False positives at Godaddy

I just got off the phone with Godaddy and they said their registry service is being updated which is causing some domain names to appear available.

After registering the "oh my god I'm rich now" domain, you receive an email stating that there was an error and you should receive a refund in 2-3 days

Below is a screen shot of a domain that caught my attention today.

 

lol that must suck.
I know I would be really sad of that false hope.

 

I think they are pulling domain availability from Domains Bot - both are showing all kinds of great domains as available. Too good to be true.

 

A friend of mine was reading the other day an article that says GoDaddy should be renamed Tricky Daddy, and not because Bob Parsons is going to be a rapper, but because there is a trick in the domain query search that, as soon as you find a good available name, they grab it while you complete the checkout and then you are told about the refund toward your account balance.

At least that is what the article says if you googleit to find out more.

 

@axs - ya...I was pretty pissed

@Michelle - I heard about the same alleged scheme. So I checked the whois info for loyal . com and it was reg'd in 1996, updated in 2007, and expires in 2016. Seems on the up and up.

 

i registered the.me today too.

 

Oops, then it sounds like a truly false positive thingy, sort of tha occuring with antivirus that detect viruses where they are not, isn't it?

 

@perfect square - lol. I checked the .me tld as well. It was registered on the 21st of last month. Just a bit too late

 

Great screenshot! Actually I have about 250 domains at Godaddy and can say that this cases are often.
Another thing is that Godaddy is very slow to register just-expired domains.

 

I experienced this once, thought I had proxy.cc