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they bid in every domain and even low quality name they raise the budget ,and leaving it to closeout you pay $50+20 70 usd ..inguess it time to forget getting names at low xx
It allows them to automate their whole bidding system. If you took their API access away there's no way they'd be able to bid on the amount of auctions they do manualy, it would completely change the auction success rates and lower prices for everyone else. You do the hard work for them and they automaticaly bid on names with interest. GD are in a win win with HD as even the names they don't win have inflated prices from their participation. HD are almost certainly their biggest customer. It would be naive to thing they don't get special treatment. No membership plans, just preferential treatment for their biggest customers which is fine if its cut price registrations etc but not fine when its to the detrement of other customers.What advantage does it give though? Search? The bidding shouldn't really matter unless you mean automated bidding.
From a business and support perspective, I understand why the API would not be available to everyone unless maybe if it's behind another membership plan.
It's not illegal. The only thing I've seen that people get annoyed by is that on many marketplaces when you bid on auctions you're suddenly hit by an AML check and the account get's blocked for a few days and you lose out on the domain and people start inventing conspiracies.
They give certain select customers (including HD) access to their auction API that isn't available to everyone. Unless it's an even playing field it isn't fair.How is their auction system unfair? Doesn't the highest bidder win?
I guess I disagree - giving your biggest customers private API access is very normal and I think it's easy to understand why: free/inexpensive users eat up an inordinate amount of support resources.
If you wire GD a couple thousand you too can have API access anyway.
They give certain select customers (including HD) access to their auction API that isn't available to everyone. Unless it's an even playing field it isn't fair.
Yeah I can see why they would do things like that from a business stand point. Anyway it seems they've opened up API to everyone now so my agrument is moot lol was fun while it lasted.I guess I disagree - giving your biggest customers private API access is very normal and I think it's easy to understand why: free/inexpensive users eat up an inordinate amount of support resources.
If you wire GD a couple thousand you too can have API access anyway.
overpay ^^'
Ok I willAcquire hugedomains.com
I hate them too.
Interesting that both YOGAONE, MACBAR and POPANDSUKI are currently at auction with multiple bids over 3k again. Looks like maybe some shilling is going on. I didn't look at who was bidding on each. Could this be the same people that auction the same XYZ shill auctions over and over on Sav?Are they buying then all the domains in Most Active in Godaddy Auctions then?
This is a snapshot from today filtered by most bids - sorry but these are all junky domains (aside from meats.org) yet they have 100s of bids?
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They can buy my crappy domains like that if thats the case....
Not only that, I see someone is paying to advertise them on namebio.gotcha - all just shill bids