Earlier because godaddy had an offer, I registered a PRIVATE domain. All my registration details were hidden in whois lookup. But this year, I dont want to renew the privacy protection as it is an unnecessary cost that I am not willing to bear. How can I renew domain without privacy protection. I called the godaddy support and the guy told me I cant renew it without privacy protection. Any suggestion?
My suggestion: Transfer your domain to Namecheap. Then you can turn off your Whoisguard privacy protection any time you want (or never enable it). This is the first I have heard of this. If this is true, it sounds like GoDaddy is trying to make money any way it can. But a quick search did find these instructions for cancelling your privacy protection: https://www.godaddy.com/help/canceling-private-registration-for-your-domain-names-1625 Read through that and see if it offers any ways to cancel your privacy protection.