The "unspoken" other layer to this problem are the rollbacks (thanks to cheats and schemers) occurring en masse at Godaddy auctions with impunity, as discussed in another NP thread which petered out around Christmas, yet the scamming continues unabated.
Not only is this causing nasty surprises...
Right -- the claim that Dan (or any marketplace) has no way to verify if a seller still owns a given domain is simply not true.
It's just not worth their while to do so proactively, apparently.
@bmugford
This is truly bizarre, now Owens is copying my post(s), nearly verbatim!
My mistake is acknowledging it...
(though it's my opinion that D.O. has always been a troll, particularly in chat).