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Most experienced domainers already know that Godaddy’s backorders are nearly worthless. For how large Godaddy is, they have one of the most inefficient backordering services around. However, I happened to have an extra backorder laying around in my account. I had noticed a domain name that I liked, Friendraiser.com (A combo between Friend and Fundraiser = Friendraiser). The domain was going to go through NameJets system (since it was a Network Solutions domain) But since no one had backordered it, I figured there was a good chance it would truely drop.

Sure enough, the domain dropped. However it was not Godaddy that caught it. The domain went through a few tasting cycles with random registrars, including what appeared to be a snapnames registrar. I was just notified today that Godaddy captured the domain name. It did not specifically state that I was the new registrant (which will open up an entire round of new questions if Im not) but it does show that Godaddy does have the capability to grab a domain name, that no one else wants.

I dont know if I should clap or laugh.

Justin