J.P. King Auction – No Show For 2,600 Domains
June 13, 5 CommentsAn auction at the Fairmont on Nob Hill 
in San Francisco of over 2,600 Internet domain names almost took place on Thursday!
The names that were up for sale Thursday belong to Craig Harrison, an entrepreneur from Fort Collins, Colorado. Many end in realestatelistings.com, representing states, cities and suburbs in the United States and overseas. Harrison thought the auction would attract upscale buyers, picking San Francisco for its proximity to Silicon Valley, Los Angeles and Seattle. Unfortunately, the event at Fairmont did not go to plan.
“I had to have the courage to keep spending the money,” said Harrison, who remembers sitting at his computer for four days and using three or four credit cards. He spent about $35,000.
Perhaps the names weren’t as valuable as they seemed. “Had we had premium names, like toys.com, there would have been an auction,” J.P. King said as waiters in the Fairmont cleared trays piled with sandwiches from the empty room.
Source: SFGate.
I saw your list and I have to say, they names were not premium or valuable. You would have had more success paying for a booth at a realtor convention. I have been in this for 12 years and selling domains is hard work. You have to have short names that mean something.
“I had to have the courage…….” I’ve felt that way before years ago when buying domains before domain parking or other monetization methods existed. But seriously, just look at his domains. Every one is exceptionally long and worthless because nobody will ever type that in
Did you put the smilie face next to “Nob Hill” because the word is close to “Noob” ? At least that is how I read it.
I thought this auction was the most absurd auction ever. I feel sorry for the guy but somebody should have advised him. I would have bought one really good name instead of 2600 crappy domains. 8(
As someone who really understands online real estate marketing, I think this is an impressive assemblage of geotargeted domain names. True, many are quite long, but they are very Google friendly for localized real estate search, and that’s how nearly 90% of homebuyers shop for houses.
What surprises me is that the auction was attempted in such a crappy market – for both domains and real estate.
I think the owner will probably be better off sitting on them for a few more years and selling them to Realogy or a similar company. I guess we’ll see…
Johnny. In Australia, the word \nob\ has a different meaning, thus the smiley face. Agree with Craigs comments in that now isn’t the time to be selling!