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I just saw a $5 closeout domain at GoDaddy Actions. I was doing some research. Inadvertantly, I typed in the domain on the browser command line, normally this just goes to a landing page where GoDaddy says this domain is in their auctions. But instead of that, I got a landing page, where I could buy this premium domain name for $3119.18? WTF is that all about, when I can pick it up on the auction for about $13.50. Because I was interested, I clicked on the link, and sure enough, it took me to GoDaddy's Checkout, where they were going to charge me $3119.18.
 
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I too have found some domains for sale for xxxx on GoDaddy that were actually unregistered but the thing solved itself by going to the cart where the price would be automatically updated to reg fee.
They don't update their database very often I noticed.
Or maybe the person renewed the domain in the meantime?

If you want to PM me the domain I'll give a look if the same happens to me.
 
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This also happened to me literally five minutes ago. The domain is unregistered, recent drop, yet is listed at GD as a Buy Now for $1950.
 
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Just another way for GoDaddy to milk their witless customers and the general public
 
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It has happened with me too. My guess is that they sometimes hold some premium domains for themselves. Here's what happened with me...once when I added a $5 closeout domain to cart, the total amount showed up as $XXXX. I checked the whois and it was an expired domain. I thought it was a glitch and removed the domain from cart to re-add it after refreshing. But when I went back to closeout domains listing, the domain was gone. After 7 days, when the whois record still showed the domain as expired, I decided to buy it when it would drop, but it never dropped. Then, next year I again saw the domain at expired auctions and bought it for $XX this time.

This also happened to me literally five minutes ago. The domain is unregistered, recent drop, yet is listed at GD as a Buy Now for $1950.

This has also happened with me. Recently I found an unregistered domain on sale at GD for $3500 BIN. Then, I registered it through another registrar.
 
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No guys I think it's just that they don't update the listings often enough.
If you go to the cart you will pay the real price.
 
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I have seen it as a coincidence from you put in the cart and the domain was renewed so it went back to a make offer/counter type price. I had that happen with a domain last week.
 
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@equity78 - But I never put it in my cart from watching it at GoDaddy Auctions. The first time it went into my cart was from the Premium Domain Offer from GoDaddy. I had to delete it from my cart, because I was logged in to GoDaddy, watching their auctions in another tab.
 
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What likely happens is that many domainers unfortunately do not bother deleting their expired or sold domains from their parking accounts, and, most importantly, from sales platforms. At the same time, GoDaddy offers premium listings and auctions domains from various feeds including but not limited to afternic forsale database, and, in general, regged anywhere/anytime and entered into auctions systems by previous domain owners. We once checked godaddy auctions and found a number of domains that we own (some we own for years) were listed under various schemes also including buynow.... not by us. And the same domains were offered on the 1st page of godaddy.

It also appears that many domainers by some reason do not track what they really own, and are "adding" domains they do not own, or no longer own, to various platforms. Resultingly, in the worst case, legitimate current domain owner using the same platform may find domain disappeared from their account, if the platform did not carefully check whois ownership. Our 2 latest cases were domains disappeared from sedo and internettraffic accounts, even though we owned domains in question for a long time
 
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But about closeout domains, does anyone anyone know what happens after the last closeout ($5)?

Does it drop, and if so when? According to the whois for all the different ones I'm watching the expiry dates are 2016, so I'm confused.
 
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