discuss GoDaddy expired domains appearing on dropcatch

[Domainer47]

Just noticed today that "tronlabs .com" and "watched .org" were sold at dropcatch as dropped names a couple months after they were sold at the GoDaddy expired auctions.

Any idea what is happening here?

I was the second-highest bidder for "watched .org" in the GoDaddy auction but I didn't get offered it after a non paying winner so I'm assuming they didn't not pay for it.

 

[equity78]

Names that are expired are expired. So they can drop if they do not sell at auction. We don't always sell all the domains that expire, we don't always offer names to Second highest bidders. We sell a lot of names. One a month or so is so small without this thread I bet we would not even notice that it happened. Bottom line is most people pay for auctions when they win, sometimes we offer to 2nd highest sometimes its too late or not worth the manual effort to assign it to someone else as 2nd.
Anyone who bids is expected to pay and if they don't we would ban their account. Same with any indication of shill bidding. Those kinds of things are watched very closely and would not escape our notice even in small quantities. So end of the day, some names are going to drop that's the nature of expired auctions the names are expired.

Joe why would you not always offer to second Highest bidder? Shouldn't that be a standard policy. Paul Nicks tweeted as much

Aug 21
We go down the list of bidders, if all back out then we let it drop just like a name that no one bids on.

 

[equity78]

Bottom line is most people pay for auctions when they win, sometimes we offer to 2nd highest sometimes its too late or not worth the manual effort to assign it to someone else as 2nd.

Ok so if it's a PDFzone.com which just closed at $75,000 you going down the list, a name for $200 you are not. But I would think you could give parameters so people know they will be offered it the way Paul mentioned, the tweet reads as:

We go down the list til we find a payment, only if many decline to pay does it drop.

 

[Joe Styler]

We don't always offer it because it is a manual process. Support does it. Depends how much they have on their plate any given day. Or perhaps the first highest said they will pay but they needed extra time for the banks to get the money to us internationally and we ran out of time before the wire hits. What if something broke on auctions and support is slammed with - well support that day, or they are doing extra training that day? There are several possibilities why names wouldn't get offered. Point being we try like Paul said but we are not under any obligation to do it. We could just drop it.

 

[pb]

It makes you wonder why GoDaddy didn't offer watched .org to me as the second-highest bidder, are they not required to do that? Also, it's kind of surprising that someone with such a low bidder ID 33644 didn't follow through with payment.

Anyway, GD must be losing a significant amount if they are having to let premium names drop because of non-paying bidders.

Apparently they don't care. See my case:
https://www.namepros.com/threads/0ne-com-bought-and-then-deleted.1198707/

 

[Domainer47]

Apparently they don't care. See my case:
https://www.namepros.com/threads/0ne-com-bought-and-then-deleted.1198707/

I think Joes answer explains it @pb - did you not buy your domain for the reduced price on dropcatch?

@Joe Styler Why does GoDaddy not make it an automated process for the second-highest bidder to get offered the name after say 3 days of non-payment or so? It seems like you guys are only losing money here. If there is a genuine problem with payment from the high bidder you could make it a manual process for them to get a payment extension from support?

 

[Lord Antares]

I was watching 2 expired domains on godaddy. They had about a day left (and some hours I think) and no bids. All of a sudden, they're not available through auction anymore and they're registered at tucows. How could that have happened?

If the registrant renewed and transfered out at a late stage of expiry, did the transfer happen within the same day? If not, why wouldn't the name disappear from auction as soon as someone initiated a transfer?

 

[equity78]

Happens with Dynadot too https://namebio.com/fitren.com

FITREN.COM last sold for $229 on 2020-09-11 at DropCatch

1,275 USD on 2020-07-30 at Dynadot

 

[blogspotter]

GoDaddy did not secure $2,600 + here and NameJet got the cash

https://namebio.com/tattooedmartha.com

I was bidding on this. I didn't know it went to namejet for 700. Damn

 

[equity78]

OrganicShampoo.com GoDaddy did not secure $4,050

https://tldinvestors.com/2020/10/bimber-com-and-organicshampoo-com.html