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You might just catch a bidding foe sleeping. Is it possible to catch other domainers sleeping? It’s not easy, but the holidays are your best chance
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Holidays are good time to score deal on domain auctions
Early bidders will earn cash back. Francois Carrillo, the guy behind Domaining.com , is getting ready to launch a new cash back program for bidding on his CAX.com domain marketplace. The program will reward both the initial bidder in an auction and the second highest bidder with 2% of the sales price. For example, if you are the first bidder and three people bid in an auction but you don’t win, you’ll get 2% of the sales price. If you’re the first bidder in an auction that only attracts two total bidders, you’ll actually get 4% — 2% for being the first bidder and 2% for having the second highest bid.
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Domaining.com’s CAX.com to Start Rewarding Bidders
I know a lot of you are looking for short brand names for your startup or personal web presence. These types of domains are some of the most sought after. Most entrepreneurs would be thrilled to have a pronounceable, memorable and relevant brand identity for their websites, apps and products.
It seems right to follow in the footsteps of so many powerful and compelling short brands owned by businesses who were lucky enough to be around while the best names were still available.
You may have a limited budget and are looking for five letter domains that are available to register. There are a few tools available to help. However, you will find that the supply of available five letter names is quickly diminishing in both quantity and quality.
There is still hope for finding good quality short domains. With a little time spent researching at the right sources, you will be able to find five letter domains that are affordable.
SnapNames is one of the most active auction and expiring domain marketplaces. Follow these steps to modify the search parameters. This will help you narrow the results and quickly find short .com domains.
After scrolling past a limited selection of four letter domains, you will begin to see the big list of five letter domains with the potential to be acquired.
You may also want to uncheck “Buy It Now” results to avoid five letter domains with ridiculous asking pricing. Other popular domain marketplaces can offer additional results with their advanced search tools.
You can get super fast look at 5 letter domains that are listed on Afternic, Fabulous, BuyDomains, as well as domains expiring from GoDaddy and Dynadot using FreshDrop.net quick filters. Professional members can use these filters across other marketplaces.
The “Reg Fee” selection is a list of domains that have been deleted in the previous 10 days.
The results found at ZFBot will be a little different. First, you will need to enter at least 2 characters to begin a search for short domains. A new feature allows you to place terms at the beginning or the end of a domain. This can be a great way to target a particular niche with a related two or three-letter word as part of your five letter brand.
Select your extensions, set the min and max characters to 5 and you’re on your way.
The domains found with ZFBot may or may not be available for sale. A good sign of domains that have the potential to be acquired is if they are parked. You can also search dropping domains.
When you find a domain that peeks your interest, view the WhoIs information and email the owner directly with your offer to purchase the domain.
While researching for this article I was surprised to encounter difficulty finding short domains at Sedo, the world’s largest domain marketplace. The new search user interface is now using sliders and the option to define a maximum character limit is no longer present. Additionally, the Sedo inventory is not working correctly on FreshDrop.
Update: I may have encountered a bug when trying Sedo. The ‘Domain Length’ option slider now works to search for domains with a maximum of 5 characters.
Before you head off on your search, I’d like to clue you in on a handful of short domains that are now available at the new DotSauce Domain Club.
Premium members can buy these and other quality .com domains for just $19 each. There are many other benefits to Domain Club membership, so be sure to check it out.
Best of luck finding the perfect five letter domain. Please leave a comment to let us know how the search goes and if you know someone in need of a great brand name consider sharing this article with them.
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***Breaking News*** About two hours ago I received a Like request to join a Bido.com Facebook fan page. So what does this mean?
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Bido.com Is Back!
I’m famous, I made it on CNN Money. Ok, so it was just for a split second, lol.
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CNN Covered DOMAINfest New York (Video)
Size of bidding scandal becomes clear. A document filed today ( pdf ) in a lawsuit against Oversee.net and Snapnames shows that the total loss to U.S. customers from the bidding scandal was about $1 million, including interest. The total damages for all customers can be extrapolated to be about $2.0 million.
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‘Halvarez’ Caused $2M Loss to SnapNames Customers
Due diligence in expired domain company acquisition missed a couple big problems. Mergers and Acquisitions due diligence is thankless work
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2009 Domain Dunce Award: SnapNames Due Diligence
I have 5 quality .com domain names going up for auction today at the 2PM hour with NO RESERVE . These domains were voted by the Bido community to appear on live auction. Great keyword names make for an attractive and affordable investment opportunity with starting bids of just $28.
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Bido Cyber Monday Deals – 5 Quality Domains at No Reserve Live Auction
On the heels of the recent 1 character .biz domain and 2 character .de domain auctions at Sedo , domain auction house Pool.com announced yesterday that they have teamed up with Neustar to auction off more than 1000 two character .biz domains. The domains will be made available in a phased release beginning November 30, 2009 through February 2010. Two character domains, which were previously unavailable, include names like PC.Biz, IT.biz and IP.biz. A full list of the domains to be auctioned can be found at the site TwoDotBiz.Biz Neustar’s Tim Switzer stated: We are very pleased to be working with Pool.com to make a short, memorable alternative available. The demand we experienced during the release of one-character .BIZ domain names validated the attractiveness of the .BIZ brand. There are many companies with long company names, and others who have names that are difficult to spell or remember Neustar sold over $360,000 worth of 1 character domains through the Sedo during the October auction. (c) 2009 DomainNameNews.com Advertisement WE BUY DOMAINS
Pool.com to Auction 2 Character .Biz Domains
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Pool.com to Auction 2 Character .Biz Domains
A Snapnames employee was caught bidding in the company’s own doain auctions leading to some big issues with how the company is handling its auctions. The clean up process is underway and many domains will soon see a rebate in auctions they were involved in that may have been bid up resulting in shill bidding.
Nelson Brady - Former VP of Engineering at Snapnaes
The Snapnames employee, Nelson Brady VP of Engineerings for Snapnames is accused of shill bidding dating back as far as 2005. He was operating under the name of Halvarez had already been been involved in bidding up SnapNames auctions for about two years. This behavior is against Snapnames policies and say that it i possible that his involvement in shill bidding continued for two more years before they finally discovered the fraud and made it public in a letter to their customers today. Here is a copy of the letter released to its customers.
Snapnames letter to its customers
Brady was fired on Monday October 26th. This will definitely leave a bad taste in domainers mouths when dealing in auctions for quite some time. Its possible Nelson is involved in bidding up as many as 50,000 domain name auctions over the past years. Snapnames is taking a proactive approach and reviewing any and all of the auctions that Nelson was involved in with his ficticious bidding and offering a rebate to customers involved in the auction with a 5.22% interest on top. If you were a domainer involved in any of these auctions affected be sure to expect contact from Snapnames. The rebate will be given in form of cash or credit to be used within their system.
Snapnames did make a wise and professional decision to release the news to the public and taking the approach to compensate their customers.
Here are some domains there were said to be owned by Halvarez:
hamvuiclub.com
cinemagazine.com
lifeclips.com
searchescorts.com
tvizle.com
googletrends.com
extrawallpapers.com
fashionindia.net
jeniferlopez.com
tinhlathe.com
only-maps.com
hannahmontanna.com
nanotorrent.com
mature-club.com
curlyhair.net
simsextremos.com
moslemlink.com
90523.com
itttech.com
alphadating.com
xxbox.com
I am sure there will be more to come as the cleanup process continues over at Snapnames.
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