[CASE STUDY] Why You Should NEVER Use Gdaddy for Your Domain Research! [PICS]

Come on, it's 2015 and people are still using BlowDaddy?

Use Name or NameCheap. GoDaddy is absolute bulls​hit. Their interfaces suck, their policy and support is terrible, and I also caught gonorrhea from helping a client manage their GoDaddy domains. Definitely would not recommend.
 
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They have been stealing peoples shopping carts for years.
How else can a domain company afford so many TV ads and give away domains at 0.99c?.... 10x lower than competition really?
For every fifty 0.99cent domains that they sell to "gurus" there's one John Doe that comes to register his $500 domain thinking he will be a million off selling an ebook about designer kitten clothing.
And in 1 year the domain goes back to Godaddy lol
 
i worked at go daddy awhile back, got fired due to attendance. havent heard of them personally taking your domains or such practices going on..mind you i worked on the hosting side of things....there is now a special domain dept but they deal with tech stuff like dns updates and the like.

I could believe tho someone outside of godaddy snatching the catchy domain names as their being searched .
 
good to know, but i never really hasd a major problem with them
 
Makes me wonder if this was godaddy or someone else who sniped my domain? How can people see what we search on GD?
 
This is true, I came up with a brilliant domain name and had it in there for $10 (back when I first started) and it became a premium domain a week later.
 
this is too much of a coincidence.....who is doing this...Go--daddy or other people somehow sniping domains from Go daddy's search system??
 
Anyone have any input on how people who don't work for Gdaddy are able to find out and glean what domains people are searching so they can snipe them?
 
turbopugsleylx said:
Anyone have any input on how people who don't work for Gdaddy are able to find out and glean what domains people are searching so they can snipe them?
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+1 for this please. I really don't understand how an outside party would get this information, let alone within 24 hours. Any good theories?
 
maybe you need to contact GoDaddy to solve that issue..
 
whois clearly states it was registered in 2010....i dont undestand the problem the domain was never avaible at all...
 
turbopugsleylx said:
this is too much of a coincidence.....who is doing this...Go--daddy or other people somehow sniping domains from Go daddy's search system??
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Someone said GoDaddy has bad security. It wouldn't surprise me if someone had some program or script hidden on GoDaddy's servers showing all relevant searches and then cross-referencing it with some sort of hot keyword list.
 
Had this happen to me but off other domain search sites. There are a bunch that put words together and help you search then in a matter of days your domain is purchased.

Google however seems like a more reputable company i cant see them stealing your domains from you? Maybe buying them if you don't buy it within a week or so dependent on traffic having an algorithm that redflags certain names and having an appraiser sitting their and making them premium names.

If godaddy isnt safe to namesearch then i dont think namecheap would be any better lol. Were all screwed. Get a direct license and feed to icann registrar, its the only way to beatem! :D
 
Actually these days there are thousands of people deal on domains and they just keep buying any good pronounceable or keyword reach domain and then put it on auction or sell it on Flippa.com. The competition is high so you can't expect a good domain to stay unregged for more than a few hours or sometimes even minutes. Better luck next time.
 
Guys there is a simple answer to this. To avoid this domain tasting and domain name front running you need to go direct for the whois information.

So for example if you want to lookup a .com domain name you go here: http://www.internic.net/whois.html

Internic does these domains: .aero, .arpa, .asia, .biz, .cat, .com, .coop, .edu, .info, .int, .jobs, .mobi, .museum, .name, .net, .org, .pro, or .travel which will cover most of what you're looking for.
 
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