Advise: Godaddy Auctions Ftp Access

Discussion in 'Domain Names' started by ahost, Jan 28, 2013.

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    Many people find the GoDaddy Auctions service very useful. It's really a place where one can buy expiring domain names for very competitive prices.
    Most probably those people use the auctions search interface or their RSS feeds. I've been also using RSS to fetch their Closeouts feed and analyze domain names with my own custom tool. But suddenly I've found that this RSS channel is not being updated properly and it doesn't contain complete listings.
    The method of getting complete GoDaddy listings is rather simple: just use their public FTP site. There is a small trick when opening it in Firefox (or maybe some other browsers):
    1. Open ftp://ftp.godaddy.com/
    2. In the popup window enter "auctions" (without quotes) into login field and leave the password field empty, click OK.
    3. The popup appears again but with the password field only. Leave it empty again. Click OK.
    4. Download any available listings archives.
    There's another option: go to Auction Tools page https://auctions.godaddy.com/trpTools.aspx?ci=55871 and click on Try it Today under "Auctions FTP Site".
    Files available at the FTP Site are in both XML and CSV formats which makes them more useful. But keep in mind that some listings on the FTP Site might be still outdated - alway check correspoding Last Modified field.
     
    ahost, Jan 28, 2013 IP