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Here's the story of why you still do not want to type ANY domain name you actually want into GoDaddy.
I had my eye on a two-word short .com that was in the droplist for today. I was running command-line whois to watch it and other domains drop, including LLLL.com domains.
After pounding 'search domain' over and over in GoDaddy, I finally get a "this domain is available" when it drops. Add to cart. However, instead of the domain being added for reg fee, what is added is "backorder service" for the domain for like $22. Screw that, I remove it from the cart, and search again. Now it is "not available" again. Search again. Now it is "this premium domain is available" for $500, taking me to the GoDaddy auction site with a $500 buy-it-now. SCUMBAGS.
I was sure they were frontrunning the domain, saw that it was two-word and had snatched it from me and regged it. A person could easily have paid $500 right then. However I went to two other registrars, and they also showed it as available for reg. Back to GoDaddy, and you can't get past a $500 premium domain "register now". Close to half an hour later, I was able to get the domain added to my cart for reg fee ($1.17). They didn't have the domain, they were just trying to squeeze more money from a normal reg. SCUMBAGS.
Did the same thing for the four-letter when it dropped, same thing, backorder service in the cart instead of the domain. Note, the backorder was not an option before the domain dropped, it just said "domain not available". I'm sure if I chose the fake backorder service, I would have paid $22 just for GoDaddy to reg the domain themselves and send it to auction. By the time I went to another registrar, the name had been jumped, with new whois.
So now who do I complain to to get GoDaddy's certification with ICANN pulled?
I had my eye on a two-word short .com that was in the droplist for today. I was running command-line whois to watch it and other domains drop, including LLLL.com domains.
After pounding 'search domain' over and over in GoDaddy, I finally get a "this domain is available" when it drops. Add to cart. However, instead of the domain being added for reg fee, what is added is "backorder service" for the domain for like $22. Screw that, I remove it from the cart, and search again. Now it is "not available" again. Search again. Now it is "this premium domain is available" for $500, taking me to the GoDaddy auction site with a $500 buy-it-now. SCUMBAGS.
I was sure they were frontrunning the domain, saw that it was two-word and had snatched it from me and regged it. A person could easily have paid $500 right then. However I went to two other registrars, and they also showed it as available for reg. Back to GoDaddy, and you can't get past a $500 premium domain "register now". Close to half an hour later, I was able to get the domain added to my cart for reg fee ($1.17). They didn't have the domain, they were just trying to squeeze more money from a normal reg. SCUMBAGS.
Did the same thing for the four-letter when it dropped, same thing, backorder service in the cart instead of the domain. Note, the backorder was not an option before the domain dropped, it just said "domain not available". I'm sure if I chose the fake backorder service, I would have paid $22 just for GoDaddy to reg the domain themselves and send it to auction. By the time I went to another registrar, the name had been jumped, with new whois.
So now who do I complain to to get GoDaddy's certification with ICANN pulled?
