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It has been over 10 years since I had to last deal with GoDaddy. I called it trash (to put it mildly) back then and have encouraged many to move out. Glad to see they are still the same if not worse.

>>Crimso+(OP)
At least in the past they would “kite” or “taste” the domain - register it and then cancel before the grace period - so it was no cost to them. It’s been a while since I’ve looked into that space and don’t know if that’s still a common practice.

It should be noted that GD had a kiting operation, but then paused it, after which the original owner publicly decried the practice very publicly. The company has since been sold and I would wager that the opportunity was too profitable to ignore.

Source: I built the analytics system for parked domains that was used for pricing early GD domain auctions as well as the initial integration with Adsense for domains.

>>jonhoh+4a
To change pending delete status costs them nothing.