HUGE DOMAINS SNIPING GODADDY CLOSEOUTS

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So annoying Godaddy hasn't stopped Huge Domains from sniping Godaddy Closeouts with their automated tools, no way a human bidder can win a even closeout.

First they were sniping with the backorders, now you cut that out, and you are letting them snipe via automated tools.

So what do you say @Joe Styler , you want to even the playing field a bit, as your partners are bidding everything in a split second, from $12, to $11, and bidding everything else into the hundreds from a simple bid. I would rather pay a Huge Domains surcharge at checkout.


Huge Domains has an unfair advantage on the auction platform, essentially taxing every user for using it with their automated access advantages given to them thru the house.

 

[mani0307]

Yesterday i was traping SmartFancy/dot/com and waiting when will go into closeout and refreshing page every second last from 1 hour but domain not drop to closeout. Any one catch it?

 

[D Haynes]

Yesterday i was traping SmartFancy/dot/com and waiting when will go into closeout and refreshing page every second last from 1 hour but domain not drop to closeout. Any one catch it?

Wait a week then go to the URL. My money is on a Huge Domains landing page.

 

[wwwweb]

Yesterday i was traping SmartFancy/dot/com and waiting when will go into closeout and refreshing page every second last from 1 hour but domain not drop to closeout. Any one catch it?

It probably got claimed faster than you could hit refresh from the time the $11 auction opened, and in the milli second huge domains took it.

Yes, before the drop time was random, now it happens within the first minute, pretty much like clockwork.

 

[mani0307]

It probably got claimed faster than you could hit refresh from the time the $11 auction opened, and in the milli second huge domains took it.

Yes, before the drop time was random, now it happens within the first minute, pretty much like clockwork.

How i can beat HD in Closeout?

 

[mani0307]

How i can beat HD in Closeout?

 

[D Haynes]

How i can beat HD in Closeout?

You can't.

 

[mani0307]

You can't.

Godaddy giving preference to HD! and godaddy should give equal preference to their customers. Its called monoply and i was not expecting this type of policy by the godaddy.

 

[EASYPICKINGS]

Is that from the closeouts? Or one you forgot to renew?

I forgot to renew with NS, and I find out they gave it to Huge Domains or something.. and than they wouldnt give it back unless I bought it for their price.

 

[D Haynes]

Godaddy giving preference to HD! and godaddy should give equal preference to their customers. Its called monoply and i was not expecting this type of policy by the godaddy.

I would suggest reading through this thread and reading GD replies etc before passing judgment. Technically there are equal opportunities to all customers but it makes a big difference if you are a multimillion dollar company with offices next to GD.

 

[Lord Antares]

I doubt that. They are not targeting one or two, they are targeting tens/hundreds and those auctions are all ending close to each other.

But even if that was true, then GD changed their closeout structure to benefit them. Because, it used to be that you couldn't predict at what second the name will drop into closeouts. From few seconds to few minutes a name would reside in no-where-land after no one would bid at $12. So, you'd fire your 60 requests effectively for nothing, if you were targeting the first seconds.

GD apparently has moved away from that, probably at HD's request, as they'd be the only party benefitting HUGELY (pun intended) from this.

But if they were given some sort of unfair advantage, why would they need to tinker with the closeout start times? It seems like the closeout times are tailored to match HD's bot.

If the closeout times now start a known time after the auction's end, you shouldn't theoretically be able to beat HD if their servers are next to gd. They only need 1 request per name. That's all highly theoretical tho and it assume perfect functionality on both of their parts.

One might only truly dig deeper if they made a bot of their own to try their hand at closeouts.

 

[Recons.Com]

But if they were given some sort of unfair advantage, why would they need to tinker with the closeout start times? It seems like the closeout times are tailored to match HD's bot.

If the closeout times now start a known time after the auction's end, you shouldn't theoretically be able to beat HD if their servers are next to gd. They only need 1 request per name. That's all highly theoretical tho and it assume perfect functionality on both of their parts.

One might only truly dig deeper if they made a bot of their own to try their hand at closeouts.

Yes, now the time is known. It is pretty much the next second after the name doesn't get any bids and time lapses. So, they can send 10 requests, 2-3 per second and be assured to win, if in fact being next door is factor. But I doubt that gives them that much advantage. There must be additional tweak in their favor, as it seems empirically every name that doesn't emerge into closeout goes 100% of time to HD and that shouldn't be possible if things were as fair and square as GD claims.

 

[mani0307]

I would suggest reading through this thread and reading GD replies etc before passing judgment. Technically there are equal opportunities to all customers but it makes a big difference if you are a multimillion dollar company with offices next to GD.

Oh i got it.
Thanks!

 

[jideofor]

their bidding max is $488 on last one I won. I had to bit them to win at $500. so annoying.

looking at my dashboard and I saw the bidder was Bidder 913932

 

[wwwweb]

their bidding max is $488 on last one I won. I had to bit them to win at $500. so annoying.

looking at my dashboard and I saw the bidder was Bidder 913932

They are bidding higher than that on some, usually they are in the number 2 position, seem to blanket every auction with a sliver of interest, it’s like this autobot you know it’s there, and is bidding 8-15% of the auctions appraised value like clockwork. They are adding tens of millions to the houses bottomline with their bidding strategy, and taking a lot of money out of bidder wallets with their automated bids.

They are still gaming the closeouts also, having first pick priority over them.

 

[cdboard]

looking at my dashboard and I saw the bidder was Bidder 913932

thanks for the info. I checked and found they had outbid me on one this month.

 

[wwwweb]

thanks for the info. I checked and found they had outbid me on one this month.

They have been active in over 90 percent of the auctions I have participated in, I guess we have the same taste, or they are just blanketing everything.

At this point you are going to get caught being bid up the majority of the time. You are best to sit on the sidelines until the next economic downturn, you will make more money then buying to much over bidded dead inventory, which let’s face it, if your turning over 3% of it a year, you are doing pretty good. So if you sell 1 in 35 domains you buy every year, at bidded up prices, not long before you burn your savings, and then you have to grind to get back to even. The risk at this point really outweighs the return.

 

[barman]

Huge Domains has sucked the fun out of domaining for me.

 

[wwwweb]

Huge Domains has sucked the fun out of domaining for me.

As well as the money out of your wallet.

 

[Recons.Com]

Interestingly, one guy with some time, some coding skills (or help) and little extra to spare, could cost HugeDomains millions.

You'd need to experiment a little and then have HD go for bidding low-mid $xxx on absolute crap and get them buy tens of thousands of names like that, until they realize crowd-piggybacking-slash-exploiting-using-next-door-relationship-with-godaddy is not working anymore

 

[wwwweb]

Interestingly, one guy with some time, some coding skills (or help) and little extra to spare, could cost HugeDomains millions.

You'd need to experiment a little and then have HD go for bidding low-mid $xxx on absolute crap and get them buy tens of thousands of names like that, until they realize crowd-piggybacking-slash-exploiting-using-next-door-relationship-with-godaddy is not working anymore

HugeNames crossed into 4 figures bidding on goldbrand.com today, I have noticed in the past bit they are going for bigger fish, albeit having a lock on their closeout picks, which does help dollar cost average some higher level buys.