Big domain dropping tomorrow, I would hate to guess what it will go for $15,000 +

Don

Make that domains (plural) Don. Both Calculator.com.au and Calculators.com.au are dropping on Monday.

Calculator.com.au is already at $3000 and Calculators.com.au is not that far behind it at $2500. It will be really interesting to see where these end up.

Cheers

Andrew

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interesting, who lets these type of domains drop?

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Hold on! Make that Calculator.com.au at $5001 and Calculators.com.au at $4999 .. and that adds up to Hmmmm, um......

Hey Andrew I have a Q for you re tomorrow's drop time and daylight savings...

In Melbourne @ 1PM today (Sun 3/10) Netfleet had just closed, but Drop told me 59 mins remaining .. dropping at 2PM!! Currently at Midnight, Drop tells me 14 hours remaining Will both places ever drop again at the same time? - or do I just need to avoid making BOTH 1pm AND 2pm appointments/meetings from now on (or at least until April next year!)

The Registry drops domains at 3AM UTC which means that during daylight saving you need to be online at 2PM during summer time and 1PM for the rest. Pretty sure Netfleet will update their system soon to close closer to 2PM. Today they did not seem to run since cavern.com.au is still not registered and it was on their list.

Thanks ant. Thought it was my lucky day after I refreshed Netfl♥♥t & slapped myself on the forehead realising it was 13:01, only to discover drop was still alive

Just in case this was not a rhetorical question, according to the owners website "HOT Products distributes the following products in Australia: ... Texas Instruments Calculators (Australia’s leading brand of calculators)..."

So they import and sell leading brands of calculators, and using drop's "site snapshot tool" I can see it was redirecting traffic to http://blueswimmer.com/ which is an online store selling their calculators.

From this I can assume they also own blueswimmer.com.au (whois confirms)

Checking ASIC I find that they actually changed their company name from blue swimmer to CALCULATORS PTY LTD in 2008.

So they really seem to like the name and would surely want to renew it...

So I checked the whois via http://www.mywebname.com.au/ and found the email address of the Registrant was <removed>@blueswimmer.com.au

Then I checked the MX records for blueswimmer.com.au and found that they where missing!

So basically the renewal reminders are sent to a non-reachable mail account and they are probably not aware that it has expired yet.

Most likely in the course of the last few years they moved nameservers and somebody forgot to add the MX records for a seldom used domain (the .com.au of the primary .com) so as a result they loose two of the companies more valuable assets.

So there are a few lessons to be learned.

1) Keep your contact details up to date.
2) If possible actively use your email attached to your great domain names so that when they expire you will notice the lack of emails.
3) Keep you own notice of expiry dates.
4) Remember rule number one...

And... today is a public holiday.

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I'll be very surprised if it gets $15,000. I'm expecting something closer to $8,000 - $12,000.

Ouch!