Cancellation of tonight's auction? Add name here

[BGray]

I'm playing switzerland here but since when has 16 been a consensus of a forum of over 1,000 members? Who's rules are these?!

[Rocket2Uranus]

I agree, today has been miserable for any true DNF addict.

I need my fix. Quick - someone sell me a domain for $1.

Reschedule for mid-week.

[adoptabledomains]

I couldn't make it, but from the comments and seeing the results, I think a re-start is in order if in fact willing buyers were not able to get in.

How about an official decision? Yes or No from the forum management.

I'm getting reluctant to put anything up again until some stability comes. First it was a live beta test, then changing dates with lower attendance, now apparently a technical glitch.

I don't mind an absolute auction with $1 starting prices if there are enough bidders to make it realistic. With a low buyer count for whatever reason it's just a donation to a live experiment. When the forum was free, a donation was no big deal. For membership fees, I expect some return, which is why I've been holding out on paying for membership. For now, I'll have to consider changing my starting bids to cover potential lack of enabled buyer population I guess.

[jingle]

I think the advantage of having an "exciting" bidding atmosphere is offset by restricting buyers to bid during a short period of time. However, the proxy bidding that Greg is working on should help keep the excitement while also making it easy for bidders to bid anytime during the week. So if this happens again when the proxy bids are in place, my question is, will the highest proxy bid hold? That would be one reason to place your best proxy bid. Plus, will a person know if their proxy bid is the highest bid when they place it, and if you place a proxy bid and someone else then places a higher proxy bid, will the person who was outbid on their proxy bid be notified?

[hollayo]

man i really wanted to get some $$$ too bad... if you cancel reapply the names to a auction in a few days

[Banned: CoolHost.com]

Final thought: Restore normalcy by tom'w ... run some pre-auction "tests" on Tuesday AND Tuesday afternoon/night ... and if all goes well, start the whole thing over from scratch on Wednesday/Thursday p.m. @ 7:00 p.m. CST .... giving the European members plenty of notice, or at least, reasonable notice. Then, back to regular Sunday night schedule (beginning 3/2). Do NOT attempt another date(s)/time(s) for the next/subsequent weekly auction(s) ... we need a regular, concrete Sunday p.m. auction schedule. IMHO.
Now, I'm exhausted!
Goodnight.

[CallMeJ]

So, if the auction is rescheduled...

I had a name up for auction. Am I still bound to keep my name in the auction??

I signed up to auction it tonight... not to auction it whenever the real auction happened.

Maybe I missed something in the terms regarding that.

And I'm not whining and don't personally care so much either way... but this is probably an issue that needs to be addressed.

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[Mr Webname]

I had 3 names up for auction and I agree it should be null and void as it would be unfair otherwise to those whose names were bought for so low, (mine weren't reached before it crashed).
Man am I glad I didn't stay up to participate!
Another reason to make a live auction available for other time zones, once the thing is stable.

[Fearless]

Sorry guys. My mother-inlaw died Friday and I was at the rosary last night. It looks like there was a DDOS last night. We'll reschedule for next Sunday same time. Like the time we rescheduled before, you will be able to delete entries but you can't add or change.

Last night's auction is void. It was obvious a lot of people couldn't access the site.

[com]

Originally posted by gregr
Sorry guys. My mother-inlaw died Friday and I was at the rosary last night. It looks like there was a DDOS last night. We'll reschedule for next Sunday same time. Like the time we rescheduled before, you will be able to delete entries but you can't add or change.

Last night's auction is void. It was obvious a lot of people couldn't access the site.

Sorry to hear that. You ok?

[KING dot NET]

Originally posted by gregr
Sorry guys. My mother-inlaw died Friday and I was at the rosary last night. It looks like there was a DDOS last night. We'll reschedule for next Sunday same time. Like the time we rescheduled before, you will be able to delete entries but you can't add or change.

Last night's auction is void. It was obvious a lot of people couldn't access the site.

Sorry about your mother in law, stay cool.

Regards,
tw

[Rocket2Uranus]

condolences

[nicorlino]

my condolences too

[adoptabledomains]

Originally posted by gregr
...Last night's auction is void. It was obvious a lot of people couldn't access the site.

Thanks for the definitive answer. May I suggest an announcement/sticky post in the live auction forum? with a week delay, some may unknowingly break rules by having domains included that expire within the 30 days, or not know they can be deleted from the list or may not be around to do transfers next week. I'd hate to see more missunderstandings next week from those who may not find this thread or follow it to the end as buyer or seller.