In a response to this post I will give you what I've found from my point of view.
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Hemanttilotia said:
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Thanks. Exactly my point, that this HKDN guy knew about the reserve and just made a bid that was just short of the reserve.
I too think it's Oliver only.
I would request DSAD staff and Shane to clarify as to why they removed content from May 14th article about HKDN.
It's getting indexed on Google but not there in the post.
I think they got some warning from NameJet, their sponsors, or were asked by Oliver to put that down.
If NameJet asked them, then I think NameJet would be in deep trouble here"
I checked my post on May 14th and the revisions and see nothing about HDKN. Maybe I did but I have no recollection of mentioning it as all. But I wrote about HDKN publicly several times. I put exactly what you all are saying in this thread in print months ago for the world to see.
On May 17th I wrote
https://dsad.com/domain-shanes-daily-list-domains-auction-wednesday-may-17th/
If you see HDKN as a bidder today you can be assured that this account has made a bid is just below the reserve price. If you want the name and bid you will meet reserve. But its not natural and blatantly obvious. I know because there I’ve tested it (actually wanted one of the names)
On May 24th I wrote
https://dsad.com/domain-shanes-daily-list-domains-auction-wednesday-may-24th/
in this post I wrote
These.com HDKN has a bid at $14,000 which lately has been a shill bidder that bids right below the reserve so my guess is the next bid meets reserve. Great name and worth the price in my opinion.
I have never been asked by Namejet to remove anything. I can write whatever I want and always have. I get paid by Namejet to promote their auctions. I am paid monthly and not by sales. Nothing effects my payment from Namejet other than they think my traffic sent to their auctions is not worth their payment. I am not told what to put on my list and have never been sent or guided to list one single name by Namejet.
Now that's out of the way. Yes. I called Jonathan about HDKN. I noticed his bids on the names I was bidding on and to me it looked unnatural. I was pissed that I lost Spreader.com to HDKN. I had not bid on names because he was setting his bids at reserve and I wasn't going to play that game. But this time I lost the name to him and he came in late. I was hot. I called again and simply said "if I find that name going back into Oliver Holgers account I am am going to go off" He told me that Marquee solutions was one of the biggest buyers on Namejet and they were legit. I did some homework and saw they bought a HUGE amount of names and maybe just maybe they were legit. And to this day its still in their account. Even though its in in that account it turns out I may have been right all along.
Like DomainGang's post today. I sleep very well. I knew there was shill bidding going on and I called the manager and told him. Which is more than most people have done. I called because it effected me and I thought it was BS. I am not a watchdog like Kosta but I do call directly to the head when I see something fishy. But I had no idea it was this deep. Yet it does not surprise me at all. The coding at Namejet is old and outdated. The backend is archaic and everyone with an API and scripts have more data than they do about who is bidding on what.
I think the industry needs Namejet. They have great inventory and we need good fresh inventory. But this has to be cleaned up. They have to be willing to ban people who break TOS regardless of how much they spend or bring in. Regardless of relationship. And since they didn't take me seriously, maybe now they will listen. And again, like DomainGang said. I do feel like I am an honest domainer and all honest domain investors should be pissed when another domain investor is stealing from you. That's not up for discussion