DISQUS

Thilak · 2 years ago

The other day, my cousin was telling the GoDaddy parks the domain if you try search for a domain name and its available.

I felt the same while I tried searching for Thilak.com and it got parked. Isn't this unlawful ?

Ajay · 2 years ago

Didn't I tell you about this earlier ;)

Btw, how about transferring your domains to WZDomains; it's definitely more cost effective than most other registrars.

Ajay · 2 years ago

Thilak, there is nothing unlawful about your domain being parked even after you searched for it. In some ways you should have registered it the moment you found it available.

However yes it is unethical.

Mike · 2 years ago

I've not had a problem with GoDaddy so far but I'm going to be paying more attention to the search/parking issue Thilak has mentioned.

Dan and Jennifer · 2 years ago

We haven't had any problems with them to date either, in the last 3 years we've dealt with them.

Hmmm... with all the PR focus they have, something like this is devastating to their image. Sounds like somebody really screwed up, since this would be a really foolish "company policy" over there.

After all, they have your billing address, billing email, billin phone number... you'd think they would at least try and contact you on all those (maybe even going to your site to message you) before causing a PR nightmare like this?

Everton - here's a thought. Why don't you put the simple question to the man himself - Bob Parsons, GoDaddy CEO? Then you can post his answer here for all your readers.

Bob has a radio show weekly and is very active on his blog threads, i.e. last I looked at it he really answers all the comments (no, not the spiteful stuff, but any questions). Here's the URL: http://www.bobparsons.com/

Have an awesome day!
Dan

Mosey · 2 years ago

I hear that Registerfly is quite terrible as well... am currently using Namecheap.

Everton · 2 years ago

I've just spent 10 minutes checking all my contact details are correct-good job I checked as this domain expires later this month and I hadn't set auto-renew!

Ajay · 2 years ago

only 10 minutes?

Mosey · 2 years ago

Whois.sc is your friend :D

http://www.whois.sc/yourdomain.com

Alpesh Nakar · 2 years ago

Yes, I have experienced what Thilak has mentioned. Search for a domain name. Think about it. Go to register and its gone!

I would recommend Netfirms.com or enom.com

andy rooney · 7 months ago

Anyone have a GoDaddy account? I need to migrate my shared servers to a dedicated server and not sure how all of that works.