GoDaddy Backorders - Any good?

[golan]

They caught two domains for me about 2-3 years ago. But now I resumed using them - and zero results, for couple of months, for not the strongest competition domains. Are they of any use at all now? Please share your experience.

 

[newbie191]

They do refund you if they fail to catch any domains for you after you have tried multiple times and when you tell them that their service is totally crap and demand refund. I am talking from experience.

 

[GoKaizen]

You can use it to save money on bids. Good explanation by @Yofie

http://dotweekly.com/godaddy-domain-backorder-explained/

Good for domains at GD, not pending deletes.

https://www.namepros.com/threads/godaddy-backorders-in-redemption.937534/

 

[GoKaizen]

GD backorders are useless. Don't waste your $$$.

 

[Joe Styler]

I've been traveling for a couple weeks sorry for the delay. The backorders lock when we try and capture the domain so there are two scenarios as you pointed out above.

1. Expired domain with Godaddy goes to expired auction and your backorder is used as a bid on the auction. Even if you are outbid it still counts as a bid and gives you a discount on the auction and renewal price if you win, so the backorder is locked until the expired auction is completed. They last 10 days.
2. Expired domain is not registered with GoDaddy. We try and drop catch it, the capture fails and the backorder is still locked. This happens for 5 days I believe after the name is caught. This is because we still try and get the domain, sometimes the names drop again after they are caught by another company because the buyer has a bad/old credit card or they feel there is a tm issue etc so they let the domain name go again and we try and get it for you.
If you want the exact timing you can email auctions support but off the top of my head I believe it's five days. I have a lot of namepros pm's to catch up on from being away Sorry again for the delay.

Either way if you are outbid on an expired auction you do not want to bid on again or have a backorder locked on a drop catch name caught elsewhere and you don't want to take the chance it drops again you can contact auctions support and they will cancel the backorder hold early for you so you can reassign it. Only they will do it regular support will not because they do not easily know if youre backorder is also being used as a valid winning bid on an expired auction.

 

[Joe Styler]

It goes to auction. Just happened to me recently on an extremely niche name that most no one would ever want to bid on. Sure enough, with about 3 or so days left on auction at $10 someone outbid me and won the name for almost $xxx. Name still isn't resolving anywhere and I can't wait to see who would pay this for a name that is worthless to most all domainers and end users - I had some dev plans for this one but I guess my backorder money is gone and that's the end of that.

you can get a refund on your backorder if you do not wind up using it.

 

[Joe Styler]

Asked support and they said no refund

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pm me the info and i will refund it for you.

 

[cdboard]

but now what happens if you don get the domain to you get refunded the full amount you paid?

No. You still have a backorder credit. you can use it to backorder another name.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

GD???
Pseudobackorder...
Even handregs are faster in certain TLDs...

 

[bazabizo]

Useless. For me they are the best registrar, but worst dropcatchers!

 

[golan]

How do I contact the auctions team directly?

[email protected]

 

[E-Promote]

I don't use GD BO's anymore but I did for years and the entire time people were complaining about how useless they were at BO's, how they never caught anything etc...I never said a word, the bashing worked to my advantage, slowly picking up some 3L .nets, single dict word .com's and many others. If the majority of domainers fail, why would you listen to them...

 

[MarkedOne]

Godaddy is not good for dropcatching domains. If you want to catch a expired domain use Dropcatcher, Namejet, Snapnames.

I also have read that you can hand reg the dropped domain before godaddy catches it.

Godaddy is best for registering domains.

 

[equity78]

Useless. For me they are the best registrar, but worst dropcatchers!

Agree, they just never put up the resources to compete.

 

[Sam W]

General feeling seems to be that GoDaddy aren't great for backorders, but can somebody clarify whether they are better if the domain that's dropping is currently registered with them.

I currently have a backorder in with GoDaddy for a name registered with them that drops on Tuesday. I'm not clear whether it would be prudent to put in orders with NameJet etc. as well, or if GoDaddy have it covered. Please can someone clarify.

Thanks.

 

[forge]

Chances are close to 100% that the expiring domain will be auctioned at Godaddy. The unfortunate part is that your backorder increases your chances by about 0% for getting that name.

Bottom line, Godaddy backorders are worthless. Just monitor the auctions for your name and bid to win.

 

[Joe Styler]

No. If it goes to auction it will alert you to that fact and place the first bid for you automatically.

 

[Vimal Kumar]

It depends on what you are trying to do. Backordering a domain before the auction will not give you the domain without anyone else getting a chance to buy it. I am not aware of anywhere you can do that. The backorder ball game changed about a decade ago maybe more with the evolution of Pool.com and continued to evolve until today. I am unaware of any way to get a domain anyone else would be interested in without some competition up front at some point along the expiry cycle.
If you want to use the backorder as a way to help get the domain with competition it is helpful if you use it the right way it will provide you with a discount among other things.

Hi Joe, your response is confusing. On the GoDaddy site it mentions that if one backorders the domain and it expires, it will be registered to the individual if no one else backorders (screenshot attached). Your statement above, however, seems to convey that it 'mandatorily' goes for auction. Kindly clarify

 

[creataweb]

Hi Joe, your response is confusing. On the GoDaddy site it mentions that if one backorders the domain and it expires, it will be registered to the individual if no one else backorders (screenshot attached). Your statement above, however, seems to convey that it 'mandatorily' goes for auction. Kindly clarify

It goes to auction. Just happened to me recently on an extremely niche name that most no one would ever want to bid on. Sure enough, with about 3 or so days left on auction at $10 someone outbid me and won the name for almost $xxx. Name still isn't resolving anywhere and I can't wait to see who would pay this for a name that is worthless to most all domainers and end users - I had some dev plans for this one but I guess my backorder money is gone and that's the end of that.

 

[Nametree]

It depends on what you are trying to do. Backordering a domain before the auction will not give you the domain without anyone else getting a chance to buy it. I am not aware of anywhere you can do that.

Wow, that's news to me that all your backorders go to auction. I've successfully backordered names elsewhere (Dynadot, for instance) which certainly don't get sent to auction if no one else backorders them. Dropcatch is the same.

Good timing, though, I just placed a backorder on Godaddy that I will most definitely remove immediately and make sure I never use your backorders again.

 

[pb]

Backordering a domain before the auction will not give you the domain without anyone else getting a chance to buy it. I am not aware of anywhere you can do that.

On the contrary, godaddy is the only dropcartcher I know that opens the auction when there is just one backorder. Everywhere else, if you're the only one who placed a backorder, you get the domain for the nominal fee. I was going to place a backorder for a domain registered at godaddy but luckily I did some research first and thanks to this thread I barely dodged the bullet...

 

[deez007]

Thanks for starting this thread - I was actually wondering about the back order process myself. I assume that when u place a back order then you obviously pay for upfront...but now what happens if you don get the domain to you get refunded the full amount you paid?

 

[golan]

Now i wonder, depending on a feedback here in the thread, if it's really useless - if i can ask GD to refund me these credits.

 

[golan]

You can use it to save money on bids. Good explanation by @Yofie

http://dotweekly.com/godaddy-domain-backorder-explained/

Good for domains at GD, not pending deletes.

https://www.namepros.com/threads/godaddy-backorders-in-redemption.937534/

Thanks for the links.

 

[GoKaizen]

Keep this thread updated if any GD back orders are successful, I'm interested to hear others success/fail rate.