Finding out how to submit names for consideration was like finding a needle in a haystack – and then when I finally found it, where it had not existed before, it was too late.
Good luck to those who are willing to sort through the junk in there… I don’t believe there was one domain that would have been of any interest to me (in the low range) – and everything else is too high.
Next time, Moniker, make the selection committee do some work for a change!
I honestly don’t think they had much of a choice. At least on the other message boards I go to, there was a minor mention of the CAC auction coming when it was originally announced, and then literally the day of submissions being due, someone posted on one of the message boards about it, and that’s the only reason I was able to even get my names in. the other board, which is also a very prominent domainer message board, had NO mention of it leading up to the submission deadline. Instead, everyone’s focusing on the TRAFFIC NY auction, which had a deadline in late April. I don’t think they had nearly the amount of submissions they usually get because of that.
For one thing, I think Moniker is holding too many auctions close together. At least if they were going to hold a CAC auction, they needed to do a live one as well as a silent, for people to keep their prices in check and also to create more buzz about it. Secondly, they REALLY need to reconsider the timing of things…the very day I found out which names of mine were accepted into the CAC auction was the deadline to submit names into TRAFFIC NY, and I KNEW it was going to happen like that and almost didn’t submit to the CAC because of it. After all, what if I find out my names didn’t make it into the CAC auction AFTER the TRAFFIC NY deadline…then I’m doubly screwed on those names? They just need to be more organized and rigid in how they handle these auctions. Millions of dollars are changing hands at these things, enough such that Moniker is making several hundreds of thousands of dollars. They need to echo the seriousness of that and get their act together when putting these auctions on, or else it will start to become a joke.
Here’s a thought, perhaps good, perhaps not: Why not CHARGE for auction submissions and then charge LESS on the backend so that people aren’t wasting everyone’s time with overblown names? If you charge for submissions, people will be more cognicent of their pricing and will price their names to sell…otherwise, they’d be wasting money. Just a thought…