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they bid in every domain and even low quality name they raise the budget ,and leaving it to closeout you pay $50+20 70 usd ..inguess it time to forget getting names at low xx
How is their auction system unfair? Doesn't the highest bidder win?GD don't care thet their auction system is unfair and probably illegal.
It's not illegal. The only thing I've seen that people get annoyed by is that on many marketplaces when you bid on auctions you're suddenly hit by an AML check and the account get's blocked for a few days and you lose out on the domain and people start inventing conspiracies.How is their auction system unfair? Doesn't the highest bidder win?
It's not illegal. The only thing I've seen that people get annoyed by is that on many marketplaces when you bid on auctions you're suddenly hit by an AML check and the account get's blocked for a few days and you lose out on the domain and people start inventing conspiracies.
They give certain select customers (including HD) access to their auction API that isn't available to everyone. Unless it's an even playing field it isn't fair.How is their auction system unfair? Doesn't the highest bidder win?
What advantage does it give though? Search? The bidding shouldn't really matter unless you mean automated bidding.They give certain select customers (including HD) access to their auction API that isn't available to everyone. Unless it's an even playing field it isn't fair.
It allows them to automate their whole bidding system. If you took their API access away there's no way they'd be able to bid on the amount of auctions they do manualy, it would completely change the auction success rates and lower prices for everyone else. You do the hard work for them and they automaticaly bid on names with interest. GD are in a win win with HD as even the names they don't win have inflated prices from their participation. HD are almost certainly their biggest customer. It would be naive to thing they don't get special treatment. No membership plans, just preferential treatment for their biggest customers which is fine if its cut price registrations etc but not fine when its to the detrement of other customers.What advantage does it give though? Search? The bidding shouldn't really matter unless you mean automated bidding.
From a business and support perspective, I understand why the API would not be available to everyone unless maybe if it's behind another membership plan.
thanks for the highly valuable replies
They give certain select customers (including HD) access to their auction API that isn't available to everyone. Unless it's an even playing field it isn't fair.
Sniping hasn't been possible on there for a long time. I haven't used GD for a couple of years (including auctions and registry) so it doesn't really bother me what they do or how but either way you look at it, when you offer some users some services and not others, it's not a fair system.
I guess I disagree - giving your biggest customers private API access is very normal and I think it's easy to understand why: free/inexpensive users eat up an inordinate amount of support resources.
If you wire GD a couple thousand you too can have API access anyway.
Yeah I can see why they would do things like that from a business stand point. Anyway it seems they've opened up API to everyone now so my agrument is moot lol was fun while it lasted.I guess I disagree - giving your biggest customers private API access is very normal and I think it's easy to understand why: free/inexpensive users eat up an inordinate amount of support resources.
If you wire GD a couple thousand you too can have API access anyway.
There could be a few options: 1.create a huge domains competitor using namepros members to compete with them, 10k members at $100 each would mean 1 million dollars; that could not be enough, but it should be a strong competitor. 2. Have an agreement between domainers to not bid on godaddy anymore for a certain amount of time, like 1-2 months, this way godaddy would loose money and huge domains automatization will not work anymore. 3. If you are sure that they will bid on every domain that gets bids, we should bid on a few worthless domains each or should push them to bid to their max, so help them go over the fine line between making a profit or loosing money. For sure they win lots of worthless domains every month, so if we manage to make them to double the number of worthless domains , they will need to find another way to make money.
overpay ^^'