revealed at any place in their site regarding the number of domainers and investors in their business " may be just nick name is enough" required to build trust

I also checked with the domains, they were registered at tucows / moniker / dotregistrar ETC “TOS is just thrown in dust box”. So many 3 char .com's and few one and two word domains are now listed at their home page."But i feel only a part of domain listing as premium domains" Some of these domain names are even for sale at sedo also. Parking earning is also given as dividend income. We can also sell our domains through them, commission charges are quite low.

Hot News on Dollars.com !

Suddenly Last two bids (14th bid 500,000 Euro and 15 th bid 750,000 Euro - both bids are made by same bidder- bidder 10 ) for Dollars.com was cancelled and now current price of dollars.com is 300,000 Euro only. Now SEDO has changed in bidding place as "Reserve not met" 2d 5 hr remains for end of auction.

This affects both the value of the domain name and SEDO's reputation. It may be some fake bids (multiple bids 14th bid and 15th bid by same bidder) to raise the bid price. The fake bidder got afraid because he will be bind to pay if no further higher bids received. More over i am not able to understand how sedo allows like this (it will seriously affect the current domain owner)

If the same procedure is followed by (bidder 6 - who made a 13th bid of 300,000 Euro ) then the (11th bid 250,000 Euro and 12th bid 100,000 Euro - made by the fake bidder - bidder 10) what will be the position of the current domain name owner. How he will believe SEDO to sell domain names in his hand now. SEDO has to view this serious

Domain buyers and sellers have to view this point and make some reviews on this.
Who is the root cause for this problem?
Who are going to gain because of this scam? (either single person or multiple persons).
Who tries to scam whom? We have to think a lot to decide!

Top notch price for 770.com.

Casino770.com has purchased the domain name 770.com for 175,000 GBP. I was not able to believe the pricing, I browsed the site, it splits traffic in to two sites (casino770.com and poker770.com). As no proper records regarding the sale was available, before some 3 days ago - only referred at few blogs. I left without publishing in my blog. Generally “nnn.coms” are sold around 6500 USD on Live domain
name auctions. Last good sale of 736.com at SEDO is 9000 USD - I thought it as a good sale.

Casino770.com - online gambling operator purchased this domain name from a private investor. I am not able to view that this domain was available for auction at SEDO. Even though sale is made by them.I think that casino770.com has some specific interest on that domain and they wished to acquire at any cost, because of that it was sold at a very high price (BIN price i think)

I was only able to believe only when i saw a press release on "PRweb " There the director of business development - SEDO.co.uk was very happy and pleased with this high profile sale of red hot and short commodities like this.

If you ask domainers

What is the worth of my domain name?
They simply say it worth what the buyer wishes to pay to buy your domain name

ICANN Approval for .BIZ and .INFO to limit domain tasting?

In order to limit domain tasting incase of .BIZ and .INFO TLD's. The respective registries made a proposal for changes in their registry contract. They requested with a set of modifications to ICANN, a few weeks ago and the modifications were approved and from now onwards none of the registrar cannot freely delete more than 50 Domain names (or) 10% of domain names "Which ever is greater" registered through them in these TLD's per month. There is no such statement added regarding the refund of registration fee for deleted domain names.

The AGP (Add Grace Period) is the time granted for .com domains to delete and get full refund with in 5 days (maximum). Most of the registrars used this to generate a lot of funds by placing adsense for domains to earn even in millions. Termed as domain Tasting. A law suit was filed against Google and ICANN and at the same time Google updated its policies for adsense on domains they added few terms as such no ads will be provided for domains of age less than 5 days and ICANN introduced a fee if the domains deleted and deletion will not be more than 10% when asked for refund. and a small fee is charged for deleting domain names to limit domain tasting

Now the same situation of domain tasting is followed by registrars in other extensions. As .com tasting is limited the registrars jumped in to other extensions like .info and .biz. They started to register a lot of domain names and delete them if they didn’t satisfy parked earnings, the same with 5 days. It creates an unnecessary confusion for real buyers, as the domain not available for registration five days ago is still unregistered. Is there any fault in registry database (or) any scam to suck funds from them like that, These tasting registrations are useless and causes unnecessary load on registry databases. ICANN tries its best and acts fast in this regard to limit Domain Tasting.

Dollars.com is for sale at SEDO.

Virtual Network SA a portfolio owner sells one of his famous domain " Dollars.com " (finance and investment related domain) registered through Network Solutions LLC. The domain was registered in the mid of 1995 and domain renewal fee paid up to 2011. This domain name receives 4700 uniques per month. The domain name is parked with sedo. Visitors for this listing is around 4250 per month. As a domain seller, i see this is the only high quality domain name for auction next to pizza.com

Currently 10 bidders made around 15 bids, initial bid started from 100 Euro and current bid is 750,000 Euro.The estimated reserve price is met. The auction is set for 7 days and 4d-5hrs remains for end of auction. It is a high quality domain similar to Fund.com.

This auction is quite critical, i saw only one bidder is very much interested in this domain name and made 4 bids - probably double bids ( 11 th bid - 100,000 Euro, 12 th bid - 250,000 Euro, 14 th bid - 500,000 Euro and 15 th bid - 750,000 Euro ). above 100,000 Euro there are only 2 bidders. So there are lesser chances for higher prices. Even then there may be some guy waiting to make a high bid at the last minute of auction for his sure fire success.

The Google results for keyword "dollars" is : 193,000,000
Max PPC bid is $ 4.3
OVT Searches / month : 96200
Word Tracker Searches / day : 365
Alexa ranking : 1,517,760.

Even though the keyword "dollar" has lesser searches compared to pizza. It is a finance related domain name. This domain also faces the same situation - no proper marketing, the number of bids and bidders will be more only if the current owner wills to do some marketing activity by placing some eye catching banner ads at different domain sale sites, domain forums and even search engine campaigns - adwords ad related to domain keywords. I personally feel the final sale price will be above pizza.com's price even with out marketing

This domain receives 37 % of traffic from US and 19% from Switzerland and 11% from Newzealand. The same domain in another extension " dollars.info " is also for sale at SEDO the asking price for that info domain is 6700 Euro.

Web Magic Ventures won its Ace.com at UDRP arbitration?

ACE limited an insurance company made an offer of 450,000 USD for a three char .com domain "ace.com" from its current owner Web Magic Ventures, as they rejected the offer to sell that domain ACE limited filed an UDRP (Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy) arbitration against Web Magic Ventures to acquire that domain and failed. UDRP panel left ACE limited without charging any penalty for its reverse domain name hijacking. Finally Web Magic Ventures won. ( Note : there are so many 3 char domains still under dispute, even .info and .biz extensions)

This domain name was originally registered by Web Magic Ventures. However ACE Limited filed a suit to claim for its trademark since 1985 at common law trademark rights. That panel concluded "ace" as a generic term and not a branded name that can be trade marked. They revealed that ace.com was not registered under bad faith to spoil the reputation of ACE Limited

Finally ACE Limited tried UDRP defense. They said that Web Magic Ventures do cyber squatting simply buy and sell domain names they park that domain for earnings and not registered to do any business like that. But Web Magic Ventures pointed that they started their business on their several domains

ACE Limited didn’t disclose any thing to the panel regarding the multiple attempts made by them to purchase the domain name from Web Magic Ventures. ACE Limited made several offers, starting from $450,000. Web Magic Ventures repeatedly rejected the offers and said the domain is not for sale. After few years of failed attempts to buy the domain name "ace.com", ACE Limited filed the UDRP arbitration.

Although Web Magic Ventures won the dispute, the panel did not find reverse domain name hijacking. It found that ACE Limited does have any rights on “ace.com” and left ACE Limited with out charging any penalty.

Note : Buy generic domain names only. Try to develop the domain, don’t park for prolonged periods. In most cases competitor ads may come and if they felt that it is a right domain for them. They will try to acquire the domain name, either by paying the owner or by filing a law suit. If you feel your domains are of lesser value and probably you wish to sell, better chance you may meet a fellow like ACE limited to buy one of your domain and you will sell that domain name for some high prices. Then you may be, quite a lucky fellow.

Did you feel " Pizza.com" sold for best price ?

As per my view it is being sold for a lesser value refer the metrics [ compare vodka.com ]

Google results 22,800,000 for vodka

PPC Ads # 0

Max PPC Bid $0.07

Ovt /mo 29562

Word tracker search/day 1369

Sold price : 3 Million

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Google results 148,000,000 for "pizza" [ 6.5 times higher results ]

PPC Ads # 10

Max PPC Bid $4.33

Ovt /mo 1182097

Word tracker search/day 8223

Sold price : 2.605 Million

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Google results 201,000,000 for "fund"

PPC Ads # 17

Max PPC Bid $3.89

Ovt /mo 8088

Word tracker search/day 144

Sold price : ~ 10 Million

The main reason for this lower price is lack in marketability, If Michael spent some bucks on advertising about pizza.com before the auction he might have got more than 5 Millions for his Pizza.com, its earning potential is quite high and for the new buyer ROI will be around 5 - 6 years only and at that time, this e-property may worth more than 20 Million. After the sale of this domain, it was published on several pages on Search engine for lot of keyword searches related to "domain names" [ simply publicity goes to SEDO ] i feel Sedo appraisal team undervalued this domain name. their expected bid range is 1 - 1.5 Million, as the price went above this they said "reserve met" I saw at auction place " the minimum price set by the owner for auction of pizza.com was 100 bucks and only 24 bidders made some 70 bids on that domain. I was closely watching the auction even at the last minute left on 7 days of auction [ probably at regular intervals ]

The last but one bid was 2.505 Millions followed by 2.605 Millions. I am not able to understand whether only 24 bidder available in the entire world of domain market to bid on pizza .com.

More over all domain market place and domain auction sites will simply place your domain on their site and get commissions when that particular domain is sold. They wont help you in any way to sell your domain. You are the only person to do a lot of home work to sell your domain for higher bucks. Only possibility is to shout at all places as much as possible that this domain is for sale at such auction place. I mean that you have to place some sort of advertisements on several sites related to domain business. You can also contact and invite some end users to participate in auction.

It is very peculiar in some cases that even the buyer may directly contact you and place an appreciable price for your domain. So many domains are sold in private like this. You can save the brokerage commissions paid to the third party. Only escrow fees is paid for safer transaction

The reason for fund.com sold for 10 Million is, that it is a finance related domain generally finance related domains, health related domains and internet related domains sells for higher bucks. Vodka a liquor related domain sold for 3 Million is a good sale. Note it is also sold at sedo.

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Does Direct Navigation domain traffic is worthy?

The generic domain prices hikes up day by day and most of the small business owners feel that they could get quality traffic from SEO itself. But SEO is not a one day game. It is a very long process and it takes several months to become successful to get SEO Traffic. More over you have to pay all around the year to SEO / SEM concern to keep your site in top for specific keywords in Search engine result pages (SERP). But the search engine algorithm is changed so frequently that SE Owners wishes to provide quality service to their customers to stay ahead in competition (Probably fresh content, daily updated site to its customers). Even then when ever a customer get up with a site of useful resources on loan / insurance / job site / dating site. From the very next time they forget Search engine searches and simply type the domain names in their memory on web browsers. They need to go fast.

SEO charges are so high that it ends up to $ 500 per hour for consultation and few of the business giants are happy to pay, more over it suck up to xxx,xxx bucks for a single year, to optimize few pages (up to 10 pages) of your site, for some specific key words only. For small business owners it is quite impossible. Better become a domain owner. So simply search for domain names for sale and buy a domain appropriate for your online presence.

If your domain name is irrelative to your product (or) service, long, forgettable, confusable, Simply non-generic then there are more chances that you loose your customer as they will simply forget your domain name, and type some thing irrelevant and end up in some sort of useless information and fatigue. They may try once or twice to avail your service, if they failed, immediately they use search engine and at that time they may end up with some other site. If your domain name is short, sexy, memorable and generic, you wont loose your existing customer and it will be easy to spread by word of mouth about your business by existing customers if your domain identity is short, sexy and memorable.

Most of the product / service seekers directly type the domain name ( very specific keyword .com ) in browsers, probably not only the key words, they type key phrases, job titles, process names and dictionary words also. The customer is in need of quality, so only they directly type them in browser.

If we go for advertisement campaign its daily expense would go up to $ 200 per day [for 100 clicks of $2 per click] equals to $ 73000 per year. If you stop paying to the publisher with in a moment he will chuck off your advertisement and place others advertisement at that place who pays. Traffic to your site drops suddenly and your business is just killed. Alternatively if you buy a domain name even for $150000 you can cover the cost with in 2 years, and you get a free life long high quality direct navigational type in domain traffic for your site. Probably you have to pay domain renewal charges and hosting fee. Even if you do some childish SEO it will pull some mini traffic to your site

(Note : Direct Navigational Type in traffic increases with domain age and simply pulls up to 50 unique a day even for undeveloped domains. such domains are called as premium domains / generic domains / keyword domains)

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[1]. What is a domain name ?

Domain name is a name registered on first come first basis on cyber space www [ world wide web ]
Domain name locates an organization on the internet
Domain names has 3 parts in it
1 ). Top level domain (eg .com)
2 ). Second level domain (eg yourcompanyname)
3 ). Third level (www - world wide web)

Totally : www.yourcompanyname.com

[2]. What is the use of Domain name?

It points to a hosting space where your company details in the form of web pages will be uploaded through an FTP (file transfer protocol) and every body can see your website when any one types your company domain name in web browsers. It is viable to market your product to the entire world. Now you have broken your geographic limitations to market your product (or) service.

[3]. Is it a "Matter of most Urgent "to register or buy Domain name?

Domain name is an identity on internet, With out a domain name you can do nothing, no email, no contacts, every people is craze to register a short, memorable, sexy, non-confusable, generic, meaningful domain name for their business. The world is very competitive. Already most of the good domains are registered and a part of the domains are available for sale at after markets at unbelievable prices

[4]. Can i register the same domain name ?

No, once a domain name is already registered or bought at after market places (or) at Auction places, you can choose other domain, (or) you can buy the same domain name from the current domain owner at higher prices as per current owners wish.

[5]. How do i know a particular domain name is available for registration ?

A non-profit, non-government, social organization named "ICANN" - Internet Corporation for Assigned names and Numbers " maintains a common database of domain name records, called as " Who is " records for domain names. It has its web address at www.icann.org

[6]. How do i register a domain name ?

We can directly register domain names through ICANN accredated registrars, available through the world and domain resellers below them

[7]. What do you mean by Generic domain name ?

Generic domain name is a word (or) a word phrase, a clear keyword that cannot be "trademarked". Generally they denote a product (or) service but extends as dictionary words, job titles, phrases, processes ETC.
.com is the main extension, other domain extensions are also available { Examples include collegelecturer.com, axialblower.com, } these are also called as premium domain names (or) direct navigational domain names

[8]. What are the different types of domain names ?

There are few types of domain names they are like generic domain, brandable domain, trademark domain, adult domain, green domain, geo domain ETC

Refer : www.collisiondomains.com