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At one point, I loved godaddy, but they quickly taught me to hate them and their lack of support and service. So, here is my story;
I have purchased several domains domain at auction from godaddy . I purchased one of these domains for just under $800.00. I purchased the domain based upon traffic and name, to cash park. I had the newly won domain cash parked for a few days, and the ads kept changing from the keywords, keeping traffic down. I would go into the admin panel, refresh the keywords and it would be fine again. After approx. 2 weeks, I noticed the domain was no longer in cash parking. When I called godaddy, I was told it was removed for click fraud. Godaddy never sent an email or notice to this affect. At first, I was told I could only email the cash parking department. So, we emailed back and forth and finally got a phone number to reach cash parking. All they could tell me is there was a “strange traffic pattern” from an IP in my region (they gave me the IP). I asked for documentation to better understand what the traffic was, but they said there was no report to offer. I asked how they can make a determination if a domain has click fraud without some type of report or documentation. I was then told they review traffic statistics. So I nicely asked to please send me a copy of the traffic stats so I can better understand what is going on and what we can do. He then says he can only release the details with a subpoena! What?! Within 1 day of this phone call, they had 5 more of my domains blacklisted with google, stating that they had nothing to do with the black listing ……. just a coincidence?! First they said it was a trademark problem, then they said these domains too had possible click fraud …. hmmm. Quite a coincidence.
So, I pay Godaddy almost $800.00 for a domain on a godaddy auction, set-up to cash park with godaddy, they then suspend from cash parking without notice, without supporting documentation, refuse any phone support calls at first and send only generic emails, once reached by phone, they simply refuse to help or provide and documentation to clarify the “potential click fraud”. They then blacklist 5 more of my domains with google adsense …. Within 1 day of my phone call! I owned and cask parked those domains for over 6 months! When I questioned the blacklisting, they said google black listed them, and they had nothing to do with it …. yea right, just a coincidence. What is this? They take my money, sell me a domain, then yank it out from underneath me without notice or documentation and tell me to get a subpoena. Is there a class action here? I have read of many others with the same story.
Importantly, please understand, I would never click on my own ads. There was never any click fraud on my part or attempt to gain anything from the sites I cash parked other than honest traffic. So, has a third party clicked onto my site? If so, I now get banned? How is that fair? Why aren’t there safeguards for this? I now get stuck with an $800.00 domain I cannot cash park and black listed with Google.
The lesson; we own the domains, but godaddy keeps control over them. Godaddy may as well own the domains. Don’t expect any favors from godaddy, at this point I have zero trust in their business and will never use them again. If you become a pester, watch them get more of your domains black listed like they did to me.
I’m an honest guy, just trying to build a cask parking portfolio which I would NEVER jeopardize with click fraud. And godaddy not only takes all the fun out of it for me, but went on to black list my highest earning domains without reason. Thanks godaddy, thanks for your CUSTOMER driven support and total lack of respect or decency to help when help is needed.

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No one’s thinking that typo domains should be illegal, are they? (I hope not) If a domain is available, is it not fair game just like any other available real estate?

I somewhat agree that a registrar should not be doing it, because it does seem a bit unfair due to their resources available to snap up large amounts of names that the company might be trying to grab at the same time (although they should have done it back when originally registering their name). If the company is not trying to grab it….is it not available for anyone? What’s unfair about someone parking it, and likely sending traffic to the company as well as making a few bucks for themselves?

I don’t know about anyone else, but when I mis-type a name and get to someone’s parked page, I proceed to type the correct address and continue on…I generally don’t forget that the company exists at that point.

If someone registers a name first, and only then does the company realize the value of the typo, should they not pay fair market value for their mistake?

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