Go daddy issues regarding selling multiple domains at the same time

topoftherock

Hi guys, I’ve emailed go daddy several times stating that I would like to sell multiple domains at the same time I.e they all have the same names except for the extensions. So for example, let’s say “https://www.lulp.com”, “https://www.lulp.co.uk, “https://www.lulp.org”, “https://www.lulp.net” etc. They told me I can’t sell multiple Domains at once, which is very frustrating! I mean, if a person buys my “.com” domain, it makes sense for him/her to acquire the rest! Moreover, It’s a more lucrative offer as the buyer can get all the domains (which protects him/her). So, what do you guys recommend I should do in this scenario? Kind regards

dan958

Why wouldn't you be able to? I also do not see anything that says you cannot sell multiple domains in their page here; https://uk.godaddy.com/help/listing-domains-on-godaddy-auctions-from-the-domain-manager-4155

Yeah, you probably wont be able to group sell them as one package - but I cant see why you cant sell them separately.

topoftherock

dan958 wrote: »

Why wouldn't you be able to? I also do not see anything that says you cannot sell multiple domains in their page here; https://uk.godaddy.com/help/listing-domains-on-godaddy-auctions-from-the-domain-manager-4155

Yeah, you probably wont be able to group sell them as one package - but I cant see why you cant sell them separately.

Hi Dan, many thanks for your reply. Yes, I would like to sell them as one package; but go daddy told me I can’t do this. Yes, I could sell each one separately , but then there is no guarantee that one person could Have them all, is there? (Unless you know a way around this?). For example, person “x” may win the auction for my “.com” domain, and then person “y” May win the auction for my “co.uk” domain and so on. From a selling point of view, if I could sell all the domains to one person, it’s much more attractive (and the buyer can then be satisfied that he/she owns all the high level domains of that name). Basically, I have “.com”, “.co.uk”, “.uk”, “.org”, “.info” and “.net”, so this gives a person, pretty much, the majority of high level domains for that name. Can you see what I mean? What can I do? Kind regards

unforeseen

All you can do is sell them seperately as I doubt any domain seller is going to sell different TLDs as a package. You only think people will want to buy all but most businesses would probably only want maybe .co.uk & . com but have no interest in me.uk, net or org. Whereas as a private person would want maybe .org & .me.uk

Why buy and have to pay for a year minimum for a domain that you are not going to use?

Also different TLDs mean dealing with different registries for a single sale, not something they are probably prepared to do

topoftherock

unforeseen wrote: »

All you can do is sell them seperately as I doubt any domain seller is going to sell different TLDs as a package. You only think people will want to buy all but most businesses would probably only want maybe .co.uk & . com but have no interest in me.uk, net or org. Whereas as a private person would want maybe .org & .me.uk

Why buy and have to pay for a year minimum for a domain that you are not going to use?

Also different TLDs mean dealing with different registries for a single sale, not something they are probably prepared to do

unforeseen wrote: »

All you can do is sell them seperately as I doubt any domain seller is going to sell different TLDs as a package. You only think people will want to buy all but most businesses would probably only want maybe .co.uk & . com but have no interest in me.uk, net or org. Whereas as a private person would want maybe .org & .me.uk

Why buy and have to pay for a year minimum for a domain that you are not going to use?

Also different TLDs mean dealing with different registries for a single sale, not something they are probably prepared to do

Hi Unforeseen, thanks for your comments. Yes, I see what you mean about a business only wanting, let’s say, a “.com” or “.co.uk” domain. I just thought by buying most of the TLDs, a business won’t have to worry about a competitor using another TLD and potentially stealing its business e.g business “A” has a domain and website “https://www.mricecream.com” and then a competitor sets up a website “https://www.mricecream.org”. So by having most of the TLDs, it protects you against competitors (even if you only end up using one of the domains). With the annual domain cost being only a few pounds per year for each domain, why not? It’s certainly worth a few pounds to protect yourself, don’t you think? In my case, what do you think will be the best strategy? (Auction them all on the same day? Auction one per day? Auction the most attractive one first and leave a note in the description saying others will be available within the next few days ?). I believe the domain names are very attractive, and I Wouldn’t be surprised if the “.com” domain sold for several hundred or possibly a few thousand. P.S Please can you explain what this means? “Also different TLDs mean dealing with different registries for a single sale, not something they are probably prepared to do”? Kind regards

unforeseen

In the business world whoever gets the earliest registration of name, be it x.com or x.co.uk effectively controls the other tlds such that the law is on their side to stop another business using the same name but with a different tld in any venture that is even remotely similar to the first business. The law is powerful enough to actually force the upstart company to hand over their domain name

For example, Harrods only have harrods.com and harrods.co.uk (normal set up for a business to just have those two). They have no need for the other possible tlds. The number of available tlds is now massive. Consider that you can have the same domain name registered with every country that has their own tld plus all the 'special' ones that are available. It becomes pointless trying to grab all of them.

Registries. Each TLD is managed by a registry (this is not the registrar). The likes of Go Daddy, 123-Reg only sell the, normally, annual rights to use them. These are the registrars.Each time there is a change of 'owner' the relevant registry for the TLD has to be updated with the information. The registrars are purely the conduit to pass changes each relevant registry

For example, The registry for any domain that has a TLD of .uk (E.G. .co.uk, .org.uk, .uk etc) is Nominet. anything ending .de goes to DENIC

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_name_registry has a good description of the registry structure starting with IANA