All GoDaddy auctions occur when I sleep. What can I do?

newdawndomains · Sep 25, 2020

I'm located in Southeast Asia, meaning that all the auctions happening on GoDaddy I see on ExpiredDomains occurred in the dead of night when I can't bid on them. The domains I bid on during the day then get outbid at night.

Does anyone on who is on this side of the planet have a strategy for dealing with this? Should I be putting in a high proxy bid? Are there other auctions not on GoDaddy that end when it would be daytime in Asia? I'm feeling a bit defeated at the moment that I may never get to really be in the domaining game because of this issue...

pb · Sep 27, 2020

newdawndomains said:
I'm located in Southeast Asia, meaning that all the auctions happening on GoDaddy I see on ExpiredDomains occurred in the dead of night when I can't bid on them. The domains I bid on during the day then get outbid at night.

Does anyone on who is on this side of the planet have a strategy for dealing with this?

Theoretically, API would be useful in that case. But in GoDaddy's book API is only meant for privileged customers and ~~bed~~business partners, while casual domainers can go cry in a corner.

TauseefKhan · Sep 27, 2020

gain some miss some. Maybe you have a day job. So, in this case, try being awake to win some domain names and miss some auctions when sleeping is important.

AbdulBasit.com · Sep 28, 2020

Give proxy bid and go to sleep.

TauseefKhan · Sep 28, 2020

@AbdulBasit.com It was in my mind too - but, I thought he may want to actively participate.

newdawndomains · Sep 28, 2020

TauseefKhan said:
@AbdulBasit.com It was in my mind too - but, I thought he may want to actively participate.

Indeed, because even if I put a proxy bid in, it can be outbid in that final hour when it seems there's some last-minute bidding going on.

I appreciate everyone's advice here. I'm going to get into the habit of waking up at 4 AM (lots of successful people do this so why not?) and catch at least some of the auctions I'd want to bid on. In the meantime, I've been looking at the GD closeouts between 7 and 8 AM as someone else recommended, and managed to pick up a few domains that seemed promising based on the excellent advice Bob Hawkes gave in another thread. I'm also now on several other auction sites that don't involve GD domains. I'm going to continue learning more about domaining from the forums and slowly building up my portfolio by adding a few domains a week.

AbdulBasit.com · Sep 28, 2020

TauseefKhan said:
@AbdulBasit.com It was in my mind too - but, I thought he may want to actively participate.

I suggested what I do now after moving to Malaysia because the participating in auctions doesn't suits me due to the time zone.

The Durfer · Sep 28, 2020

yes high proxy bid might work, but only use it for the most elite one you want, not all of them.

blogspotter · Sep 28, 2020

newdawndomains said:
Indeed, because even if I put a proxy bid in, it can be outbid in that final hour when it seems there's some last-minute bidding going on.

I appreciate everyone's advice here. I'm going to get into the habit of waking up at 4 AM (lots of successful people do this so why not?) and catch at least some of the auctions I'd want to bid on. In the meantime, I've been looking at the GD closeouts between 7 and 8 AM as someone else recommended, and managed to pick up a few domains that seemed promising based on the excellent advice Bob Hawkes gave in another thread. I'm also now on several other auction sites that don't involve GD domains. I'm going to continue learning more about domaining from the forums and slowly building up my portfolio by adding a few domains a week.

Proxy bid should the max amount you are willling to pay. Unless you are an end user, you should most of the time pre determine how much you want to pay. You don't want to end up in a bidding war with an end user. Bidding war seem fine once in a while but they cut into your budget really fast.

KTC · Sep 28, 2020

When I used to live over in Riyadh, I knew there was no way that I was going to be able to wake up in time to participate. Very erratic sleep schedules will do that to you.

Just do yourself a favor of setting your maximum bid and be done with it unless you can modify your schedule to coincide with the closing of the auctions you are looking to win.

Positives:
1. You will have your bid placed.
2. Not going to lose any sleep over if you're going to win or not. If you win, great! If not, no big deal. You may find someone else had placed a higher maximum already and you can start planning on going for a different name instead.

Negatives:
1. You will most likely end up paying more because if other investors or bots hadn't locked onto the name now, it's going to land on their radar. You may get lucky and it'll be a name that no one else will want, but if you're bidding on GD auctions, expect that the HD bot has definitely locked onto it now.
2. This is more GD specific, but if you leave it to closeouts, it will most likely be scooped up by the HD bot or someone else that was waiting for it to drop. If you can access the API, then use it to your advantage and go nuts with closeouts. Otherwise, closeouts aren't the way to go if you are manually bidding. Just put your bid and be done with it.

newdawndomains · Sep 29, 2020

KTC said:
When I used to live over in Riyadh, I knew there was no way that I was going to be able to wake up in time to participate. Very erratic sleep schedules will do that to you.

Just do yourself a favor of setting your maximum bid and be done with it unless you can modify your schedule to coincide with the closing of the auctions you are looking to win.

Positives:
1. You will have your bid placed.
2. Not going to lose any sleep over if you're going to win or not. If you win, great! If not, no big deal. You may find someone else had placed a higher maximum already and you can start planning on going for a different name instead.

Negatives:
1. You will most likely end up paying more because if other investors or bots hadn't locked onto the name now, it's going to land on their radar. You may get lucky and it'll be a name that no one else will want, but if you're bidding on GD auctions, expect that the HD bot has definitely locked onto it now.
2. This is more GD specific, but if you leave it to closeouts, it will most likely be scooped up by the HD bot or someone else that was waiting for it to drop. If you can access the API, then use it to your advantage and go nuts with closeouts. Otherwise, closeouts aren't the way to go if you are manually bidding. Just put your bid and be done with it.

What's an HD bot and how does it decide what domains to buy in the GD Closeouts? There's over 10K new domains in the closeouts every day.

KTC · Sep 29, 2020

newdawndomains said:
What's an HD bot and how does it decide what domains to buy in the GD Closeouts? There's over 10K new domains in the closeouts every day.

When I was mentioning the HD bot, it was short form for the HugeDomains bot. You'll hear more about it as you dig into a couple more threads about them(there was one thread pretty recently mentioning about their automatic bidding).

I wish I had more info on how it decides what domains it will attempt to scoop on closeouts. One thing you'll see at the end of the auction is if bidder id 913932 shows up, which is one of HugeDomains bidder ids(I think they have one more, but I can't remember. Hopefully, someone can clarify if they have multiple or just that singular one).

One tip I have learned is to check the name's archive.org screenshots. If I see that a HugeDomains landing page shows up on one of the screenshots, they will most likely not snag it in closeouts through the GoDaddy API because they have owned it before and didn't sell for them. The more recent the screenshot is, the better chance they won't attempt to get it back. That may be the only time I'd be willing to take a shot at getting a closeout domain.

DataSN · Aug 22, 2022

Save Breach said:
GoDaddy has always been unfair to domainers.

You can just automate the whole process. Just ask them for API access maybe like HugeDomains and let your scripts handle bidding and everything.

Cheers

May I know why Godaddy isn't fair to domainers? In what ways? I'm trying to auction some names there so would like to know!

DataSN · Aug 22, 2022

The Durfer said:
yes high proxy bid might work, but only use it for the most elite one you want, not all of them.

May I know why? Why should I only use high proxy bid for only elite ones I want but not all? Does Godaddy have ghoest bidders that inflate the prices to or near my high bid if there's not enough participants?

DataSN · Aug 22, 2022

AK85 said:
There is always an important auction that will end while you are sleeping. I usually stay up all night for that auction. It's all about setting up your priority list, for me sleeping comes at the end.

I wouldn't advise putting a high proxy bid & going to sleep. Just reorder your priority list & you should be good to go.

Amr

May I know the reason why you wouldn't advise putting a high proxy bid & leave it be? It seems a good strategy to me. What am I missing?

karmaco · Aug 22, 2022

Sleep is overrated. Domainers never sleep.

The Durfer · Aug 22, 2022

4.cn has auctions.

redemo · Aug 22, 2022

TauseefKhan said:
@AbdulBasit.com It was in my mind too - but, I thought he may want to actively participate.

Doesn't need to participate. Set a proxy bid in line with his budget and then wait until morning.

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