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Revered domain investors!
Please take a split second to answer this poll so that we can try to evaluate the magnitude of the unfair competition created by discriminate selection for granting users GoDaddy API access.
The GoDaddy auctions API looks like a nice tool to have when investing in domain names. Some have access to this nice tool, which is designed to simplify auction purchases at GoDaddy. Wonderful! Others are denied it and their businesses are struggling to compete. Not so wonderful. And not so fair.
In my case, I have been denied access around 10 times during a long period of time. The explanations have ranged from the instability of the system to covert and uncalled for allegations of possible abuse. (Which in itself is a description of a flawed system.)
The issue is not new. It has existed since GoDaddy stopped granting access years back. Something @DomainVP has tried to draw attention to here https://www.namepros.com/threads/the-disgusting-godaddy-auctions-api-issue.1186700/
I think that this is a real problem that highlights an unduly perpetuated unfair competition, and I would like GoDaddy to pause and reopen when they have a service that can be offered to everyone that have a proven daily need for it.
Without some sort of documentation it is always hard to make a case. So please take the poll.
Because surely it can not be the case that the market leading registrar beloved domain investor community, particularly the investors that are in growth mode, are really not that important at all in the bigger scheme of things?
Thank you.
Please take a split second to answer this poll so that we can try to evaluate the magnitude of the unfair competition created by discriminate selection for granting users GoDaddy API access.
The GoDaddy auctions API looks like a nice tool to have when investing in domain names. Some have access to this nice tool, which is designed to simplify auction purchases at GoDaddy. Wonderful! Others are denied it and their businesses are struggling to compete. Not so wonderful. And not so fair.
In my case, I have been denied access around 10 times during a long period of time. The explanations have ranged from the instability of the system to covert and uncalled for allegations of possible abuse. (Which in itself is a description of a flawed system.)
The issue is not new. It has existed since GoDaddy stopped granting access years back. Something @DomainVP has tried to draw attention to here https://www.namepros.com/threads/the-disgusting-godaddy-auctions-api-issue.1186700/
I think that this is a real problem that highlights an unduly perpetuated unfair competition, and I would like GoDaddy to pause and reopen when they have a service that can be offered to everyone that have a proven daily need for it.
Without some sort of documentation it is always hard to make a case. So please take the poll.
Because surely it can not be the case that the market leading registrar beloved domain investor community, particularly the investors that are in growth mode, are really not that important at all in the bigger scheme of things?
Thank you.
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) as the best response for me. I am not involved enough to need or request it so voting no seemed to give wrong impression. I do agree that it seems unfair for some to have API access and some not. Thank you for starting the poll, 
