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Re:Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com on Friday September 18, 2020 @08:30AM (#24515819)
Been using Namecheap for 2 years now. Love it.

Also Louis Rossman mentioned you in his latest video. That's what brought me here.

https://youtu.be/i05uGLFZe2Y

Re:Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com on Friday September 18, 2020 @08:29AM (#24515817)
Seen Louis Rossman talk about this thread in his latest video this morning. Wanted to chime in.

I have stopped using Godaddy for a while now because I had suspected that was happening. I wasn't 100% sure, but when I would spend hours looking for a domain name and searching through hundreds of names, I noticed a few of them with the least amount of characters and words they might consider more "premium" were taken. The few I noticed were some of the top choices I was considering using.

I do suspect they have some sort of algorithm where they take domains you might consider buying, but I can't prove it.

I've stopped searching on there for a while now and just stick with Namecheap. Never have any problems with Namecheap and their customer service was pretty good/fast when I got locked out of my account 1 time.

Now days I'm pretty paranoid about searching for domains on any domain site...