How is someone sniping GoDaddy closeouts??

[canswift]

This has happened to me twice recently… an expired name is in my GoDaddy watch list. No bids, so I decide to stay quiet and take it the minute it hits closeout. Only it doesn't seem to hit closeout, it's just gone. Someone has got it the instant the auction finish time hit. It never appeared in my closeout BIN list, not even for a nano-second.

So how did they do it???

 

[dann-o]

It's been happening to me a lot lately, too. Would love to know.

 

[Chetan]

wait for few minutes and then refresh

 

[dann-o]

^interesting.

 

[Chetan]

usually domain enters in closeout zone about 3 minutes after being removed from the auctions.

 

[dann-o]

I figured you meant something along those lines, Chetan. I should've figured it out myself from my ticket broker days, too. Oh well. Thanks!

 

[canswift]

Thanks guys (or gals). Yes, I knew that it takes a few minutes (it varies) to enter closeouts, and I do refresh the page continually. The instances I'm referring to when even with page refreshing, the domain never appears in closeouts.

In one instance, I know someone had sniped it (somehow), because they showed up in the Whois about a week later.

 

[ninjadomain]

A bid at the last moment should have extended the auction to 5m.

 

[equity78]

A bid at the last moment should have extended the auction to 5m.

No Ninja this member is talking about the auction ending, every name does not go to closeouts at the exact second. I waited for one, refresh, refresh, someone else got it which I can only chalk up to faster Internet connection. I have seen some say closed from the $12 auction, for minutes then check hours later and it is open. Nothing precise with Go Daddy Auctions.

 

[ninjadomain]

Yeah, another GD mystery.

Although, it's possible but not likely the domain could have been renewed right at the end by a person wanting an "evaluation."

 

[theSun]

Hmm, strange. Try email auctions(a)godaddy,com and state the domain and asks for a reply. I would also like to know.

 

[wwwweb]

Probably someone just has a faster connection, and bin's quicker.

 

[ninjadomain]

Probably someone just has a faster connection, and bin's quicker.

Yeah, many explanations, probably the best way is to ask GD auctions as mentioned above.

OR

A Magician Domainer. :D

 

[Atomic Domains]

Sometimes someone may have the domain in their cart and GD puts like a 3 hour hold or something on the name once someone adds it to their cart. So the name may show as available to purchase but actually isn't. If it shows unavailable, check back in a few hours.

 

[Arca]

Happens to me all the time too. When a decent domain expires, and nobody bids, there are often tons of other people all thinking they’re going to be able to buy it as a closeout.

When I keep refreshing continuously, I’ve often seen the name appear, and then I refreshed again by accident, just to see it gone a second later.

One time I was waiting for a nice name to expire, and I thought to myself it is too good to be true that nobody else is bidding on this name. Since I thought that somebody else would be able to snipe it before me anyway, I placed a bid 3 seconds before the auction would have closed, just to see what would happen. 15 other bidders immediately jumped in and started bidding on it (within seconds, so they were all watching it), and the bidding frenzy attracted a lot of new bidders as well, and the name went for high $XXX. If I had not placed that bid, some lucky guy would have gotten it as a closeout.

 

[wwwweb]

As much as you would like to think nobody wants it, and your going to quietly grab it, there are a dozen guys thinking the exact same scenario, you just can't see them online.

 

[greggb]

This has happened to me twice recently… an expired name is in my GoDaddy watch list. No bids, so I decide to stay quiet and take it the minute it hits closeout. Only it doesn't seem to hit closeout, it's just gone. Someone has got it the instant the auction finish time hit. It never appeared in my closeout BIN list, not even for a nano-second.

So how did they do it???

I'll tell you how. Though it's not currently in seek and snipe mode, and hasn't been for some time (it's hibernating for the summer).

http://www.dnsdrops.com/prgs/gbc4_doms_displaylistings.cgi?code=yep123

 

[greggb]

Dang double posts!

 

[greggb]

The code in the url keeps it private, so that anyone who doesn't know it gets an internal server error (go away google).

Also imagine a watch list of domains 75+ days past expiration, soon to become available for registration. And imagine a script setup to query the whois servers every few seconds, waiting for it to become available, at which point it might send an email to the person who wants it, so that even if he's walking his dog he'll get the message, nav to godaddy, and reg it.

Or if you're really serious you could have a chrome extension that continuously checks availability at GoDaddy, and once GoDaddy says, "By golly it's available. Better reg it before some other fool beats you to it!" You just reg it. You could even have your chrome extension reg it for you.

Anyway, just some possible answers to your question.

 

[DomainVP]

I am a GD sniping champion.

I've only been sniped once .

Most of my picks for the day to go auction and are left to bid wars, so I know that someone else has probably seen the name and would like to play the snipe game. The ones that go with no bids, I buy when it hits closeout - which typically takes 4 to 8 minutes; It's hard to pin down the exact time.

It's always a tough call... do you place a bid and alert the world of domainers that you want the name, or just snipe and roll the dice.

So that's up to you at the end of the day. I prefer the snipe, but if I really want a name I will be more than happy to enter a bidding war.