GoDaddy runs a scam whereby they will charge your credit card illegally. The first email from them below says that your whois information appears to be incorrect, so please correct it immediately, and we have charged you a non-refundable administrative fees.

When you contact them, they will say that the email bounceback failed, thus they concluded that your whois information is not current, but they have now fixed the status, but cannot refund the administrative fees. See the second email below.

AVOID GoDaddy.com for any domain registration.

They send the following email first:
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-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Saturday, February 20, 2010 3:09 PM
To: NAME OF REGISTERED USER
Subject: Contact Information Inquiry

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CONTACT INFORMATION INQUIRY
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Dear REGISTERED USER,

We recently received an inquiry concerning a domain name registered to one of your customers: YOURDOMAINNAME.COM.

The specific inquiry can be described as follows:

We have received a third party complaint on this domain; domain appears to have invalid Whois information.

In accordance with our registration agreement, https://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/legal_agreements/domain_registration_GD.asp?prog_id=GoDaddy&isc=gdbb998, we have charged your credit card an administrative fee of $17.12.

Please take this opportunity to encourage your customers to log in to their accounts to review and update the status of their domain names.

If you have any questions concerning the above, please contact our customer service center at (480) 505-8877.

Thank you for your continued business,
GoDaddy.com, Inc.

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Copyright 2010 GoDaddy.com, Inc.. All rights reserved.

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From: Domain Services [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, February XX, 2010 XX:XX PM
To: YOURNAME & CONTACT
Subject: RE: YOURNAME & CONTACT.COM re: Invalid Whois informati on – HOLD REMOVED, #XXXX

Dear YOURNAME & CONTACT,

The Whois information was invalid. For example, we received numerous bounceback failure notices for the email addresses listed. Administrative fees for invalid whois information are non-refundable.

Thank you,


Domain Services
Tracking ID:XXXX


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: RE: YOURNAME & CONTACT.COM re: Invalid Whois informati on – HOLD
REMOVED, #XXXXX
From: YOURNAME & CONTACT
Date: Wed, February XX, 2010 X:XX pm
To: Domain Services <[email protected]>

I ASKED ONE MORE TIME TO REVERSE THE CHARGES.

Please confirm.

Regards,

YOURNAME & CONTACT

From: Domain Services [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, February XX, 2010 X:XX PM
To: YOURNAME & CONTACT
Subject: YOURNAME & CONTACT.COM re: Invalid Whois information – HOLD REMOVED, #XXXXXX

Dear YOURNAME & CONTACT,

Thank you for updating the domain contact information. The hold has been removed from the domain YOURNAME & CONTACT.COM. If your website was down during this process, it will be restored within the next few hours.

Thank you,


Domain Services
Tracking ID:XXXXX


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: RE: 2nd notice YOURNAME & CONTACT.COM re: Invalid Whois information
ACTION REQUIRED, Tracking# XXXXX
From: YOURNAME & CONTACT
Date: Wed, February XX, 2010 X:XX pm
To: Domain Services <[email protected]>
Dear Godaddy Representative,

MY EMAIL TO THEM ASKING TO REVERT THE CHARGES AS THE WHOIS INFORMATION IS CORRECT.

Thanks,

YOURNAME & CONTACT


From: Domain Services [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, February XX, 2010 X:XX PM
To: YOURNAME & CONTACT
Subject: 2nd notice YOURNAME & CONTACT.COM re: Invalid Whois information ACTION REQUIRED, Tracking# XXXXX

Dear YOURNAME & CONTACT,

Please consider this message as official notification that the contact information provided for the domain name registration for YOURNAME & CONTACT.COM appears to be invalid, or incomplete. Please update the information within 5 business days as per Section 3 of the Registration Agreement, which you agreed to at the time you registered your domain name. For your convenience, we have attached a copy of the current contact information listed for your domain name. If the update has not been accomplished within 5 business days, this can be grounds for cancellation of your domain name registration as per Section 6 of the Registration Agreement. Please respond to this email to confirm the changes have been made. Thank you for your cooperation.
Thank you,

GoDaddy.com, Inc.

The relevant sections of the Registration Agreement are set forth below for your convenience.

3. up to date information; use of information and expiration You agree to notify GoDaddy within five (5) business days when any of the information You provided as part of the application and/or registration process changes. It is Your responsibility to keep this information in a current and accurate status. Failure by You, for whatever reason, to provide Go Daddy with accurate and reliable information on an initial and continual basis, shall be considered to be a material breach of this agreement. Failure by You, for whatever reason, to respond within five (5) business days to any inquiries made by Go Daddy to determine the validity of information provided by You, shall also be considered to be a material breach of this agreement. You agree to retain a copy for Your record of the receipt for purchase of Your domain name.
You agree that for each domain name registered by You the following information will be made publicly available in the Whois directory as determined by ICANN Policy and may be sold in bulk as set forth in the ICANN agreement:
~The domain name
~Your name and postal address
~The email address, postal address, voice and fax numbers for technical and administrative contacts
~The Internet protocol numbers for the primary and secondary name servers
~The corresponding names of the name servers
~The original date of registration and expiration date
You agree that, to the extent permitted by ICANN, Go Daddy may make use of the publicly available information You provided during the registration process. If You engage in the reselling of domain names You agree to provide any individuals whose personal information You've obtained, information about the possible uses of their personal information pursuant to ICANN policy. You also agree to obtain consent, and evidence of consent, from those individuals for such use of the personal information they provide.
6. suspension of services; breach of agreement You agree that, in addition to other events set forth in this agreement, Your ability to use any of the services provided by Go Daddy is subject to cancellation or suspension in the event there is an unresolved breach of this agreement and/or suspension or cancellation is required by any policy now in effect or adopted later by ICANN.
You agree that Your failure to comply completely with the terms and conditions of this agreement and any Go Daddy rule or policy may be considered by Go Daddy to be a material breach of this agreement and that Go Daddy may provide You with notice of such breach either in writing or electronically (i.e. email). In the event You do not provide Go Daddy with material evidence that You have not breached Your obligations to Go Daddy within ten (10) business days, Go Daddy may terminate its relationship with You and take any remedial action available to Go Daddy under the applicable laws. Such remedial action may be implemented without notice to You and may include, but is not limited to, canceling the registration of any of Your domain names and discontinuing any services provided by Go Daddy to You. No fees will be refunded to You should Your agreement be cancelled or services be discontinued because of a breach.
Go Daddy's failure to act upon or notify You of any event, which may constitute a breach, shall not relieve You from or excuse You of the fact that You have committed a breach.

Registrant:
YOURNAME & CONTACTs

Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com)
YOURNAME & CONTACT

Administrative Contact:
YOURNAME & CONTACT

Technical Contact:
YOURNAME & CONTACT

Domain servers in listed order:
YOURNAME.COM
YOURNAME.COM


Domain Services
Tracking ID:XXXXXX

These goons tried to strongarm me into paying them for 'spam' that supposedly originated from one of my websites. Note - I do not HOST with GoDaddy . Note - I do not have an EMAIL with GoDaddy. Note - I did not send spam. Note - the spam didn't even come directly from my website or server it was simply someone who wrote up a cheap script for spamming people and my domain happened to be the originator for some of these emails.

Go Daddy tried to tell me it was my fault the spam went through and that I had to PAY THEM a 'cleanup' fee!
RIDICULOUS!

I am moving all of my registered sites to another registrar. Go Daddy - you are SO far out of line it's ridiculous!

I bid on an auction item, won that item and when I called in to get directions on transferring the domain I was given inaccurate directions be a customer service professional. After about ten hours on the phone they finally confessed that I was given inaccurate information - resulting in the loss of the domain that I had bid on and won. While I appreciate the apology they cost my business 12K in losses due to their error. They will not pay to regain control of the domain, they will not reimburse me for my loss. The can not put the fait of businesses in the hands of people who do not understand their own tools. Am currently withdrawing all of the business we provide them and going elsewhere - horrible horrible horrible company.

Hello,

I am the pro se litigant in a Federal Law Suit against Defendants that include The Go Daddy Group, Inc. d/b/a GoDaddy.com, Inc. and Blue Razor Domains, Inc..

To see complaint either do a Google search or at this URL:

http://dockets.justia.com/docket/court-nyedce/case_no-1:2008cv04730/case_id-286605/

I am writing you all to see if you have others who want to file suit against GODADDY and become a class action. If so please feel free to contact me anytime.

CHAIM LOWENSTEIN
Email: [email protected]

Thank you!

Sincerely,
CHAIM LOWENSTEIN

Tonight I signed into Go-daddy after receiving an email advertising their .INFO domain names for $.99. for 1 year. I found my name was available and selected a one year subscription. Once that was done I was offered the same name in: .MOBI, .TV, .NET, at pricing from $9.99 and up. I passed on that offer and selected CONTINUE to proceed to check-out at which time another offer popped up on the screen with the .COM and .NET versions of the domain name I was about to purchase. This time they were offered at $9.99 for one year with a 30% discount making the pair $14.00 FOR 1 year. I decided to purchase the additional versions, as well as another .INFO name. The above scenario was repeated only this time the .COM was unavailable and I was offered the .NET and .ORG versions of the new name. However, when I actually tried to check out, 2 of the names offered and accepted had disappeared from my cart and replaced by only one of the offered names. However, this time the price was more than 5 TIMES THE AMOUNT I had been offered. I was disappointed but not surprised. This was not the first time.

But this time I was better prepared and was actually printing every screen as it appeared. Thus I was able to confirm what I had previously suspected: Go-daddy, for FOR ALL ITS purported HIGH MINDEDNESS IS ACTUALLY STEALING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY FROM FROM ITS CUSTOMERS. The pattern seems to be: You, the CUSTOMER CONCEIVE A "BRAND NAME" FOR your BUSINESS AND CONTACTS the COMPANY TO LEGITIMATELY REGISTER your NEW "COMPANY BRAND." Go-daddy pretends to register the name for the advertised price but instead you are ripped-off because a derivation of the name is inflated and another version is stolen, completely. You are ripped-off on the lower value version of the name, such as .ORG, OR .NET, ETC., because you cost is higher than what was advertised and what was offered while shopping with in their website during which Go-daddy pilfers the valuable .COM or other version. I have to believe this is the case because the name simply disappeared from my order and could not be retrieved by the salesman when I called the company. The salesman who said he would recreate the transaction in order to resolve the discrepancy. However, he either could or would not. Go-Daddy's sales practices are a TRUE RIPOFF, RIPOFF. RIPOFF!