I was quite impressed by todays results and how Netfleet have progressed.

There were 16 bids on domains on snapper lots on drop. Amazingly of the 7 domains which were caught by netfleet at the expense of drop 6 of them are registered to Publishing Australia. I find this to be a statistical anomaly.

Roo

They did very well today. I was going to bid on a domain but I fell asleep during the Lakers game and missed the closed :\

I noticed a few were caught by Publishing Australia as well. I don't know the relationship details between the directors of Publishing Australia Pty Ltd / NetAlliance Pty Ltd / Netregistry Pty Ltd (http://www.auda.org.au/news-archive/auda-30102009/) however I noticed that none of their bids appeared until just after bidding finished (in my browser anyway). Last time I made a bid on Snapper I don't recall a way to hide the bid?

Hi Roo

Yes, a good result for snapper today...

If no bids on snapper, Publishing Australia may sometimes go for domain names for their own portfolio. Same as Domain Active Pty do for Drop.

Today was a bit freakish I agree with PA bagging quite a few...it's never usually like that to be honest as most of the PA ear marked domains usually have bids on...

Cheers
Mark

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Thanks for the clarification Mark. I think one difference though is that the Domain Active registrations on Drop are highlighted prior to auction end via a $0 bid. Someone please correct me if I am wrong on this! It seems maybe it is a little bit of an unfair advantage for an entity to be able to place hidden bids if others aren't! Again, please correct me if I am wrong on this.

Hi AndyC

No worries

Why unfair? If you want the domain, you are free to bid on it. In fact it's a huge disadvantage for Publishing Australia - they can never go for any domains with bids on (generally speaking, the good domains!)

Cheers, Mark

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Whether a domain has a bid or not is obviously a very good indicator as to whether the name is desirable and obviously raises the profile of the domain on the auction hence increases the possibility of additional bids so it does seem to be an advantage to be able to place hidden bids.

Why can't Publishing Australia bid on names that already have a bid?

Just seems to me that all clients should operate under the same rules.

if nobody else makes a bid why cant they buy the domains themselves?

Even though PA and NF are 2 completely independent legal entities, we make no secret of the fact that there is a relationship between the 2 companies, and as such a long time ago PA agreed not to participate in any competitive bidding just as Domain Active does with Drop.

Important to note too that the bids are not hidden, rather they come in after the auction closes where there are no bids.

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I have seen Publishing Australia Pty Ltd bid on some interesting domains which I have been going for, they seem to go with the strategy of very high bids in the last 5 or so seconds.

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