“Names appearing on the wrong day” Recently Netfleet identified a bug in the system which was displaying a small pool of names for auction 24hrs early. Ausregistry publishes its official drop list in UTC time, often with several days worth of data. Netfleet takes this list several times an hour and slices it up into daily auction lists. These lists are converted to AEST with auctions ending at 1pm or during day light saving AEDT with auctions ending at 2pm. As a result names published from Ausregistry as dropping between 3am UTC on day X and 3am UTC on day […]
Yesterday 01/12/2015 we had a bug in the reporting run that showed all domains had been lost at auction. However as many customers realised, via whois checks, we managed to secure 100% of the names we where pursuing yesterday for our clients. We have corrected this issue and apologies to the affected customers, on conclusion of today’s auction our billing run will start again and properly report the wins to the clients who where in the position of highest bidder. If any of the winning clients have further issues with the domains secured as a result of this bug please […]
November is an exciting time for Netfleet. Improvements are being made everywhere to help our clients secure the best domain names available. Advancing our alerts functions In the coming weeks Netfleet will be launching new advanced alerting functionality that will better help you target keywords and monitor for domain availability. We have taken advantage of the latest keyword building techniques provided from Google’s summer of code project and implemented it into our email alerting. Once this feature is available you will be able to more precisly target domains that are relevant to you keep and eye on https://www.netfleet.com.au/alerts for when […]
As promised Netfleet is looking for our clients to tell us what they want to see changed we have opened an idea’s forum up on tricider – http://www.tricider.com/brainstorming/37CqptjvsJJ Please head over to this link and list any Ideas you have, vote on existing posted ideas or add an argument for or against a posted idea, We want to hear what our customers want and why so tell us now. The tricider link will be active for 30days we will then review the feedback.
As many of our customers would be aware there has recently been a significant amount of media attention surrounding an incident that occurred with Netfleets auction system. A telemarketer in his first week with Netfleet inadvertently accessed limited data on existing bids in our daily expired domain auction. It appears that he used that information as a benchmark to influence a bid from a third party on a single domain. As the auction system is a blind auction, this inferred knowledge gave an unfair advantage to the third party. This disadvantaged the existing high bidder. We have issued a formal […]
There’s been a lot happening lately in the .au domain name industry, with proposed policy changes causing heated debate, industry shifts and also internally new focus! Australians likely to register directly under .au You’ve probably heard the news – that it’s likely in the near future Australians will be able to register domain names directly under .au. (eg instead of domainname.com.au, they can use domainname.au). You can read more about the change here www.domainer.com.au/draft-recommendations-from-the-2015-names-policy-panel/ This is potentially a huge shift in the Australian namespace and there are strong opinions are forming both for and against. Proponents of the change […]
We have been experimenting with different auction formats over the past few weeks in order to find the best solution format for selling domain names. On 21st October we will trial first price sealed bid auctions. In short, we will not show any prices on our auction platform, with all bids being fixed offers (being the price you enter [plus the buyers premium] will be the price paid – there will not be a proxy bidding system), and at the end of auction the highest offer wins. We will also be setting BIN prices on a selection of domain names. […]
We have decided to retire our current Aftermarket Auction format after 12 months of hit and miss results and to focus our attention once again on the For Sale/Domain Catalogue option. The format failed to achieve the objectives I set for it in October 2012. Even though it performed well on volume it never gained much traction in achieving prices comparable to the Offer / Counter offer process in the Domain Catalogue. We tried our best to increase the number of eyes seeing the auctions by merging them with the popular expired domain auctions but they still failed to gain […]
Spring has sprung and we are celebrating the new season with two special offers – use them together to achieve maximum bang for your buck! Both offers are available for all domain name auction sales from Sunday 1st September to Monday 30th September (inclusive). $10 First Bidders discount It’s back! Get in first and bid on any Domain Name at auction and you will receive a $10.00 first bidders discount. That means that every single name purchased in the auction is $0 reserve and $0 minimum bid. Approx. 1000 domain names expire in Australia every single day – with approx […]
Change of Registrant Netfleet has consistently offered the very lowest prices on their Change of Registrant (COR) service. Benefits of the Netfleet COR compared to other registrars are; 1. Completely paperless 2. Takes only minutes to initiate and complete 3. Step by Step guided email instructions Our Change of Registrant process includes 2 years of domain name registration and will increase to $49.95 (including GST) in early October. The pricing is now in line with Netfleet’s 2 yr domain registration charge. Renewals Netfleet renewals, while still amongst the very lowest in the industry, will increase to $22.95 (including GST) in early […]
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