Elliot Silver is currently on vacation in France, and while he might be in a different timezone, he has an advantage with regards to domaining.
Most of Europe is contained between 5 to 7 hours ahead of the US East Coast, or 8 to 10 hours ahead of the West Coast. In my experience, this is an advantage with regards to events that occur around the world.
Europe is a technology and finance hub and follows the Asian markets quite closely, all while the US wakes up to a Tokyo stock market that closed hours ago.
Domaining from Europe spans several local markets, such as Germany, Great Britain, Italy, France, Russia, etc. While the US domain market is linear, the European equivalent is multi-cultural and multi-faceted. Diversity is always a good thing, in society and technology alike.
Whenever I visit Greece, I find it so much easier to catch up with events, blog about the domain markets and structure my day ahead of the US hours.
So Elliot, enjoy your vacation and don’t worry about missing a beat with what happens back home. 😀
Namejet backorders must be placed by 8PM Pacific or 11PM eastern. What time is that in London or Barcelona? 5AM? I suppose the US afternoon cutoffs at Snapnames & Godaddy are more tolerable for those in Europe though still not ideal.
Leonard – Do you really wait until the last minute to place bids on NJ domains? 😀 With the proliferation of dropping/delete lists there is no ‘secret’ domains anymore.
I think it’s more difficult to work when I am in Europe… as I am going to bed, things are still busy at home. I feel like I am leaving work early.
I also have to “show” my NameJet bids earlier than usual since the backorder deadline is very early in the AM here. I was the first to backorder a name yesterday evening and now there are several bids.
Luckily, when I am in Europe it’s for a vacation, so I don’t do much working. The nature of the domain biz prevents me from completely disconnecting though.
Au revoir!
Elliot – After a while you’ll get used to the sleeping pattern of Europeans 🙂 Dinner is served at 9pm in Greece; 11pm in Spain. Hey presto, your day lasts until 2am 😀
I totally agree with you Theo. Sometimes I think how do domainers in the US keep track of the auctions. All auctions in Greece are in the evening. I wouldn’t want to be in the bank or the tax office in the morning and have to bid on my phone on the same time.
Well the thing is I like working late at night so maybe this is just me. And Theo.