GoDaddy's renewal prices are too high

This is some feedback I just sent to GoDaddy, on the day on which the registration for piratewatch.org expires. I was going to renew it, but I decided that caving into GoDaddy’s pricing model would only serve to reinforce what I view as their inacceptable practice. In this case I’m voting with my wallet.

I think your private registrations are far too expensive. To add private registration only costs $1.95 (fair) but to renew it costs a whopping $8.95 which just seems like a rip off.

I currently have 31 domains registered with GoDaddy. But due to the excessive cost of renewing them with private registration I am just going to have to let the dispensable ones expire…

GoDaddy’s pricing policy is going to end up hurting it. You have great prices for new customers, but you don’t reward them for their loyalty; instead you give them a large disincentive to renew.

This is a shame. I like GoDaddy. But they’ve disappointed me in this case.

If someone else wants to snap up the domain I will be happy to continue hosting it on this server. At some point DNS look-ups for piratewatch.org will start to fail (when GoDaddy pulls the plug). In the meantime I have moved the site to.

Update June 2006: I notice someone else has snapped up the domain.