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I've been using Godaddy Backorders for years for lower quality domains. They occasionally get something, but lately their success rate dropped considerably. These are EXCLUSIVE backorders, 1st come 1st served, no auctions.
I got suspicious and started looking up domains before just accepting the "capture failed" message... it turns out many of my domains were actually CAUGHT BY GODADDY drop registrars (Go China, Go Montenegro, etc), then handed to someone else.
I submitted a support ticket, but got a nonsense response as usual, sending me the instructions for placing a backorder. Yeah, I needed that after 8 years of using their site.
More recently, my backorders have been registered to Godaddy "Domain Alert", and using Godaddy's corporate address. OK, so perhaps now Godaddy is keeping my backorders to auction off to others... that's BAD.
But this week it got WORSE...
Godaddy has now put *MY* information in the domain WHOIS, (<b>identity theft</b>), and in a new support ticket still supports the claim that my "backorder failed, sorry about that".
I've obviously caught them in a scam, and they are trying to do a cover-up. Should I get a lawyer and sue?
I got suspicious and started looking up domains before just accepting the "capture failed" message... it turns out many of my domains were actually CAUGHT BY GODADDY drop registrars (Go China, Go Montenegro, etc), then handed to someone else.
I submitted a support ticket, but got a nonsense response as usual, sending me the instructions for placing a backorder. Yeah, I needed that after 8 years of using their site.
More recently, my backorders have been registered to Godaddy "Domain Alert", and using Godaddy's corporate address. OK, so perhaps now Godaddy is keeping my backorders to auction off to others... that's BAD.
But this week it got WORSE...
Godaddy has now put *MY* information in the domain WHOIS, (<b>identity theft</b>), and in a new support ticket still supports the claim that my "backorder failed, sorry about that".
I've obviously caught them in a scam, and they are trying to do a cover-up. Should I get a lawyer and sue?