After receiving a great suggestion from my buddy Adam Strong, I decided to move the Lowell.com Project development discussion to the Lowell.com website. You can find the newly set-up blog at blog.lowell.com. I just posted an introductory post on the Lowell.com blog, and will continue this project discussion over there beginning on Monday.

To avoid adding another blog that you might want to check every day, I will update this blog to let you know when I posted something new on the Lowell.com blog. I hope we all can learn together and gain from this experience. As always, I’d love to hear your feedback – both positive (and negative)!

One issue that is sometimes cited for low live domain auction sales is the lack of publicity. I have an idea that may help Jay Westerdal’s DomainTools live auction and perhaps other auction houses who are hosting domain auctions in the near future.

If Jay would add a link to Whois lookups for domain names that are up for auction, he could inform the searcher that the name will be for sale. This simple tactic would allow domain investors and non-domain professionals to see that the name they just looked-up could be acquired in an upcoming auction. For example, if someone looks up Whois.sc/WireRack.com using Domaintools’ service, they would be able to see that the name is not only for sale, but coming up for auction soon. With Domaintools’ interface, they could sign up and place a bid prior to the auction without much hassle.

I don’t know the technicalities involved with doing this, but it doesn’t seem like something that is difficult. With all of the mergers, acquisitions, partnerships…etc in the domain business, I would think this could be done for other auctions using other Whois look up services. It’s a simple idea, but it could be impactful.

***UPDATE BY ELLIOT***
Just received an email from Jay:
“I would like to do that, and it will be done in 2008 at some point. However that feature is not done yet.“