Tag Archives: expired domain

April, 2010

• 13 April

  GoDaddy sells expired domain for $15,671

  Exactly one week after covering Go Daddy’s sham backorder service, here’s a prime example of the company in action. After a customer failed to renew the domain PondPumps.com, the registrar sold it at auction for $15,671 USD. Talk about a great deal for Go Daddy. While I’m all for a …
• 6 April

  Godaddy's backorder service is a sham

  For years, Go Daddy has offered a backorder service. At a price of $18.99, the company claims the product provides a leg-up in acquiring soon-to-expire domains. But as the New York Post reveals, this isn’t necessarily the case. It turns out that Go Daddy has been allowing multiple customers to …

July, 2009

• 27 July

  Politician too cheap to renew domain, gets surprise

  Wisconsin Secretary of State Doug LaFollette has been in his job since 1974. Running virtually uncontested each election year, he decided he could save a few bucks by not paying his registration fee, letting the domain expire, and picking it back up when it came time to run for office …
• 2 July

  Track domain registration trends with Domize

  Looking to dominate the domain industry? You may want to look into Domize. It’s a free tool that lets you track domain registration trends and find available names. The statistics feature is quite useful. Today’s report, for example, says that 1,020 domains containing the word “michael” have been registered, while …

May, 2009

• 25 May

  Registering Expired Domains

  Most of the time, anything previously used by another person is less desirable. Used autos cost a fraction of models just a year newer and computers drop in value very quickly after being purchased. The opposite is true for domains, however. The more a domain has been used, the more …