url collection possible shill bidding? could it be so?

[Kid Kool]

i noticed url collection has a bunch of private auctions with .nets and high bids. the bids appeared rather early in the auction if not immediately. say it ain't so


http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=2067484415

[Bob]

This certainly seems fishy. Sealed.net - $770 with 4 bids???

Very doubtful.

"Racketball" is even misspelled, but has bids of up to $780??? The correct spelling is "Racquetball". Morons.

I vote SHILL.

It will be interesting to watch the WHOIS info on these after the auction. Bet 100 DNF they do not change

-Bob

[adoptabledomains]

on the one hand, raquetball is spelled racketball on 18,000 pages in a google search. For a misspell, it's a pretty common one.

On the other hand, every single item for sale by the seller has $100+ bids and the bidders are hidden in private auctions. One could be skeptical.

[Kid Kool]

yeah that's exactly what i thought. it just seems odd they would use such crude tactics since url collection is such a big name domain collector. maybe verisign would have had better luck selling their .cc names if they had tried a little shilling

[FM9000]

I did one deal with url collection on a website and half of what I was told wasn't true.