TDNam second auction, no closeout

[DNabc]

Hello all!

I was waiting for a domain auction at TDNam to end, and after that happened, instead of going to the $5 closeout price the auction restarted again at $10 for 8 more days! First time I saw this!

Have any of you seen this? I know I could have made a $10 bid, but I buy so many domains that getting them for $5 + VAT makes a difference.

I've been searching, is this one of those situations where Godaddy keeps the domain instead of releasing it?

 

[Name Trader]

That's the tactics for an Expired Domain Auction not a Public Auction.

I am going to disagree with that advice.

By bidding early you are tipping your hand and letting others
know you are interested in the domain.

It's not a good idea to draw attention to the domain.

Place your bid as close to the auction end as possible (see next below).

If you can be online when the auction ends it would be much better
to bid when there's slightly more than 2 minutes left.

That's because auctions extend for an additional two minutes after
the last bid.

If you bid at 2 minutes and 10 seconds and no one else bids, you win!

If the auction has less than two minutes left and you then place your
bid, then two minutes is added to the remaining time.

Place a bid at 1 minute 45 seconds remaining then the auction ending
clock will restart at 3 minutes and 45 seconds.

This allows time for someone else to bid against you.

Too bad there's no sniping service available like there is on eBay.

If there is any, I'd love to know.
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If both the Current Price and Asking Price are $10 then you will indeed get the domain for your $10 bid if no one bids higher than you.

The OP never said that $10 was just the Asking Price.

 

[tricolorro]

That's the tactics for an Expired Domain Auction not a Public Auction.

Only the part about bidding just before the 2 minute ending.

Many of the Public Auctions have an Asking Price listed.

So if the Asking Price is $10 and your Bid Price is $10,
then you will get the domain if no one else bids.

Therefore you should not tip off your interest in
a domain by bidding early.

You don't want to draw attention to the domain which
is the point.

Of course, if you can't be online when the auction
is ending then you'll have no choice but to bid early.

 

[thetruman]

just pay the extra 5$...not big deal if you want the name, is it?

I usually do as Tricolorro said

It's not an expiring domain, and also not offer / counter.

I did an advanced search and it's a public auction, so it really must be a private seller.

The page is exactly the same as the expiring auction ones, so I was mislead.
It just said:

Bids on this Domain: 0

Current Bid: $0
Minimum Bid: $10

I was pretty sure I had found it through FreshDrop and that there was only expired domains there, but maybe I'm mistaken

 

[canswift]

I had been watching a domain name, apparently expired, with an opening bid of $10. I forgot to bid (no-one else did either) and it didn't go to $5 BIN, the auction re-started again with another 7-8 day period. I did bid this time and got it for $10.

The checkout process required me to email the seller, so then I knew this wasn't a regular expired name as I had thought. I did email the seller that I had paid, and awaited the "push". After a week, no reply, so I emailed again. Back came a reply from (some of you guessed right..) Standard Tactics, saying they would shortly do the transfer.

The original Whois check on this name had shown domain privacy from Domains By Proxy, so this would be an indicator that any name with this privacy could be a Standard Tactics close-out. I've had several others in my watch list (all with domain privacy) and all simply re-started the $10 auction cycle when no bids were received.

So, not much in the way of a fanfare of trumpets, but the GoDaddy names held by Standard Tactics are being quietly let go via TDNAM, just not at $5 BIN prices.

 

[HBK216]

For future reference, keep these things in mind when shopping on TDNAM:

1. All auctions might not be by Go Daddy themselves.

2. If the auction restarts itself, it is pretty much a given that it was not an expired domain auction.

3. If the name ends with no bids & does not go to closeouts, it was backordered via Go Daddy. GD backorders will always prevent the name from going to closeouts.

just pay the extra 5$...not big deal if you want the name, is it?

I disagree as if you are a regular buyer, that extra money adds up in no time.

 

[DNabc]

Canbrit, I had that hunch (that some domains were from Standard Tactics), and I also got the domain I was looking for...

HBK216, good points there.