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DOMAINfest Extended Auction Bombs

Extended auction fails to live up to success of live auction.

Last week DOMAINfest had a successful live domain name auction. Unfortunately, the extended auction didn’t perform too well.

Only 8 out of 797 domain names sold, or a sell through rate of only 1%.

It’s disappointing, but I’m not terribly surprised. I only came up with five domain names to mention in my preview post a couple days ago. (Mind you, none of the five I chose sold. But it goes to show that it wasn’t easy finding “sure things” in the auction at the reserve prices).

Another anomaly: only two of the domains that sold were .com.

Here are the sales:

vhs.com $17650
relationship.net $12950
dedicated.net $8830
earnextramoney.org $525
accenttables.co.uk 300
associatesdegree.co.uk $1066
energyteas.com 425
flannelshirts.co.uk 300

Relationship.net and Dedicated.net were peculiar. They each received one bid and fairly early on. I’d also say the prices are rather high for this quality of .net. I can see how the domains are related though.

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