TDNAM/GoDaddy doing the right thing! They actually get "it".

[Gerry]

Recently, I was involved in a TDNAM bidding war on a domain name that ended up with 17 bids.

Apparently, the winning bidder did not pay.

So I got a notice that, because I was the second highest bidder the domain was mine (if I chose) and had 24 hours to complete payment.

When I logged into my account to find out what the domain details were, I got quite a pleasant surprise!

Unlike most drop catchers, TDNAM eliminated ALL BIDS by that bidder bringing the final price down to $15. The bidding battle sent this name up there into the several hundreds of dollars as that bidder and I ended up going head to head. But instead of just eliminating his final bid and offering the domain name at the next obvious bid I placed, ALL of that winners entries were nullified.

To whomever put this fair and equitable way of resolving deadbeat payers, thank you. This is something for which I have repeatedly slammed NameJet and SnapNames - if there are 17 bids, the 16th bid is what they offer the name to the runner-up. They do not dissolve and nullify all bids by that bidder, just his winning bid. If someone is not going to pay for a domain as the 17th bid, then it would be safe to assume that person would not pay at 15th, 13th, 11th, 9th, 7th, 5th bid price and so on.

Again, THANK YOU! for doing the right thing!

[EG.domains]

Kudos to GoDaddy ... I moved 100 domains from Moniker to GoDaddy in last 30 days and will transfer the rest within a month. The only reason I moved my domains to Moniker in the first place was to use SnapNames but since they insist on changing my whois info to their "Pending Auction" whois I decided to move.

33% market share means something.

[Acro]

Actually, Namejet does exactly the same thing. The only situation I'm aware of with Snapnames, is of course when they determined how "Hank Alvarez" affected auctions where he was a participant but not the 2nd highest bidder; these auctions did not "collapse" bids down as if halvarez hadn't bid.

[Gerry]

...these auctions did not "collapse" bids down as if halvarez hadn't bid.

I've got a feeling that if Snap had done this (and it would have been and should have been how the matter was handled), the loses for Snap names would have been in the several millions.

[katherine]

That's the right to do. If memory serves me right, Pool refuses to nullify deadbeat bids though.

[Zoobar]

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The way it should be. Congrats on your pick up.

[clasione]

I've always liked GoDaddy..... Knock on wood....
Never have understood why more domainers don't feel safe with them......

[Gerry]

Well, I have had issues with GD and TDNAM.

But I have yet to have someone handle a non-paying auction like this. It saved me hundreds of dollars.

[CamMK27]

Kudos to GoDaddy ... I moved 100 domains from Moniker to GoDaddy in last 30 days and will transfer the rest within a month. The only reason I moved my domains to Moniker in the first place was to use SnapNames but since they insist on changing my whois info to their "Pending Auction" whois I decided to move.

33% market share means something.

I was thinking to move 100s of domains to Moniker so I can push them for SN auction. So you think and would suggest it is best to keep them at GD?

Any suggestions from anyone else? And if to keep them at GD can anyone pm me on how to sell domains at sedo auction?

[Scorpiono]

They were surprisingly fair here, not their type to be honest, but I'm glad they acted this way.