Go Daddy Hoses Domain Parkers
The extortion that goes on in the domain parking/buying/auctioning business is pretty ridiculous. Domain parking is something nobody really likes but is difficult to figure out fair ways of preventing. Today, Go Daddy began offering up much awaited .me domains, and the domain parkers got on their horses and started firing away.
But a funny thing happened on Go Daddy: the servers seized up and weren’t able to reject domain requests that were already taken earlier in the day. Thus the domains were sold to several people at once, and of course, all of them had their credit cards or PayPal accounts charged.
Not a shock considering Go Daddy’s dubious customer experience record. But it is kind of funny to see domain parkers getting their credit cards put on hold and not getting any of the domains they requested. Always good for a hearty laugh. In fact, reading some of the horror stories today from failed domain parkers has been quite a bit of fun.
The .me domain came about from a deal with the government of Montenegro. Hopefully, they got a rich off the deal. Interesting seeing Balkan nations get on the domain parking bandwagon. Maybe Andorra with their .ad domain will be next in on the act.
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What does this have to do with domain parking ?
While not everyone effected by the GoDaddy problem was a domain parker, many of the biggest complaints I heard leveled about the problem were from people trying to register high numbers of random, potentially lucrative domains. They will then either put useless ads on them or mark up the price a ton to sell them. Fine: that’s business, but it’s ironic and funny to see them get the runaround from GoDaddy.