I'm surprised by your comment about "31 minutes lapse between accepted
bids", if it relates to the 10 minute rule.  My (recent) experience
was that bids closed within seconds of official closing time.

In my experience it's not wise to rely upon emails from the auctions
system for advice about of higher bidders (there seemed to be
delayed).  Towards the end of the auction, having more than one
browser window open and refreshing every 15 to 30 seconds was a far
more reliable way of find out about higher bids than the emails sent.

Ian Johnston

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gary Meadows [mailto:webmaster§editgroup.com.au]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 12:30 AM
> To: dns§lists.auda.org.au
> Subject: RE: [DNS] Auction Details "internet.com.au"
>
>
> > The 10 minutes period of grace is just to make sure
> > otherwise one party could put in a bid a few seconds
> > before closing time and the other person wouldn't
> > have time to respond.
>
> This wasn't adhered to anyway, as the bidding history for
> one domain we
> watched had 31 minutes lapse between accepted bids. Which
> defeated the
> purpose of reading through the instructions we received.
>
> Gary
>
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