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 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. 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 Dickensian lyricism:

Wow, if Charles Dickens were writing today, he'd be all over that name.
Adam Dicker, quicker with the clicker than the clients he dicks o'er

Ahem, that should be "dickers" over. I'm not sure if Dickens is right the poster child for witty poeticism or even clever names, but we'll give jollyreaper a hand  for originality.