GoDaddy Auctions -- Discussion, Acquisitions, and Sales

[Ms Domainer]

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I searched the forum and could not find a thread dedicated solely to Godaddy auctions, which seem to be heating up lately.

I envision this thread as a place for discussion regarding YOUR sales and acquisitions, and general discussion about the auction venue itself, and, perhaps, some domain oddities that are popping up on the auction site, for example, high-priced domains that should be regfee.



One caveat, though: for your own good, PLEASE do not reveal your auction win (or anyone else's, for that matter) until the domain has landed in your account because the original owner still has the option to renew it, and I know how vexing that can be. In other words, don't count your chickens until they're hatched.

On the other hand, if you're having second thoughts about your auction win, by all means tell us all about it.

I suppose that if an auction win is high profile, it's already out there, but, still...

Anyway, I'll start with three comments:

1. I won my first (and maybe last) intentional typo, and it's getting clicks (no $ so far, though): Forwx.com. I could not find a live TM on this term, but one never knows. I have mixed feelings about this one.

2. I accidentally clicked on a BIN that I didn't want (I wanted the one above it), but I decided to honor the bid anyway. Grrr..., so be careful before hitting the submit button. It's not in my account yet, so I can't really reveal it right now.

3. Currently, there's a weird .co domain at over $9,000, with three bidders duking it out. Again, I don't want to reveal what it is, but if you go to the most active auctions, it's number 1 (as of this posting).​

Mods, I hope this thread is okay.



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[RevolutionaryDomains]

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Not sure if this has been posted or mentioned, but I haven't looked at GD auctions for a few days. Just noticed the following update posted at the top of the auctions page:


ATTENTION: Starting March 31, 2014, Sedo aftermarket listings will no longer display on GoDaddy.com. If you currently rely on SedoMLS to manage your domain listing and want to ensure that your services are not interrupted, please list your domains on Afternic.com.

 

[cdboard]

interesting that a "fast transfer" is being considered. would that need a change to their 60-day-hold policy?

http://domainnamewire.com/2013/11/15/godaddy-to-end-its-sedo-domain-sales-partnership/

 

[NPer]

interesting that a "fast transfer" is being considered. would that need a change to their 60-day-hold policy?

http://domainnamewire.com/2013/11/15/godaddy-to-end-its-sedo-domain-sales-partnership/

The article says no matter where your domain is held, if you list through Afternic, you will get exposure at Godaddy.

The 60 day lock will still be in place. I think that if a domain is sold via Afternic's platform, then the domain will be transferred to Godaddy if it's at some other registrar. The buyer will receive the domain with Godaddy as the registrar. Then the buyer gets a 60 day lock. Godaddy is growing smarter these days. Always looking at improving their market share.

That said, if your domain doesn't have to be with Godaddy to benefit from this exposure, then you can transfer your domains away without a worry. My names are listed at both Sedo and Afternic. We'll see how this plays out.

 

[sofiapartner]

I have a question. Is Godaddy issuing invoices? Or just these useless receipts. Useless for us in Europe? Somebody?

 

[Bannen]

Couple questions here:
1 - did anyone notice how much Musics.com ended up selling for today? It was an expiring auction.
2 - for that matter, does anyone know where I can find a list of past Godaddy expiring auction winners and prices? I haven't found anywhere on site but I haven't looked hard either.
3 - maybe someone can clarify for me: when you place your maximum bid on a GD auction, if you win does GD take your entire max bid, or just your max proxy bid in the winning amount over the next highest bidder? I'd thought they would only take the max proxy bid but I just won an expiring auction and they billed me for my max bid... and I didn't think the other bidders came up that high... but of course I can't find any past history of that or other auctions so can't see what the bidding history is.

Thanks for any help from those more experienced with GD expiring auctions, I'm a relative newbie with those.

 

[DN_Hunter]

Couple questions here:
1 - did anyone notice how much Musics.com ended up selling for today? It was an expiring auction.
2 - for that matter, does anyone know where I can find a list of past Godaddy expiring auction winners and prices? I haven't found anywhere on site but I haven't looked hard either.
3 - maybe someone can clarify for me: when you place your maximum bid on a GD auction, if you win does GD take your entire max bid, or just your max proxy bid in the winning amount over the next highest bidder? I'd thought they would only take the max proxy bid but I just won an expiring auction and they billed me for my max bid... and I didn't think the other bidders came up that high... but of course I can't find any past history of that or other auctions so can't see what the bidding history is.

Thanks for any help from those more experienced with GD expiring auctions, I'm a relative newbie with those.

#1 - I had marked the auction to "watch" it -- it appears to have sold for $76,000 (with 58 Bids)

#3 - For "Expired Domain Auctions" I believe it is supposed to be the winning amount over the next highest bid. Be careful though -- did you bid on an "Expired Domain Auction", or some other type of auction that happened to end today? In your "WON" section, it should list the items along with the BID history. Does it list the domain as "Expired Domain readon on: date" -- or does it just say SOLD?

 

[equity78]

Bannen you can check the Daily Sales Recap on Hybrid Domainer which we post names that sold for $100 or over each day, now I will say its not every domain because there may have been some that did not get put on the watch list.

Go Daddy does not provide a list of the daily sales each day. They actually stopped letting you look at the data of the ones you saved. Paul Nicks told me it just took up too much data and they wanted to lower the load on their servers.

 

[Bannen]

#1 - I had marked the auction to "watch" it -- it appears to have sold for $76,000 (with 58 Bids)

#3 - For "Expired Domain Auctions" I believe it is supposed to be the winning amount over the next highest bid. Be careful though -- did you bid on an "Expired Domain Auction", or some other type of auction that happened to end today? In your "WON" section, it should list the items along with the BID history. Does it list the domain as "Expired Domain readon on: date" -- or does it just say SOLD?

Thanks for the price on musics, I was curious/watching but wasn't around at auction close.

My won domain was an expiring domain auction; if prev owner doesn't redeem it then it should be in my account this weekend. Thank you for the tip, I hadn't seen the 'won auctions' thingie in my account; sussed around and found it just now and yes I can see the bidding history and it makes sense (6 bidders but my high bid proxied above the rest). Thanks, appreciate it

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Bannen you can check the Daily Sales Recap on Hybrid Domainer which we post names that sold for $100 or over each day

Great, thank you for the info and I'll check into those HD recaps

Thanks for the quick and clear help guys!

 

[Al Cohol]

I don't understand the buyer of Musics.com thought process, regarding this domain.

Think of the names you could purchase for $76,000??? I don't understand the prices, many domains sell for, on any auction platform however

 

[discobull]

Couple questions here:
2 - for that matter, does anyone know where I can find a list of past Godaddy expiring auction winners and prices? I haven't found anywhere on site but I haven't looked hard either.

I've been collecting daily expired domain auction data for about a year now for my own use. I hadn't decided yet whether to release the data to the public, but since you posted the request I figured I I'd see if anyone finds it useful. You can find the database at http://domaintoolshed.com

I'm keeping a record of every expired domain auction that closes with one or more bids regardless of price and the data is updated once every day after the last auction closes. I've collected close to 400,000 records at this point so it might make a useful research tool.

 

[Bannen]

I've been collecting daily expired domain auction data for about a year now for my own use. I hadn't decided yet whether to release the data to the public, but since you posted the request I figured I I'd see if anyone finds it useful. You can find the database at http://domaintoolshed.com

I'm keeping a record of every expired domain auction that closes with one or more bids regardless of price and the data is updated once every day after the last auction closes. I've collected close to 400,000 records at this point so it might make a useful research tool.

Nice; useful search tool, I tried it. Thanks!

 

[momentum]

Couple questions here:
1 - did anyone notice how much Musics.com ended up selling for today? It was an expiring auction.
2 - for that matter, does anyone know where I can find a list of past Godaddy expiring auction winners and prices? I haven't found anywhere on site but I haven't looked hard either.
3 - maybe someone can clarify for me: when you place your maximum bid on a GD auction, if you win does GD take your entire max bid, or just your max proxy bid in the winning amount over the next highest bidder? I'd thought they would only take the max proxy bid but I just won an expiring auction and they billed me for my max bid... and I didn't think the other bidders came up that high... but of course I can't find any past history of that or other auctions so can't see what the bidding history is.

Thanks for any help from those more experienced with GD expiring auctions, I'm a relative newbie with those.

1.) I think somebody did some faulty keyword research before bidding on Musics.com. Really can't explain that otherwise.

3) When you win a GD auction, your price is normally $5 above the second highest bidder. Unless it is a high priced domain which would use a bigger increment that $5. Don't forget to add in the registration price on top of the auction price. $8.49 for .com using coupons.

2)
Some of the higher priced auctions that I've watched the last three days have been:

$500+
localelectricians.com
suncitywest.com
liveblogging.com
gclass.com
snapfoods.com ($479)

$1,500+
winnetkarealestate.com

$350+
desktopvirtualization.com
criminaldui.com

$850+
mmub.com
atinet.org

I've been real active on godaddy auctions lately, although I didn't win any of those high priced domains. Trying to keep my expenses down

I do a lot of daily research and analysis in this area, you can check my sig.

 

[south]

Has godaddy started sharing expired auction proceeds?

A couple of weeks ago, I got notification that I had sold something that I thought was expired. It was a small amount, so didn't bother to check. Yesterday, 3 more sold (all names I was letting drop). This time I checked. Sure enough, they had expired. So either godaddy isn't removing them from auction listings the day they expire now (they were prevously listed at tdnam), or they're sharing proceeds...

 

[DN_Hunter]

H C Q - Scammer Bids?

I often tag some expired Domain Auctions to "Watch" just to get a feel for selling prices.

A few days ago H C Q.com (no spaces) sold for over $10k. That seemed reasonable. However, looking at my "Watched" list, it seems to have dropped to $32 with 93 bids.

I think there was a case of a classic bidder scam. Different bidders (who are part of the scam) bid the domain name up so fast that nobody else bids. Then the winning bidder bails out, and it drops to the second highest bidder as if the highest bidder did not participate. This one fell all the way to $32 for a 3-letter .com???


NOTE: I just noticed M U S I C S.com has also dropped from closing price of $76,000 to $56,555 (so again the high bidder bailed out???) This has "Scam Bidding" written all over it...

 

[Ms Domainer]

I often tag some expired Domain Auctions to "Watch" just to get a feel for selling prices.

A few days ago H C Q.com (no spaces) sold for over $10k. That seemed reasonable. However, looking at my "Watched" list, it seems to have dropped to $32 with 93 bids.

I think there was a case of a classic bidder scam. Different bidders (who are part of the scam) bid the domain name up so fast that nobody else bids. Then the winning bidder bails out, and it drops to the second highest bidder as if the highest bidder did not participate. This one fell all the way to $32 for a 3-letter .com???


NOTE: I just noticed M U S I C S.com has also dropped from closing price of $76,000 to $56,555 (so again the high bidder bailed out???) This has "Scam Bidding" written all over it...

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Hmmm....

VERY interesting. Sign up for two auction accounts, manage each from a different computer and site, and bid up.

I would think and hope that Go Daddy has an algorithm for this kind of scam.

If the eventual winner (2nd place) has too many of these kinds of wins, I would imagine a red flag would go up, and #2 would be investigated and dealt with by being booted out.

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[domains_for_sale]

I was browsing the GD Expired Auctions this morning and noticed that starting bids were quite high on ok to quality domains. Just the other day I could bid on decent domains for $10 - $12 dollars, but today similar quality domains are starting at $295 and higher. Maybe I missed a notice, but this stinks if this is how its gonna be.

Anyone else notice this?

 

[momentum]

Godaddy auctions best domains ending today:
ringtonedownloads.com
refurbished.org
botanicalworks.com

 

[pokainc]

by the way.. I noticed something else.. . Godaddy has started to play around, if you're no vigilant you can end up paying alot for no reason.
--> Was going through some deleted names list.. I took some names down and checked on godaddy to see if they were still availabe.
--> it showed 250$ or more to bid on them (several of them).. I checked on Namecheap.com, it was available to register for reg about 10$!!! Happened with a few names!

 

[bobbyt]

I won a domain at GoDaddy Auctions as an expiring domain. I received an email notifying me of a refund today on my purchase which I assume meant the previous owner renewed it before it was pushed to my account... however, when I did a whois on it, it's now at Name.com and retained its creation date. How is it possible another registrar stepped in and grabbed the domain on a GoDaddy Expiery auctions? I was under the impression Winning bids at Godaddy auctions should never be revoked unless the previous owner, a GoDaddy customer, renews it, in which case it should still be at GoDaddy.

This happened earlier this week with another domain now sitting at Enom. Is there something about the winning process i'm missing?

 

[lennco]

I won a domain at GoDaddy Auctions as an expiring domain. I received an email notifying me of a refund today on my purchase which I assume meant the previous owner renewed it before it was pushed to my account... however, when I did a whois on it, it's now at Name.com and retained its creation date. How is it possible another registrar stepped in and grabbed the domain on a GoDaddy Expiery auctions? I was under the impression Winning bids at Godaddy auctions should never be revoked unless the previous owner, a GoDaddy customer, renews it, in which case it should still be at GoDaddy.

This happened earlier this week with another domain now sitting at Enom. Is there something about the winning process i'm missing?

Yes there is, the original owner can transfer the domain to another registry up until the 42nd day, sometimes up until the 45th day. This is to avoid paying the $80 recovery fee.

Its not unusual.