Today as reported by DomainNameWire.com the General Counsel of GoDaddy, Christine Jones announced that """"To ensure customer confidence and to avoid any possible future questions of impropriety all GD employees are now and in the future prohibited from participating in TDNAM auctions, purchasing, sales & back orders."""" We applaud GoDaddy in reversing their policy and taking this … [Read more...]
GoDaddy Insider Bidding makes non-domain Blog Headlines
Slashdot.org, a non-domain blog has picked up the story about Adam Dicker the VP of Godaddy in charge of their aftermarket auctions bidding on such auctions. Good to see. We need to get the word out about this story and Tucows who has taken domains, right from registrants and kept them for themselves. Image if Network Solutions did that, pick the best of the expiring domains off the top … [Read more...]
Moniker Silent Auction Nets $99K
The silent auction from the Paris Domainers show just concluded and a total of 64 domains were sold for $99K Here is the complete list of all domains that sold Title Bid sprints.com $35,300.00 asj.com $15,300.00 jpv.com … [Read more...]
Moniker Silent Auction of Paris Domainers Show Set for Friday
The silent auction from the Paris Domainers show starts closing Friday morning at 10am EST, 7am PST at moniker.com There are over 2,000 domains at auction. Here are the top names based on the value placed by Esitbot. There are many low or no reserve 4 letter domains (I know a lot of you like those), most of which are not included here but can be found if you download the entire … [Read more...]
CORRECTION
In my initial post today on Domain Drop auction services , I INCORRECTLY identified Adam Strong as the employee of Godaddy which had placed bids on the Godaddy auction Platform. The correct name of this person is Adam Dicker. Adam Strong is not an employee of Godaddy and has not engaged in any improper conduct in this matter. The post was corrected as soon as we learned of this … [Read more...]
Ethics of Domain Drop Auctions: TDNAM and NameJet called out Yesterday: Today We call out Tucows
Yesterday domainnamewire.com reported that employees of TDNAM.com and NameJet.com were allowed to bid on domains that were in their own company’s dropping auction service. In the article, domainnamewire.com sited some discussions on NamePros about GoDaddy employees, including Adam Dicker, who runs Godaddy aftermarket service, bidding on and winning auctions from their own system. Troubling for … [Read more...]
Domainer Meeting Paris Live Auction nets $361k
The live auction just completed in Paris and the auction netted $361,375 Here are the … [Read more...]