GoDaddy buying domains when they expire to extort their own users
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#2I don't really trust GoDaddy, but there's no evidence there that GoDaddy purchased the domain in question. It's just parked with them.
Re: GoDaddy buying domains when they expire to extort their own users
#3First, GoDaddy is a garbage company and I would avoid using them. It is very hard to purchase a domain without agreeing to some other high-margin, bs-service add-on. The dark patterns are off the charts.
That said, you did let your domain expire. This is really tough to do unless you're not getting admin reminders (I think you get 3 before it expires?). If your domain is important or valauble why would you save a piddly few bucks and wait until it's near expiry? Buy multiple years or auto renew. This is not a "brilliant new scam"; registrars and 3rd parties have been doing it since we all used verisign.
Also, how do you know it was purchased by GoDaddy? How can you tell the differnce between someone else registering and parking it with them?
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#4ICANN doesn’t enforce its rules with GoDaddy because they’re too big. I had this conversation with Vint Cerf about their shenanigans several years ago when he was the chairman. Something that’s a grey area is 0 hope. Some things never change. Don’t do business with GD.
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#5I'm not surprised. GoDaddy supported the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). Is the public still not convinced GoDaddy is an evil and shady company? When someone mentions them I always advise them to transfer their domain/hosting elsewhere.
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#6I really hate GoDaddy, I try to avoid them personally, but they do have a good DNS collaboration (sharing access to another account) that I wish others would mimic. Cloudflare requires you have Enterprise to have the exact same features.
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#7When given the choice, don’t do business with companies with a history of treating people like garbage—be those people their customers, employees, or innocent bystanders.
I’d no sooner recommend new business use GoDaddy than Wells Fargo.
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#8I have had a personal experience and have also read others where I added a domain to my cart, then came back a few hours later to buy it and it was “sold” and godaddy wanted premium price after.
Re: GoDaddy buying domains when they expire to extort their own users
#9First, GoDaddy is a garbage company and I would avoid using them. It is very hard to purchase a domain without agreeing to some other high-margin, bs-service add-on. The dark patterns are off the charts. That said, you did let your domain expire. This is really tough to do unless you're not getting admin reminders (I think you get 3 before it expires?). If your domain is important or valauble why would you save a pid…
> That said, you did let your domain expire.
They also let you remove your domains long before they expire. I once tried it, it gets automatically "catched" and offered for an eye-watering amount. Godaddy have nothing to lose, ICANN charges them only 18 cents per domain, why not cybersquat.
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#10The entire domain name market is populated by rent seekers by definition. And GoDaddy has a long history of bad behaviour. Not surprising in the least.