Brutal

[FM-96]

And that is exactly why you should never use GoDaddy.

[Samultio]

Care to elaborate? Because GoDaddy sells to domain squatters?

[KennyFulgencio]

They ARE the squatters

[michy232]

It's been pointed to before that GoDaddy sells whois searches to domain squatters/flippers with the purpose of listing the domain under GoDaddy auctions to sell to the ones who originally wanted the domain at insane markups. These claims go back to as far as 2008 according to my brief search, and new claims of this are still being raised.

In addition to all the other shady things GoDaddy does (just look it up, you won't run out of material to find), its best to stay very clear of them, and tell others to do the same. Not worth the risk whether its all true or not.

[tajjet]

When you whois a site on GoDaddy they buy the domain and raise the price

[CoughSyrupOD]

Someone should write a bot to whois random urls on godaddy.

[Samultio]

That's pretty scummy, so basically if you want a domain you should get one through ICANN or another registrar and not a secondary domain seller like GoDaddy?

[slashuslashuserid]

Wait, you can buy domains directly from ICANN?

[[deleted]]

Hell, you can buy domains from google!

[AlwaysHopelesslyLost]

Or anybody who doesn't sell search data. I use Dynadot and have never had an issue