GoDaddy sucks more than I thought
by Sapphire (April 5, 2006)
Remember the domain I tried to transfer from GoDaddy, only they set up an impossible scenario in which I couldn’t possibly set everything properly to make the transfer, and was forced to renew the domain with GoDaddy, or lose it?
Now that their 60-day squatting period is over, I’m trying once again to transfer it. Everything is properly set up and it’s supposedly pending, except… it’s not happening. When I go to their control panel, it says they need a confirmation email I’ve already sent, and that the domain is being “updated” and can’t be modified. When I go to my Namecheap control panel, it just says the transfer has been initiated and nothing’s wrong so far.
At this point, the domain isn’t doing so well anyway. I may just let it go. But be forewarned: GoDaddy means “godfather”. They’re like the domain mob or something.
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August 23rd, 2006 at 6:01 pm
I know I’ve had problems in the past, not with GoDaddy… but I’m sharing
When I wanted to transfer domain names from Registerfly to Namecheap I had problems too - no problem on the end of NameCheap and Registerfly had said that it had sent the confirmation - but I never got anything. Then after digging around/asking both support at each place - I realized that I had to take the domain name protect off for the DNS - if you have listed your domains with your domain info protected to be anonymous - take that off. Try again and it will work 
Anyhoo… hope that helps!
August 23rd, 2006 at 6:01 pm
There’s more detail on all this in the original article (linked to above), but in a nutshell: the domain locking was the problem last time, because it had an expired email address for me, and their bizarre requirements left me with no way to change it. So I was able to take it off, and the domain has not had privacy for two months.
This time, when I first initiated the transfer, I got a notice that the domain was locked, so I unlocked it and re-initiated. Now everything is just hung up in limbo somewhere, and of course, GoDaddy doesn’t have a 1-800 number, and the last time I called, I held a very long time.
August 23rd, 2006 at 6:02 pm
Ok… now that totally sucks.
August 23rd, 2006 at 6:03 pm
GoDaddy emailed me a couple of days ago, then yesterday the transfer went through.
Of course, they still have what they charged me to renew that domain when they were holding it hostage, which is why I remain unimpressed.
June 19th, 2007 at 10:51 am
I agree with you 100% they have given me nothing but greif and bad hosting.
Fist i paid for a 2 year domain name and only got a 3 month one.
Then they billed me 4 times for the same hosting account and only willing to refund 3 out of 4.
They messed up my host setting, i keeps getting this error message: [Host misconfiguration] please contact the admin…
and he never fixed it saying it’s my fault buy a better script!
And after 3 weeks yelling at him he finaly said ok its fixed then it poped up as [Expired holding page] WTFH?? I WANT MY MONEY BACK, my site was only online for 5 months total out of a year.
And to top it all no refund for the 36 months paid on the Premium Plan and not one dime back!
I had to refund over 124 members there money for there paid accounts i was SOOOOOOOOOOO MFPO!!
STAY FAR AWAY FROM THESE THIEFS!
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