(((((((((( BLOGwatch.com )))))))))) Guess the final price before the final hour

[PerfectNames]

BLOGwatch.com is about to be sold very soon. Whoever puts in the closest estimate of the final auction price here wins bragging rights and the right to preview other low reserve prime names before they are released to the public.

The open auction started late last week and is due to close very early on Saturday morning (just after 5.30am Pacific).

The reserve has been exceeded, so the name will definitely change owner.

The current price and other important details are available at BLOGwatch.com

The auction company is Afternic, the oldest of the major domain name brokers.

It is worth noting that Afternic has just changed the format of its auctions. Previously there was a one week extension after any new offer. This is no longer the case.

Now the only extension possible is 5 minutes if an offer arrives in the last 5 minutes of the auction.

Regardless of how many new bidders join the auction, it would still finish on Saturday morning.

Afternic now offers a proxy bidding tool, which in this case may be handy for people who do not like getting up so early (or staying up so late).

It costs 1 dollar and about 1 minute to join Afternic with buying privileges.

Of course, it costs nothing to watch the auction at BLOGwatch.com If you aren't interested in text ads for blogging services, you can go directly to the auction page by clicking on http://www.afternic.com/name.php?id=978099

PLease post your end user valuations and final price guesses below, before 4.30am Pacific tomorrow morning (7.30am Eastern).

[Namerz.com]

The real prize should go to the person best able to explain why Afternic changed the rules. Do they really expect people to get up at the crack of dawn on a Saturday morning to bid on a domain name?

[Wot]

The real prize should go to the person best able to explain why Afternic changed the rules. Do they really expect people to get up at the crack of dawn on a Saturday morning to bid on a domain name?

Would that not depend where your dawn cracks

It will go for current price unless somebody bids more - I waive any rights if my guess is correct :clown:

Good luck

[PerfectNames]

Would that not depend where your dawn cracks

Fair enough. As a general point though, now the Afternic rules appear to be even less flexible than those of that very big auction site (you know, the name of which cannot be mentioned because they have very sharp lawyers) - at least with the latter the seller can determine the ending time of the auction - not so with Afternic, where the time of the first offer to trigger the reserve starts the 168-hour countdown.

This is a good case in point - let's just say that the domain name aftermarket at 5.30am Pacific / 8.30am Eastern is not all that liquid.