I Won My Domain Auction

I mentioned in Buy an Expiring Domain I was in an auction for an expired domain. Well I won, here's how it went down.

After SnapNames grabbed the domain the bidders starting bidding in increments of $5. This went on randomly for an hour until I was the high bidder.

I waited THREE whole days for somebody to outbid me. Even today with an hour left in the auction I thought surely one of the other 18 people would bid again, but they didn't.

Here's something I wish I would have done different, so maybe it will help you: Pick a tough sounding bidder name.

Seriously, I picked a very goofy name not thinking twice about it and every time I would see it as the top bid I really wished I had picked a bidder name like "deep pockets", "made of money", or "Iwilloubidu".

I'm sure the bidder name intimidation couldn't hurt anyway.

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