{"id":10292,"date":"2019-01-05T22:33:47","date_gmt":"2019-01-06T06:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/al6400.com\/blog\/?p=10292"},"modified":"2019-01-06T23:35:01","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T07:35:01","slug":"godaddy-auto-renewal-deceptive-business-practice-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/godaddy-auto-renewal-deceptive-business-practice-or-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Godaddy Auto Renewal Deceptive Business Practice or Not"},"content":{"rendered":"

So with the new years that usually means having to renew a lot of annual subscription for various services. One service that I must renew is the domain registration where for the most part it can be anywhere from $10 to $20. For this domain I actually have had it with Godaddy for the longest time and usually just decide to renew for one year. I have been tempted to move just because of the cost but have yet to.<\/p>\n

So this year I got an alert that it needed to be renewed and that it was on auto renewal. Usually I do everything manually but since I had other stuff to deal with I thought just letting it auto renew for the year would be the same thing. Boy was I wrong. Upon receiving the e-mail notice I was shocked that the bill was over $100. It would appear that they decided to auto renew this domain for 5 years.<\/p>\n

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Can they even do that I was thinking? I personally feel that is a little deceptive. To me the biggest to not like this is that usually when you manually renew too, for super long terms like that you would at least get a discount. This was at the full standard expensive price. I was reading stories how this happened to others as well where their response was that you need to literally cancel the domain apparently and re-order. Who in the right mind would do that if it is tied to something essential too? So is this a deceptive business practice you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So with the new years that usually means having to renew a lot of annual subscription for various services. One service that I must renew is the domain registration where for the most part it can be anywhere from $10 to $20. For this domain I actually have had it with Godaddy for the longest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10293,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4],"tags":[5953,1946,7248],"class_list":["post-10292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-business","tag-domain-renewal","tag-goddady"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/godaddrenewal.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6VnHC-2G0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10294,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10292\/revisions\/10294"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}