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Sounds like you forgot to renew your domain name. HN loves an opportunity to crap on godaddy though, so I expect this to be popular.

>>librar+(OP)
If you read it, the issue was definitely not a failure to renew. It was a change in rules that required updating or verifying the contact info.

I don't use GoDaddy, but I have been forced to use it in the past because I had clients who used it. They suck in a lot of ways but in this case they definitely sent repeated messages about this before the one that the poster found from 2h before the cutoff. I got similar messages from various registrars often multiple per month for many months prior to the cutoff date. It is much easier to believe that this poster just didn't see them because they flagged one or more of the many spammy messages from Godaddy and got all their messages sent to the spam box. If they had logged into GoDaddy during the previous 6 months, they would have also been prompted by a popup, which would likely have been dismissed because it looks just like the hundreds of marketing prompts you are bombarded with every time you log into GoDaddy.

>>singlo+bc
I should have read more closely. I just get exhausted with these GoDaddy rants since I'm very aware these stories happen with namecheap and gandi and all the other recommendations that come out when we see these threads, but it's not an instant internet point fountain with those brands.