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>>M0r13n+(OP)
GoDaddy is really a dishonest company. Please do yourself a favor and avoid them. Things I've personally experienced:

* The purchase of webfaction w/ a promise to migrate sites to a new host. They promised for over a year to do this migration and then 30 days before shutdown told me they could not migrate and to figure it out.

* Domain name sniping. Never ever use godaddy to search to find a domain. They will just steal anything you search for if you don't immediately claim it.

>>TheP10+T7
Is Namecheap better?

My domains are currently split between the two

Might as well move my stuff over if it means avoiding things like this

>>cgb223+hc
Namecheap… I tried to register a five letter domain [.com] and got a notice that the domain is of high value, and that the price would be higher. The domain name was entirely created by me. Therefore I consider that they stole my intellectual property, by preventing me from registering it.

Dealing with domain registration nowadays is a dreadful experience. The system is completely broken.

>>Vox_Le+KN
Are you sure it was Namecheap that was selling that domain for a higher price or someone else listing it and trying to sell it. I'd expect most if not all short and pronounceable .coms to be taken. Some other registries (not registrars) do sell premium domains for a higher price themselves - i.e. ccTLDs are entirely up to the corresponding country and the new gTLDs also don't have as many restrictions on what the owner can do with them (e.g. they don't have to sell you domains at all).

If you actually have a trademark to the domain name then you can try the ICANN dispute process. If your entire claim is that you thought of the domain name but someone else bought it the good luck.