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DSAD Wednesday: Godaddy Premium Auction Has Started

DSAD Wednesday: Godaddy Premium Auction Has Started

names like CreditRelief.com, InvestmentHub.com, PerfectVacation.com, CoffeeGrind.com, and hundreds more

Shane Cultra
June 11, 2025

Before we get started this is a reminder that Godaddy’s Premium Auction Event just kicked off. A BIG list of names are already getting bids. I’ll have a special rundown post later today but in the meantime you can see the auction HERE

I may not have this correct but a new domain investor and I were in a conversation about domain auctions and asked where the domains at auction come from. So I put this little chart together for him. I’m not 100% sure it’s accurate. Feel free to fill me in on what I missed. It looks like Namecheap and Godaddy are the two that have personal portfolios, they move through sales and auctions. Godaddy has their special auctions, which is made up of its inventory and other partners and customers. Namecheap puts theirs in with the expiry auctions. Its easy to tell if you look at expiry dates because they don’t expire until a year later and are not labeled Partner. I may be wrong, but it’s certainly not expiring.

I have always been a person who judges a domain by the quality of the domain and gives it no more value just because it’s expiring, but that’s not what the public feels. Expiry auctions go for much higher than a “regular” auction. I have no problem mixing them. Either you want the name or you don’t. How do you feel?

Platform	Auction Type	Private Auctions	Inventory Source	Labeling Notes
NameJet	Expiry auctions from their registrars	Labeled as private auctions	Partner registrar expirations (e.g., Network Solutions)	Clear labeling of private auctions
DropCatch	Drop auctions for contested caught names	Labeled as private auctions	Domains caught by DropCatch with multiple backorders	Only auctions if more than one request
Dynadot	Expiring names from Dynadot	Private auctions separated	Only their own expiring inventory (partners?)	Private and public shown in different sections
Namecheap	Mixed list of expiring and partner names	Not separated	Namecheap expiry and personal inventory + Identity Digital and partners	ID names labeled “partner”
GoDaddy	Expiring domains from GoDaddy registrars	No private auctions	Godaddy registrars and other registars who partner to have GD sell their expiry stream	Owned Name Auctions Labeled as Such

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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

DSAD Wednesday: Godaddy Premium Auction Has Started

names like CreditRelief.com, InvestmentHub.com, PerfectVacation.com, CoffeeGrind.com, and hundreds more

Godaddy Domains with Bids

Godaddy Names with 1 or NO Bids

Other GoDaddy Names With More Than One Bid