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With that backlink profile - Someone got an absolute bargain there.......
 
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So this is an individual creation, right?
Or was it created by the company?
 
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With that backlink profile - Someone got an absolute bargain there.......

Yeah it's a nice profile, cited in a lot of places in a niche associated with making money. $31,500 was probably too high but GoDaddy should get these payments. Worth going down the bid road.
 
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Yeah it's a nice profile, cited in a lot of places in a niche associated with making money. $31,500 was probably too high but GoDaddy should get these payments. Worth going down the bid road.
Seen quite a few of your blogs on Godaddy letting domains go, just the tip of the iceberg surely - must be loads going unreported

Would be interesting to see a year end figure on the amount lost, pretty sure it would be a substantial amount.
 
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I am certain that at least some of these "losses" are manipulated ones, either from end users or from the drop catchers themselves. If GD doesn't close this loophole fast, then it will be abused into oblivion.

I have said this before, but GoDaddy's primary business is as a registrar, so their system is designed to treat a $10 hosting package using the same basic business process as a $31,000 auction win, and that's absolutely wrong. These extended 30-day payment schedules and laissez faire attitudes towards buyers actually paying need to end, now.

This is not a $10 domain, it's a $31,000 digital property and this type of transaction requires far more skill and attention than chasing someone for a $5 hosting bill.

Split the business units apart between registration/hosting and domain auctions, then create a totally new and far more relevant set of business processes for domain auctions, then assign the appropriate staff, time, and effort to these tasks. No way in hell a $31K sale should get away without selling it to someone down the chain.
 
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I am certain that at least some of these "losses" are manipulated ones, either from end users or from the drop catchers themselves. If GD doesn't close this loophole fast, then it will be abused into oblivion.

I have said this before, but GoDaddy's primary business is as a registrar, so their system is designed to treat a $10 hosting package using the same basic business process as a $31,000 auction win, and that's absolutely wrong. These extended 30-day payment schedules and laissez faire attitudes towards buyers actually paying need to end, now.

This is not a $10 domain, it's a $31,000 digital property and this type of transaction requires far more skill and attention than chasing someone for a $5 hosting bill.

Split the business units apart between registration/hosting and domain auctions, then create a totally new and far more relevant set of business processes for domain auctions, then assign the appropriate staff, time, and effort to these tasks. No way in hell a $31K sale should get away without selling it to someone down the chain.
Totally agree about the sale staying in house.....

What is the process when the highest bidder does not pay? Do they contact the second or third highest bidders etc afterwards or do they just let it go?

According to their earning reports they keep the hosting and domains separate:

Second quarter earnings report below

  • Domains revenue of $369.6 million, up 10.5% year over year.
  • Hosting and presence revenue of $292.2 million, up 4.4% year over year.

Just seems like they have bad business practices when it comes to non paying auctions......something they need to sort out......

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They have a Vice President of domains at Godaddy & a SVP of hosting - this shows that they have 2 departments with separate decision makers who make the business calls
 
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According to their earning reports they keep the hosting and domains separate:

Sure, on the accounting documents, but their business processes seem to be the same whether it's a $5 hosting plan or a $50,000 domain auction.

Most companies separate out the revenue/expenses, profit/loss, and earnings out for each business unit, but it's just a method of reporting, not a true division between separate business entities.

Separate departments mean nothing when the vast majority of their business takes place through a single godaddy.com online portal, a single account for everything, and virtually the same business processes for all products. GoDaddy is the opposite of decentralized and is instead, very highly integrated.

The problem with GD is that they're probably making so much money that the boys upstairs don't feel the need to get the auction section under control.
 
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Good. That's one more thing GoDaddy couldn't get their greedy hands-on :singing:
 
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Seen quite a few of your blogs on Godaddy letting domains go, just the tip of the iceberg surely - must be loads going unreported

Would be interesting to see a year end figure on the amount lost, pretty sure it would be a substantial amount.

Probably not going unreported Nick, these come about as @Michael documents the GoDaddy close and then I report on the names where DropCatch or NameJet ended up getting the name a few weeks later. There have been a few smaller ones I don't write like a $300 sale and there are no other sales to report on that day.

The process of going to the next bidder is not consistent. Joe Styler said they don't always go to the next and the next.
 
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Joe Styler said they don't always go to the next and the next.
That is bizarre. I always assumed if the domain was not paid for by the original winner, it would be offered to the 2nd, 3rd, 4th bidder and so on.

So many of these strange issues surround this company. Looking forward to the day when GoDaddy takes their Auction and Investor platforms seriously.
 
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