Update – July ’21
In this month’s update we discuss the new drop catcher news, ask when auDA will perform the auDRP review and list recent sales, including Shift.com.au selling for $46,000!
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What’s taking auDA so long to approve the new Drop Catcher?
What’s taking auDA so long to approve the new DropCatcher.com.au platform as a Registrar? DropCatcher.com.au can’t catch daily dropping domain names for you until they’ve become an auDA accredited registrar.
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TradingRoom.com.au sells for $15,000 on the Drops.
Today TradingRoom.com.au sold for $15,000 on the drop catcher aftermarket (the “drops”).
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Gold.com.au sells for “in the vicinity of $100k” to “Guzzini Pty Ltd”
Domainer can report that Gold.com.au has just sold for not-quite $100k, but “in the vicinity” to Guzzini Pty Ltd.
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Update – June ’21
New Drop Catcher update, auDA announce auDRP overview and recent domain name sales.
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Affirm, Inc. lose their attempt to hijack Affirm.com.au
Back in April, I wrote this article that outlined how Affirm Inc. decided that they deserved the highly generic Australian domain name Affirm.com.au for themselves, FOR NO COMPENSATION, instead of the existing owner, who had legitimately owned it for 15 years.
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Introducing… Backorder.com.au
Domainer would like to introduce Backorder.com.au to the domain investor community with a few free basic tools to help you navigate the Australian domain name landscape.
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I’ve been banned by Drop.com.au
Drop.com.au have just banned me from bidding on their platform (the one and only AU domain auction platform) within minutes of me posting my previous article, a May 2021 Update on the Australian domain industry.
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Update – May 2021
Uniregistry give up on Australian domain names. auDA Board minutes. New Drop Catcher update, and more…
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Expiring Domains – Competition Is Coming!
In what will be “music to the ears” of domain investors and other online entrepreneurs, Domainer can now reveal that development is well underway for a new drop catching platform quite aptly called DropCatcher.com.au
The team behind this venture comprises some well-respected and trusted industry veterans.
Domainer has been told that the momentum behind this new platform was as a result of Trellian (owners of Drop.com.au) buying out Netfleet, and effectively creating a monopoly in the .au market place.
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Everything Is For Sale
The clock is definitely ticking louder for me, so the time has come to seriously trim my portfolio.
I am putting up a private website that is going to list at least 10 domains daily. This should be ready in the next two weeks.
As anyone who has dealt with me in the past can testify, my pricing has always been very generous. And it is going to be even more so now. I’m a domainer by nature, and my modus operandi has always been to turn over and trade my stock.
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