*Sedo is back up. Total down time was about 100 minutes.
.de domain registry will be issuing 1 and 2 character names on a first come, first served basis beginning Friday, October 23rd and 12am PST.
Sedo.com is offering a pre-auction on the domain names that have not even been released. Remember though, as I mentioned it is “first come, first served registration”, Sedo does not have any rights to the domain names before opening to the public. What they do have are deals with several registrars to try and secure the domain names as soon as they become available. Interesting twist, as reported by DomainNameWire.com, “If Sedo’s partner registrars are unsuccessful during the “drop”, Sedo will attempt to acquire the domain name in the secondary market on the high bidder’s behalf.”
The new news here is with the popularity of their pre-auction, Sedo’s website is down! I just visited the site and received this message, “Due to the extremely high participation in the .De Pre-Auction Sedo?s website was temporarily down. We have decided to extend the auction until 8:00 PM CET. If necessary we will extend the auction later than this time to accommodate additional bids”.
This is the first time I have seen Sedo.com down. I’ll be sure to update this post when Sedo.com is back up.
Twitter message from approximately 1:35 PM EST.
Right, the first time I see Sedo down. Quite crazy.
Time to update the servers.
Thanks for info Patrick, will anyone who offers .de be able to reg these. I have regged .de at Moniker, will they offer the 1 and 2 character .de ? Thank you
Yes, they are all on a first come, first serve basis. Basically Sedo is competing with everyone trying to hand register the domains. It is possible to hand register these names.
I think there is no chance to hand register these names… DENIC registrars will do the job faster and more efficient than hand registering.. Sedo inked deals with such registrars to get names auctioned off at Sedo auction. In my opinion they won’t get to many for Sedo customers but time will tell.
Agree, hopefully there is a small chance at least. I’m still going to try