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Finally GoDaddy auctions to have bidder id’s, do you feel better?

April 10, 2019 by Raymond Hackney

After asking for bidder id’s on Namepros as far back as 2015 and I kept pushing a bunch of times on Namepros and here at TLDinvestors.com, bidder id’s are finally a reality.

Now of course you never fully get what you want from GoDaddy.

In my opinion that’s always what you get from GoDaddy just enough.
It reminds me of a quote from Eight Men Out, a story about the 1919 Black Sox scandal in Major League Baseball.
Sport Sullivan:
You know what you feed a dray horse in the morning if you want a day’s work out of him?
Jimmy:
What?
Sport Sullivan:
Just enough so he knows he’s hungry.
https://www.quotes.net/mquote/28049
Paul Nicks:
You know what you give a domain investor always busting our balls on transparency”
Joe Styler:
What?
Paul Nicks:
Just enough so they think they you are listening.

Elliot Silver explained:

Each bidder will be given a unique bidder identification number, which will be different and unrelated to the customer account number to prevent social engineering. Bidder identification numbers will be automatically assigned sequentially, and they can not be changed by a bidder. The only way for a bidder to get a new or different bidder ID is to create or use another GoDaddy Auctions account.

During the course of an auction, the individual bidders will continue be masked as they are now (“Bidder 1,” “Bidder 2,”…etc). At the conclusion of the auction, participants in the auction will be able to see the unique bidder ID number for all participants in the auction. This will allow third parties to track who was bidding on their auctions. I was told GoDaddy will not be showing bidder IDs during an auction to prevent bidder harassment. This could help prevent a situation like this. and it could also prevent an auction being “run up” because someone well-known is the lead bidder.

So is this solution satisfactory to you?

 

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Filed Under: Auctions, domaining news, Go Daddy

About Raymond Hackney

Raymond Hackney has been involved with domain names since 1997. One of the most prolific writers in the domain industry and founder of TLDinvestors.com and 3Character.com

Comments

  1. Ronald Smith says

    April 10, 2019 at 12:30 pm

    It’s a step but not complete. Thanks Raymond for constantly pushing on the subject.

  2. Michael says

    April 10, 2019 at 12:55 pm

    Dude the 8 men out reference is spot on. Great movie and a great quote.

  3. Mark Thorpe says

    April 10, 2019 at 5:18 pm

    Still need to show bidder ID’s during the auction IMO.

  4. AbdulBasit Makrani says

    April 11, 2019 at 7:50 am

    It’s useless step towards transparency. In actual, nothing is done but to cover/mask the incident happened at GoDaddy by one of their employee.

  5. Mary Jo Rohner says

    April 11, 2019 at 10:33 am

    Still wondering if the 3 employees were really 30 or 300. Still wondering if they talked, and are being investigated by the FEDs as it is a crime, what they did. Just wondering, if it was a hand slap or action was taken. ?

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