When I visited a Namecheap auction this morning, I noticed an informational header indicating that Namecheap may change the time of day its auctions end.
“Have your say on Auction end times
We’re reviewing our end time schedules and want to know what works for you. Share your ideal bidding window and shape the future of Auctions, all from one short survey.”
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— GoDaddy Domain Academy (@DNAcademy) November 26, 2025
GoDaddy’s Domain Academy will be hosting a masterclass focusing on domain auction strategy for GoDaddy Auctions. The session will be hosted by GoDaddy’s Joe Styler and Bart Mozyrko. Joe is a longtime GoDaddy employee, and he leads the GoDaddy Auctions team.
GoDaddy recently announced a new benefit to its Domain Pro program. Domain Pro members receive a monthly $20 auction credit that can be used to pay for GoDaddy Auction purchases. This amounts to $240 in total auction credit value, and I think that is approximately the current annual cost of a Domain Pro membership.
Notably, this monthly benefit is not automatically applied to auctions each month. Members will need to be redeem it manually with a monthly promo code. On the Auctions payment page, there’s a “Have a promo code?” link, and clicking that will allow the buyer to enter this monthly promo code. For November, the code is “NOVPROWIN.”
If the winning bidder for a domain name auction does not pay and the auction platform offers the domain name to the next highest bidder(s), the default bidder’s bids should be removed entirely. The platform should treat the auction as if the default bidder never existed. Otherwise, the platform would benefit from a default bidder at the expense of other participants. This is unfair.
Rick Schwartz has been railing against Dynadot’s auction policy for the last couple of days, and I think he has valid points. Nobody can speak for Rick better than Rick himself, so I shared the post he just wrote on LinkedIn and a post from yesterday. If you haven’t experienced this issue with before, you can read his posts to learn what happened and understand why he is upset.
The Lsland.com domain name is in an expiry auction on GoDaddy Auctions. There are several bidders competing for this typo domain name, and the high bid is $1,010. Peter Askew highlighted this on X earlier this morning:
