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Domain Name Sales Activity – 2nd May to 15th May

As we reach the middle of May, here at Netfleet we’ve been busy keeping a tab on all things domain name related, including sales activity over the last fortnight where we’re pleased to have been involved with the exchange of four premium domain names. Our largest sale during this timeframe was on the 13th of May, with the domain in question being financeeasy.com.au, which sold for a final sum of $2249.45. As indicated by Google Trends, the search terms “finance easy” have recorded a consistent level of search traffic amongst an Australian audience over the last ten years, with little […]

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Bug Report

“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 […]

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Netfleet Idea’s Forum

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.

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Customer Communication – October

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 […]

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September 2015 – NEWS

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 […]

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September Sale at Netfleet

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 […]

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Revised Pricing at Netfleet

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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HINTS for selling via “Domains for Sale”

Helpful hints to assist your sales turnover using the “Domains for Sale” platform Please note, “Domains for Sale” was previously known as Domain Catalogue on the Netfleet website. We have changed the name to better appeal to new buyers, end users and those buyers and sellers not conversant in the Domaining language. It also better describes what the platform actually does!   1. Transfer We advise that you transfer * your names to Netfleet or at the very least point your nameservers to Netfleet to take advantage of our “For Sale” page. (* Transferring your name to Netfleet will ensure you receive […]

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Site-wide reset of Offers in Domain Catalogue over 6 months old

In response to requests from some of our major sellers and in one of our initiatives to increase the aftermarket sales within the BUY NOW (Domain Catalogue) area of Netfleet, we have recently reset all offers and counter offers on domain names for which no activity has occurred within the past 6 months. The reset has already been activated so there is no need for you to change anything within your portfolio of domain names for sale. All of the historical data is still listed beside the domain name under “archive” so that both the seller and buyers can see […]

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HOW TO: Sell an .au domain name to a retail buyer using Netfleet

Netfleet has two sales options, “Domain Catalogue” and “Auction“. The Catalogue takes longer in theory, to produce a sale but you only need one interested party to produce a high sale price. Buyers make an offer and you then have 7 days to; 1. counter-offer 2. accept their offer or 3. ignore their offer The Auction is faster as it has a sense of urgency but you need two interested parties in order to produce a high sale price. Under the proxy bidding , buyers only pay $1 more than the next highest bidder. This HOW-TO guide is how to […]

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