Is Namecheap Auction not open to everyone?

11 months ago 14
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Maybe they have join fee?

Clover

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That's what they've told me too, but the domains the have listed do not seem like they would come from anyone higher up than ordinary people like us.

Maybe it's just for their staff to liquidate the shit they don't want anymore (lol, kidding, kinda)

$5 join fee to participate, if I am not mistaken.

Clover

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$5 join fee to participate, if I am not mistaken.

No, that's GoDaddy.

Maybe they have join fee?


$5 join fee to participate, if I am not mistaken.

there is no option like that. Can you see from your account?

Try this:

Go to Marketplace -> Market Dashboard -> Settings

There should be an option for subscription.

The other way is just try to place a bid, it will prompt you to subscribe (at least that worked for me).

I think you can only bid but can't auction domains.
I stand to be corrected though.

I request them many times to give me a chance to join the auction but they reject me every time. I have 300+ domains on NameCheap. But the auction is not for me. I do not know why...

I also thought the $5 charge was for domain auction.
After paying $5 I realised the money was for bidding.

This is an old thread, but doing some research and looking at the WHOIS history for a small selection of auction domains on NameCheap Auctions, NameCheap was the registrar for all of them. So, it looks like it is just a separate sales channel for NameCheap to get a higher return back for expired domains before they're released back to the domain administrator. When you consider the number of domains that would expire each month from their customer base, it makes sense. But they should open the Auction system up to domain holders also.

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