Associated Geogenerics Dot Com

We use wordpress and a whole bunch of wordpress plugins to develop our sites. Other people are using our setup and the plugins that we develop and people have asked us which plugins we are using in our efforts. So here is a partial list which we will add to as necessary.
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 We at AssociatedGeoGenerics.com have the overall goal of getting geo-generic domains into the hands of end users who will develop the sites and with any luck join with each other to form an association that is able to negotiate for all geo-generics and that will distribute advertising revenue to the individual geo-generic sites that normally wouldn’t be able to approach the larger national and international companies. Getting actual end users to acquire these geo-generic domains is the first step towards that end.
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Yesterday, Aug 21st for the second day in a row Bido had problems resulting in their auctions being cancelled until sometime in the future, could be forever we suppose. Since we will be having our own auctions soon this is of great interest to us. We can and will do a little bit of speculation about the reasons and also a little bit of summarizing Bido’s history, as we see it.

From what we’ve read so far there was a problem with servers failing - perhaps because people watching or participating in the auction were refreshing their pages when the data was being pushed to them. Some advice has been to use a server cluster to be more scalable. Underlying is the idea of it perhaps being user behavior that caused the server overload and that this behavior needs to be prepared for by for example a cluster of servers. SQL query caching has also been a suggestion to easy strain on resources.
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Since we are planning on becoming involved in domain auctioneering and since we have concluded that it is in our best interests in every way to try and attract potential end-users to our auctions. We believe domain owners will get the best price from someone who understands the advantages of being able to call that domain their own, the assumption being that there will be at least one who will pay what the domain is worth over a period of time so that they will pay more than a speculative domainer will bid.

Which isn’t to say that the domainer ought to be left out of the auction - which brings up the two main questions that this post is intended to examine. First, who might be potential end-users and how will they be attracted to the auction? Second, who else apart from the obvious end-users might be interested? Since our first auction is tentatively going to be that of “PuebloHomeSales.com”, followed by “AnaheimHomeSales.com”. We will address ourself to these domains while of course also taking into account the more general case.
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In our quest to have the perfect auction we are exploring a number of auctioneer technologies. We don’t want to be an auction company, not that auctions are not part of the plan but future events will dictate how much time, money and effort that we wish to expend. To that end we have decided on a possible goal of 1 site per day but we are going to try it with 2, the premise being that with technology thinks are often good for 1 but not more than 1 and often if they are good for 2 then they are also good for up to 64,000 at least. Perhaps a different way of saying that would be that we decided to use a “scalable” auctioneering solution even if we eventually decided to do just 1 a day.

One problem with software is that there isn’t much of a personal touch. Our goal is to promote an association of geogeneric domain owners and we think that there ought to be as much of a personal element as possible to initial attract them and that we should continually demonstrate the willingness to include a personal element to our endeavors. Future personal communications will be easier if there is the ability to use the software necessary for audio-video capability and so we think it would be nice to demonstrate our ability by including this personal aspect where we can and in this case that means our auctions.
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Our Geo-generic dot com auctions are going to be different than the standard online domain auction. You can understand why a site attempting to auction 1000’s of domains every day needs to have an automated bidding system but why does Bido.com, who only auction one name per day, have an automated bidding system? Probably at least one of the people running the site is going to be monitoring the site during the auction, I would be very surprised if there weren’t three people there glued to the screen during that one hour. You would think it would be easier to have a live auctioneer.
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