John Motson, owner of DN Expert, launched his new site Mystery Domain Auction a few days ago. The website promotes itself as a 50 day auction with the highest bid winning a domain worth $10,000 or $10,000 in cash.

Bids are incremented by $0.01 each time. If the bids reach around $147 John will have met his $1,000,000 target. Yes he is hoping to make 1 million dollars through this website and give $10,000 back. Doesn’t sound like a good deal does it?

Before I give my opinion of this site, I encourage you to visit the site itself and also check out some recent reviews of the service.

• The Truth About MysteryDomainAuction.com
• Innovative Mystery Domain Auction Site Launches
• Mystery Domain Auction Isn’t About Domain Names

Mystery Domain Auction

In essence this competition is just a variation of the age old pyramid scheme. The only people who will do well out of this is the owner John Motson, the winning bidder and affiliates. Everyone else who has bidded would have been as well throwing their money down a drain. Also, I would personally question any website which tried to promote this service to me : Would you promote a poor service to your readers if it made you money?

I have nothing against the owner of this site but a lot of people appear to be dazzled and confused by the sales page on the site and think that they are getting a deal, believe me, YOU’RE NOT!

The main selling point is that you get a link on the highest bid page. Yes, if you are willing to pay a few dollars of your money you can get a text link on a page which has no page rank. Sure you may get a few visits from the page but that traffic is likely to be invcredibly untargeted so adsense would be a much cheaper and better option for you.

Also, if the high bid page does get a PageRank in the next Google PR update, there will be so many outgoing links on the page that each link will only get a tiny amount of PR juice (if any). I thought most domainers were quite savvy with most web development issues but clearly many do not know how PageRank works.

If you disagree with me then please feel free to send me a few dollars and I will gladly create a links page here with 100 or so links and place your link on it.

Bottom line, don’t waste your money with this website. If you end up winning the auction then I will be the first to congratulate you but if you don’t, you have simply thrown your money away.

If you want a link to your website badly then exchange links with a related website or write an article for a related blog. Don’t pay money to have your link on a low traffic page with hundreds of links on it.

Good luck,
Kevin

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