Dear Go Daddy DomainAlert(tm) customer:

Congratulations! The following domain name that you backordered:

NICKSERV.COM

was successfully captured.


i had namewinner with $70 proxy, snapnames, pool except dropwizard and GoDaddy does it again :D


I'm so happy with their backorder service sofar! NEVER lost me any name

maybe cause they are doing real fair snapping not based on higher amounts like namewinner or relations with people like snapnames ? hehe

congatulations Bashar!!!!

Congrats Bashar...

Unfortunately, I am not having the same success with GoDaddy's Backorder system today. The name that I am trying to capture keeps disappearing out of my GoDaddy account. To be fair, I know they are experiencing technical difficulties today... but I have spent many hours today, just trying to keep the original backorder in GoDaddy's system. Frustrating.

Bashar, i had an experience similar to that but it ends... like all good things.

Depends on the name really. If the name is red hot, GoDaddy might not be the best solution (not that NameWinner is better in that sense either).

So fess up, Timechange... just how do you grab all those three character domain names :D

my guess is club drop. Good success rate and you can get the names at 6.95 if you have a reseller account priced at that amount. Also, namewinner 8.75 bids. Nobody wants to pay 25$ for a three character domain in most cases so those tend to work well.

from what i noticed when i backordered the name from all different places godaddy got it.

one more name if i got it by godaddy i'll post it over here :D

GoDaddy also successfully BO condiments.com, even though it had a snap and high namewinner bid...

Hopefully they're getting better...

Man, condiments.com; what were nw bidders thinking?

How is that name possibly sellable/developable.

namewinner has gone crazy :)
hows the bidding over at pool.com? Maybe it will be more reasonable because the person knows they are paying for it if they win.

I get maybe 1 in 40 with godaddy on names with snaps and namewinner bids, they have their moments.

the idea of having namewinner/snap/pool/dropwizard on a name even if it was adsfcrvkmnunhb.com and godaddu wins the name thats a proof enough :)

having namewinner does not mean much. it depends on the bid.

but each drop service has their moments... some more then others of course :-D

dunno maybe godaddy is fair with end users even if it was not worthy domain who knows :)

I have 0 success with godaddy

Eran

godaddy and snapnames dedicated equal resources to every domain. This is what gives the little guys a chance using them :)

godaddy is icann accredited, could that mean they have a higher level access to the registry and can know of domain expiry before the others.

snapnames has mor ethan 8 accredited registry connections and they have more chance than godaddy if you think in the technical way and as far as i know each registrar has 40 connections to the registry so theoritical snapnames has more access to the registry just like buydomains using so many registrars for thier grapping :)

BuyDomains uses snapnames a lot.

I woner...

If godaddy were the registrar of the expiring domain, wouldnt they just transfer it streight to the customer who backordered instead of dropping it and then re-registering it? Meaning noone else would be able to get it since it wouldnt really be dropped.

Tomorrow I expect GoDaddy to miss again on my backorder bringing it to "0 for 5".

RMF

Host Ultra: That is not allowed. Also reactivating it costs much more then a backorder.

RMF: just wait and see :)

and the verdict from RMF is?

godaddy is very good......i have 8 domains registered with them...and i have a server from rackshack.net <-- who are also quite good.

Originally posted by fizzzzzzzz
...and i have a server from rackshack.net <-- who are also quite good.
Well that will make headsurfer's day :D

BTW... welcome to WHT, Fizzzzzzzz

Personally, I am having further problems with GoDaddy's backorder system... that domain don't want to stay in there for some reason. But they have been reasonably reliable with my domains as a registrar.

they wont stay in there? can you clarify?

one more :D

Dear Go Daddy DomainAlert(tm) customer:

Congratulations! The following domain name that you backordered:

BATOOL.COM


and one more to come
was successfully captured.

And a batool is what? :P

what were namewinner bids? was there a snapback?

baotol in arabic means a female which never been touch by a man or in another word a virgin and its used so much in the arab world by girl names and company names :)

NW bid was 8.75 no one added on my bid and i didn't want to waste $60-69 on batool at SN/Pool

heh. so godaddy didnt win much. The name may be good, but the competition was a 8.75 namewinner bid. So basically people manually registering might have had a chance....

I registered with godaddy for a backorder and had nothing but trouble..

First the name I wanted had already been backordered at godaddy (excusable however a system to tell me before I paid would have been nice!).

The next name I backordered it didnt get..

The next name mysteriously disappeared from the backordering system not long before the domain expired and when I tried to add it again another godaddy customer had put a backorder on the same name.

Luckily when I asked for a refund there system showed that I hadnt put a backorder attempt on any domains yet so I could have a refund!!..

I got the impression they didnt believe a word I said, I told them that I had put a backorder on a domain just to show them how messed up there system is but they didnt believe that either..

It all worked out good in the end.. I paid with my credit card which is in Aussie dollars and due to currency movements I ended up with a 3cents AUD profit!!!

LOL Dave that was a classic.

Originally posted by kohashi
they wont stay in there? can you clarify?
Well, one day it's there in the backorder listing... all ready for GoDaddy to grab it for me, and then the next day I'll check it, poof, it's gone! So far I have been able to re-enter it manually, but the system doesn't seem stable. GoDaddy support thinks I'm crackers. Looks like DaveAus has encountered the same bug, though. See, I'm really not crazy :nuts: ...am I?

Maybe godaddy is normal and we are all crackers ;)..

Whatever happened to the days of the customer is always right?!..

daveaus : buy a million and make 30,000$ hehe. Just a thought. and i want 50$ for the idea. lol.

4solutions: thats interesting. I havnt seen that problem and I have backordered quite a few names. They remove the names it is trying to grab right before the drop. I hope you dont mean this.

My First lost with Godaddy gone to Buydomains today

i think if buydomains wasn't after the name godaddy would beaten my $1200 name winner bid and pool/snapnames :(

the name was KuwaitAirways.com.. the real site is kuwait-airways.com

Finally GoDaddy's backordering catches up with the rest of their crappy service :D

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DomainAlert Unsuccessful Capture
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Dear Go Daddy DomainAlert(tm) customer:

We're sorry. The following domain name that you backordered:

KUWAITAIRWAYS.COM

was not captured successfully.

If you purchased an annual DomainAlert Backorder you may attempt another backorder. For one year from the date you paid your
backorder fee, you may transfer it to another domain name. To do so, please log in here and follow the easy instructions:

https://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/Domain_Alert/MonitoredNameList.asp?isc=gdbbdap002

Once again, sorry that you did not secure this backorder.

Thanks as ever for being a Go Daddy customer.

Sincerely,

Go Daddy DomainAlert team

Originally posted by timechange
Finally GoDaddy's backordering catches up with the rest of their crappy service :D

they where beating snapnames and namewinner and losing a name to buydomains isn't something crappy i believe although i'm not a godaddy fan except i was so happy with their service :)

bok would be proud of you; except he doesn't work with GD anymore :D

hehe :D

so whats the reason you hate godaddy for ? ;)

Just count the threads about the big database f*ck up that GoDaddy didn't even care to tell us about.

but i thought everything is back to normal?

any lost domains yet for customers?

Originally posted by kohashi
4solutions: thats interesting. I havnt seen that problem and I have backordered quite a few names. They remove the names it is trying to grab right before the drop. I hope you dont mean this.
I know what you mean there, Kohashi, there is that "twilight zone" period where the name disappears just before it's going to be dropped. That's not what I'm talking about with this problem.

You see, when I really want a name, I try to backorder it right after it expires, so I can beat all you guys to it ;) So we're talking 45 days or so before it hopefully drops (or if it gets renewed - I move on to greener pasture).

I have not won any names yet with GoDaddy, but at least the system was visibly working okay. Except that there is just this one name which just keeps "falling out" of their system. The other ones I've backordered seem to stick in the system. It's just this one stubborn name which keeps going AWOL. It's just a dot-com name, nothing special about it except that it is a shorter version of one that I'm already using. It's just a weird bug in the program or GoDaddy is trying to gaslight me. See... it's all a conspiracy :D

would you mind PM'g me the name. I will try for myself (and remove the backorder if it works) and see what happens. maybe there is something I can help with. If it seems to stick for me, we could just exchange backorders (you backorder one of my names and I backorder this one). I would be happy to try and help you if you really want the name.

Just stumbled across things here and would appreciate some tips - I registered with Snapnames, GoDaddy, and Expirefish to get a name I really wanted, seemed very hot, surprised it was not being renewed. Well, Pool.com got it for me today. Now it is the sealed bidding process. How the heck can we know how much to bid? If I do nothing and no one else wants it, it is mine for $60. I want it to launch a business by that name though, so willing to go higher.

Any tips on how much to bid? Are there tons of people after all the names at Pool.com? Should I just assume there must be others trying to snag it too?

Any help would be great, thanks! - Eric

erg626:

The worst thing is this.
You really want the name, so you bid high ... now suppose noone else wants that domain and you don't know....
For the next bid phase, since your bid is the higher, that's the startup bidding !!
So, practically, you shoot yourself :(

I hate Pool.com !! I wish that model of capturing domains just does not exists.

same here i really hate Pool's new 2 phase thing.

your big need to be atleast 20% of the highest bid

so just bid the amount you think u can pay for it or 50% of that to keep a room for bidding in the 2nd phase

Hi Eric, welcome to the forum ;)

This is a tough question without seeing the domain name AND you can't put the domain name up on the forum because then some of your competitive bidders might be here. :eek: So it wouldn't do for them to see your strategy. ;)

If there is a great name and it's at Pool, then my experience is that you are usually going to have to pay for it... dearly You might be bidding against the likes of UltimateSearch and BuyDomains who both have deep pockets. If BuyDomains (who now has some 400,000 domain names for sale) gets it, then their minimum listed sale price is $688.00.

I would checkout some aftermarket places like Sedo.com, GreatDomains.com and AfterNIC.com to maybe get a feel for the listing prices of similar names (and remember they are LISTING prices subject to negotiation).

You also might go to http://www.freewho.com/linkpop/index.php and www.alexa.com to get a feel for the number of search engine links and traffic that the previous site (if any) might have generated. www.Archive.org might even have an old copy of the site if it was in operation. This is important because some companies, like UltimateSearch, are only interested in whatever leftover type-in traffic is left over. They will bid higher if there is traffic potential.

The bottom line is what is the domain name worth to you? You haven't started the business yet and you could switch over to another name. But if the name is perfect for the new business then it might be worth spending a bit more for the right business identity.

As far as the two-phase auction that Pool came up with... I hate it! It's a tough decision whether to bring out the big guns at first or play shy. To me that depends whether it's a domain that everyone wants (you have to be within 20% of the top bid to continue - so at least show you've got ammo) or a domain that is so specialized that it's maybe me and another bidder (the top two bidders continue - so I play it shy and bid low).

Originally posted by erg626
If I do nothing and no one else wants it, it is mine for $60.Sorry... since their new two phase auction system, I've never had that happen to me. But I'm not a big Pool player like some of these other guys. For the people I deal with, $10,000.00 domains don't work.

Best of Luck in your domain acquisition! :cool:

Your post was super helpful! I did find out info on the site at both Alexa and archive.org, does not appear to have heavy traffic the last few years, bounced around a bit for usage.

I'll take a stab at it and perhaps post the results here if anyone cares. I do think this name is that good and worth dropping some change on.

Eric

Well, good for you guys.
I've never captured ANYTHING with GoDaddy's backorder so far.

Dealideal...

You have to remember that this thread was 17 months old before it was resurrected by erg626 last night.

But GoDaddy still surprises me from time to time even though they are using only 3 registrars versus Pool's almost 70 registrars.