http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/silent_auction_WmTds6db9L2opllEopS3hP A bit of interesting info about godaddy, a bit about how backorders and auctions work. Might be worth a quick read. Also the commenter on the article named "Ryan" is dead wrong about at least one of his points of disagreement with the article. Registrars will allow more than one backorder on a name.