TRAFFIC NY auctions

[randomo]

I see that the auction listings have been released for both Rick Latona's and Moniker's auctions at TRAFFIC NY.

Any comments about their respective inventories?

Minor point - I think the way Latona lists reserve ranges is a little silly. For example, BroadwayShows.com's range is "800,000 USD to 900,000 USD". If you're going to be that specific, why not just state the exact figure?

I submitted 10 domains to Moniker - 3 got accepted for the extended auction, none for the live. That's not a terrible batting average, but I'm surprised they didn't take a common one-word noun (& product) .com with a $1K reserve. One man's treasure, and all that ....

[Onward]

Originally Posted by randomo

I submitted 10 domains to Moniker - 3 got accepted for the extended auction, none for the live. That's not a terrible batting average, but I'm surprised they didn't take a common one-word noun (& product) .com with a $1K reserve. One man's treasure, and all that ....

Yeah. I stopped bothering with submitting names to Moniker.....IMO they do not learn from their mistakes. But at the end of the day...the live auction at traffic and other shows is targetted to the domainer/reseller and is not really a good venue for enduser transactions. I believe it was at the last TRAFFIC NY (or maybe Orlando 2008) show was were Rick said "The end user is not coming".

Within the last few years, the domainer/reseller was a decent target as they had cash with parking rev. Now that parking is virtually non existent...so is most of the bidding action at these shows.