This happened to me today and it's wound me right up. Someone has added one of our domains to afternic with a BIN price so that it's showing on godaddy.
The domain is for one of our actives sites and definitely not for sale, nor is it in our afternic account.
What's annoyed me is that they've said the only way to remove it is to add the domain to our afternic account, verify ownership and then delete it. So rather than getting the person who has it in their afternic account to verify that they own it, we have to prove that they don't own it.
Also once I've deleted the domain, I'm pretty sure there's nothing to stop someone else adding it to afternic. Meaning that if that happened, I'd have to go back and add it again and re-verify. Or I have to leave a domain listed in afternic that I don't want to sell.
Surely the sensible option here is to make everyone verify their domains as they add them and not end up in a position where people could be scammed into losing their domains - thankfully it's not registered with godaddy, but I am concerned that if it was and someone did the BIN then afternic/godaddy would just do the fast transfer and whip the domain out of the account without permission.
I'm half tempted to just go and do the BIN myself to see what happens...
The domain is for one of our actives sites and definitely not for sale, nor is it in our afternic account.
What's annoyed me is that they've said the only way to remove it is to add the domain to our afternic account, verify ownership and then delete it. So rather than getting the person who has it in their afternic account to verify that they own it, we have to prove that they don't own it.
Also once I've deleted the domain, I'm pretty sure there's nothing to stop someone else adding it to afternic. Meaning that if that happened, I'd have to go back and add it again and re-verify. Or I have to leave a domain listed in afternic that I don't want to sell.
Surely the sensible option here is to make everyone verify their domains as they add them and not end up in a position where people could be scammed into losing their domains - thankfully it's not registered with godaddy, but I am concerned that if it was and someone did the BIN then afternic/godaddy would just do the fast transfer and whip the domain out of the account without permission.
I'm half tempted to just go and do the BIN myself to see what happens...
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