If two offers for the same price are made by different clients, the first client to make that offer will be elected the winner. The same goes for whoever hits the BIN price first.

What this means is you will no longer need to monitor the bidding all day – you simply enter the price you are prepared to pay for the domain name, and walk away to get on with your business. When the auction closes at 2pm, you will see if you placed the highest offer, or hit the BIN price first. This also completely negates snipe bidding, which has been a common complaint and frustration for many of our clients.

We will publish that days prices from 2pm-3pm on our usual auction page, however once the new auction starts, we will only publish sales over $1,000. We think that publishing prices less than $1,000 may have a negative effect on the domain market, and as many of our clients have stated hurts potential resale opportunities. Our daily email will go out to all as usual, but include every domain sale for that day, so you will always have a record.

So, again these changes will come in to effect on 21st October when the auction reopens at 3pm (Sydney time), we hope you enjoy our latest trial of format.

You’ll notice the Auctions page each domain now has a hyperlink to a single page view. This shows the domain broken down in to it’s simplest view, whilst having all the information you would ever require, just a short click away on the same page.

You can read about the different bid options here Bids and Offers on Netfleet.

We hope the return of this old feature works well for seasoned domain investors and new comers alike

Thanks
The Netfleet Team

This view just got more powerful with the inclusion of Phrase and Broad Search volumes. These are the average monthly local (AU) searches per month according to Google Adwords. This additional data will compliment the existing Exact Search volume, Estimated Cost per click (CPC), Domain Authority (DA) and Competition (Comp) data.

If you have not used this view before then be sure to check it out and see what you have been missing.

Just click the icon that looks like a spreadsheet . Or use one of the links below.

https://www.netfleet.com.au/auction/snapper

https://www.netfleet.com.au/aftermarket-auctions-detailed

For a detailed explanation of the metrics click the icon which looks like a graph . Or you can checkout our Support Center article below.

http://www.netfleet.com.au/support-centre/35/Guide-to-Domain-Metrics.html

Win $2,000 – You Gotta Be In It, To Win It

So what’s up for grabs?   All entries will be collected and one lucky winner will take $2,000, that will instantly be credited to your Netfleet account to spend our Snapper Auctions Australia or Snapper Auctions New Zealand.  With $2,000 at your disposal, you’ll be able to stretch your legs in the auctions, and jump start your new online venture.

How To Enter

All you have to do is take a guess at:

How many domains has Netfleet.com.au sold since it’s launch in July 2008?

This includes domain names sold across all of our platforms: Standard Listings, Snapper Auctions Australia, Snapper Auctions New Zealand and Aftermarket Auctions.

And the closest guess takes the prize!  Submitting your guess is easy – and an be done one of two ways:

1. Via Twitter

Log on to your Twitter account, and tweet the number of domains you think Netfleet has sold, ensuring two things 1) you include @netfleet and 2) you include the hash tag #competitions in your tweet, otherwise we can’t give you your prize!   For example:

“I love Netfleet and I think they have sold 5000 domains @netfleet #competitions”

2. Via Facebook

Simply browse to the Netfleet Facebook page here:

http://www.facebook.com/Netfleet.com.au

And Write something on our wall saying just how many domains you think we’ve sold, ensuring you include the hash tag #competitions on your wall post.  For example:

“I think Netfleet has sold 5000 domains #competitions”

Rules

• The winner is the closest guess submitted via Twitter (with @netfleet and #competitions in message) or via Facebook (with #competitions in post) on the Netfleet.com.au page only.  Emailed entries will not be considered.
• The domain sale period is from the launch of Netfleet in July 2008 up to April 22nd 2012
• The competition will run for 2 weeks, starting Monday 23rd April 2012, and closing at midnght on 7th May 2012.
• Recipients of sales data cannot apply.  Sorry.
• We will announce the lucky winner one week after closing on 14th May 2012.
• If multiple entrants guess the same amount, the first guess will win.
• Only the first submission per person/entity will be entered.

So don’t delay, make your guess right away!

We wish you the best of luck

Best wishes,
The Netfleet Team

According to Google the exact search phrase “home loan calculator” is searched for in Australia 33,100 times a month.  Meaning it sold for basically $1 for every monthly search, which looks like a fantastic deal when you consider that a click for this very competitive search term is worth about $5,65.

It is worth remembering that with expired domains the buyer only had 24 hours to made a decision and to get involved so the true market value of a domain like this is actually much higher.

You’ll notice on the Snapper Auctions page each domain now has a hyperlink to a single page view. This shows the domain broken down in to it’s simplest view, whilst having all the information you would ever require, just a short click away on the same page.

A big change for this view is fixed bidding. Traditionally, all bids were proxy/automatic bids on our Snapper Auctions, however in the single domain view, it is now fixed bids – the price you enter will be a fixed bid on the domain. Read about Bids and Offers on Netfleet.

We hope this new feature and view works well for seasoned domain investors and new comers alike

Thanks
The Netfleet Team

Netfleet was pleased to snap this domain for our client. It will be interesting to see what they do with this domain name as it is a fiercely competitive keyword. Today the top ranking domain for the keyword “creditcards” at google.com.au is credit-cards.net.au outranking creditcard.com.au by three places, showing that “com” is not always king.

Once a domain name is snapped, the domain will point to this landing page using Netfleet name servers automatically, whereby visitors will be given an explanation of the page, and the ability to register an interest in the domain name, and make an unsolicited offer for the domain.

Upon receiving an offer via this method, you will be notified and can decide whether to respond.

To see an example of this page in action, please click the following link:

http://100milecafe.com.au/

Of course, you can change the default name servers for your snapped domains any time you wish, by changing the name servers in the Members Area under Account Information

Please note, this is live now and will take effect on all future snapped domain names. Furthermore, as this is an initiative from Netfleet, this is no way implies that you have registered this domain name for the sole purpose of resale.

As always, we appreciate any feedback you have on this latest development

Best wishes,
The Netfleet Team

Many of us often miss the domain purge, and if you are not watching our platform at the right time, can miss the results. Both our Snapper Auctions Australia and Snapper Auctions New Zealand now show past results for Australia here:

http://www.netfleet.com.au/snapper-history/

And for New Zealand here:

http://www.netfleet.com.au/snapper-nz-history/

Thanks,

Mark

It will be interesting to see what the new registrant, Steven Rollan of MAD CAT PTY LIMITED, will do with this high quality name in a market which is very close to home for most investors.

I’d personally love to know why the previous registrant, Anthony Ziino of INVESTMENT PROPERTY SOLUTIONS, did not renew the name but suspect that I’ll never find out.

Thanks to all the participants in today’s auction who saw value in this domain, as we only charge $1 more than the next highest bidder, so without a bit of competition this name could have been snapped for as little as $10.