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Re:Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com by jlgaddis on Thursday September 17, 2020 @06:19PM (#24510673)
You don't lose or "waste" the registrations/renewals you've already paid for when you transfer a domain to a new registrar.

Most registrars will include a year as part of the transfer so if you have a domain at GoDaddy that expires in 2024, you can transfer it to Namecheap and then it'll expire in 2025 -- without "wasting" what you've already paid for.

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Re:Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com by tyingq on Thursday September 17, 2020 @06:33PM (#24510784)
You're right. I think my memory was domains where you wanted to prepay for "privacy", so the ownership didnt show during the xfer after the auction.
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Re:Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com by cirno on Thursday September 17, 2020 @09:19PM (#24511943)
GoDaddy forces you to disable privacy protection to transfer domains off of them. One more truly villainous practice designed to force people to stay. Eventually I became so dissatisfied with GoDaddy that I took the risk and transferred my really old domains off of them anyway. I got lucky and scum websites like domainstools didn't manage to archive my name and address to sell to online stalkers in time, but it's a risk you'd have to take.
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