DomainingTips.com Partners With Snapnames For New Years Showcase Auction

DomainingTips.com has partnered with Snapnames/Moniker for a "New Years Showcase" auction.

Their are some great names being auctioned off with many solid .COM, .NET, and .MX domains available with what I would consider low reserves on many.

A few of my favorites are Necklace.net and Armchair.net along with ComputerChair.com.

Take a look at the SnapNames for the New Years Showcase inventory.

Andrei is focused on launching a huge new project, and after going through a launch of my own over the last year I was happy to give his auction some attention to help him get his idea moving.

Happy Bidding!

Thanks To My Sponsors and LuxuryNames.com For A Great Auction Line Up

I just wanted to give a big thanks to the paying advertisers here on BruceMarler.com. When I offered up paid advertising spots on the site I was curious to see how that would go. Although I did proactively reach out to a couple people I thought it would be more interesting to see what reaction I would get from the post itself. Well, to say the least, so far so good. I have a few 125x125 spots and possibly one 250x250 spot. After that we are all booked. If you are interested contact me.

Thanks to the following:

Valuate.com - Francois did a great job taking advantage of the new Estibot.com valuation algorithm. Although people either love or hate automated appraisal tools I personally think they do a great job of giving relative value and the ease of use of the Valuate.com tool makes it a great tool to use.

DNUnderground.com - One thing I find interesting about the domaining blogger community is we all do a pretty good job of promoting each other blogs, being a niche community there are not alot us out there. I am happy to have DNUnderground.com on as a blogging sponsor.

LuxuryNames.com - With the great auction going on at Snapnames right now being ran by LuxuryNames.com I was very happy to have them choose my blog as one of those to promote the auction. Thanks to the team there and more notes on the auction below.

Above.com - Thanks to Above who has a great suite of tools to help you optimize your revenue from your parked domains, if you are looking for a one stop shop to take a look at revenue trends, etc Above.com is the place.

Imodn.com - I think he has a pretty neat concept on how to use Ebay and promote specific domain auctions. Check out what he has done. Basically points out specific auctions that look interesting on Ebay so you do not have to wade through alot of the junk. Take a look around.

TiaWood.com - Tia does great work, I think you are all well aware that I work with Tia on various projects when I have my own full time team focused on my companies business. Tia did this blog theme and the DrugReform.com site, if you have a site you are wanting developed, a theme you need customized, etc she should be on your list.

eBusinessDomains.com - Kevin does a great job on his blog and understands that the next step for the domaining world is to be more proactive in reaching out to the end user community. He has a huge inventory of domains for sale and has key partnerships in place to take his business to the next level. I am a fan, it is an absolute pleasure to have him here on BruceMarler.com

And now to one more note about the LuxuryNames.com auction at Snapnames. I think the mix of low reserves and great names should be a recipe for success. I personally think as far as auctions go that it is smarter to set a reasonable reserve to get bidders interested rather than pricing at your top end price range before the auction even begins.

There are some absolutely great names in the auction at great prices, here are four great ones at VERY low reserves and they were put at aggressive reserves, they have been mentioned on few sites as key names in the auction based on their low reserves compared to the actual value of the name, oh yeah and they are mine:

Drumsets.org

Mathbooks.net

Stiletto.net

BmxRacing.org

Head on over to LuxuryNames for more info on the auction. Happy bidding!

Interesting Idea By Stephen Douglas At SuccessClick.com

Stephen Douglas over at SuccessClick.com has written a post asking for readers to comment or email him with their thoughts on what the biggest domain scandals have. Knowing Stephen I really think what he puts together around this could be very interesting.

We have had our fair share of scandal lately with the Snapnames/Halvarez/Nelson Brady fiasco but, as one commenter brought up, RegisterFly would be considered another pretty big scandal and some would even consider insider bidding on Tdnam auctions at Godaddy.com a bit of a scandal (although taken care of rather rapidly).

Here is the text of Stephens request:

Question: What scandals have occured in the last five years that you believe were the WORST scandals for our industry?

I welcome all comments, all problems you’ve encountered, whether they were resolved, and what your personal feelings were about the final outcome of the scandal/s you suggest.  You can submit several problems you’ve encountered if you like. Tell us your story, and what kind of “impression” about the domain industry was left in your mind, with either a good or bad resolution.

I think this could be an interesting story, if anything just to see what peoples perceptions are of "big" when it comes to scandal. Head over to SuccessClick.com or contact Stephen.