Examiner.com up to $126,000 as some wonder about what’s going on with the name

Examiner.com is now up to $126,000 on GoDaddy auctions. While the auction is going on, one Namepros member spotted something.

The former domain name that was tied to the email address for examiner.com was registered two days ago. Domains@clarityDG.com was the admin email for examiner.com. After being owned for a year by Huge Domains of all people, the domain dropped again and was registered on 10/27.

CatchDeleted wrote:

Examiner.com came up in Godaddy expired auction and bid is swelling up like anything.Meanwhile we were trying to get the domain through legitimate owner.Noticed that last registrant is domains(at)claritydg.com (A media company based in Denver,CO). We sent out an email with proposal and it bounced! Checked the domain name and realized it was just registered yesterday 10/27. I am sure whomsoever registered has malicious intents to grab the domain name through this method.How do we ensure this does not happen and any one who gets it get it in fair way.

Now GoDaddy updated their terms a couple years ago for domains registered at GoDaddy.

Starting Dec 4, the following changes will happen to expired domain names:
* After Day 5 of expiration, DNS, email, hosting, redirecting and any other DNS-dependent services will be interrupted and stop working.
* After Day 30 of expiration, domain names are no longer able to be renewed or transferred away.

But as Brad Mugford and others pointed out,

If the auction schedule is not being changed, it means it will still go to auction on day 26. That gives the registrant 4-5 days after it goes to auction where they can still renew it.

The bidding here has been going on for 3 days, whether GoDaddy would fall for a trick of being duped by a former email is doubtful but who knows? Whether the name can still be renewed is up in the air. Joe Styler and Paul Nicks have been pinged in the Namepros thread.

Here is the current bidding, Bidder 10 and 24 driving up the price. Is GoDaddy sure they can pay like Joe Styler told us about Dispute.com but yet they took a $27,000 haircut. Everyone is looking at this auction and GoDaddy better be on their game to make sure things go smoothly. Rollbacks like YMCDN.com are not a good look for the company or the domain industry.

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