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I have been trying to figure out why I get poor results and rare offers via Godaddy so been looking at the chain of events which leads an end-user to buy or make offers. Keep in mind i'm looking for end-users, not domainers.
So I do some role-playing, assuming a small business person wants to expand or start a new business and needs a domain name with my domain in mind.
Perhaps the first thing he/she is likely to do is go to a domain registrar to check availability. Since Godaddy is far and away #1 and most everyone has heard of GD they usually will go to GD first.
Let us also assume you either do not have an account at GD or may have a rarely used account so you do not bother to login or may not have your login credentials handy.
So you search or type-in godaddy.com (not being logged-in) and see the domain search box on https://www.godaddy.com/offers/doma...ViR-tBh1qpwwvEAAYASAAEgKynvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds
next you type-in OAME.COM (example only, not my name)
next you see on https://www.godaddy.com/domains/sea...mskey=1dom_03_godaddyb&domainToCheck=oame.com it's only available on auctions.
next you look for a link to make offer at auctions but no where on the page is there a link or anything saying auctions, or instructions on what to do to visit auctions area.
If you spend some time navigating around the page and go to domains link then you finally see a link to auctions.
so after going there you again type-in OAME.COM
then you enter an offer or BIN price and are told you must create a GD account and also pay $4.99 to bid at the auction.
however, you know your bid may be too low and rejected so why go thru the trouble of opening a GD account, giving your credit card info and paying $4.99 simply to make a bid, you may not do that so you give up trying to buy or make an offer there.
Next, you exit GD and decide to lookup owners email or phone number using a Whois service but that cannot be done anymore as it is redacted so you again give up.
next as a last step you try typing-in OAME.COM into browser but see a Uniregistry parked page so you may be real confused and weary by now and wasted so much time and hassle so you look for a different name for your business or product, or no name at all for now.
That long complex and involved process just to make an offer is ridiculous!
So I do some role-playing, assuming a small business person wants to expand or start a new business and needs a domain name with my domain in mind.
Perhaps the first thing he/she is likely to do is go to a domain registrar to check availability. Since Godaddy is far and away #1 and most everyone has heard of GD they usually will go to GD first.
Let us also assume you either do not have an account at GD or may have a rarely used account so you do not bother to login or may not have your login credentials handy.
So you search or type-in godaddy.com (not being logged-in) and see the domain search box on https://www.godaddy.com/offers/doma...ViR-tBh1qpwwvEAAYASAAEgKynvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds
next you type-in OAME.COM (example only, not my name)
next you see on https://www.godaddy.com/domains/sea...mskey=1dom_03_godaddyb&domainToCheck=oame.com it's only available on auctions.
next you look for a link to make offer at auctions but no where on the page is there a link or anything saying auctions, or instructions on what to do to visit auctions area.
If you spend some time navigating around the page and go to domains link then you finally see a link to auctions.
so after going there you again type-in OAME.COM
then you enter an offer or BIN price and are told you must create a GD account and also pay $4.99 to bid at the auction.
however, you know your bid may be too low and rejected so why go thru the trouble of opening a GD account, giving your credit card info and paying $4.99 simply to make a bid, you may not do that so you give up trying to buy or make an offer there.
Next, you exit GD and decide to lookup owners email or phone number using a Whois service but that cannot be done anymore as it is redacted so you again give up.
next as a last step you try typing-in OAME.COM into browser but see a Uniregistry parked page so you may be real confused and weary by now and wasted so much time and hassle so you look for a different name for your business or product, or no name at all for now.
That long complex and involved process just to make an offer is ridiculous!
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