BlueRazor Backorders To The Rescue With GoDaddy’s Help

Blue Razor Backorders

Back around October last year, I purchased over 350 bluerazor.com backorders from a namepros member.  He had paid the full price of $12.95 per domain back around 2008 and the credits are usable. The seller took a big hit on the price & I secured each backorder for $8.73 a pop. At that price, I felt I couldn’t lose as GoDaddy.com keeps hiking up their backorder prices around $21 per & only allows certain coupon codes to work for a discount. I had called godaddy a handful of times for a discount & never had any luck. The cheapest I could get a backorder at godaddy was around $14.69 on a 10 pack with a 25% or 30% coupon code.

The deal with the sale was that I wanted the backorders transferred from bluerazor to godaddy. At first this all seemed doable and like it was going to be no problem. Around three weeks time passed and godaddy finally came back saying they couldn’t justify moving the backorders from bluerazor to godaddy with their accounting department. A sale is a sale and I am a man of my word. I kept the backorders with bluerazor & put them to use on 2nd tier domains that I felt certain drop catchers would target. Mostly Andrew Reberry who has been sucking up most of the 1st & 2nd tier domains without mercy & beating the drop catch software with his multiple registrar connections.

Well I proceeded to backorder domains at bluerazor. I added a lot to their system & chased domains using various API’s and staggered drop lists to compete with the backorders I put out. Overall bluerazor did ok. A lot of the domains were caught by others like moniker with INERNIM nameservers so it was hard to tell if it beat my moniker API or legit with a backorder assigned.

What I found about bluerazor is really good at catching domains that are not backordered at godaddy. Sorry for the news, but if you or someone else were to place a backorder on the same domain at godaddy.com & bluerazor.com, the GoDaddy account will automatically win and bluerazor will lose. No auction or 2nd chance at bluerazor. If the domain had additional backorders, it will go to godaddy’s auction process.

After discovering these news, I was not happy. Oh crap, I spent a good investment on hundreds of useless backorders! Then I got smarter and decided to really push the system. i like to flip the negative out of things into positive. Afterall, I am still in my warehousing stage where I am stock piling domains for sale. Plus I like to target domains that make sense to me & I feel I can sell although usually noone else sees it. So I set forth to stop backordering at godaddy & bluerazor & only use bluerazor to use up all these backorder credits.

Soon after, I found that although I was placing hits on domains using bluerazor only, all of godaddy’s drop catch farm was working hard to catch the domains I placed backorders on. Thus far, I am happy with bluerazor. After understanding the rule of only backordering at bluerazor and if someone else backorders at godaddy it’s lost – I am happy with the results. Below is a short list of domains I acquired via bluerazor & are sitting in my account. However, pay close attention to the registrar info who caught the catch:

bikeuniforms <dot> com Registrar: GO MONTENEGRO DOMAINS, LLC
fancy-gifts <dot> com Registrar: GO MONTENEGRO DOMAINS, LLC
gutterinspectors <dot> com Registrar: WILD WEST DOMAINS, LLC
cleanupbags <dot> com Registrar: GO FRANCE DOMAINS, LLC
designer-sofas <dot> com Registrar: GO MONTENEGRO DOMAINS, LLC
fishsuit <dot> com Registrar: GO FRANCE DOMAINS, LLC
saladknife <dot> com Registrar: GO MONTENEGRO DOMAINS, LLC
studiotraining <dot> com Registrar: GO MONTENEGRO DOMAINS, LLC
hypeaudio <dot> com Registrar: GO FRANCE DOMAINS, LLC
firstaidspray <dot> com Registrar: GODADDY.COM, LLC
cosmogifts <dot> com Registrar: GO FRANCE DOMAINS, LLC
antiquescooters <dot> com Registrar: GO MONTENEGRO DOMAINS, LLC
fruitscoops <dot> com Registrar: WILD WEST DOMAINS, LLC
prairiecandles <dot> com Registrar: GO CANADA DOMAINS, LLC
importedolives <dot> com Registrar: GO FRANCE DOMAINS, LLC
healthysushi <dot> com Registrar: GO CANADA DOMAINS, LLC
trendysigns <dot> com Registrar: GO FRANCE DOMAINS, LLC
usedcoins <dot> com Registrar: GO CHINA DOMAINS, LLC

I have used up over 100 backorders at bluerazor & only 1 or 2 domains were caught by bluerazor. Maybe it’s the domains I chase or if someone put in a backorder at godaddy and I did too at bluerazor, not sure who would win. I have about two hundred and fifty backorders left, so I will keep trying & report back any progress.

After research, I see godaddy has discontinued the investor’s edge & similar discount plans. All those pages now seem to point to this page:

http://www.godaddy.com/domainaddon/domain-backorders.aspx

Where godaddy tries to charge $20.99 per backorder.  they offer the bulk discount on the page & if you order a 100 pack, none of the promotion discount codes will work. Their reasoning over the phone was because $14.69 is as cheap as you can get the backorders at per piece.

To the readers of this blog, I would recommend that you look into bluerazor & apply a coupon code if that works to get backorders at a cheap price. You will always lose to godaddy’s backorders – but with patience, certain domains slip through the cracks. It’s always devastating when a plan doesn’t pan out as thought, but you can always make the best of it! Look at the 18 domains above out of 100+ of similar quality, I think I am on a good trend here to sell and flip some sales to cover a lot more backorders everywhere.