Rant: Godaddy Is Greedy

[RS7588]

For a long while I had purchased my domains through them... Switched to name cheap a little over 2 years ago.

My brother in law ran a pretty popular mobile tech blog on a domain he purchased from godaddy. Due to lack of time.. He stopped blogging and let the domain expire. I hosted the site for him and still have a backup. I thought i might try to reboot it the other day. So I searched for the domain to find out that godaddy is now selling it as a premium domain for 1K! They must have saw the attraction that domain was getting and jumped on the opportunity to make money off of it.

[Paul]

I think that's a pretty common practice nowadays, especially for domains that have any kind of significant traffic.

[Michael]

That's why you always renew the domain if it's good because people will jump at it and as it's registered with GoDaddy a Registrar they have full control to keep it at their small fees and sell it for premium.

[Paul]

I always have domains set to auto renew, and important domains I usually renew out far in advance.

[MemoryX2]

I always have domains set to auto renew, and important domains I usually renew out far in advance.

I mainly just renew in advance.

[Michael]

I mainly just renew in advance.

 

 

Same here. Approx a week in advanced.

 

I always have domains set to auto renew, and important domains I usually renew out far in advance.

 

Aha like Blesta I will do that when I get more cash in daily, I save up incase I need the money for bills and I have like 20+ domains.

[Scott Horsley]

... and I have like 20+ domains.

 

lol, I have about the same, I never auto-renew as it makes me consider the worthiness each time one comes up. If I decide it really isn't working for me, I drop it, otherwise I renew it. Saying this, however, I do have certain domains that I would love to drop but are so engrained into systems and networks that they would cause more problems then it was worth to remove them.

[Paul]

Aha like Blesta I will do that when I get more cash in daily, I save up incase I need the money for bills and I have like 20+ domains.

 

Yeah, it's good through May 30, 2023, don't have to worry about that expiring anytime soon.

 

I wonder what their reason is for capping it to 10 years.

[Paul]

lol, I have about the same, I never auto-renew as it makes me consider the worthiness each time one comes up. If I decide it really isn't working for me, I drop it, otherwise I renew it. Saying this, however, I do have certain domains that I would love to drop but are so engrained into systems and networks that they would cause more problems then it was worth to remove them.

 

That's a good reason. I actually get a reminder about auto-renews a week or so in advance so have the opportunity to cancel the auto renew, which I often do for domains I later realize I will never use.