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Reseller price?
Enduser price range..this year?
in 3 years?
Enduser price range..this year?
in 3 years?
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Owner can NOT renew once the domain hits 30 days after expiry - GD says so themselves:
https://uk.godaddy.com/help/renewing-my-expired-domain-name-609
But what actually happens can be different. I had a similar experience with a domain that we bought then being cancelled and getting very unsatisfactory info from GD auctions. I considered creating a thread for it - just be warned you can win a name, even one registered at GD, then it gets cancelled. They don't even tell you its cancelled or tell you you did not get it or email you to say they refunded it.
Then you can try to dropcatch it.
When they introduced the 30 day cutoff it was supposed to stop people renewing names after others had bought them but it seems there are errors or loopholes or getouts going on.
All other bids are voided out if the winning bidder doesn't pay. The Second bidder would pay the amount as if the first bidders bids never existed.Sorry to hear about this, the amount of second chance offers I have had this past year is alarming.
I hope you didn’t get caught in the middle of a bad threesome with bidder 1 , and 2 lobbing up the price, and somehow you got stuck in the middle somehow.
Everyone here has probably been bid up by users who had no basis being on the platforms. It’s almaot amazing that the other losing bids of these deadbeats never get scaled back, only winning. Effectively all their bids should be void.
If I lost this domain at $700 to be honest, I wouldn’t be to heart broken over it.
This domain did not go to closeout. It was grabbed with a backorder just not yours. If there are multiple backorders we go with whoever placed the backorder on the domain first by timestamp. I just looked, you were 3rd.wait wait wait..................are you telling me it went to the CLOSEOUT BINS (Day 36)??? where I could of grabbed it for $11+??? And someone else picked up.....AFTER I WAS TOLD TO PLACE BO? ( I had no clue to even look there as I was not told this).....
IF it went to the closeout section ....I'll be livid as that is not the same as "put back into the registry , "place a back order" as I was informed to do by GoDaddy! .. @Joe Styler ??
I disagree. The way I see it we went above and beyond to try and help a customer who wanted the domain but didn't win the auction have a chance to get it. We do not have to offer it to the 2nd highest and in the grand scheme of things for us it is not a lot of money, but it is a decent amount of manual work on our end. We would rather try to help people get the domains they want though and because of this are happy to try and help give someone a 2nd chance.GoDaddy is shady as usual.
My take away is this - if you are being offered a domain as 2nd highest bidder, do not take it. Instead just place a bo and get it for $20. I always thought it went down the chain in order of highest bidder but it doesn’t sound like that happened in this case.This domain did not go to closeout. It was grabbed with a backorder just not yours. If there are multiple backorders we go with whoever placed the backorder on the domain first by timestamp. I just looked, you were 3rd.
I was not able to help you personally because I was in a meeting at the time but I did assist the rep you spoke with and told him to tell you to get a backorder. I did not lookup any back end info on the auction to see if there were other backorders etc. I do not give out non public info to anyone during an auction. I do not believe the rep could have seen that info himself.
Bottom line, we can work on updating the language in the email to "up to 24 hours" to make it more clear. No one ever gets exactly 24 hours because all 2nd highest bids are done manually by the support team and they cannot process each one exactly at 24 hours each day. The terms of service on the auctions are a bit more clear.
The terms state : you may be offered the Expired Domain Name for purchase. You must complete the purchase of the Expired Domain Name within twenty-four (24) hours of notification of the Expired Domain Name being offered to you.
The key words here are may be offered the domain for purchase. We don't have to and don't have to wait the 24 hours, but you must pay within that time period if we still have the domain in your won section. But we don't need to keep it there or even offer it to you.
I agree we can work on making this more clear. I'll talk to the legal team and see what they can do. I'm not a lawyer and they may have a reason for this language.
There are a lot of reasons for why we do this like we do and why you couldn't get the domain name after it was removed from your won section. In a perfect world we'd love to have sold the domain to you, we would have made more money and you would be happier. Unfortunately, on an expired domain name there are a lot of moving parts and a limited time frame for things to happen. Once an auction is closed out like this one was, it is extremely hard to get re-opened.
This domain did not go to closeout. It was grabbed with a backorder just not yours. If there are multiple backorders we go with whoever placed the backorder on the domain first by timestamp. I just looked, you were 3rd.
I was not able to help you personally because I was in a meeting at the time but I did assist the rep you spoke with and told him to tell you to get a backorder. I did not lookup any back end info on the auction to see if there were other backorders etc. I do not give out non public info to anyone during an auction. I do not believe the rep could have seen that info himself.
Bottom line, we can work on updating the language in the email to "up to 24 hours" to make it more clear. No one ever gets exactly 24 hours because all 2nd highest bids are done manually by the support team and they cannot process each one exactly at 24 hours each day. The terms of service on the auctions are a bit more clear.
The terms state : you may be offered the Expired Domain Name for purchase. You must complete the purchase of the Expired Domain Name within twenty-four (24) hours of notification of the Expired Domain Name being offered to you.
The key words here are may be offered the domain for purchase. We don't have to and don't have to wait the 24 hours, but you must pay within that time period if we still have the domain in your won section. But we don't need to keep it there or even offer it to you.
I agree we can work on making this more clear. I'll talk to the legal team and see what they can do. I'm not a lawyer and they may have a reason for this language.
There are a lot of reasons for why we do this like we do and why you couldn't get the domain name after it was removed from your won section. In a perfect world we'd love to have sold the domain to you, we would have made more money and you would be happier. Unfortunately, on an expired domain name there are a lot of moving parts and a limited time frame for things to happen. Once an auction is closed out like this one was, it is extremely hard to get re-opened.
I disagree. The way I see it we went above and beyond to try and help a customer who wanted the domain but didn't win the auction have a chance to get it. We do not have to offer it to the 2nd highest and in the grand scheme of things for us it is not a lot of money, but it is a decent amount of manual work on our end. We would rather try to help people get the domains they want though and because of this are happy to try and help give someone a 2nd chance.
My take away is this - if you are being offered a domain as 2nd highest bidder, do not take it. Instead just place a bo and get it for $20. I always thought it went down the chain in order of highest bidder but it doesn’t sound like that happened in this case.
People aren’t going to place bo for domains that are in expired auction. The only reason it happened in this case was because of the threads created here.It surely did not . I thought that as well....
Oh and pray your the only and “ first “ BO for it to work.
People aren’t going to place bo for domains that are in expired auction. The only reason it happened in this case was because of the threads created here.
People do quite often place backorders on expired domains. I just gave a more full explanation of why in the thread.People aren’t going to place bo for domains that are in expired auction. The only reason it happened in this case was because of the threads created here.
Idk. I’ve participated in probably thousands of auctions and never been offered the domain as 2nd highest bidder. This tells me that buyers most always pay the end price when great domains are at stake.People do quite often place backorders on expired domains.
This domain did not go to closeout. It was grabbed with a backorder just not yours. If there are multiple backorders we go with whoever placed the backorder on the domain first by timestamp. I just looked, you were 3rd.
I was not able to help you personally because I was in a meeting at the time but I did assist the rep you spoke with and told him to tell you to get a backorder. I did not lookup any back end info on the auction to see if there were other backorders etc. I do not give out non public info to anyone during an auction. I do not believe the rep could have seen that info himself.
Bottom line, we can work on updating the language in the email to "up to 24 hours" to make it more clear. No one ever gets exactly 24 hours because all 2nd highest bids are done manually by the support team and they cannot process each one exactly at 24 hours each day. The terms of service on the auctions are a bit more clear.
The terms state : you may be offered the Expired Domain Name for purchase. You must complete the purchase of the Expired Domain Name within twenty-four (24) hours of notification of the Expired Domain Name being offered to you.
The key words here are may be offered the domain for purchase. We don't have to and don't have to wait the 24 hours, but you must pay within that time period if we still have the domain in your won section. But we don't need to keep it there or even offer it to you.
I agree we can work on making this more clear. I'll talk to the legal team and see what they can do. I'm not a lawyer and they may have a reason for this language.
There are a lot of reasons for why we do this like we do and why you couldn't get the domain name after it was removed from your won section. In a perfect world we'd love to have sold the domain to you, we would have made more money and you would be happier. Unfortunately, on an expired domain name there are a lot of moving parts and a limited time frame for things to happen. Once an auction is closed out like this one was, it is extremely hard to get re-opened.
I reviewed one of my second chance emails and the wording is WITHIN 24 hours, not IN 24 hours, which is very confusing, but I guess it can be argued 2 different ways.You have not explained why the email told him 24 hours and you guys,shady as usual, picked an arbitrary hour to rescind his offer. I don’t care if you don’t have to——- the point is you did——and then you didn’t abide by the time period given to him in your own email. @DomainBarracksRob is satisfied but my point is we can’t count on you guys for consistent behavior on anything.
You have not explained why the email told him 24 hours and you guys,shady as usual, picked an arbitrary hour to rescind his offer. I don’t care if you don’t have to——- the point is you did——and then you didn’t abide by the time period given to him in your own email. @DomainBarracksRob is satisfied but my point is we can’t count on you guys for consistent behavior on anything.
I did, I apologized and said we can make the emails more clear and I will work on it.You have not explained why the email told him 24 hours and you guys,shady as usual, picked an arbitrary hour to rescind his offer. I don’t care if you don’t have to——- the point is you did——and then you didn’t abide by the time period given to him in your own email. @DomainBarracksRob is satisfied but my point is we can’t count on you guys for consistent behavior on anything.