After DotAsia announced the results of its collision auction for the recent Sunrise Period, I was wondering in my last post why some valuable trademarked names had been auctioned for a pittance, and an anonymous commenter supplied the reason: the contestants are making the deals between themselves, and paying the registry nothing. That makes sense for them, but not for DotAsia.

Without saying that they had been victimized in the past, we have found DotAsia’s Advisory on Auction Tampering (PDF), a one-page guide to how you may lose your domain name if they catch you. That might have worked with the companies in the Sunrise Period, but I’d be surprised if there isn’t a lot of tampering going on for the LandRush auctions.

Keep your eye out for crazy low reported auction results in .ASIA. It will be hard to spot unless the prices are way under expected value.

Tags: DotAsia, .asia, domain auctions, Sunrise, LandRush, auction tampering

Posted by Antony in: Domains