Bad Buzz for GoDaddy
July 28th, 2008

As the user GoatMonkey2112 (no relation) points out, he performed a little test of his own design at GoDaddy.com. He went to the domain registrar’s site, found an available domain name, added it to his cart, and then cancelled his shopping cart. He returned the next day to find the domain name parked, and thus available only by paying an inflated fee. ... If GoatMonkey2112’s story is true, then GoDaddy is yet another company to put on your “sneaky business practices” list.

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TEST News
July 28th, 2008

I have experienced this more than once with GoDaddy: I actually warn people that if they are fairly certain of their purchase, they should not hesitate to “invest” the nine dollars in buying an avaiable domain.

My thoughts were always that the same people who buy expired domains had some insider information from godaddy on recent searches/shopping cart leavings, not that godaddy themselves were the vultures. Still, this would suggest the existence of some official (or cloak and dagger) way to scrape this data.

I suppose it could also be old-fashioned packet sniffing, though, so who’s to say GoDaddy is playing Big Brother?

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