Ramp knows about the value of exceptional domain names. The company began on TryRamp.com and later upgraded to its brand matching Ramp.com domain name.
A couple of weeks ago, DomainNames.com, a platform operated by GoDaddy that specializes in the sale of high value domain names, announced that Router.com had been sold. GoDaddy shared that the buyer was represented by Lumis in the deal.
A UDRP was filed against the 4 letter RFPG.com domain name at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). According to NameBio, RFPG.com was sold via GoDaddy for $585 on July 23rd of this year – less than one month ago. I believe this domain name was sold in an expiry auction at GoDaddy Auctions.
A month ago, I wrote about an issue sellers need to be aware of when using the Lease to Own (LTO) option on Afternic. If a LTO deal is canceled, the domain name is returned to the seller’s GoDaddy account with auto-renew disabled, regardless of that status prior to the sale.
This morning, one of my lease to own deals was canceled and the domain name was returned to my GoDaddy account. Despite having auto-renew enabled before the LTO started, the domain name had auto-renew disabled after it was returned to my account.
If you use Afternic and its GoDaddy brokers to sell your domain names, your Lead Center is most likely filled with inquiries that have many “Email sent to buyer” notifications. Most of these outbound messages go unanswered. What are GoDaddy brokers saying in their emails? Most likely some sort of take on ‘are you still interested in the domain name?’
Adam Maysonet shared a screenshot of an email he received from GoDaddy following an inquiry he made to buy a domain name:
Earlier this week, I received an email from GoDaddy reminding me one of my domain names would expire on June 29th. The domain name caught my attention because I thought I had sold it, and receiving a renewal email for a domain name I sold would have been peculiar.
It turns out I had not sold the domain name. Instead, it was a domain name that was bought on a 12 month LTO in May of 2025, paid for 5 months, and later returned to me when the buyer canceled the deal. When Afternic returned the domain name to my account, the company did not re-enable auto renew for this domain name.
This is not the first time this happened to one of my domain names. In April, I mentioned this issue on X. I don’t think it’s the first time I reported it, but I can’t quickly find the prior time(s):
I saw a domain name in the Dropping.pro newsletter that caught my attention this morning. When I clicked through on the domain name, I was taken to a BIN page on GoDaddy’s website rather than the expiry auction landing page. The domain name is currently listed for sale via Afternic for $65,000 with a lease to own option available:
At the same time, this domain name is in an expiry auction at GoDaddy with a high bid of $3,550. The auction ends later on this afternoon:
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