Namecheap did this to me in January. It's infuriating.
Godaddy just stole my domain
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Re: Godaddy just stole my domain
#12Over the years, I've noticed GoDaddy has a disproportionately large number of unsatisfied customers compared to other domain registrars.
Re: Godaddy just stole my domain
#13There are many domain registrars out there, and most are better than GoDaddy. Try buying the domain from Google Domains or Namecheap, though it sounds like GoDaddy “bought” it and is trying to get you to pay $2000 for it, so you probably can’t get the domain from another registrar. Malicious or not, this is par for the course for GoDaddy.
Porkbun ride or die.
Re: Godaddy just stole my domain
#14There's effectively no recourse. You can complain to IANA; Their pile of Godaddy complaints stacks to the ceiling so they can't add more.
About nine months ago one of my clients bought a domain at "auction" run by Godaddy. Their auction terms included a 1 year renewal. Godaddy didn't renew the domain when he received it; Wouldn't have been a big deal but they also didn't allow renewal for a week afterwards "while the transfer took place". He set up automatic renewal and forgot about it.
Then, three months later, the domain came up for renewal. Godaddy failed to process the transaction once, failed to send him a notification e-mail, failed to send a second notification e-mail (The customer support rep confirmed that the e-mail notifications had failed in writing) and he lost the domain. It was promptly scooped up... By Godaddy. He had to buy it from them (rather, their shell company, "dan.com") again, for the same asking price.
It was a shitshow and there's an important lesson here: Never ever ever use godaddy. It's worth your time and money to switch immediately.
Re: Godaddy just stole my domain
#15May I ask what TLD this was?
Re: Godaddy just stole my domain
#16There are many domain registrars out there, and most are better than GoDaddy. Try buying the domain from Google Domains or Namecheap, though it sounds like GoDaddy “bought” it and is trying to get you to pay $2000 for it, so you probably can’t get the domain from another registrar. Malicious or not, this is par for the course for GoDaddy.
Cloudflare sells domains at bulk price
Re: Godaddy just stole my domain
#17There are many domain registrars out there, and most are better than GoDaddy. Try buying the domain from Google Domains or Namecheap, though it sounds like GoDaddy “bought” it and is trying to get you to pay $2000 for it, so you probably can’t get the domain from another registrar. Malicious or not, this is par for the course for GoDaddy.
Cloudflare sells domains at bulk price
By "sells domains at bulk price" do you mean they sell them to you, the customer, at the wholesale price they buy them from the registry?
Re: Godaddy just stole my domain
#18Over the years, I've noticed GoDaddy has a disproportionately large number of unsatisfied customers compared to other domain registrars.
godaddy are active enemies of the free and open internet. avoid at all costs, using them is voting for a corporate internet.
Re: Godaddy just stole my domain
#19You should check the ‘whois’ information for the domain for the date it was registered. Here is a website to do this:
https://www.whois.com/whois/
It can happen that an already registered domain will be apparently available but in reality something the website is querying fails to provide the correct information.
This has happened to me in the past, but checking ‘whois’ revealed the domain had already been registered and was active for a while.
Re: Godaddy just stole my domain
#20Write an army of bots to check millions of domain names on godaddy. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯