Do Premium Domain Auctions Measure Demand or Liquidity?

[NiceNIC]

I'm not always sure premium domain auction prices are a clean signal of end-user demand. Sometimes a high price means real buyer demand. Sometimes it is just two bidders chasing the same name.

What I notice is that many businesses only care about the matching domain after the brand is already active. By then, it is no longer a hand-reg issue. It becomes an aftermarket acquisition. For domain investors, auction results are useful price references. For resellers and agencies, they are also a reminder to talk about naming and defensive registrations earlier.

Do you read auction prices as demand, liquidity, scarcity, or missed hand-reg opportunities?

 

[Josh Deepi]

The busy stay busy, the poor stay poor, the lonely stay lonely. Scarcity creates a mindset that perpetuates scarcity.

 

[NiceNIC]

That is true. Scarcity does change people’s behavior, especially in auctions. That is why premium auction prices can be tricky to read. Part of the price may be emotion and fear of missing out, but part of it may also be real business pressure: the buyer needs that exact name for branding, trust, or protection.

The busy stay busy, the poor stay poor, the lonely stay lonely. Scarcity creates a mindset that perpetuates scarcity.

 

[Marek]

Have I been teleported onto Acorn?

 

[NiceNIC]

Have I been teleported onto Acorn?

Caught me Similar question, different crowd. I like seeing how each forum reads the same domain topic, because the answers are usually not the same.

 

[Marek]

I'd assumed you were a AI bot, or another 3rd world paid poster on Acorn. None of your posts really make any sense... its like someones just writing words for the sake of it.

 

[Nigel]

Caught me Similar question, different crowd. I like seeing how each forum reads the same domain topic, because the answers are usually not the same.

I would stick to acorn - yes we are a different crowd - mainly ex acorn and I think you'll get a different reaction here. One of the reasons I stopped posting on acorn was because the forum became swamped with irrelevant, nonsensical threads that had nothing to do with the uk domain market.

 

[Kaleido]

Ac*rn CMS - corporatised, monetised, sanitised.

 

[NiceNIC]

I would stick to acorn - yes we are a different crowd - mainly ex acorn and I think you'll get a different reaction here. One of the reasons I stopped posting on acorn was because the forum became swamped with irrelevant, nonsensical threads that had nothing to do with the uk domain market.

Understood. I’ll keep future posts more UK-focused. I was looking at the auction-demand angle, but I can see this topic was probably too broad for this section.

I'd assumed you were a AI bot, or another 3rd world paid poster on Acorn. None of your posts really make any sense... its like someones just writing words for the sake of it.

I know that the thread may not be focused enough on the UK market. I’ll keep future posts more directly tied to UK domains.

But I felt the AI bot poster label was a bit unfair. I’m here to discuss domains, not to annoy the forum.

Ac*rn CMS - corporatised, monetised, sanitised.

I probably misread how different this forum is from the old UK domain crowd....

 

[Marek]

But I felt the AI bot poster label was a bit unfair. I’m here to discuss domains, not to annoy the forum.

I think in the context of Helmet already using 3rd world paid posters to bloat his forum stats.... it was a reasonable assumption

 

[Jeff]

I probably misread how different this forum is from the old UK domain crowd....

The people on this forum are the old UK domain crowd. Most of us were either purged from Acorn or left voluntarily about two years ago. See my signature link for a partial explanation.

I think in the context of Helmet already using 3rd world paid posters to bloat his forum stats.... it was a reasonable assumption

Ah, the nostalgia! Deep Joshi still advertising on Fiverr I see:

https://www.fiverr.com/darranjar

 

[invincible]

I'd assumed you were a AI bot, or another 3rd world paid poster on Acorn. None of your posts really make any sense... its like someones just writing words for the sake of it.

That had crossed my mind too, for a moment, but I came down on the side of him or her being real.

We are a shrinking group who have posted on the .uk forums for years, and there is a danger we become too closed off to newcomers who write in a way that, for whatever reason, bothers us. I may be guilty of that myself. The "read it all before, here we go again" reaction. But if there is to be any future here we need new joiners, and they are likely to do things differently to how we do. It is also fair to say this industry probably attracts more than its share of people who are somewhere on the spectrum. Domain names and collecting can have that pull.

 

[Kaleido]

It's the engagement bait and marketing puff posts from a registrar that bothers us, rather than the writing style.

4M is a forum for domainers by domainers, and any industry guff is rightly treated with scepticism and given short shrift.