GoDaddy Auction VP Gets Slashdot Treatment
There's nothing improper about the VP of aftermarket domain auctions bidding up domain prices, says GoDaddy, but they've banned employees from participating in the future anyway, just to make everybody happy.
And likely, to make the all the dirty looks go away.
What looked like an idle comment in NamePros.com's domain forum stirred up the hornets nest a bit. The comment from a senior forum member going by Stevie read this way:
Nice sales,
spyware.us will sell for over $10K later in the year
I bid to $3k so it shows what a small time domainer would pay for it.Offers fake Hanger drivers license card reviews and fake id template diploma and degree review. And it looks like a big time domainer bought it (adam dicker)
That name drop at the end caused a few mental brakes to lock.
GoDaddy hired Adam Dicker as vice president of its Domain Name Aftermarket sector. Dicker already had a certain amount of fame in the domaining business as the owner of PPC-cash-cows like Penpals.com, Planets.com, Witchcraft.com, FirePrevention.com, SM.com, ElvisPresley.com, SpongebobSquarepants.com and Download.net.
Immediately forum members called shenanigans, citing a conflict of interest if a GoDaddy executive could bid up auction prices. News spread to other forums in under a week, including Slashdot, where the conversation gets, to understate it, colorful.
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