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Big day on .au drops today

Shaun

Top Contributor
I am not really into domaining as I only have a handful of domains for my own use, but is the highest bidder guaranteed the domain or could it still fal through?

hadhad, Drop, Domain Watch and NetFleet's backorder service have the opportunity to get these domains, so the answer is NO you are not guaranteed unless you were the highest bidder on Drop and Domain Watch and had backordered it previously on NetFleet.

Drop have been doing really well of late though!
 

Rhythm

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What's obvious is that the bidders seems to have plenty of cash, what with 16k bids etc.

Wonder who got photon.com.au? given the takeover etc.
 
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Rhythm

Top Contributor
On the bright side, you got most of the rest, with a slightly-more-than-equivalent profit margin, not to mention the regfee+renewals.
 

soj

Founder
Looks like NameWise picked up BackPackers.com.au, they are building up a decent domain portfolio.
 

Shaun

Top Contributor
They are getting an amazing portfolio! It's great for them!
 
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Rhythm

Top Contributor
rhetorical thought for the day - what is "Shill Bidding"

on DomainWatch?

Shill bidding is where spurious bids are introduced into an auction to drive up the final price for the seller, thereby defrauding legitimate bidders. Trevathan and Read presented an algorithm to detect the presence of shill bidding in online auctions. The algorithm observes bidding patterns over a series of auctions, and gives each bidder a shill score to indicate the likelihood that they are engaging in shill behaviour. While the algorithm is able to accurately identify those with suspicious behaviour, it is designed for the instance where there is only one shill bidder. However, there are situations where there may be two or more shill bidders working in collusion with each other. Colluding shill bidders are able to engage in more sophisticated strategies that are harder to detect. This paper proposes a method for detecting colluding shill bidders, which is referred to as the collusion score. The collusion score, either detects a colluding group, or forces the colluders to act individually like a single shill, in which case they are detected by the shill score algorithm. The collusion score has been tested on simulated auction data and is able to successfully identify colluding shill bidders.
 

Mike Robertson

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G'Day Mike ..

Backpackers.com.au .. category killer name

Photon ... Fab shoulda gone all out to get that one ...

Hey Max!

As Drop.com.au falls is a wholly owned subsidiary of Dark Blue Sea, it would be a conflict of interest for us to participate in the drops. For this reason, we have decided against being an active player in the .au drop market.

Cheers,

Mike
Fabulous.com | Drop.com.au
 

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