I saw a domain that I placed a back order on last week with Goddaddy. How effective is backordering in terms of actually landing that particular domain? It just expired yesterday, and now has a parking page on it. I know that I have to wait until it clears, but what are my chances of actually getting it? Should I have waited until it reached "available" status? I'm new to all this, so sorry if this is a dumb question.
I've gotten every domain I have ever backordered (4). I always wait until it's already expired then backorder it. Takes a few months for it to go through all it's stages like redemption period, pending delete, etc.
Some people have said godaddy is not too good at back ordering bt I have 50% records with them. 1 won and 1 lost.
Well, right now, I have 4 on order with them. Is there something more effective in terms of backordering? The site I was looking at was a lyric site that had decent traffic according to Alexa, but go hacked about 2 days before it expired. It has a PageRank of 5, and a Alexa ranking of about 200,000, with decent, but wavering traffic. As I said this is new to me. Should I have used another service to snag this site, giving it's numbers?
godaddy's odds of catching a decent or popular .com/.net domain are not good. you will lose all the time because godaddy only has 3 registrar/connections...the ones listed below have 60-100. if you really want the name, backorder with all three services and participate in the auction, if it makes it that far. www.pool.com www.snapnames.com www.clubdrop.com godaddy is only competitive/somewhat successful when it comes to info/biz/us names good luck
Agree with ppcwiz - use all of the services available if you really want a domain. My record with GoDaddy is 4 successes out of 10 drops - but I wouldn't imagine anyone else tried to catch the 4.