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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

Would GoDaddy offering payment plans be a good idea ?

December 16, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 6 Comments

Namepros member Hookbox posed an interesting idea, GoDaddy offering payment plans for prospective buyers, not just big ticket domains, but names priced at say $2,500 for example. He wrote: If Godaddy were to implement a payment plan on domains I believe our sales would go through the roof. Not everyone has a few thousand dollars […]

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Filed Under: Domain trends, domaining news, Go Daddy

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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Filed Under: Auctions, Go Daddy

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

Former Berkens Domain ExecutiveMatchmaker.com Sold to Matchmaking Network

April 22, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

ExecutiveMatchmaker.com was one of the domains included in Go Daddy’s purchase of Mike Berkens’ portfolio. The domain has been sold by Go Daddy now and points to the plural ExecutiveMatchmakers.com. It looks like the plural was purchased recently from AdEcho. The company behind the website is Brotherton Holdings who runs a network of matchmaking websites. […]

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Filed Under: Domain Sales, Go Daddy

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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.TV Returns to Go Daddy Auctions

December 23, 2015 by Raymond Hackney 3 Comments

A little while back .tv disappeared from Go Daddy auctions, they were no longer expiring and going to auction. One poster here asked a question as to why this policy changed ? I emailed Paul Nicks and let him know and Paul got on top of it right away and now .TV are back on […]

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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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