{"id":4709,"date":"2015-07-31T17:17:41","date_gmt":"2015-07-31T21:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acro.net\/blog\/?p=4709"},"modified":"2015-07-31T17:25:42","modified_gmt":"2015-07-31T21:25:42","slug":"some-reported-sales-at-godaddy-are-bogus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acro.net\/blog\/some-reported-sales-at-godaddy-are-bogus\/","title":{"rendered":"Some reported sales at GoDaddy are bogus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I use GoDaddy to acquire domain names on their aftermarket, and recently <a href=\"http:\/\/acro.net\/blog\/domains\/godaddy-auctions-when-the-owner-renews-the-domain\/\"><strong>posted about my experience<\/strong><\/a> regarding an auction.<\/p>\n<p>Despite losing that auction to someone else, I wasn&#8217;t as frustrated as the winner must be currently.<\/p>\n<p>The reason being, the domain&#8217;s registrant pulled the domain out of GoDaddy in the last &#8220;minute&#8221; of the redemption period, renewing it.<\/p>\n<p>The domain auction&#8217;s winner was thus left with a digital drooling for this 23 year old domain, and the registrant received a free appraisal for it and kept the domain.<\/p>\n<p>From what I&#8217;m being told, such reversals are quite common, and commentators in that previous post even mentioned particular registrants that do this as a &#8220;hobby.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>One problem that wasn&#8217;t mentioned, is that these domains are now being recorded as sold, some with a price tag of <strong>thousands of dollars<\/strong>, by domain industry blogs and other resources that track domain sales on a weekly basis.<\/p>\n<p>I can identify two potential problems that arise from this inaccurate reporting of domain sales:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The domains are unsold, and now there is a public record of a supposed sale for whatever amount, small or large.<\/li>\n<li>The industry&#8217;s total metrics are skewed, sometimes by tens of thousands of dollars in weekly sales.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>By reporting lists of domain sales, one should always confirm a change of ownership before including GoDaddy auctions to the results, thanks to this existing issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I use GoDaddy to acquire domain names on their aftermarket, and recently posted about my experience regarding an auction. Despite losing that auction to someone else, I wasn&#8217;t as frustrated as the winner must be currently. The reason being, the domain&#8217;s registrant pulled the domain out of GoDaddy in the last &#8220;minute&#8221; of the redemption [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[424],"class_list":["post-4709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-domains","tag-domain-sales","entry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Some reported sales at GoDaddy are bogus<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Some reported sales at GoDaddy are bogus\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/acro.net\/blog\/some-reported-sales-at-godaddy-are-bogus\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Some reported sales at GoDaddy are bogus\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Some reported sales at GoDaddy are bogus\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/acro.net\/blog\/some-reported-sales-at-godaddy-are-bogus\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Acro.net - 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