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Huge Domains is a huge player on GoDaddy Auctions

January 13, 2017 by Raymond Hackney 19 Comments

  Namepros member Arca put together a very interesting post on Huge Domains and their participation in GoDaddy Auctions. Now it’s no surprise that other industry players bid on domain name auctions at GoDaddy. Arca’s test showed Huge Domains winning 50% of the auctions they were monitoring or bidding on against Huge Domains. I’ve been […]

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Filed Under: Auctions, Domain trends, domaining news, Go Daddy, Huge Domains

GoDaddy Auctions performing maintenance tonight

December 9, 2016 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

This will only affect public auctions that are closing at night and into the morning. An auction like this one with 1 bid will be affected. Here is the note from GoDaddy Auctions will be performing maintenance starting on Friday, December 9, 2016, 11:00 PM Eastern Standard Time. Maintenance is expected to complete after 6 […]

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20 Year old JohnMadden.com is expired and at auction on GoDaddy

November 10, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 2 Comments

John Madden is 80 years old and has been a legendary football coach, broadcaster and namesake for one of the best football video games of all time. It looks like JohnMadden.com a 20 year old domain has expired and is currently closing tomorrow on GoDaddy. The current price is $116. The domain has been owned […]

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Filed Under: Auctions, Celebrity Domains, domaining news, Go Daddy

Flippa is looking for submissions for a $1 reserve auction

October 19, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 4 Comments

I received an email this afternoon from Flippa about a potential upcoming auction showcase. They are looking to promote the auction heavily according to the email. You must be willing to set a $1 starting price and they would like the domain to be valued at greater than $1,000. I will be interested to see […]

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Filed Under: Auctions, domaining news, Flippa

Everyone Would Like to Get Paid To Lose

August 15, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 8 Comments

Reading all the stories on the registries that were upset they lost out on getting a piece of that $135 million .web pie, got me to thinking. What if domain investors could participate in this ridiculous business model. Feign interest to gain riches. Hey ICANN, registrars really never had a right to auction off domains […]

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Quick.com sells for $299,000 (including Buyer’s Premium)

April 19, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 2 Comments

Quick.com was the top sale at the Heritage Auction, Blaze.com was second at $253,000. 16 names out of 42 sold. The first number is the lot number below. Prices include Buyer’s premium. 1    NJOQ.com, , …    $345.00    Sold to Internet 3    VVF.com, , …    $32,200.00    Sold to HA.com/Live 4    TitanSilver.com, , …    $276.00    Sold to […]

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Some of the better Go Daddy Closes of the last week get renewed

April 12, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 25 Comments

A lot of names that get reported sold at Go Daddy are getting renewed this past week. iSki.com $9,201, renewed. Specifics.com $8,000, renewed. Smarketing.com $5,608, renewed. MicroApartment.com $1,408, transferred to NameBright. MicroApartments.com $1,325, transferred to NameBright. GGBL.com $1,708, renewed til 2026. Zaine.com $4,809, renewed. We all know this is the system but it does make […]

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Filed Under: Auctions, Go Daddy

Technically Your Bid is Binding Til The Auction Completes

March 21, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 3 Comments

When bidding on auctions at Go Daddy most are under the assumption that when the auction closes their bid responsibility ends. In a recent Namepros thread that dealt with buyer’s remorse, members shared different experiences with certain auctions they participated in. One member stated that three days after an auction ended they were sent an […]

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55588.net heats up at the close and finishes at $2,602

December 12, 2015 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

I was watching the close of the auction for 55588.net. The auction slated to close at 3:54 p.m. Eastern Time was sitting there at $1,009 with six minutes to go. The bidding started to pick up when bidder 14 joined the bidding. They went back and forth with bidders 13 and 6. Eventually bidder 14 […]

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Filed Under: Auctions, Go Daddy, Numerical Domains

The Best Christmas Gift Go Daddy Could Give Their Customers IMO

November 1, 2015 by Raymond Hackney 5 Comments

The best Christmas gift that Go Daddy could give customers this Holiday season is a % of auction prices. That’s right let the biggest registrar in the industry follow in the steps of Australian based Fabulous and give back to the customer who has let their domain expire. Fabulous has their expired domains go to […]

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Filed Under: Auctions, Domaining 101, Go Daddy

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