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Frank Schilling, domainer extraordinaire, was kind enough to post a quick blurb about us on his blog last week …

being the analytics hound that I am, I thought I’d share the traffic spike the we enjoyed over those few days..

check it out (via Google Analytics)

my normal unique visitor/day before FS (Frank Schilling) was around 30/day… check out the ‘hockey stick of traffic’ we received after he was nice enough to give us a shout-out on his site..

now, my average unique visitor per day is around 70/day..

God Bless Frank Schilling : )

a special thanks to Craig Calder from Snapnames giving me the heads up on this..

Looks like Snapnames is now testing, in Beta, a new auction system allowing domain holders to auction their own domain inventory. It looks like they’re only allowing ’select participants’ to auction off domains to start (ie. Almighty Domainers ), but let me tell you, it’s definitely a step in the right direction.

I’m very very interested in monitoring this development, as it truly allows domain holders an avenue to auction domains off to a select, and *active*, community.

here’s the full story

intermittent.com sold for $1,372 to bidder ‘ellusion’..

very cheap in my opinion. I would have bid, but trying to pool together some cash to buy a domain+website..

note: bidder ‘ellusion’ outbid the godzilla-like ‘benfranklin’ to win this..

I don’t sell many domains. For the most part, I enjoy developing them and monetizing the traffic. I recently acquired a few from Snapnames, though, that I wasn’t crazy about, and decided to test the waters with ‘em over at Sedo.

Luckily, for one in particular that had a fair amount of backlinks and consistent traffic, I received an offer within the first 40 days.

I’ve never sold a domain through Sedo, so I was a little hazy on the rules..

My first understanding was when the bidder placed and offer, I could either accept or reject. My second conflicting thought was when a domain receives an offer above it’s Min Bid, it would be placed immediately into an Auction.

I was correct, in a way, on both.

Here’s what happens (or at least happened in my case)

When I received an offer on my domain, Sedo emailed me a notification, and lead me to a page with several options I could choose. Four (4) Options in total, actually.. they were:

Option A: Confirm the Offer and Sell the Domain
Option B: Make a Counter Offer
Option C: Start a Public Auction
Option D: Decline Offer and Cancel Negotiations

(screenshots shown below)

don’t see a need to break down these options and what they mean, as they seem pretty self-explanatory.

just wanted to provide this example for anyone out there attempting to sell domains on Sedo..

(what did I choose? I accepted the bid - didn’t want to risk losing this bidder. I may be a bit more daring next time and throw it into an auction.)

not sure everyone has seen yet…

per below, Snapnames made a small, but drastically different, auction bidding upgrade today

looks like all bids will now be placed on the ‘Active Auctions’ page, rather than the previous ‘pop-up window’ method.

My personal opinion? This new interface opens up more ‘accidental’ bidding, since you have to place a bid on a page full of other domains you’re monitoring.. the pop-up made it a bit easier to verify you’re placing a bid on the correct domain…

tyndallcreek.com for $509 won by bidder ‘jeng69′

northcott.com for $6,500, won by bidder ‘beo’

and get this. On the domain auction for northcott.com, bidder ‘beo’ actually outbid bonkerstwo to win. Something that is rarely witnessed : )