Recent GoDaddy Auctions Defy Laws of Domaining

[Cr3ativity]

Have you seen GoDaddy's auctions lately? Ma27.com for $8,000; lj2011.com for $7,500; even dacvb.info for $4,500 and the list goes on...WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON?! I can't even wrap my mind around this because it seems to break all the rules I've been following, before and after I joined this forum. Anyone have an answer(s)?

 

[Embrand]

Yes, I noticed it as well. It looks very strange. And it happened within a very short time. If they had a lot of traffic, that might be the explanation. But that doesn't even seem to be the case.

 

[Cr3ativity]

Eurobangkok - Something tells me this is either a single individual or group of people that somehow activated more than one account and are bidding on their own domains to draw in inexperienced domainers'. I'm pretty sure there's a way to bypass the system....Either that, or GoDaddy is running a blind glitch

 

[Tedgeman]

Would anyone consider this to be an awesome tax right off, down the road, similar to the bullshit art market, where they pretend some of that crap has some value, we are not talking a real piece of art here, and spare me the art is in the eyes of the beholder or the new saying applies '' a domains value is what someone pays for it" clever tax right offs imo.

 

[Mark Talbot]

Or they are preying on the hopes the domain market reversed its downward trend on January first 2012, 12:00:01 AM.

 

[silentg]

It's called shill bidding. One idiot did it to my auction and didn't pay for it.

 

[stock_post]

may be the mob or underworld exchanging money.
check if the domains are created for this purpose.

 

[jasdon11]

The first example you gave, ma27.com, is still in auction and is a dropping domain so unlikely that anyone would be shill bidding on it (Halvarez...are you out there?). It's had a few owners over the years and looks to be PR7 - don't know if genuine PR or not but could explain the interest in it.

Don't know about the other 2 examples other than they appear to be PR5 - can't be bothered looking at other details.

 

[DomainMagnate]

Yea ma27.com is a pr7, still way too expensive though

 

[jasdon11]

Re ma27.com - could be the owner running it up to see how far it'll go then pays the $80 to get it out of redemption? Just thinking out loud...

 

[ryanmlanane]

How would the owner then get in contact with the buyer though ?

You pay the $80 - out of redemption, can you even tell who was bidding on your domain when it was expired. I wouldn't think so. It just says bidder1, bidder2, so on ... even if you are the owner I would assume the same holds true.

 

[Cr3ativity]

Even if the domain is PR7, I would not even bother...what can you possibly market with MA27? A type of gun....? Something tells me this auction is a missing part of the "domaining puzzle" that should be investigated further...

 

[silentg]

There are buyers for PR domains. For example check out digitalpoint forums domain threads. These guys sell links or slap on some cheesy website and sell it on Flippa and other market places.

 

[Gerry]

How would the owner then get in contact with the buyer though ?

You redeem it, then you use the same auction channel to contact the buyer. The WHOIS is going to show the owner for a period of time. And if the name drops out of redemption, the new buyer will want to have this name and will contact the owner via whois.

 

[Cr3ativity]

The bizarre GoDaddy auctions are officially DEAD! Having that said, they weren't sold either and here's why...

Yesterday, I saved an image of GoDaddy's home screen and the auction for ma27.com was set to expire in 4 days. In other words, the auctions might have been closed due to acts of fraud, etc. There is absolutely NO way one page of auctions would disappear days before the auctions are intended to end...

 

[iboy]

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[sashas]

(Halvarez...are you out there?)

THAT brings up a few memories. Not happy ones, I'm afraid.