How many illegal GoDaddy premium BuyItNow names are there?

[decode]

Hey everyone you will want to check all of your domains to make sure GoDaddy hasn't allowed others to list them on GoDaddy Premium Buy It Now.

Registered a new domain with GoDaddy yesterday and it is now listed by someone else for sale on GD.

Contacted them and they weren't that interested in fixing it.

Wow!

Interested how many of you have the same issue.

I've run into this a bunch on Afternic as well.

Certainly there needs to be more security around listing domains and verifying who owns them before allowing them to be listed.

 

[DNWon]

What's the name?

 

[pokainc]

When I register names, same or next day I always list them on GD & Afternic.
Almost every time there's at least 1-3 names which are listed by other people. I send Afternic support the request, within 24 hours it's removed. [email protected] is the email I use for the Godaddy ones and they solve it usually within 24-48 hours (haven't listed much on GD premium though)

 

[SiteMac]

I'm surprised you said you also have that problem on Afternic. Eveytime I transfer to a new registrar I get a "Notice: Domain(s) removed from Afternic" email. They do a pretty good job. Sedo on the other hand, I think has 70% illegal listings. They seem to want to keep the fake listings.

 

[mpls]

I'm surprised you said you also have that problem on Afternic. Eveytime I transfer to a new registrar I get a "Notice: Domain(s) removed from Afternic" email. They do a pretty good job. Sedo on the other hand, I think has 70% illegal listings. They seem to want to keep the fake listings.

Really?
When you list a domain on sedo you've to prove the ownership.
How? Insert a txt record or switch your nameserver to sedo parking.
If you don't do that (prove the ownership) they don't list your domain.
And if you don't own the domains you can't do that (txt record/switch nameserver).
On afternic you can list your domains and you don't have nothing to prove.

 

[decode]

Imagine how many names people lose.

Also, how much value is lost when a Buy It Now price is put on a domain that you never agreed to.

There is a clear cut legal issue for GD lowering the value of every name that they allow to be listed improperly that names a price or says it is for sale.

In what other industry would the "Industry Leader" be allowed to publish so many false and fraudulent listings?

 

[SiteMac]

Really?
When you list a domain on sedo you've to prove the ownership.

I have no idea about there process on adding domains. I'm talking bout removing domains. Afternic removes my domains when I transfer to new registrar without me asking. When I try to remove from sedo, they always said the refuse unless I take screenshots and I don't waste my time doing that. So they have tons of my names on there without permission.

 

[decode]

@mpls Exactly, GoDaddy and Afternic should require proof of ownership. This needs to be confirmed on a regular basis as well. Maybe my domain name was reg'd before and listed before by a previous owner. When he/she stopped being the owner it should have been removed.
Wild West Domains indeed!

 

[DomainerGo]

Hm I thought GoDaddy required proof of ownerrship, they sent me an email to my whois address to verify my domain.

 

[wwwweb]

There is a lot no doubt, thousands.

Just send the screenshot proof, and they will help you out.

 

[wwwweb]

Hm I thought GoDaddy required proof of ownerrship, they sent me an email to my whois address to verify my domain.

If a domain is sold thru another avenue, and not removed, it stays listed.

 

[DomainerGo]

If a domain is sold thru another avenue, and not removed, it stays listed.

So the old owner can sell it again (and the new owner isn't able to add the listing to GD), right? Anyone had this scam where he was sold a domain by a guy who already sold it?

 

[wwwweb]

So the old owner can sell it again (and the new owner isn't able to add the listing to GD), right? Anyone had this scam where he was sold a domain by a guy who already sold it?

Scam is a strong word, more so oversight, the old owner can never collect, as they can't transfer the name to complete the sale.

 

[DomainerGo]

Scam is a strong word, more so oversight, the old owner can never collect, as they can't transfer the name to complete the sale.

Yeah, so it seems we need to make a manual verification as well, to see if the seller is still the owner of the domain name, sending him an email to the whois record, or asking him to add TXT records or something.

 

[anantj]

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