I have listed the domain name SBLL.com and it is currently on auction on Bido.com . 

The auction is underway with the opening bid being $28. The auction ends at 2:12 CT today! If you do not have an account with Bido, it is free to sign up.

SBLL.com was first registered in 1999 and has been since.

.net, .org and .us domains are registered with all being developed sites.

This is a great domain and I appreciate any bids as the domain WILL sell to the highest bidder. Will it be you?

UPDATE: The bido auction for SBLL.com ended for $125 on 4 bids. Did the buyer get a killer deal? Post a comment.

Up next for me:

Yoxa.com goes on auction tomorrow at Bido. Starting price is $550 with a buy it now of $1,100. 

UPDATE 2: Yoxa.com sold for $555 on 2 bids.

People are always fast at trying to make a quick buck and when the reported "affair" on the TV show The Bachelor happened with Rozlyn Papa and a member of the filming crew, her name is getting tossed around on the net and domain names happen to be snatched up if they are not already owned. RozlynPapa.com was no different this time around. The story will fade into the sunset and the domain really only holds value to the Rozlyn Papa’s of this world. These type of domain names are purchased by people who then try to sell them quickly to make money.

In the case of RozlynPapa.com, I thought it was quiet funny how the data in the public whois records is displayed.

Now if you (the owner of the domain) is "really" applying for a non-profit application, why would you list the domain name for sale for $10,000?

Doing a Google search using the email address brings you to another Ron Lee that also happens to have a matching address on InvestInPortland.com . On that site, Mr Lee states he is in Inactive Status with his profession real estate activities as he is wrapping up his schooling as a Pre-law student.

I wonder if they teach the "Protect Free Speech – Pending non-profit status-application in process" whois use in law school.

SnapNames.com has added a "Make an Offer" style listing to it’s line up for private sellers listing domain names on SnapNames. I haven’t been using SnapNames much as a buyer or seller but I happened to visit the site today and noticed the new feature. It appears the new style was added in about December of 2009.

Currently at writing there are 72,197 domain names listed with the Make an Offer feature.

Make an Offer is very common in the domain name industry as it is hard to price one of a kind items like domain names. It can be frustrating for both buyer and sellers using Make an Offer but there are things in place to help save time. The seller can set a minimum offer amount which does cut down on the low ball type offers but many people do not like setting a minimum offer amount because it can prevent an interested party from sending an offer at all.

Since a seller really doesn’t know what kind of offer an interested party is going to make, they do not want to cut things short or give any false impressions. The down side of allowing just about any amount of an offer coming in, is you as a seller can’t get mad when a low ball comes in. You are allowing it to happen not putting in a minimum bid amount.

Many domains listed with the Make an Offer have $1 minimum bid amounts, but clearly the seller isn’t going to accept at that amount and you are likely to get a High counter offer.

An example would be for the currently listed domain TouchScreen.com . Minimum bid amount is $1 and the domain received 7 bids currently since being listed Dec 2, 2009. Since I am not the seller, I can not see what the bid amounts were, but they were likely pretty low.

A couple downsides to how SnapNames displays the Make an Offer style domains…. you as a buyer can not see the Minimum offer amount, unless you click the domain name and are brought to the specific listing page for the domain. At that point you are able to see the minimum offer amount. SnapNames does have a section for "Minimum Bid" but doesn’t show the minimum offer amount in that section.

Another thing from what I can tell, the seller doesn’t have the options to send the domain to auction based on an offer received. Currently a seller can Accept, Decline or Counter. It would be nice if the seller had the option to send it to auction on an offer like you can at Sedo and Afternic.

SnapNames charges a 20% sellers fee. Domain names being listed on SnapNames must be with a registrar of SnapNames (mainly Moniker but some sister type registrars as well), because the transfer of the domain name is instant after payment clears. The instant transfer is really nice for both buyers and sellers IMO! You can submit your domains for auction directly in your Moniker.com account.

Here is a link directly from SnapNames about the Make Offer feature. Since the Make an Offer feature is now available on SnapNames, it is very likely the inventory will grow a lot and become similar to Sedo’s inventory. SnapNames does not have a fee to list domains, only when it sells.

I don’t mind the new feature, but I think the seller needs the option to send the domain to auction based on an offer. If the domain is sent to auction and nobody else bids, the auction is sold to the person who sent the offer.