Five aged GoDaddy domains for October 5: WellSpot leads on price, VESPR on bidder count

Attention concentrated in short .com names and in brandables this week, while aged keyword compounds drew thinner fields. Across the three marketplaces ExpiredAuctions tracks — GoDaddy, Dynadot and Namecheap — the hundred-name board carried exactly one listing rated 80 or better: CloudPhone.com at 83/100, on $2,025 after 32 bids against a $14,680 estimate. The most contested entries by bidder count were True.cc at 78 bids on Dynadot, VESPR.com at 51, Verde.net at 50 on Namecheap, and UPSVR.com at 48. 1

GoDaddy's slice of that board holds 40 listings, and 17 of them carry at least 12 bids. The two widest fields belong to Halligan.com and WellSpot.com, tied at 37 bids each. 2 NameJet ran its usual band of one-word and short .com auctions — FCNS.com, Enraged.com, Commissary.com and Staco.com — with no prices or closing times posted. 3 GoDaddy supplied all five rows in this issue; NameJet and DropCatch enter through completed prices and an unpriced list.

Completed sales kept the mid-band moving. GoDaddy's October 3 recap closed 111666.com at $30,000 on 131 bids and gsa.org at $17,680 on 173 bids, with HumanEngine.com at $4,550 and NewsWars.com at $3,402 behind them. 4 DropCatch totaled $98,351 on October 2, led by NowGoal.com at $36,000, and $60,156 on October 1, led by Caffeinate.com at $7,518. Four-letter .com names closed between $99 and $600 across those two days, the floor any short-name bid must clear. 56

DNJournal's newest report still covers the two weeks ending September 20, 2026, working through the June-to-August backlog SnapNames and NameJet released together. Two names cleared six figures: 3V.com at $120,000 through SnapNames and Boltz.com at $105,000 through NameJet. Dot-com took 12 of the top 20 places, and 62 NameJet .com sales and 54 Sedo .com sales landed between $2,000 and $8,000. The report publishes a two-week window rather than individual transaction dates, and the comparable sales below carry that label. 7

Outside .com, the week's loudest TLD story was a reported jump in .si registrations. 8

Five GoDaddy auctions closing today clear the price, age, keyword and comparable-sale filters, and every one of them carries at least 17 bidders. WellSpot.com asks the most at $1,247 after 37 bids. VESPR.com draws the deepest field on the whole board, 51 bidders against a $320 basis. Cheye.com pairs 27 years of registration with 24 bidders. SaveWork.com offers the smallest workable entry at $100. RightSchool.com sits lowest at $80, with 18 bidders behind it.

The snapshot was recorded at 8:10 a.m. on October 5, 2026, in the channel's UTC-08 timezone, and every clock below is converted to it. All five rows come from GoDaddy records collected by ExpiredAuctions, whose detail pages label end times in Central time. Bids move fastest in the closing hour, so recheck each figure before you commit. 2

The filter: a current bid between $50 and $1,500, at least eight years of registration, and a comparable-pattern sale on record at three times the current bid or better, with at least one comparable clearing $1,000 inside the past 18 months.

Each of the five carries zero Domain Authority, Page Authority and Trust Flow on its detail page, so every pick qualifies on keyword or brand value. 910111213

WellSpot.com shows a $1,247 bid across 37 bids on 15 years of registration, closing at 1:36 p.m. Central, or 10:36 a.m. in the channel's timezone. ExpiredAuctions rates it 76/100 and appraises it at $6,204. 9

"Well" carries health and self-care; "spot" gives the phrase a place to sit. A telehealth platform, a clinic chain or a wellness-products marketplace can put the name to work without explanation.

Comparable sales: voicecare.com at $5,305 through SnapNames, polytask.com at $5,106 through Sedo, and CommonKnowledge.com at $5,005 in DropCatch's October 2 close. Three times the $1,247 bid is $3,741, and the weakest of the three clears it. 57

Appraisal logic and ceiling. Thirty-seven bidders on the highest-rated GoDaddy keyword name mean the price will keep moving through the afternoon, which is what the ceiling is for. $1,870.50 holds the entry to a third of the ExpiredAuctions estimate and under a third of the cheapest comparable. List on DAN and Afternic at $6,900 and pitch telehealth operators and supplement brands directly. A six-month exit needs an outbound buyer already running a clinic group; 18 months is this pattern's normal cadence; a five-year hold costs four more renewal cycles. Confidence: high-confidence. Ceiling: $1,870.50.

VESPR.com carries a $320 bid from 51 bidders on 18 years of registration, closing at 3:57 p.m. Central, or 12:57 p.m. UTC-08. ExpiredAuctions appraises it at $4,312. 10

The word sits one letter from "vesper" and reads as a tech or beverage brand, so an invented five-letter .com gives a founder a clean trademark slate.

Comparable sales: Rased.com at $4,326 and Geste.com at $3,022, both in DropCatch's October 1 close, plus nurovo.com at $3,675 and zareta.com at $2,450 on Sedo in the September 7-20 window. Three times the $320 bid is $960, which the weakest comparable clears by more than twice. 67

Appraisal logic and ceiling. Fifty-one wallets on a name with no search demand confirm the liquidity of the five-letter .com market, and the uncertainty sits in the wait. $480.00 caps the commitment below a seventh of the ExpiredAuctions estimate. List on DAN, Sedo and Atom at $4,200 and approach fintech and consumer-brand founders. A six-month sale needs a founder naming a product that quarter; 18 months is the realistic window; a five-year hold parks capital a shorter name would free. Confidence: high-confidence. Ceiling: $480.00.

Cheye.com shows a $119 bid from 24 bidders on 27 years of registration, closing at 2:22 p.m. Central, or 11:22 a.m. UTC-08. ExpiredAuctions appraises it at $6,008. 11

The name reads as a short personal or boutique brand, with a sound close to Cheyenne and to "chai", and its age puts it in the thinning class of five-letter .com names registered before 2000.

Comparable sales: teahupoo.com at $1,020 in GoDaddy's October 3 close, plus durbe.com at $2,436 and balse.com at $2,430 on Sedo in the September 7-20 window. Three times the $119 bid is $357. 47

Appraisal logic and ceiling. Twenty-four bidders have already pushed a keyword-less name past its opening, and the gap to the $6,008 estimate is the widest here. The exit carries the risk: nobody searches for "Cheye", so the sale runs through a listing and a pitch until the right buyer arrives. $178.50 is the room this name has for that wait. List on DAN, Sedo and Atom at $3,900 and pitch boutique fashion and creative-agency founders. A six-month exit depends on the right buyer shopping that month; 18 months is the realistic window; a five-year hold costs three more decades of renewals. Confidence: coin-flip. Ceiling: $178.50.

SaveWork.com stands at a $100 bid from 17 bidders on 21 years of registration, closing at 3:42 p.m. Central, or 12:42 p.m. UTC-08. ExpiredAuctions appraises it at $4,189. 12

"Save" and "work" put the promise of a productivity tool into the name itself — automation software, a workflow platform, an efficiency app. The phrase reads as an instruction, which suits a product that sells saved time.

Comparable sales: keytosavings.com at $3,995 and simpletaxfiling.com at $3,450, both on Sedo in the September 7-20 window, plus workatlevy.com at $600 in DropCatch's October 2 close. Three times the $100 bid is $300, which all three clear. 57

Appraisal logic and ceiling. At $100 the arithmetic is forgiving: a total loss costs less than two renewal cycles on a mid-priced name, and 17 bidders say the phrase travels. $150.00 caps the commitment. List on DAN and Afternic at $2,900 and pitch workflow-software vendors and automation agencies. A six-month exit needs a founder already shopping; 18 months is the normal cadence for software compounds; a five-year hold ties up almost nothing. Confidence: high-confidence. Ceiling: $150.00.

RightSchool.com carries an $80 bid from 18 bidders on 24 years of registration, closing at 2:11 p.m. Central, or 11:11 a.m. UTC-08. ExpiredAuctions appraises it at $5,625. 13

The name points at two markets at once: a school-choice or tutoring platform, and a legal-education or civil-rights training resource. Both need a title that reads as authoritative, and "right school" supplies one.

Comparable sales: StudentHero.com at $6,500 and abclittleschools.com at $2,718, both through SnapNames, plus microenglish.com at $4,000 through Sedo, all inside the September 7-20 window. Three times the $80 bid is $240. 7

Appraisal logic and ceiling. Eighteen bidders on a two-word education name confirm the category gets farmed, and the spread has to come from the retail side, where a single school group pays four figures. $120.00 holds the entry to a fiftieth of the ExpiredAuctions estimate. List on DAN and Afternic at $4,500 and pitch tutoring networks and legal-training providers. A six-month exit needs a school group shopping that term; 18 months matches how education names clear; a five-year hold costs the renewals. Confidence: high-confidence. Ceiling: $120.00.

Term-level trademark clearance was unavailable to this issue. The USPTO's public search renders in a browser but answers a scripted query with its empty state, its endpoints return an error page or an access denial, and the third-party mirrors that republish the register turned this run away. Treat exact-term and close-variant clearance on all five names as your own pre-bid step: check live and dead filings, the classes they cover, and the goods and services each describes. 14

GoDaddy supplied all five rows; NameJet and DropCatch appear through completed prices and an unpriced list.

Ranked by what the money buys: RightSchool.com asks the least at a $120.00 ceiling, with three education comps above its bid; SaveWork.com offers software utility at $150.00; Cheye.com buys 27 years of age at $178.50 with a coin-flip exit; VESPR.com pays $480.00 for the board's deepest bidder field; WellSpot.com pays the most, $1,870.50, for the highest-rated keyword name on the GoDaddy board. Recheck every clock and every trademark filing before you bid.