I pre-registered two new domain names last week at GoDaddy. Both of these domain names have meaning to me and my company, and I purchased them for the pre-registration price. This means that if someone else spends more to buy them sooner than me, they would get the right to them. In addition, if someone else pre registers either or both of these new domain names, they will go to a private auction.
A couple of days ago, I received an email from GoDaddy to let me know that one of the domain names couldn’t be purchased. The email said, “Your purchase could not be completed, therefore we will be refunding the cost of registration.” Upon cursory review, it seems that this domain name was registered by someone else at a different registrar. No big deal.
This morning, I received another email from GoDaddy about the second domain name. The company informed me that I would need to acknowledge a