GoDaddy auction bidders: Prepare(.com) to waste your time

Expired domain auctions at GoDaddy come with a fair warning for the winner: You might end up not getting the domain.

Even after the auction finishes, as long as the registrant renews within the time frame that ICANN mandates, money and time is lost for the auction’s winner.

Although the amount paid is refunded, that doesn’t include potential banking fees, let alone the time one spent to research, bid, and pay for the domain.

In the case of Prepare.com, a domain that expired in December, the registrant renewed the domain before the auction’s end. At the time, the auction had exceeded $54,000 dollars.

Prepare.com is once again resolving to a lander with some mambo-jumbo, noting how the domain is not for sale (but feel free to place an offer for $1 trillion dollars, or more.)

Moral of the story: Expired domain auctions at GoDaddy isn’t the best way to go about acquiring premium domain names that might or might not have reached their end of life—you’re better off visiting WasteOfTime.com.

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