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Hello, I have bought from Godaddy Auction
the price is small compared to the premium. Is the owner entitled to cancel or refuse to sell ?
Payment was made and the money was deducted from the visa
 
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In theory the owner is not allowed to cancel or refuse .. but it does happen on rare occasions. It's always best never to consider a domain transaction complete until the domain is in your portfolio (even then sometimes it can be reversed, but that is extremely rare).

More importantly .. you definitely need to ignore the term "Premium" when it comes to domaining. The term "Premium" has multiple definitions and both literal and technical. More importantly, it is a relative term .. what most consider to be "Premium" really isn't.

Even more importantly ... ALL domains being resold by domainers in the GoDaddy aftermarket are automatically labelled with "Premium" regardless of quality. If you listed DGJDS567D-HFS337ZZX.com for sale in the GoDaddy Aftermarket it would be listed as "Premium".

Good luck with your domain .. I hope it really is a good one! :)
 
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If the domain was registered at GoDaddy, expired, and you bought it at their auction, it will be yours in 5 to 10 days. If the domain was registered at one of their partner companies, expired, and you bought it at the GoDaddy auction, the former owner still has an opportunity to renew it. If they do, the auction is cancelled and you lose the domain. Otherwise, it will be yours in 5 to 10 days.
 
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If the domain was registered at GoDaddy, expired, and you bought it at their auction, it will be yours in 5 to 10 days. If the domain was registered at one of their partner companies, expired, and you bought it at the GoDaddy auction, the former owner still has an opportunity to renew it. If they do, the auction is cancelled and you lose the domain. Otherwise, it will be yours in 5 to 10 days.
This is different from what I was told by a Godaddy rep today. He said that if I won the domain at auction and the auction was over that the original owner could no longer renew. The name was guaranteed to be mine.
 
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This is different from what I was told by a Godaddy rep today. He said that if I won the domain at auction and the auction was over that the original owner could no longer renew. The name was guaranteed to be mine.

First of all .. as usual .. that information from GoDaddy isn't entirely correct .. usually it's true, but there are exceptions.

But what you are talking about are "Expired Auctions" (domains that expired 35 days before going to auction). What we were talking about above was non-expired domains being actively auctioned by a seller.
 
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Okay, thanks for the info. Sorry for the misunderstanding on my part.
 
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Okay, thanks for the info. Sorry for the misunderstanding on my part.

Don't be sorry .. asking questions in public here is how everyone learns! :)

GoDaddy auctions has multiple types of auctions. The bulk of them (about 50,000 a day) are expiring auctions. But individual domainers also list their own auctions.

For example .. all the ones I list at NameCult and here at NamePros (link in my signature) are all expired domains.

With expired domains, GoDaddy auctions off expired domains from their clients. In 99.99% of these cases, if you win the auction, you will get the domain because it is now a GoDaddy policy that you only have 30 days to renew or transfer the domain. But GoDaddy also has contracts to sell expired domains from other registrars, and some of those registrars still allow their clients to renew up until day 42 of expiration .. so that's why you still see some domains not completing the auction process.
 
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99.99%? I like those odds! But still a little nervous as I think the domain I bought is a good one. We'll see in a few days.
 
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did you buy expired auction or just regular dmain for sale? where is it regged?
 
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Expired auction.
Registrar: GoDaddy.com, LLC from who.is
 
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If the domain was registered at GoDaddy, expired, and you bought it at their auction, it will be yours in 5 to 10 days. If the domain was registered at one of their partner companies, expired, and you bought it at the GoDaddy auction, the former owner still has an opportunity to renew it. If they do, the auction is cancelled and you lose the domain. Otherwise, it will be yours in 5 to 10 days.
Well said, spikedo. This is what I found out when two of the domains I picked up from GD Closeout were taken back and money refunded to me recently because they were from enom and the owners renewed the domains, as I was told by a GD support guy.
 
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So, if who.is shows Godaddy then i should be safe?
 
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So, if who.is shows Godaddy then i should be safe?

Rule #1 of domaining: Never consider a domain "safe" until it is safely in your account! ;)
 
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