Domain Auctions

The NamesCon 2021 domain name auction has been live at GoDaddy Auctions for a few weeks now. More domains have been added since I wrote a post in December and now there is a total …

The NamesCon domain name auction is now live at GoDaddy Auctions. You can use the drop down on the popular searches to navigate to the “NamesCon 2021 Auction” listings. At the time of writing there …

The NamesCon domain name auction is now live at GoDaddy Auctions. You can use the drop down on the popular searches to navigate to the “NamesCon 2020 Auction” listings. At the time of writing there …

At last some long deserving change is coming at the NamesCon domain name auction. NamesCon Online will feature an online auction conducted by GoDaddy. No middle men, no outsourced auction houses. You will be able …

Nominet, the .UK domain registry, has today opened a new policy consultation on expiring domains. This follows on from previous policy discussions on drop lists. “Following our 2019 .UK Policy Consultation, Nominet have decided to …

NameJet and Snapnames announced they will be combining their registrar expiry domain names into one domain auction inventory. NameJet and SnapNames have been doing this with drop catching auctions since 2017. You will now be able …

The NamesCon 2020 live domain name auction takes place today. 136 domain names will be auctioned. The Premium Live Domain Auctions takes place at the NamesCon Global Conference 2020 in Austin, Texas starting Thursday January …

The list of 136 domains for the NamesCon 2020 live auction has been selected and loaded onto the live auction platform at ProxiBid.com. The live auction list might have some slight changes until the time …

At last some change in the NamesCon Global domain auction as the action moves from Namejet to GoDaddy. The new platform is of course GoDaddy Auctions with its pros and cons. The auction page is …

Hilco Streambank is marketing for sale a portfolio of domain names of Thomas Cook Group Plc (in Liquidation) and certain subsidiaries (also in Liquidation) (the “Companies”) on behalf of Simon Appell, Alastair Beveridge, Daniel Imison …

It has been announced that the domain name fashion.com will be sold at auction this autumn. The announcement was made on the final day of Paris Fashion Week. “With the worldwide race in online fashion, I …

There have been a few confusing changes at DropCatch.com concerning payment. Up until last month when you won an auction you would get an email saying: “You currently have items in your DropCatch account that …

Uniregistry expired domains have been auctioning at Dynadot for quite a few days now and buyers are already frustrated. Although it (Uniregistry auctioning expired domains at Dynadot) was first announced yesterday by Page Howe, Mark …

For years now I have been complaining that there is not enough time to pay by wire transfer for a domain name won at GoDaddy auctions. Last time I wrote about this was last summer: …