I have 2 questions about GoDaddy?

[Name Trader]

1) Is it possible to receive a push of a domain from another GoDaddy member without adding a 60 Day hold. I remember doing this in the past, but don't recall how I did this. Is this still possible? How to do this? @Joe Styler

2) Does GoDaddy have any sales of NGTLD's (expiring or members sales)? I've tried many times to use their search form (the one with all the tick boxes), but I always fail to find any NGTLD's for sale. What am I doing wrong?

 

[Name Trader]

Yeah you would or should have. For the last year or so we have been updating the WHOIS on the move to the buyer. It has been longer than that on the Afternic side. Before that on the GoDaddy auction side there was a link in the sold section that allowed you to contact the buyer. To be frank though, what makes you think they will care even if you do contact them? If you sold it with us not only did we contact them when they bought it to urge them to change the WHOIS (under the older system, as I said the new flow updates the WHOIS by default), but we also send out mandated reminders to them about it at least once a year. Beyond that if you reported it to invalid whois and they see the info is bad they suspend the domain so the customer can't use it until they resolve the WHOIS issue. They also reach out, often times by phone as well in addition to the other times we reached out above. I'm not saying this in the tone of a smart a**, but as a guy who used to run a few departments here and knows that we had a hard enough time getting people to accept the domains they paid thousands for into their accounts let alone getting them to update the WHOIS. This is precisely why over time we moved to ways where could "force" the domain to the new owner and use the new WHOIS from their info. Beyond that it is not usually an easy task to get someone to change their info. The right step for you would be to report invalid whois and then let the department reach out. As I initially said, bottom line is you can't force someone to change the WHOIS short of a court order.

These are MUCH older than a couple of years. Closer to 5 years or more would be more the like time scale. None of these problem domains appear in the Sold Domains on Afternic/GoDaddy Control Panel. Almost all the domains reported in the Sold Domains are 2019, with 1 in 2018 and 1 in 2017.

I'm not replying here just to keep this conversation going. It's a REAL problem. Is it possible for us to give you the domain names by PM and for you to provide us with the contact links for sales no longer in our Control Panel? If not. Oh well, nothing changes. I'll try to report the domains for invalid whois again. But I don't hold out much hope for that being successful based upon my previous reports. We are busy people. As far as priority given to the problem, is close to zero. Day to day business is generally full of more important issues. But none-the-less, it's still annoying to have our whois details on domains which don't belong to us. This only happens at GoDaddy.