GoDaddy.com by far has the largest inventory of domain names of any domain registrar. Some of these domains expire and go to “expired auction” but for some reason, the inventory of expired auctions sucks at GoDaddy compared to other services, like NameJet.

GoDaddy Auctions lacks expired inventory for generic one word domains that are valuable! VCVC.com’s, NNNN’s, LLL’s and simply general nice two word domains when you compare the inventory to NameJet.

So why does the expired inventory suck, compared … Read the rest

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In mid June 2014 I wrote about the expired domain name auction happening at GoDaddy Auctions for the expired domain name Retweet.com and that auction ended for $24,250. I was tracking it since to see, first if the transaction completed (the old owner has sometime to renew the domain after auction) and secondly who purchased the domain name.

When I expected, the domain did change ownership, but whois privacy was applied to whois, so I still wasn’t able to tell … Read the rest

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The expired domain name process is pretty interesting. The basics of the process are pretty simple: You own a domain name and without paying the renewal after owning it for a year (or however long you paid registration), the domain name expires. The process after it expires is where it gets hairy scary!

Since every domain name registrar is different, the TOS is likely the best place to read what will happen to your domain name. If you do read … Read the rest

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