How did I buy a domain

    It just so happened that when I registered a couple of domains I contacted Garant-Park-Telecom. I have an account there, and periodically I renew the purchased in my account. Not so long ago, as they say, I was drunk, and I needed a domain that was consonant with my last name. And what, cool after all, get an address like vasya@pupkin.com. Having broken it through whois, I found out that he had an owner. But instead of the address, there was something anonymous like r01.ru/kontakt_admin.html . Yeah, I thought, this is a form for anonymous communication with the anonymous domain owner.

    The answer came quickly, and not from the hypothetical Ivan Petrovich, but from the GPT. It turned out that the domain is at auction. Apparently, as such, he does not have a host, so I was invited to participate. I never dealt with auctions and did not know what to expect from them, so any experience would be useful.
    Here we need to make a small digression. The fact is that my surname is not Ivanov at all, and it is not even in the homeopathic dose on the list of common surnames. For several years of searching (I was specifically looking!), I found on the Internet only one namesake who turned out to be a football player of one regional team, although not from seedy ones.
    In general, reasonably assuming that nothing threatens me from the side of the football player, I threw 500 rubles on my account, pressed the “big red button” at the price of 100 rubles (TIC = 0) and went to sleep. It was Saturday, auctions lasted 72 hours, so by today I saw myself as the owner of the Ponto address.
    Today at one in the morning I receive a letter in the style of “Aha! Your bid has been broken! ” I go in and see there anonymus with one and a half hundred rubles. This is, well, good reason, I thought. Under the worldwide dominance of bots, it is quite reasonable to assume with a high degree of probability that I am being trite bred. I waited for the last 5-minute interval, bet 200, but immediately after refreshing the page I saw a bid of 250. I still decided that I was not going to spend more than 500 rubles, so at the last minute I made several bets, bringing the price to 500 rubles, each the interim rate was instantly interrupted. And when I saw MY final figure, not broken by a mysterious competitor who LIKE my domain, I finally made sure that I paid the course "How to breed a sucker for 500 rubles" worth 500 rubles.
    Summarizing this lengthy story, I want to briefly express the main thoughts:
    1. It was a bot manufactured by Garant-Park-Telecom
    2. I think if there were 3000 rubles in my account, the bot would have increased to 3000, and then it would have been merged. AND...
    3. ... if the account had 200 rubles, the domain would have cost me 200 rubles
    4. If the bot didn’t merge, I would receive a letter like “the winner refused the purchase and your bet won”
    5. Domain auctions are an almost legal way for registrars to extort money for domains that they don’t own.
    6. It’s good that my last name is not Ivanov

    Why did I describe these events here? Because google on the topic "buy cheap auctions scam bots" almost didn’t bring anything. I hope that my impressions will add a couple of kilobytes to the unsettled ether of unconscious knowledge, and people will become a little smarter. Amen.

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