GoDaddy VP Caught Bidding Against Customers

An employee of GoDaddy had been bidding against customers for domain names. It turns out this is unbelievably not against GoDaddy's policies.

"A GoDaddy Vice President has been caught bidding against customers in their own domain name auctions. The employee Adam Dicker isn't just any GoDaddy employee; he's head of the GoDaddy subsidiary that controls the auctions. Dicker won some of the domains he bid for, and pushed up the bid price on auctions he didn't win."

It does seem however that in an effort to lessen this obvious PR nightmare that GoDaddy is changing its policy now that an employee has been caught by the public with their hand in the cookie jar. What is said to be a response from GoDaddy has been posted in this Digg comment:

"Go Daddy has reviewed the auction and found nothing improper.

Adam Dicker's knowledge on the auction was no different from what any customer coming to our TDNAM site would have had.

To ensure customer confidence and to avoid any possible future questions of impropriety all GD employees are now and in the future prohibited from participating in TDNAM auctions, purchasing, sales & back orders."

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