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Someone has let the very valuable 3 Letter domain name LAW com au expire, and it is up for grabs on the expired auctions on Sunday 22nd September 2019.
Some Big Questions (and some small ones)
- Why did someone / somebody let this expire? It’s not a Policy Delete. Was it the case of registrant email address being wrong perhaps? Screenshot of current WhoIs below.
- Who is going to bid for it; and how much will it go for? My money is on the guys that have bought a few big ones on the auctions over the past 12 months e.g. broker.com.au. They also happen to be the registrant of law.net.au who are currently one of the Category 1 priority holders.
- Which drop catcher will win it? My money is on Drop only because Netfleet have been off their game lately (not sure why?).
So as I said, pain and pleasure.
Current WhoIs
Current Category 1 Priority
UPDATE – Monday 23rd September
- Purchased on Drop for $50,000 inclusive of GST and costs.
- Highest bid on Netfleet was $33,456 exclusive of GST and costs.
- Purchasing entity is Turbine Ventures Pty Ltd – an entity associated with a well-known domain investor and developer. Congratulations! This is an awesome buy.
- With regards the first question I posed above (why did this drop), I did a bit more homework and discovered that the previous registrant’s company had been deregistered. At first I thought it was amazing that nobody had twigged to this and placed a backorder at Netfleet, but on investigation, this is on their exclusion list.
I wonder if the old owners are going to panic in the morning and ask to “rent a server” from one of the drop-catchers and try to win their own name back for $8.50?
Hahahahahahahah…..why bid on the domain, let’s just start up a registry connection auction.
One part of the puzzle is solved. Even though this wasn’t a policy delete by auDA, the current registrant is a deregistered company.
I’m surprised some smart person didn’t work this out and put a $200 backorder on at Netfleet!
By comparison, Law.co.nz doesn’t resolve to a legal site. Law.nz not available because it is conflicted. Law.co.uk does not resolve, and Law.uk is for sale.
Law.com is a good site.
How much did this go for?
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Great buy. Great domain name. Will be interesting to see the development over the coming years.
Good luck to buyers. Why the big disparity in bids between Drop and Netfleet?
Who knows? With Drop, bid levels would have been $25k and then $50k.
Drop has been a lot lately (the cyclical nature of drop-catching!), so maybe the buyers thought “let’s take a punt and see if we can get it cheaper on Netfleet”.