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RAISING AWARENESS:
Godaddy front run domains you searched?
IsGoDaddy registering good available domains for themselves that you previously searched for on their site using the search tool?
Companies in the domain industry have extensive data and automated systems that allow them to have a HUGE leverage over the average #domainer. In other words, it's like a 10-year-old kid playing football against Leo Messi.️
Now, using this data and these systems allows them to register good domains in massive quantities the moment they drop after expiring. Many have purchase orders even before they expire, and all of this happens automatically. This is how they acquire thousands of domains EVERY SINGLE DAY.
Is there a chance that once you search for a name in their search tool, if the domain is available and meets certain criteria that their system identifies as "valuable," they get a notification, and someone who works there decides to purchase the domain for the company's portfolio? Or even better, does the system automatically register it a few hours later?
FRONT RUNNING
What is an example of front running?
Examples of Front Running:
A broker receives an order from a client to purchase 100,000 shares in Company A. The broker knows that the large buy transaction is likely to drive up the price of the company's stock. Thus, he decides to purchase for himself 2,000 shares in Company A before executing the client's order.
EXPERIENCES FROM USERS:
Reading today a Quora article i found this comments from different users lets take a look:
Kris Yoges:
Its True, We have software company and we using search domain to buy on godaddy
in several occasion - we found available #domain once we marked and inform to adimn team
When admin Team search next day or 2nd day that domain not available
it not 1–2 or 3 days
Its happens to use more than 50–60 times (i think the will sell for premium domain from our time)
So we have stop searching domain from godaddy
Paagal Dev:
Godaddy front runs #DomainNames ...
I personally experienced it. I was searching for a certain domain name a week before. By the time i start searching the domain was available. I had to postpone my purchase because my credit card was missing. Later when i checked for the name after a few hours... it is booked by Godaddy .LLC and placed it on auction.
Deborah Clifton:
"I searched for some domain names using GoDaddy, and they were all available. I put all the names in the checkout cart, but thought I'd check with my team before purchasing. A few days later I went back to GoDaddy to do the checkout and the cart was empty. I then searched for the #domains and each one was now taken, but GoDaddy gave a message that said they would be happy to negotiate the purchase of them for me if I paid them $69.95. I then went to WhoIs to find out who owned the domains, and...you guessed it...GoDaddy now owns them! Surely this is illegal, no??
And I recall when I first searched and carted those names, GoDaddy gave me a message saying the names were excellent because blah blah blah. I now realize that instead of giving me good info, this is in fact an algorithm that helps THEM identify great domain names that THEY can purchase. I'm so ticked... I will NEVER use GoDaddy again.
Vinodhsen Ethirajulu:
"I agree with OP. This occured to me couple of times. Then I stopped using the domain search facility in godaddy"
Indu Pillai:
"It is perfectly possible that they’re stealing the domain names whenever they find those domain names attractive.
Same was the case with me an year ago.
I was buying a domain name, and there was some problem with my credit card.
Only after 30 minutes or so when I tried again the domain name was parked. Since then I never used GoDaddy again.
And as you mentioned in your question, my domain name was very tricky and it was impossible for anyone else to guess it at that day and at that very moment."
John Smart:
"GoDaddy have the ethics of a near bankrupt alcoholic lawyer. Not nice people. No ethics.
But they have a model that makes them a ton of money. And a moderately good name in the public eye do they can sell many many more."
Anonymous:
"I'll say yes personally speaking. Some weeks ago i found good short words expired domain about 3–4 domains with rich keywords.
One of this domain caught my eye because it was a two word domain 11 in total [Technology niche]
I was going to register the domain and resell it.
So for a week plus i obversed the domain including backlinks and everything that has to do with finding a good expired domain.
Everyday i kept checking the domain to see if it has been registered.
Surprisedly, it was not i notice the domain had expired for about 90–100 days before i found the domain. So i checked the domain on Godaddy and #NameCheap for a cheaper registration price.
The next day i was ready to buy the domain.
I found out the domain has been registered barely 24hours. I checked whois Domain Names & Identity for Everyone and found out the domain was registered that same day and parked at Make Your Own Way | GoDaddy .
I was really pained did some research on google and saw other people complaining same issue.
Till this date the remaining 3 domain i didn't check on godaddy are still not registered."
Chris Rivera:
"WOW! I was going to register a domain name for a business I'm starting.
The name is pretty unique.
We looked it up using #GoDaddy and it was available so we agreed to use this domain.
I went to register it 3 days later and it was taken.
I looked at the whose who and it was registered the same freaking day we were looking it up on Go Daddy.
More importantly I went to the site and it has go daddy ads all over it.
Could this seriously have happened? I was going to use Go Daddy for our hosting, but now it seems like you shouldn't even use it to look up available domain names.
There is no way this happened by chance...which makes me wonder how the heck did it happen?"
MY CONCLUSION
Jack:
I don't have a way to check if they do that, but I think it's possible for them to do it if they want.
Let's imagine for a second that they tested that option in the past and it yielded profitable results.
Then why wouldn't they continue doing it?
And I'm not just talking about GoDaddy; this could be done by many other registrars.
When you search for a domain, that information doesn't just disappear after you close the tab. It's archived and analyzed, similar to how #Google saves all the billions and trillions of searches users perform, or how #Facebook uses information for marketing purposes.
Even if we assume that registrars don't register the valuable domains you searched for and didn't register, they use that information to understand what is "hot." They can immediately identify when a new trend is born, and they can use this information, which they have ahead of the majority in the industry, to their own advantage, and they will not share that information with us, even when they got that information from us in the first place.
They will give us instead useless information like
"most selling keywords of the month", which are almost the same every month.
The rest of information they do not share with us, which is 99.99% of the data they have.
Everybody knows but if you dont:
GoDaddy have huge portfolios, they have millions of domains, they bought for hundreds of millions $$ portfolios from big domainers with real premium domains and with ultra premium domains too.
We never know, but just in case...
1 - i always check if a domain is available through a small registrar not owned by the big companies.
2 - don't add the domain to the cart if you are not planning to register it immediately.
3 - save the list of domains you want to purchase later on a paper list, in excel, or in google sheets, not in the registrar wish list, cart or saved domains to purchase later.
DOMAINS ARE MONEY
IF A MAN SEE A BILL ON THE STREET HE WILL PICK IT UP!
IF A DOMAINER SEE A VALUABLE DOMAIN AVAILABLE, HE WILL PICK IT UP!
IF A REGISTRAR SEE A VALUABLE DOMAIN AVAILABLE THEY WILL PICK IT UP!
What do you think?
share your opinion so we can find out more things.
#Domainers, hope you found valuable information here, and helped you to open your eyes a little bit.
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