Thought Convergence

July 21, 2008

We just got an outdoor sign installed on our building in Los Angeles. For those of you that missed the announcement Thought Convergence is the new parent company of Name Intelligence/DomainTools.com.

Thought Convergence Sign

If you want to drive by and check it out the address of the building is 11300 W Olympic Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90064.

[Source] Jay Westerdal

New RSS Feeds deep inside DomainTools

July 21, 2008

Rss IconWe just released a new RSS Feed Management system to DomainTools that allows subscribers to monitor alerts and other services using RSS feeds instead of newsletter updates. newsletter alerts have bugged me for a while considering they clog my inbox, RSS gets announcements out of the inbox and in a more usable area. We are not getting rid of e mail alerts on anything, however going forward everything on DomainTools that can newsletter users will have its own micro-feed. All micro-feeds of a positive type will have grouped-feeds where a person can subscribe to a bunch of micro-feeds all restricted in one feed.

The flexibility that RSS extends to our users is that they don’t need an mail client to monitor our alerts. One of the obvious uses is setting up a scheduled web process to check the RSS feed and do something based on the results it finds in the RSS location. The more obvious use is plugging those feeds into an RSS reader like Google Reader.

We have two types of RSS feeds available on all things. The first is a rich-HTML markup RSS feed like you would expect in an mail. The other whether an XML style Rss Feeds Domaintoolsthat is strictly for parsing by a computer on the other side and is designed for only computers. that will allow more computers around the world to interface with DomainTools.

This release only has four group feeds available right now, but in the near future we will be releasing the Domain Monitor alerts and other lost products to the Global Feed as well. We are very committed to RSS feeds on every service we offer.

Just a quick shield note: Do not share your RSS feeds with other society, there is only one RSS access key per explanation and you are giving away all your RSS streams to every feed you have whether you give away just one stream. whether you construct that mistake, just login and reset your shield key inside the RSS Feed Management System. It will be impossible for citizens to guess your key which means all your RSS feeds are secure unless you reveal the RSS feed URL to the other citizens.

[Source] Jay Westerdal

The Domain Game

June 1, 2008

Domain Game BookA great new book just hit the stands, “The Domain Game” by David Kesmodel is an intriguing book about our industry. The book is filled with folks that I am intimately familiar with, so it was fascinating to read the book on many different levels. I was additionally mentioned a few times in the book but the best part was reading the many other stories in the book that I had never heard. There are new facts which have never seen the light of day that are now shared publicly in that book. Mr. Kesmodel was a Wall Street Journal reporter that quit his job and immersed himself into the domain community for about a year so he could write that book.

It was a book Kesmodel said had to be written, there was just too much to uncover. When an investigative journalist gets embedded inside a secret industry a lot of dirt and details are going to come out and they did. Readers are able to follow as citizens in the Industry got those million dollar domains for $50.

The Domain Industry has always been shrouded in secrecy so I was surprised how many humans opened up for that book. Kesmodel went beyond interviews, he searched public records and talked to neighbors and friends of some of the citizens he investigated.

When reading the book I started jotting down notes about when public where mentioned in the book, it may not be completely accurate but hopefully it is 95%. There was no index in the book so I am sharing the one I made so anyone can quickly find public as you skip through the book. The book is 9 chapters and hands down the best Tutorial/Introduction on the domain space I have seen. I hope there is a second book in the series considering I know several hidden chapters that have not been told yet!

David KesmodelOfficial Description of the book:

Almost everyone has heard a tale of someone getting rich by selling an Web domain name for a staggering price. But few understand the secretive world of domain investing, a game that a growing number of public are playing around the globe. The Domain Game chronicles the exploits of leading domain investors and explains how that mysterious market works. Learn how an Oklahoma watermelon farmer wound up owning some of the world’s most valuable Web addresses, from recipes.com to chairs.com, and how a college dropout became a multimillionaire by scooping up domains that others abandoned amid the dot-com bust. Find out how the rise of Google and Yahoo has helped boost the fortunes of domain investors. And explore the shenanigans of investors who snag names associated with corporate trademarks. Finally, read how you can jump into that exciting market with a relatively small initial investment. It’s a market with high risk, but huge potential reward.

You can order the book for $19.99. So I highly propose it.

In order of appearance and PAGES found on:

Frank Schilling 9, 94-109, 123, 146, 154, 158, 177, 186, 190-192
Adam Dicker 10, 120, 123, 146, 189
DNJournal.com 11, 130, 137, 180
Ross Perot 11
Howard Schultz 11, 172
John Berryhill 12, 108, 146, 160
Sedo 13
Gary Chernoff 13, 34-38, 54, 57, 67-71, 75, 96, 132, 190-191
Scott Day 15, 26, 30, 37, 57, 72, 75, 80, 177, 190-191
Joshua Quittner (Wired.com) 20
Gumby.org 22
Dennis Toeppen (Hydrogen.com and 240 domains) 23
Mike O’Connor (Television.com, Bar.com, Company.com) 24
CNET 25
Procter & Gamble 24, 56
CES Marketing 26, 75
Christopher Wall 26, 37
Eric Woodward 26
Scott Musgrove 26
DigiMedia.com 32
George W Bush 32
Rick Schwartz 38-43, 47, 80, 110, 133-134, 139-148, 151, 183
Marc Ostrofsky 43-52, 119, 146, 148, 152, 188
Pinkard Alan “Pinky” make 44
Matthew Grossman (WallStreet.com) 46
Eric Wade (WallStreet.com) 46
Ehud Gavron (WallStreet.com) 46
Monte Cahn 46, 56-57, 147, 154, 161
Bonnie Neubeck (Drugs.com) 47
Jeffrey Tinsley (GreatDomains, CEO) 47
GoDaddy 50
Telepathy (Nat Cohen, Crew.com) 51
ACPA 51
Lieven Van Neste (24 Hour) 53
Vincent Schiavone (4 Anything) 53
Jay Westerdal 58-61, 82, 146, 149-151, 158-160
Anthony Peppler 58-61, 169
Lee Hodgeson 59, 82
Yun Ye (Mystery Man, UltSearch) 62-67, 79, 91, 105-106, 110, 174
Jin Lu 62
Chad Folkening 66, 149
Adam Strong 66, 79
Bill Gross (GoTo) 68
Roy Messer (90,000 vistoris per day in 98, Vodka.com, Razors.com) 72, 130
Oingo (Allied Semantics, DomainSense, DomainPark) 73-75
Gil Elbaz 73
Adam Weissman 73
Michael Zurakov (Sued Register.com for Ads) 74
Eytan Elbaz (Google) 74, 143-144, 147
Sergey Brin (Google) 76
Overture Suggestion Tool 79
Dotzup 81
Dark Blue Sea 81
SnapNames 83
NameWinner 83
Kevin Ham 84
WLS 84
Paul Stahura 86, 128
SiteFinder 86
Rob Hall (Pool.com) 88
Ray King (SnapNames.com) 88, 155
Tim Cole 89
Mike Mann 89-95, 117
Ronald Fitzherbert 90
Michelle Miller 91, 117, 147
Chip Yamasaki 91
Ale Ikenson 91
Ross Rader 93
Dwayne Rowland 99
Megadic 99
Vern Jurovich 102
John Keister (Marchex) 102
Russell Horowitz 102
Peter Christothoulou 103, 114-115
Mike Mann 104
Richard Lau 104
Kevin Ham 106
Bill Messer 106-107
Dick Cheney 108
George Soros 108
Ethan Caldwell (Counsel of Marchex) 109, 174
Mike Zapolin 110
Andrew Miller 110
Chad Wright 114
Jeff Bennett 116
Bob Davis 116
Kelly Conlin 118
Cats.com, Biking.com, Photography.com 118
Bob Martin 119, 172
Andrew Allemann 119, 179, 183
IREIT 120
Stuart Rabin 120
Blake Bookstaff 122
Brian Null (OfficeSupply.com) 122
Michael Bahlitzanakis (CellPhones.com) 122, 145, 147, 189
Paul Sloan (Business 2.0) 123, 146
Mike Gorzynski (Spectrum Equity Investors) 124
Shawn Colo 124
Richard Rosenblatt 125, 186
Barry Diller (CEO of IAC) 128
Michael Blend 128, 134
Thomas Kundel 128
Quinn Daly 128
Jeremiah Johnson (Sedo) 131
Amy Schrier (Blue.com) 131
Ari Bayme (Gorilla Nation Media) 134, 147
Gary Kremen (Sex.com) 135, 174
Stephen Cohen (Sex.com) 135
Zooknic 136
Lawrence Ng (Oversee.net) 137
TrafficZ 137, 144
Ron Jackson 137, 180-183
Howard Hoffman (PPCincome) 138, 143, 146, 149, 178
Leonard Holmes (ParkQuick) 138
Andrew Goodman (Page Zero Media) 138
Jon Lisbin (Point It) 139-143
Hal Bailey (Google) 139
Erick Schonfeld (Business 2.0) 139
Josh Meyers (Yahoo) 141
Danny Sullivan (SearchEngineLand) 142, 144
Andrew Beckman (SearchAd Network) 143
Ammar Kubba 144
Howard Neu 145
Dean Shannon 145
DeanFest 145
TRAFFIC 145-146
Michael Berkens 146
Lesli Angel (BeautyTips.com, DrugOverDose.com) 147
Joe Langbaum 147
Scott Richter (OptinRealBig) 147
Sigmund Solares (Cameras.com, Intercosmos, Parked.com) 148, 152
Larry Fischer (SmartNames) 148
Rick Latona (DigiPawn) 149
Ofer Ronen (Sendori) 150
Kevin Daste (LSU Drop out) 150
Slavic (Bob) 150
Sammy Sosa 150
Ron Sheridan (DomainFest) 150
Larry Seltzer (eWeek) 152
John Kane (eNom) 153
Jonathon Nevett (Network Solutions) 154, 160
Mason Cole (SnapNames) 155
EU Landrush 156-157
Bret Fausett 157
Bob Parsons 159-160
George DeCarlo (Dotster) 163
Kevin Kilroy (Baker Capital) 163
Clint Page (Dotster) 164
Linette Ueltshchi (Dotster) 164
David Steele 165
Ravi Puri (Dotster Lawyer) 165
Scott Fish (Doster Employee) 165
Ann Ford (DLA Piper) 166
Chesterton Holdings (Oversee.net company) 167
Camille Miller (IP Laywer) 167, 171
Josh Armstrong (Counsel of Oversee.net) 167
Maltuzi (Oversee.net company) 167
John Zuccarini (Typosquatter) 168
Sarah Deutsch (Verizon) 168
Ari Goldberger (Domain Lawyer) 170
Dan Levitan (Maveron) 172
Craig Snyder (Ireit President) 172
Steve Blasnik (Perot Investments) 173
Ben Edelman (Harvard Business School) 175
Matt Bentley (CSO of Sedo) 175-176
Dan Cera (Domain Investor) 176
Brian Taff (NameMedia) 179
Tim Schumacher (Co-Founder of Sedo) 180
Ryan May (GeoSign Employee) 182
Michael Allen (NewYorkRestraunts.com) 182
Tim Nye (GeoSign CEO) 182
Jeff Burkey (Domain Investor) 183
Dan Warner (CSO of Dark Blue Sea) 184
Sahar Sarid (Florida Domain Investor) 185
Steve Balmer (CEO of Microsoft) 187
Jay Steinfeld (Blinds.com) 188
Vint Cerf (Pioneer of the Internet) 189

Alphabetic Order and PAGES found on:

ACPA 51
Adam Dicker 10, 120, 123, 146, 189
Adam Strong 66, 79
Adam Weissman 73
Ale Ikenson 91
Ammar Kubba 144
Amy Schrier (Blue.com) 131
Andrew Allemann 119, 179, 183
Andrew Beckman (SearchAd Network) 143
Andrew Goodman (Page Zero Media) 138
Andrew Miller 110
Ann Ford (DLA Piper) 166
Anthony Peppler 58-61, 169
Ari Bayme (Gorilla Nation Media) 134, 147
Ari Goldberger (Domain Lawyer) 170
Barry Diller (CEO of IAC) 128
Ben Edelman (Harvard Business School) 175
Bill Gross (GoTo) 68
Bill Messer 106-107
Blake Bookstaff 122
Bob Davis 116
Bob Martin 119, 172
Bob Parsons 159-160
Bonnie Neubeck (Drugs.com) 47
Bret Fausett 157
Brian Null (OfficeSupply.com) 122
Brian Taff (NameMedia) 179
Camille Miller (IP Laywer) 167, 171
Cats.com, Biking.com, Photography.com 118
CES Marketing 26, 75
Chad Folkening 66, 149
Chad Wright 114
Chesterton Holdings (Oversee.net company) 167
Chip Yamasaki 91
Christopher Wall 26, 37
Clint Page (Dotster) 164
CNET 25
Craig Snyder (Ireit President) 172
Dan Cera (Domain Investor) 176
Dan Levitan (Maveron) 172
Dan Warner (CSO of Dark Blue Sea) 184
Danny Sullivan (SearchEngineLand) 142, 144
Dark Blue Sea 81
David Steele 165
Dean Shannon 145
DeanFest 145
Dennis Toeppen (Hydrogen.com and 240 domains) 23
Dick Cheney 108
DigiMedia.com 32
DNJournal.com 11, 130, 137, 180
Dotzup 81
Dwayne Rowland 99
Ehud Gavron (WallStreet.com) 46
Eric Wade (WallStreet.com) 46
Eric Woodward 26
Erick Schonfeld (Business 2.0) 139
Ethan Caldwell (Counsel of Marchex) 109, 174
EU Landrush 156-157
Eytan Elbaz (Google) 74, 143-144, 147
Frank Schilling 9, 94-109, 123, 146, 154, 158, 177, 186, 190-192
Gary Chernoff 13, 34-38, 54, 57, 67-71, 75, 96, 132, 190-191
Gary Kremen (Sex.com) 135, 174
George DeCarlo (Dotster) 163
George Soros 108
George W Bush 32
Gil Elbaz 73
GoDaddy 50
Gumby.org 22
Hal Bailey (Google) 139
Howard Hoffman (PPCincome) 138, 143, 146, 149, 178
Howard Neu 145
Howard Schultz 11, 172
IREIT 120
Jay Steinfeld (Blinds.com) 188
Jay Westerdal 58-61, 82, 146, 149-151, 158-160
Jeff Bennett 116
Jeff Burkey (Domain Investor) 183
Jeffrey Tinsley (GreatDomains, CEO) 47
Jeremiah Johnson (Sedo) 131
Jin Lu 62
Joe Langbaum 147
John Berryhill 12, 108, 146, 160
John Kane (eNom) 153
John Keister (Marchex) 102
John Zuccarini (Typosquatter) 168
Jon Lisbin (Point It) 139-143
Jonathon Nevett (Network Solutions) 154, 160
Josh Armstrong (Counsel of Oversee.net) 167
Josh Meyers (Yahoo) 141
Joshua Quittner (Wired.com) 20
Kelly Conlin 118
Kevin Daste (LSU Drop out) 150
Kevin Ham 106
Kevin Ham 84
Kevin Kilroy (Baker Capital) 163
Larry Fischer (SmartNames) 148
Larry Seltzer (eWeek) 152
Lawrence Ng (Oversee.net) 137
Lee Hodgeson 59, 82
Leonard Holmes (ParkQuick) 138
Lesli Angel (BeautyTips.com, DrugOverDose.com) 147
Lieven Van Neste (24 Hour) 53
Linette Ueltshchi (Dotster) 164
Maltuzi (Oversee.net company) 167
Marc Ostrofsky 43-52, 119, 146, 148, 152, 188
Mason Cole (SnapNames) 155
Matt Bentley (CSO of Sedo) 175-176
Matthew Grossman (WallStreet.com) 46
Megadic 99
Michael Allen (NewYorkRestraunts.com) 182
Michael Bahlitzanakis (CellPhones.com) 122, 145, 147, 189
Michael Berkens 146
Michael Blend 128, 134
Michael Zurakov (Sued Register.com for Ads) 74
Michelle Miller 91, 117, 147
Mike Gorzynski (Spectrum Equity Investors) 124
Mike Mann 104
Mike Mann 89-95, 117
Mike O’Connor (Television.com, Bar.com, Company.com) 24
Mike Zapolin 110
Monte Cahn 46, 56-57, 147, 154, 161
NameWinner 83
Ofer Ronen (Sendori) 150
Oingo (Allied Semantics, DomainSense, DomainPark) 73-75
Overture Suggestion Tool 79
Paul Sloan (Business 2.0) 123, 146
Paul Stahura 86, 128
Peter Christothoulou 103, 114-115
Pinkard Alan “Pinky” make 44
Procter & Gamble 24, 56
Quinn Daly 128
Ravi Puri (Dotster Lawyer) 165
Ray King (SnapNames.com) 88, 155
Richard Lau 104
Richard Rosenblatt 125, 186
Rick Latona (DigiPawn) 149
Rick Schwartz 38-43, 47, 80, 110, 133-134, 139-148, 151, 183
Rob Hall (Pool.com) 88
Ron Jackson 137, 180-183
Ron Sheridan (DomainFest) 150
Ronald Fitzherbert 90
Ross Perot 11
Ross Rader 93
Roy Messer (90,000 vistoris per day in 98, Vodka.com, Razors.com) 72, 130
Russell Horowitz 102
Ryan May (GeoSign Employee) 182
Sahar Sarid (Florida Domain Investor) 185
Sammy Sosa 150
Sarah Deutsch (Verizon) 168
Scott Day 15, 26, 30, 37, 57, 72, 75, 80, 177, 190-191
Scott Fish (Doster Employee) 165
Scott Musgrove 26
Scott Richter (OptinRealBig) 147
Sedo 13
Sergey Brin (Google) 76
Shawn Colo 124
Sigmund Solares (Cameras.com, Intercosmos, Parked.com) 148, 152
SiteFinder 86
Slavic (Bob) 150
SnapNames 83
Stephen Cohen (Sex.com) 135
Steve Balmer (CEO of Microsoft) 187
Steve Blasnik (Perot Investments) 173
Stuart Rabin 120
Telepathy (Nat Cohen, Crew.com) 51
Thomas Kundel 128
Tim Cole 89
Tim Nye (GeoSign CEO) 182
Tim Schumacher (Co-Founder of Sedo) 180
TRAFFIC 145-146
TrafficZ 137, 144
Vern Jurovich 102
Vincent Schiavone (4 Anything) 53
Vint Cerf (Pioneer of the Internet) 189
WLS 84
Yun Ye (Mystery Man, UltSearch) 62-67, 79, 91, 105-106, 110, 174
Zooknic 136

[Source] Jay Westerdal

PresidentialDebates.com and 5 other Presidential names are going to auction

June 1, 2008

Presidential DebatesSome of the best Presidential domains are going to auction as a bundle. All 6 domains are being offered for $150,000 on Monday at the Domain Roundtable Auction. Bidding for the live auction is additionally available online at DomainTools.com.

Presidential Debates Presidential Debates.com
Presidential Campaign Presidential Campaign.com
Presidential Race Presidential Race.com
Presidential Race Presidential Race.org
Presidential Address Presidential Address.com
Presidential Primaries Presidential Primaries.com

WASHINGTON, DC — April 15, 2008 — The 2008 presidential election has generated a flurry of news and commentary, and, as has been the case in the last two elections, is certain to continue to generate interest beyond November. With more and more folks turning to the web for their info, the value of targeted political domain names is at an all-time high.

Domain Market, a WashingtonVC company possessing one of the premier domain asset portfolios in the world, has today announced the inclusion of six highly-valued targeted political domain names into the Domain Roundtable conference live auction to be held on April 21, 2008 in San Francisco, CA. The domains are: presidentialcampaign.com, presidentialdebates.com, presidentialprimaries.com, presidentialrace.com, presidentialrace.org and presidentialaddress.com.

Generic domain names, like those being offered by Domain Market, have seen prices skyrocket as the market’s awareness of their value has escalated. In the past 6 months alone, there have been notable sales of such premium domain names as iReport.com to CNN for $750,000 in January, Fund.com for $10 million, DataRecovery.com for $1.7 million, SkiResorts.com for $850,000, and Pizza.com for $2.6m dollars.

“Media companies are increasingly looking for opportunities to drive their audience to destination sites with highly focused composition, particularly during major events such as elections,” says WashingtonVC Chairman Mike Mann, who believes that that opportunity is indicative of the greater market trend towards wrapping business models around prime Web real estate. “Whoever owns these domain names will have significant influence by the US political process on the Web forever.”

Interested parties have the ability to attend the auction live or participate from anywhere in the world via computer to bid in the auction in real instance. Auction registration can be completed through Domain Roundtable’s website, http://www.domainroundtable.com. For additional data or to demand an interview, please visit WashingtonVC at
http://www.washingtonvc.com or by mail at media@washingtonvc.com.

About WashingtonVC:
WashingtonVC is an early stage fund and incubator that grows companies through the exchange of complementary technologies and marketing services. Our portfolio of interlocking companies share resources, talent and technology to deliver innovative products and services across a broad range of industries.

Our investment focus is in online media and marketing, software technologies, telecommunications services, domain name services and consumer Web services. We seek out and fund world-class teams and products with the potential to be leaders in their markets, and back their companies with premium, highly relevant World Wide Web domain names (i.e. phone.com, software.com).

A significant percentage of our investment returns go toward supporting and financing our nonprofit organizations, Grassroots.org and MakeChange! Trust.

[Source] Jay Westerdal

Pre-Auction bidding war

June 1, 2008

Mini Bidding WarLooks like the domains with zero dollar reserves have little mini bidding wars going on several days before the auction closes. It is sort of fun to watch. One example is the combined two domain lot of SecretCode.com & SecretCodes.com. We let that Lot into the auction with a zero dollar reserve and society are aggressively bidding on it. Typically everyone waits for the last 15 minutes of the auction and next they try to snipe it with all the other like-minded snipper public. But once you see one bidder it is safe to say there will be a battle. The DomainTools auction system allows public to bid ahead of moment considering unlike other live events we broadcast to the Web and let remote bidders participate just like they are in the room. Thanks to AJAX (and not some windows download) we are able to open up the bidding up to everyone that has a contemporary web browser.

For the pre-bidders, the current winner can set a proxy bid and defend their position while not even attending the auction. No one can see the proxy bid price including the Auctioneer. that means a leader of an auction can successfully defend against auction snippers while sitting on a beach without World Wide Web access.

Testing the bidding system
whether anyone wants to pop quiz the bidding system, we have setup a tryout spot on lot 1. The domain is called “Xx–Practice-Domain.com“. Anyone is free to bid on that domain, the current price is $1,500,000. that is the only domain in the auction that is for evaluating the interface and getting used to our controls. The domain is currently not registered, so hopefully no one goes out and registers it and tries to claim $1,500,000.00 from us. ;-) Once again, the domain is xx–practice-domain.com, please do not register it.

Are you eligible to bid?
Don’t wait for the last minute to figure out whether you can bid. Visit the bidding page and look in the second yellow box. whether the auctioneer is telling you that you are not eligable go threw the wizard and become eligible. whether you have ever purchased ANYTHING on domaintools next you are eligible, just sign the contract. whether you have never shared your credit card with us and we don’t know who you are, we ask that you purchase a $1 verification item prior to the auction so that we can verify your identity and compose certain you are a real person.

Domain Roundtable
The conference begins today and I am extremely excited, I get on the plane that dawn and hope to see everyone soon. I am looking forward to hearing all the speakers and moderators. I want to personally thank, Susan Prosser, she has done a fabulous job selecting speakers and coordinating the whole event. The Domain Roundtable would not be possible without her and the rest of the wonderful team. As the founder of the conference public look to me, however she is the one that truly deserves the respect for putting on such a great show. When you see us, be certain to thank her, I am more of just an observer.

Secret Announcements
We have so many cool things to share with everyone. We have not officially announced that one yet, but I will let you readers in on a small secret. We quietly launched Thumbnail History that week (The service is still in beta, don’t try it in IE8!). It allows public to see what domains looked like years ago. Sort of like Archive.org except we take thumbnail images and not just HTML copies. The thumbnails have been taking by us with Web Explorer by the years, so they have Flash and the other things that archive.org doesn’t seem to capture. We have hundreds of millions of these thumbnails, several Terabytes actually. More on the thumbnail system later… There are a lot of details I can tell you about it but I will use a committed blog post after the conference to really tell you the ins and outs of the service.

[Source] Jay Westerdal

Illusionist.com for Sale in Live Auction

June 1, 2008

IllusionistSuper premium domain the Illusionist.com is for sale at the Domain Roundtable Live auction event on April 21st. The Illusionist.com is for a company that wants amuse an audience. The type is perfect considering it is used by some many folks around the world. Everything from TV shows to Movies have used the generic description, there is really no way around talking about an Illusionist without using the proper name.

The Reserve on Illusionist.com is $280,000.

Bidding is available online at the DomainTools.com or live in person at the Domain Roundtable in San Francisco. Bidding is now open and will close Monday at 11am PST.

The live auction event will be broadcast on DomainTools and the Bidding page.

Here is a complete list of what is available during the auction.

This is an excellent reserve price, the domain has been owned by the same person for 11 years.

[Source] Jay Westerdal

DomainTools Live Auction

June 1, 2008

auction domains

We are very excited about the live auction on Monday, April 21. There are excellent domains on the list with a broad appeal. The auction will start at 11:00am PDT and ends at 4:00pm PDT. whether you are in San Francisco, please come join us for the live event at Palace Hotel the auction day is FREE to attend. You can find the details at: www.domainroundtable.com/2008/venue. It is additionally available on line at: www.domaintools.com/live-auction/bid.html

We had to assemble some rigid decisions at DomainTools about the Live Auction. Reviewing the submissions to determine value and strength of a name is both interesting and challenging. With by 35,000 domain submissions, we identified roughly 350 domains that we would like to have in the auction.

With the top names selected, we thereupon worked with a domain consulting team to review the auction list. The group, Domain Consultant is a collection of top domainers in the community. Their experience in the industry and knowledge of domains is impressive as you can see from the list of appraisers. With their input, adjustments were made to the list of onsite Live Auction versus those in the Extended Live Auction. We appreciate their perspective and input on the final auction list. And, believe working with that team will prove favourable to buyers and sellers in that auction.

Recognizing auction fatigue occurs, we have continued to trim the list. additionally, we have a hard close moment of 4:00pm PDT of the onsite Live Auction. However, we have an Extended Live Auction for additional domains submitted that were identified as potential for Live. The names that sell in the Live Auction will immediately close. Any domain not sold will remain open for 1 week following the live in the extended online auction. In addition, those names that we originally acknowledged as potential listed domains for the Live Auction are going to be available in the Extended Live Auction. That auction closes on Monday, April 28th at 1:00PDT.

Do not wait for the last minute to figure out whether you can bid. Visit the bidding page and look in the second yellow box. whether the auctioneer is telling you that you are not eligible go through the wizard and become eligible. whether you have ever purchased ANYTHING on domaintools thereupon you are eligible, just sign the contract. whether you have never shared your credit card with us and we do not know who you are, we ask that you purchase a $1 verification item prior to the auction so that we can verify your identity and compose certain you are a real person.

The latest list of domains in full auction are available at: www.domaintools.com/live-auction/bid.html

LIVE AUCTION: starts at 11:00am and the last lot will be called at 4:00pmPDT. Anything not sold or called out in Live Auction will go to the extended Live Auction.

EXTENDED LIVE AUCTION: Monday, April 28th at 1:00PDT.

[Source] Jay Westerdal

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