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Was bidding on a domain and ended up going head to head with Bidder 913932 aka Huge Domains.

I figured if I just posted there would be skeptics who would not believe me, so here is the evidence.

Huge Domain bid $1255 USD for CanadianRed.com
I had to go to $1,280 to get the domain.

By comparisons you can see the domain one above I picked up for $12 bucks.

I posted this for all the folks that keep saying Huge Domain bots stop bidding at $150-$250

There you have the evidence.... they have definitely increased the amounts they are bidding at.
 
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Somebody posted the following finding last year on thedomains blog. This makes me guess once again that, sometimes, HD does not want to win. They want to end up as the 2nd highest bidder instead. Lets guess why?

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Source: https://www.thedomains.com/2019/10/30/godaddy-auctions/
 
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Somebody posted the following finding last year on thedomains blog. This makes me guess once again that, sometimes, HD does not want to win. They want to end up as the 2nd highest bidder instead. Lets guess why?

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Source: https://www.thedomains.com/2019/10/30/godaddy-auctions/

While I do believe there's a good chance of foul play between HD and GD (after all, hd has made them how many dollars?), this doesn't prove it. They are bidding automatically, they have no idea what they're bidding on. To this person, you offered a random domain he doesn't care about.

I find most suspicious the fact that they bid only on godaddy expired auctions. No other sites, even though there are plenty to choose from. Not even godaddy user auctions. Only the ones where the money goes to godaddy.
 
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While I do believe there's a good chance of foul play between HD and GD (after all, hd has made them how many dollars?), this doesn't prove it. They are bidding automatically, they have no idea what they're bidding on. To this person, you offered a random domain he doesn't care about.

I find most suspicious the fact that they bid only on godaddy expired auctions. No other sites, even though there are plenty to choose from. Not even godaddy user auctions. Only the ones where the money goes to godaddy.

Agree with both point. One anecdote doesn't prove anything

And yes to the second point.
If this was any other industry, the some fed agency would have been up their ass. Not sure what the EU is doing. They are also pretty strict about this things.
 
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Agree with both point. One anecdote doesn't prove anything

And yes to the second point.
If this was any other industry, the some fed agency would have been up their ass. Not sure what the EU is doing. They are also pretty strict about this things.

Look at their website. It says in their ''about us'' page that they own 350,000 domains. That's ooold news, they own millions by now. How are they that lazy that they don't update info that's like 10 years old, especially when it helps improve their bragging rights. What about the fact that none of the pictures on their website are loading on chrome?

Is HugeDomains a money laundering website?
 
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I find most suspicious the fact that they bid only on godaddy expired auctions.
I've seen one of Reberries bidding on snapnames pre-release auctions...
If this was any other industry, the some fed agency would have been up their ass. Not sure what the EU is doing. They are also pretty strict about this things.
So is U.S., sometimes. In another thread, 1.5 years old but just reactivated again -
https://www.namepros.com/threads/godaddy-scammed-me-heres-proof.1133996/
somebody is writing about a real existing lawsuit against GD, which involves auctions. Even though the case has nothing to do with expiry stream in general or HD in particular, some new info may become public...

And, in any case - For everything that is hidden will eventually be brought into the open, and every secret will be brought to light. Snapnames Halvarez sage is a good example.
 
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I've never seen that one in the wild, any examples? Or maybe they don't use this ID any more?
So, I am not alone. This 2nd id was mentioned a few times (including related thread "sniping godaddy closeouts"), but I never (again, never) saw this ID! So, what really happens? Different customers do see different pictures?
 
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So, I am not alone. This 2nd id was mentioned a few times (including related thread "sniping godaddy closeouts"), but I never (again, never) saw this ID! So, what really happens? Different customers do see different pictures?

Well, I've only been actively bidding since Jan 2020 (to Aug 2020 when I called it quits), so I thought maybe they used to use two accounts earlier and now just one. Other than that I don't know.
 
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Well I got a drop huge domains took. 3 years later I get an invoice from godaddy for it for less than $50.00. So is huge domains godaddy?
 
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Well I got a drop huge domains took. 3 years later I get an invoice from godaddy for it for less than $50.00. So is huge domains godaddy?

Can you clarify?
 
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Well I got a drop huge domains took. 3 years later I get an invoice from godaddy for it for less than $50.00. So is huge domains godaddy?

Right. Wow. That is an amazing hypothesis!
 
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no comment?

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So I was bidding against HD yesterday. I saw a domain with 1 bid at 12 and that was a real person's bid. As soon as I bid near the end of the auction, I saw an automatic bid by another user which I knew was HD.

So does that mean they wouldn't have bid if I hadn't? They would have let the domain go to another guy for cheap? But as soon as I bid, their bot is ready to pay multiples of the first bid. How does that work?
 
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So I was bidding against HD yesterday. I saw a domain with 1 bid at 12 and that was a real person's bid. As soon as I bid near the end of the auction, I saw an automatic bid by another user which I knew was HD.

So does that mean they wouldn't have bid if I hadn't? They would have let the domain go to another guy for cheap? But as soon as I bid, their bot is ready to pay multiples of the first bid. How does that work?

The bid on domains with just the opening bid as well, I've seen it happen.
They usually place their bid at around -5:30 or later.
 
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The bid on domains with just the opening bid as well, I've seen it happen.
They usually place their bid at around -5:30 or later.

So do you think it was just a coincidence and we bid at the same time? I actually think I bid around that mark.
 
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So do you think it was just a coincidence and we bid at the same time? I actually think I bid around that mark.

If you want to be 100% sure, bid at around -5:05. I think bots (not only HD) usually bid a bit earlier, so if you wait them out and they bid later (esp. after -5:00), then it will likely be because of your bid.

But if you bid after -5:00 which will result in extending the auction time, you may skew the results by triggering a different mechanism.
 
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Example of HD placing the first bid (apart from the initial one) on a $10 (backorder) auction:

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And here's HD bidding "first" (many hours after the initial bid) on a regular auction:

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Sorry for triple post but I couldn't manage to fit all screenshots in one post for some reason.
Also sorry for non-English interface but I think it's easy enough to understand and I didn't want to go through the hell of changing language/currency at godaddy just for the screenshots. ;)
 
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So I was bidding against HD yesterday. I saw a domain with 1 bid at 12 and that was a real person's bid. As soon as I bid near the end of the auction, I saw an automatic bid by another user which I knew was HD.

So does that mean they wouldn't have bid if I hadn't? They would have let the domain go to another guy for cheap? But as soon as I bid, their bot is ready to pay multiples of the first bid. How does that work?

Yes you are right. Please read our earlier comments. They attract to CVCV combo without fail and thereafter only if there is movement on any domains.
 
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Ok but I presume that if nobody is bidding, domainers are letting these run to closeout and picking these up for a song, rather than blowing the bank on expensive auctions?
 
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Ok but I presume that if nobody is bidding, domainers are letting these run to closeout and picking these up for a song, rather than blowing the bank on expensive auctions?

Reasonable and experienced domainers, yes.
 
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Ok but I presume that if nobody is bidding, domainers are letting these run to closeout and picking these up for a song, rather than blowing the bank on expensive auctions?

That's tricky and we did this experiment too...If you let it go without bidding with an assumption that it will go to closeout; many times we found it doesn't appear on closeout which means already acquired by someone even before.
 
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Yesterday's encounter we did it again. We entered after US$ 100 when all genuine players who were fighting with Bot gave up and then we left at $200 :)

Please do not ask about domain name as we were not interested on that...It was for fun and timepass :)

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That's tricky and we did this experiment too...If you let it go without bidding with an assumption that it will go to closeout; many times we found it doesn't appear on closeout which means already acquired by someone even before.

It is well known that the HD bot snipes all of the closeout names. It's been known since before their auction shenanigans. You have a better fighting chance in auctions than closeouts. There's a large thread about this.
 
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