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Use caution when searching for new domain names IF you are using godaddy.com!!!!!
Early on, I found that godaddy is/was a "domain scalper" (boo, hiss, boo)
When looking to buy domains for a client, I would search through godaddy for several similar alternative names for one business. As an example: xyz.com or greatxyz.com or myxyz.com etc. Let's say they were all available so I go to discuss with the client and the client decides to use greatxyz.com
It is now a day later, so I return to godaddy to register the name for the client but, what's this?, That domain is now already taken. So are all the others? Drat! You must search again and then settle for a less than ideal name of some other type.
Later you find your first choice domain is again available but now it is owned by (guess who?) godaddy and it is for sale at a highly elevated price. (in one case, ALL 3 of my search options were suddenly owned by godaddy!)
To me, this is a traitorous business practice showing the worst ethics possible... stealing ideas from you own customers using their "search" to show the way. How sneaky is that? My conclusion: Never... I mean NEVER use godaddy again! For anything. As long as they live.
This was years ago. Perhaps they have changed?
I will never know since, to me, godaddy does not exist. Forever.
PS: All is well that ends well, due to this, I went on to find an even better registrar with an even better price, search tools, etc.
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They made me wait 60 days to transfer my domain name to WA. Glad they didn't pull that crap on me. Love my domain name and i would have been po'd.
It's not GoDaddy that's buying them but your searches are followed by companies who have developed special programs to do just that. They buy them cheap, then hope to resell at least some of them for more. The others will probably become available in a year. They use GoDaddy's system to hide their identity, and GoDaddy does make a lot of money claiming that if you don't hide your identity and email you will be deluged with emails. No you won't.
Don't search unless you are prepared to buy at that very moment.
Good to know! I've been lucky so far and haven't run into this but probably because some of my choices are too unique for them to have much of a demand.
I found the same thing with Godaddy. Each time I did the search the price of the Domain went up substantially.
I'm glad I found WA before any other platform. (I kind of did found others but never trusted them to jump in)
Kyle shared an experience where they raised the price at renewal time to 2x or 3x what it normally would cost.
So, it's wise to either use Namecheap or WA for your domains.
I never did feel comfortable with GoDaddy and switched to NameCheap which was being recommended by WA when I first came on board. But there still was something that made me nervous about NameCheap. I think it was "newbie nerves".
I was so relieved when WA added SiteDomains to our powerful Websites full service portal. But I guess this does not work for your situation Francis.