I attempted to purchase the .com before it went up for auction, but the owner never replied to me. I didn't imagine it would sell for more than a few hundred, really surprised me it sold for almost 2k. I'm still considering possibly purchasing it but I don't think its worth what it sold for.

I'm not sure that somebody else would want to launch another auction site anyways, there's already several:

https://bitcoinauctions.net/
https://cryptothrift.com/
http://www.bitbid.net/
http://bidinbitcoins.com/
https://www.cryptoauction.com/

But the only one that's currently really functioning is CryptoThrift