DomainLore Blog

1. Buyer nicknames are now anonymous until the auction ends.

All bidders are now displayed as anonymous BuyerX to prevent all kinds of signaling to other buyers.

2. Reserve and “Buy Now” prices for premium Spotlight auctions can now be set to hidden and secret:

A) Hidden Reserve: Reserve price is revealed at the end of the auction. Auction winner is a top bidder whose bid exceeds or is equal to the reserve price. A cryptographic hash is shown during the auction to ensure price integrity at all times (‘reserve’ amount can’t be modified after it’s been set initially).

B) Secret "Buy Now": “Buy now” price is not shown during the auction. A bid (incl. proxy bid) exceeding or reaching the “buy now” price wins and ends the auction early. Auction final price is capped at the “Buy now” amount. A hash signature is shown during the auction to ensure price integrity at all times (‘buy now’ amount can’t be modified after it’s been set initially).

There was a forum once, when people of all aspects of SEO/e-commerce/advertisement life gathered together around something what was becoming a ‘domain name industry’ and used to chat, share and develop their ideas, raising their concerns and celebrating successes.

It took maybe 4 years for the community to establish, 4 more years to then overwhelm itself and then it (sadly, but expectedly) slowly started to decay and disintegrate.

Not really a surprise, as how you’d hope for a dense ‘dog eat dog’ community to thrive?

UPDATED 04/11

There’s been a large amount of speculation and gossip about DomainLore seller`s fee on a certain domainer forum.

I would have been fine with that (and let those ‘skint domainers’ moan), if it not morphed into an outright libel and attacks fueled by just a few particular persons (ironically, proactive DomainLore members).

So I am going to address those recent fee changes in a more detail.