The guy later commented that GoDaddy had registered the domain the same day he searched it, but judging by his original comment it doesn't seem that he ever saw it available.

>Okay, so I searched for one domain name on godaddy. It was available but it was on 'auction' being sold for more than $10k.

After reading OPs post over and over again, it seems pretty clear that the guy is upset about the auction lasting more than the 90 days that was originally promised.

>The auction was supposed to last 90days. After these 90 days there were 4 views in total (all by me) and it got renewed for another 90 days and it keeps saying that the auction has started the day I searched for the domain for the first time.

>If someone is able to justify this as not a scam, please post your opinion

I think it's very weird that all the commenters seem to be assuming that there's frontrunning happening here.

I guess it's just easy to hate on GoDaddy while totally ignoring the facts.

It's far more likely that this guy resolved the domain to check if it exists and got fucked by passivedns instead of GoDaddy.