GoDaddy Auctions platform preemptive registration of 10 years + old domain names and domain name expiration Method Records

I believe that many netizens, like the old ones, knew and used the Godaddy merchant domain names because they often published 0.99, 1.99, and 1.49 in the first year. the registration price for COM domain names is the same as that for every time we see cheap VPS hosts. If we don't buy them, we will feel a loss. The old left always treats this symptom as a "disease" and really needs to be treated. Over the past few years, although we have seen cheap domain names and VPS, every time we warn ourselves that we don't need to buy them, we can still purchase them from time to time.

But fortunately, Godaddy's domain name registrar's policy for adjusting the user base in China, even if there are similar 0.99 of domain names we cannot buy, this policy has a certain relationship with the merchant's policy, because the single profit model by domain name registration is still relatively limited, the old Left person thinks that the greater profit of Godaddy merchants lies in the GoDaddy Auctions domain preemptive registration platform, user preemptive registration and bidding are provided for expired domain names on the platform.

A netizen wrote a letter a few days ago asking the old man if he had purchased a domain name for more than 10 years and the most economical method. Here I came up with the GoDaddy Auctions platform because I had bought it before. It may be because of the needs of some projects. We can select the old domain name from the expired domain name, and the age domain name with some special characters. If we also have friends who need it, I personally think this platform is still good, at least it can save money than some transaction platforms.

1. GoDaddy Auctions platform

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Preemptive registration platform: auctions.godaddy.com

In the past few years, although new domain name registration and renewal of Godaddy merchants do not have much advantage, their merchants have expanded many other businesses, such as VM instances, VM instances, and server-related services. Although the low-price domain name promotion in early years can attract a large number of users, there are few users in the region, or they will be transferred to other businesses. This should be one of their reasons.

2. Log on to and register a GoDaddy Auctions account

After entering the GoDaddy Auctions panel platform, we will see a lot of domain names that are about to expire and in the auction. If we want to become a buyer and buyer, we must have an account and a GoDaddy Auctions member account. We need to purchase this account separately and pay US $4.99 a year.

As shown in the figure above, if you have an account, you can log in directly. If not, you need to register a Member account, in this way, you can be eligible to select and purchase expired domain names and sell domain names on the platform.

I have an account on the left, so I log in directly. If we only buy one or two domain names, you can check if there are any friends who can help you purchase them. If you need to reserve more, or you may want to register an account for domain preemptive registration.

Third, use the Auctions platform to filter domain names

After we have an account, we can start to filter the desired domain names on the platform. The domain names we see on the platform are only about to expire on the Godaddy platform, and the domain names submitted to the platform for sale by users. Domain names that are about to expire on different platforms cannot be seen here. This is also why, if we invest in domain names, we need accounts on various trading platforms.

Because the Auctions platform contains tens of thousands of domain names and hundreds of thousands of domain names, we certainly cannot figure out one page. What we need is the search function.

As shown in the preceding figure, the Advanced Search button is used for Advanced Search.

In advanced filtering, laozuo.org is just an example of searching for a domain name containing vps characters. The suffix is. COM, such domain names generally need to be used by IDC businesses, so the host provider to query WHOIS information does not appear to be the new registrar.

Here we can see the above filtering results, and we can see that there is a good one, for example, ECVPS looks pretty short. However, there is a defect Here. The current price is $12, and it cannot be purchased directly by buy now. You also need to bid. However, there are currently no other users (bids/offers is 0), and there are 9 days and 13 hours (9D 13 H) to enter $11 (less than $12 can be directly buy now ).

In this simple way, we can use advanced filtering to find the domain names with potential special characters to be registered, and the domain names that require old ages.

Fourth, Auctions platform preemptive domain name registration skills

1. Filtering

We must learn to use the search and filtering tools. Because there are too many domain names, we need to pay attention to domain names due to expiration or special characters. We must filter them, then we can check the price and time order for a few days before it will fall down. If you are in the direct buy now status, you can purchase it directly. If you want to make a bid, you need to make a bid, if other people bid, the bid is required.

2. buy now and bidding

When filtering, we can see that some of the results are in the buy now status. In fact, the domain names are sold by investors on the platform (generally, more than a dozen US dollars are uploaded by users themselves ), as shown in the figure above, the above domain names are all directly priced by the user, so that the status can be directly buy now purchase, add a shopping cart to pay.

We can see that the bidding price for the following section is about $12. This is an expiring domain name. We can reserve a bid. If no one else bids in the next column, it will belong to us. If we are confident enough, we can wait until the end of the following time to enter the following price. Each time the time period falls by about $1, we can see a fixed price of "buy now" below $12.

For example, the domain names that old Left Helped a netizen buy were bought at a fixed price of $5. If no one has purchased the domain name for less than $5, it will expire and fall down. In a few days, it will be able to be registered as a new domain name.

3. Questions about domain preemptive registration time

Whether it's buy now or a bid domain name, there is a period of time before we can get to our hands. Because many domain names on the platform are auctioned because the original registrant forgot to renew the domain name. If the original registrant finds that the original registrant has lost the domain name after our payment and at the Expiration Time, the domain name can be redeemed at a high price, in this way, we will not get it.

Of course, if other people are bidding for a domain name, we can also set an automatic bid based on who has made a high bid, such as the old left last year's three-digit ME ,. BIZ is eager to pay attention to this platform. I did not remember the specific time. After our preemptive registration, we can see the specific domain name arrival time in the preemptive registration domain name list.

4. Skills for preemptive registration of old domain names and expired domain names

The old left is not an experienced domain name player, but I have registered a few. Based on my personal experience, if I want to pay attention to the old domain name, I usually BUY a BUY NOW fixed price domain name, the fixed price is about $5-8. I forgot to mention that this price is a bidding price. We also need to pay an additional one year's renewal fee (Godaddy makes a trading platform to make money than newly registered domain names ).

If we need to bid for expired domain names, we usually click the "eye" icon in front of the domain name to add it to the observation list. We will not bid for the moment. Wait to see other people's bidding status, in general, don't rush to bid, because for non-professional and non-capital people, if there are still many days to end the bidding, we don't have to get involved. If you get angry, it's okay for you to raise the price. It's better to wait until the final bid is reached, maybe it's still possible to miss it.

To sum up, if we need an old domain name for the project, directly register it on the GoDaddy Auctions platform to save costs. We still need to be cautious if we want to compete for investment domain names. Some domain names that do not understand the value are very expensive, and some can even be ignored.

PS: If we have a domain name that needs to be sold on the Godaddy platform, we suggest you be cautious, because the platform will charge 20% of the transaction amount as a service fee, and it feels a bit pitfall.