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I've been wondering about the competition in auctions for expiring domains over at GoDaddy.com, because somebody is paying hundreds for seemingly every domain that gets a few bidders.

I’ve also noticed a clear pattern, with the last bidder (or one of the last bidders) entering the auction winning most of the time, which made me think that there is one large corporate buyer piggybacking of whatever domains other people find and bid on. Turns out that is the case: HugeDomains.com is buying most domains over at GoDaddy.com expired auctions. I looked up the WHOIS of the past 150 auctions I have lost at GoDaddy.com, and 84 of those are now owned by HugeDomains.com and listed for sale on HugeDomains.com.

While 50%+ may not be representative of overall domains bought at GoDaddy, they do seem to buy far more domains than anyone else. The 66 names not bought by HugeDomains.com were bought by a number of different individuals and companies (BuyDomains.com bought 6 of those 66, for example), so 50%+ were taken by HugeDomains, while "the rest" of the auction wins were by a number of different individual domainers and companies.

This might not be news to some, but I've never seen anyone mention that HugeDomains is this active over at GD expired auctions, so I thought it might be interesting for some people to know who is outbidding everyone in the lower range over at GoDaddy. I've read people mentioning that HugeDomains buy names in close-out status over at GoDaddy, but never that they buy most of the domains in auctions too.

HugeDomains absolutely dominates all auctions below $5XX, and they only picked up a single name above $5XX (cakemart.com) in my sample of 150 names, so $5XX seems to be a self-imposed limit for them. If I only checked domains sold below $5XX, the percentage bought by them would be even higher. I've been the second highest bidder in lots of auctions that HugeDomains.com won, and in my experience they will keep bidding until you give up or until the price passes $5XX. By outbidding most bidders in the lower end, and acquiring more than half of the domains other people also have interest, it leaves a far smaller pool of names for the rest of the domainers to compete for, so I guess that's part of the reason why the reseller prices for names keep increasing so much for names in this range.

The only way to buy cheap domains at GoDaddy auctions now seems to be to let domains expire with 0 bids, so that they go to close-out status, and then try to snipe them as soon as that happens. However, some domainers seem to think it's smart to bid $12 on any decent name when there is 1-15 minutes left, hoping that nobody else is going to place a bid, so fewer and fewer decent names are let to expire with 0 bids. However, that strategy never seems to work (I've tried it myself lots of names, and it did not work even one time), because there are always other people watching and waiting for the name to go to close-out, and they jump in and bid if you make a $12 bid, and most of those names are eventually won by HugeDomains.com. What experiences do other people have at GD recently? Anyone else have any good strategies for buying expiring domains @ GoDaddy.com these days?

Some examples of expired domains bought at GoDaddy.com auctions by HugeDomains:
Domain: skillsharing.com
Purchase price (at GoDaddy): $540
Asking price (at HugeDomains): $2995

Domain: ledmaster.com
Purchase price (at GoDaddy): $537
BIN price (at HugeDomains): $2195

Domain: cyberstrategies.com
Purchase price (at GoDaddy): $262
Asking price (at HugeDomains): $2895

Domain: crablab.com
Purchase price (at GoDaddy): $320
Asking price (at HugeDomains): $1895

Domain: dailyportal.com
Purchase price (at GoDaddy): $560
Asking price (at HugeDomains): $2895

Domain: fivesecondrule.com
Purchase price (at GoDaddy): $42
Asking price (at HugeDomains): $2695

Domain: deltacloud.com
Purchase price (at GoDaddy): $365
BIN price (at HugeDomains): $1795

Domain: itace.com
Purchase price (at GoDaddy): $499
BIN price (at HugeDomains): $2595

Domain: sunnykitchen.com
Purchase price (at GoDaddy): $200
BIN price (at HugeDomains): $2595

Domain: baristaschool.com
Purchase price (at GoDaddy): $449
BIN price (at HugeDomains): $2895

Domain: cakemart.com
Purchase price (at GoDaddy): $695
BIN price (at HugeDomains): $3495

Domain: visuala.com
Purchase price (at GoDaddy): $315
BIN price (at HugeDomains): $2795

Domain: massanalytics.com
Purchase price (at GoDaddy): $130
BIN price (at HugeDomains): $2095

Domain: edusport.com
Purchase price (at GoDaddy): $535
BIN price (at HugeDomains): $2995

Domain: acneguru.com
Purchase price (at GoDaddy): $52
Asking price (at HugeDomains): $2495

Domain: stylefolio.com
Purchase price (at GoDaddy): $195
Asking price (at HugeDomains): $1995



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am i missing something here, why is 'C P 5 5 .com' at $7,100 already!
 
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am i missing something here, why is 'C P 5 5 .com' at $7,100 already!
Maybe

The Charoen Pokphand Group (CP) is a Thai conglomerate company located in Bangkok. ... With some 200 subsidiaries in China, CP Group, known in China as "Zheng Da" (正大), was the country's first foreign investor as well as its largest ...
Owner‎: ‎Chearavanont family
Number of employees‎: ‎500,001
Revenue‎: ‎US$ 46.5 billion (2013)
Industry‎: ‎Conglomerate
 
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i bet one is the end user and the other is an domainer that hopes to sell it to the same enduser, LMFAO
 
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past auctions with LLNN starting with CP:

cp03.com 103 USD 2016-04-06 GoDaddy
cp33.com 603 USD 2016-02-08 GoDaddy
cp68.com 2,495 USD 2015-08-26 Sedo


nothing close to what the auction is seeing
 
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Again, a little update about my watch on GoDaddy expired auction of mediocre to quite good quality domain which still doesn't get bid at last 2 hours or bought as soon as the domain entered Closeout.
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I found Mike Mann! And the domain is LandToRent.com. Good name obviously. I don't know whether it's him who own the name previously, accidentally slip to GD expired auction and renew it asap. I forgot to check the whois when it's still on auction.

And it's Wenjie Jiang who bid for mirrorly.com @dotbay. He bid and win another good names too...

Well, I am the mentioned Wenjie, it's a "she" :), from Brandsly.
To clarify, @dotbay too, I was not the first bidder for mirrorly, someone else had put a bid way early on, when I saw the name the night before the auction ended, there was already a bid. I love the name, so yeah, I kind of had to bid on the auction to get it since there was already a bid. I only started to bid 5 minutes before auction ended though.
 
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Well, I am the mentioned Wenjie, it's a "she" :), from Brandsly.
To clarify, @dotbay too, I was not the first bidder for mirrorly, someone else had put a bid way early on, when I saw the name the night before the auction ends, there was already a bid. I love the name, so yeah, I kind of had to bid on the auction to get it since there was already a bid. I only started to bid 5 minutes before auction ended though.
Once someone bids early, and you really want the name, bradsly played it exactly right, waiting until the last 5 minutes. Nothing more, or less you could do, you just got to let it play out, as you have no idea who the other players are even though there are some constants that are on every damn bid, or so it seems.

There is someone who will sit there bidding $5 increments until he pushes you to your max, or over, a dangerous game, but I have seen people who waste hours doing this, not sure if they have a life, a job, or even a wife for that matter.

What you should never do if you really want a name, and you have a $100 or less budget is bid at the last minute, truth be told, 90% of the time it starts a chain of events you didn't seem coming, and you will either over pay, or lose it, let it fall into closeout.

These systems don't always work, but in the long run you will win more, and spend less, hence win win.

Sometimes there is a name you really want, but someone wants it more, and no matter what you spend, you will never win it, you just got to let it be, especially these days, to bad end users don't have the same bidding motivation as aftermarket bidders.
 
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WatchFully: first bid more than 24h before auction end.. ended $305...

Pastely.com First bid placed 2 days before auction end.. 1d22h to go!

Looks like someone is messing up with other investors...
 
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WatchFully: first bid more than 24h before auction end.. ended $305...

Pastely.com First bid placed 2 days before auction end.. 1d22h to go!

Looks like someone is messing up with other investors...
This happens all the time at both GoDaddy and NameJet (platforms where bids/backorders are prominently displayed to everyone, so bidding/backordering as late as possible is obviously better).

And it just seems entirely pointless to publicly announce your interest in buying the name well ahead of the closing time (unless I'm missing something?), because if you place a $12/$69 bid days in advance for a decent name, you’re certainly not going to get it for at that price anyway.

With the barrage of additional bidders that inevitably join in after those early bids bring everyone's attention to those names, a bidding war is almost certain to ensue, and I rarely see the person that starts to bid/backorder early on end up winning any names.
 
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WatchFully: first bid more than 24h before auction end.. ended $305...

Pastely.com First bid placed 2 days before auction end.. 1d22h to go!

Looks like someone is messing up with other investors...

It just takes one newbie who tends to blow his load at every brandable, or somewhat decent name he sees, thinking they are going to get it for $12, they will learn the hard way, each, and every time.
 
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Yesterday, I actually placed a $12 bid on a 5L pronounceable name with 1 hour left at GD Expiring. It was a name where I was fine winning it for $12, but also fine if someone swooped in and took at.

To my surprise, no one grabbed it. Name was Woo/nu.

The problem with waiting for Closeouts now, is that I am getting beat there way more often than I used to. Does anyone have insights on the time gap these days before it becomes available at Closeout? Seems like it might have been extended in duration as well as randomized?
 
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Yesterday, I actually placed a $12 bid on a 5L pronounceable name with 1 hour left at GD Expiring. It was a name where I was fine winning it for $12, but also fine if someone swooped in and took at.

To my surprise, no one grabbed it. Name was Woo/nu.

The problem with waiting for Closeouts now, is that I am getting beat there way more often than I used to. Does anyone have insights on the time gap these days before it becomes available at Closeout? Seems like it might have been extended in duration as well as randomized?

It can depend who the person dropping it is. As there are many domainers letting them go thru the cycle, then renewing/trasferring them out.

I would assume proofa.com is going to moved away as this seller is known to renew, and it is one of those last minute bids, that closed at $188... so many of the regulars avoid bidding.
 
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@wwwweb I'm talking about the time gap between when you can place a $12 bid and then it re-emerges for availability as an $11 closeout.
 
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Domain I watched today was MedicalWellness.com which was at $530 about 6 minutes to close, it ended up closing for $2280, 2 way bidding war from $520 to $2280

So looks to be domainers who were waiting for the countdown, as it was sitting at $530 for the majority of the morning.

Some names I lost out on were StoreyMine.com $695
VoiceOfGod.com $735
wowrealty.com $753

All were won by domainers
 
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@wwwweb I'm talking about the time gap between when you can place a $12 bid and then it re-emerges for availability as an $11 closeout.
I've seen it take 5-10 minutes sometimes lately.... It does seem random.
 
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i would rather let a name go than than to over pay on an investment (domain) hundreds of thousands of names drop every day so there are plenty of fish in the sea.

i have also seen names come around again, they auctioned for a few hundred dollars years ago, just to be dropped and sent to ex auctions again.
 
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Yesterday, I actually placed a $12 bid on a 5L pronounceable name with 1 hour left at GD Expiring. It was a name where I was fine winning it for $12, but also fine if someone swooped in and took at.

To my surprise, no one grabbed it. Name was Woo/nu.

The problem with waiting for Closeouts now, is that I am getting beat there way more often than I used to. Does anyone have insights on the time gap these days before it becomes available at Closeout? Seems like it might have been extended in duration as well as randomized?

I was watching this domain for days but didn't set a reminder since it has one bid 1h before closing. I thought it would of sold for $100+++

Good catch!
 
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i was able to get without to much of a fight;

S a l e B i d .com
 
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i was able to get without to much of a fight;

S a l e B i d .com
Woo/nu.com lucky timing no doubt that one was missed, I would bid $20-$40 on that on a shot for sure, good catch.

SaleBid I don't get what you are seeing in it?
 
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auction site, offers deals, liquidation, etc. i've sold similar names in the $x,xxx - but only time will tell

past sales ending with bid;

greenbid.com 1,225 USD 2017-01-12 GoDaddy
rbid.com 8,108 USD 2017-01-08 GoDaddy
serverbid.com 1,675 USD 2017-01-05 BuyDomains
facebid.com 1,475 USD 2016-11-02 GoDaddy
fobid.com 3,000 USD 2016-09-01 Sedo
fancybid.com 605 USD 2016-08-20 GoDaddy
optibid.com 5,575 USD 2016-08-10 Sedo
antigobid.com 171 USD 2016-07-25 GoDaddy
sunbid.com 3,500 USD 2016-07-20 Sedo

past sales starting with sale;

salesexpert.com 4,000 USD 2017-01-20 Flippa
salesman.io 205 USD 2017-01-14 Flippa
salesandmanagementblog.com 290 USD 2017-01-11 NameJet
salehandbags.com 100 USD 2017-01-09 GoDaddy
salesoperator.com 135 USD 2017-01-08 GoDaddy
salestax.org 1,007 USD 2017-01-04 GoDaddy
salessuperstar.com 232 USD 2016-12-25 GoDaddy
salesgorilla.com 124 USD 2016-12-21 GoDaddy
salesinstitute.com 787 USD 2016-11-18 NameJet
salesmatter.com 404 USD 2016-10-10 GoDaddy
salesguy.com 4,007 USD 2016-09-23 GoDaddy
saleschannel.com 2,100 USD 2016-09-09 GoDaddy
sale247.com 410 USD 2016-09-01 GoDaddy
 
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people are posting all sorts of winning auctions and names, has HUGEDOMAINS.com given up because of this thread?
 
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people are posting all sorts of winning auctions and names, has HUGEDOMAINS.com given up because of this thread?
Maybe they think the platform has gotten to expensive, when they push bids, others push back.

As these names sit in portfolios, and take time to sell thru, cashflow is not constant in this industry, you need to keep things fluid, as these names take a while to sell.

HugeDomains has other income streams to sustain things if things to slow down, some of these domainers not so much.

It's all a calculated risk, some people are paying $3-5K on some end user type names, sometimes end users have $2-3K budgets, and you just can't make it work. You have a single bidder double, or triple the closing price of the auction, that is your profit margin being eroded.

Their was a example given of a domain woo/nu, I have a ton of similar names in my portfolio, if you think they magically sell, or get offers you are wrong. $20-50 is a safe bet, maybe up to $100 is manageable, but when you start piling on names like this from $125-300 it really starts adding up. I have oonu.com, moonu.com, nootu.com, cunoo.com etc... etc... they take a LONG LONG time to sell, most don't even have offers.

There is a reason portfolio holders need to charge 10X for their domains, otherwise the business model does not make sense based on sell thru rates, and the cost to replace sold inventory.

We are all searching for that same diamond in the rough, some are willing to pay retail, others wholesale, and then you have last minute party crashers who just want to be part of the action, and have no clue what they are doing. It makes for the perfect storm.
 
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Sometimes getting into a bidding war is just plain fun. Business models vary on a per-business basis. Nothing wrong with marking up a name 20-50x and holding for a decade, so long as that's your gameplan going into the fray. Good things can come to those who wait just as well as to those who snap up the quick flips and keep the liquidity going.
 
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