Comments on: Aftermarket.com TDU Auction Starts Out Strong But Flops From Technical Difficulties

By: FreeResourceKit.NET » Blog Archive » “Buy Low, Sell High”. Why are Domainers Ignoring Their Most Basic Principle?

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:24:30 +0000

[...] live portion of the Down Under auctions may have concluded, too abruptly in some cases, but some of the names that did not make the ‘cut’ are still on auction – ready for savvy [...]

By: Narkov

Narkov — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 23:56:49 +0000

It started to go to shit after about item 15. Then it was compounded by the auctioneer ignoring the status of the online bids and instead taking house bids.

They haven’t even contacted me yet so it will be interesting to see how this pans out.

By: Adam Strong

Adam Strong — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:22:33 +0000

which lots in particular closed during tech difficulties?

By: Narkov

Narkov — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:12:50 +0000

Adam that is correct but a number of lots were sold when they were suffering major technical issues. As a seller, how could you tollerate this if you didn’t get the best price for your domain?

Very few of the lots from yestedays auction are still open.

By: Domain Name Wire » News » A Tale of Two Auctions - The Domain Industry's News Source

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:20:26 +0000

[...] Strong wrote up the full story of what happened. Essentially there were delays as they tried to fix major latency issues. By the [...]

By: Adam Strong

Adam Strong — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:50:05 +0000

Narkov bidding is still open on many names at their site.

By: Narkov

Narkov — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:59:22 +0000

It was an absolute farse. I had $25k to spend and attempted to bid on a large number of bids. I only managed to successfully bid on one domain totalling $0.8k.

Very bad news for sellers as there is about 6 domains that I would have happily paid 2x,3x or even 4x the final price.

If they knew about the technical issues why did they continue? They could leave themselves open for litigation from sellers.

By: Aftermarket.com Auction Starts With Tech Issues : DevelopDomains.us - The Domain Development Blog

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 02:45:04 +0000

[...] on it’s feet after the sale of Camera.co.uk finished at an outstanding $35,000. According to DNN, the technical team of Aftermarket.com took a 5 minute recess after the 48th lot had been [...]