Go Daddy Opens Closeout Auctions to Public

Thursday, April 15th, 2010

Registrar opens up “closeout” section of domain aftermarket.

GoDaddy has removed the membership requirement to its domain name aftermarket platform in order to be able to buy “closeout” domains.

Closeouts are last-effort sales of expired domain names priced at $5-$9 plus the cost of registration. Previously, buyers had to have a membership to Go Daddy Auctions (a.k.a. TDNAM) in order to purchase these domains. Membership is no longer required.

25,000 domains are added to the closeout section on any given day, and include traffic stats when applicable. You shouldn’t expect many high traffic domains to make it to the closeout stage, but there are some good generic domain names.

Go Daddy has also set up a twitter account for Go Daddy Auctions, where you’ll get tweets of “Daily Gems”, or higher value closeout domains. Some recent examples of Daily Gems include AffiliateCenter.com, LiveJam.com, V2H.com, and EFGO.com.

Further Reading:

  1. Go Daddy Starts Featuring Auctions in Registration Path
  2. Priced Domains Can Sell in Go Daddy Auctions, Too
  3. Closeout.com: The value of type-in traffic

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  1. Adam
    April 15th, 2010 | 1:34 pm

    Thanks for the news… however I don’t think that “Daily Gems” are actually “Closeout” domain names.

    “Closeout” domain names are available at Buy-It-Now prices ranging from $5 – $9 + Reg Fee.

    The domains you listed as “Daily Gems” were not sold at low BIN prices, but rather at auction prices through the normal expiring auctions market… they didn’t make it to the “Closeout” bin.

  2. Andrew Allemann
    April 15th, 2010 | 1:48 pm

    @ Adam – you’re correct, thanks. Daily Gems is for any auction, not just closeouts. Corrected story.

  3. tricolorro (aka Patrick , aka The Other Patrick)
    April 15th, 2010 | 5:41 pm

    “Membership (for TDNAM)is no longer required.

    Hey I want my TDNAM refund!

  4. Igor
    March 9th, 2011 | 5:37 pm

    Hi, a have a problem! Few days ago a bought donain in closeout auction GoDaddy? I have receipt and billing ID of it. But domain still not appear in my account domain manager ii CoDaddy. How can i solve this problem???
    Thanks

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