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.
