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DSAD Monday: Godaddy's Domain Trading Contest and 100s of Expired Domains

DSAD Monday: Godaddy's Domain Trading Contest and 100s of Expired Domains

Shane Cultra
June 02, 2025

Not sure if anyone’s following this, but Joe Styler and the Domain Academy at GoDaddy are running a contest with six domain investors. Each gets $500 to spend, and the goal is to see who can turn the most profit by year’s end.

There are a few rules: they have to buy on GoDaddy and list on Afternic—which makes sense since GoDaddy is backing the whole thing.

You can check out what each person bought HERE.

A few things to keep in mind: some of the international participants face higher taxes and fees per domain. Joe, since he’s a GoDaddy employee, has to wait until the last day of closeouts to buy. So there are some built-in advantages and disadvantages across the group.

What surprised me is that nobody grabbed a few hand-registered AI names and tried outbounding. Honestly, that might be the only real path to winning. Selling through landers or traditional marketplaces with these kinds of names is going to be a grind.

You can listen to the Podcast about it HERE.

Interesting Links:

Domain Investors may need a Business Account at Paypal according to their new TOS

Bob Hawkes has a nice article about Domains and AI “How Worried Should we Be”

The Week in Domaining is one of our better newsletters in the space

Warning it Chinese, but Manus is becoming a one of my go to AI providers. I just don’t put my military secrets on there

These guys imitating Indian Street Food vendors are some of my favorite. Actually I like all Indian Street Food vendor videos, real or sarcastic

Quote of the Day:“You don’t win a trading competition by being safe—you win by being right at the right time.” — Paul Tudor Jones

Domain of the Day: SixLimes.com At $175 and several businesses share the name. To me sounds like a Sprite type drink

Please Note: The list below contains affiliate links and/or names that have been posted for a fee. It is how we pay for our time since it is a free site. More details at bottom of page. Can go to any of the auctions by adding the names at the end like this one