HELP! Godaddy holding my domain hostage, trying to charge me 75$!

Godaddy suspended me because of a $5 charge! That's utter crap. Aparrently my cc was loaded and since they couldnt charge ONE TIME they suspend everything. GAY!

This is unfortunately business as usual from GoDaddy. We've seen many cases of this. I had a friend accused of sending spam from a domain - he wasn't, and had his account locked until he payed the administrative fee. It isn't hard to get locked and while I haven't checked lately, last time I looked anyone could make an anonymous complaint against a web site and get it locked and hit with the GoDaddy fee for their 'investigation'.

Consumers are hung out to dry: To me these fees have always felt like extortion, but I haven't heard of anyone who has had help from the authorities in sort, and don't expect any help from ICANN either. Funny: You pay both taxes, but when it comes to the crunch neither will help. And since lawyers are expensive, your path of least resistance is to pay the $75 anyway, wait, then transfer to a more reputable domain registrar. You're not alone: we see many people come to NoDaddy in your position. Unfortunately once it happens there's not a lot you can do.

Check back here for replies from the NoDaddy regulars: they understand the company internals and may be able to suggest a way to get your domain back without paying the 'administrative fee'.

Thank you for your reply. I'm not a thief, I'm a honest person and in fact I'm just a student. My last year income was 3,000$. 75$ is two weeks of food.

I have written to godaddy's ceo but I doubt it will do much good. I still don't understand why my domain was suspended.

The word you used was right -- extortion. I have a small something to make them pay but I'll wait until all domains transfer are done.

The worst is: I had paid for 1year hosting less than 2 months ago. Another 52$ gone

Quick question: they ask to add credit card, can I pay with paypal?

This is unfortunately business as usual from GoDaddy. We've seen many cases of this. I had a friend accused of sending spam from a domain - he wasn't, and had his account locked until he payed the administrative fee. It isn't hard to get locked and while I haven't checked lately, last time I looked anyone could make an anonymous complaint against a web site and get it locked and hit with the GoDaddy fee for their 'investigation'.

Consumers are hung out to dry: To me these fees have always felt like extortion, but I haven't heard of anyone who has had help from the authorities in sort, and don't expect any help from ICANN either. Funny: You pay both taxes, but when it comes to the crunch neither will help. And since lawyers are expensive, your path of least resistance is to pay the $75 anyway, wait, then transfer to a more reputable domain registrar. You're not alone: we see many people come to NoDaddy in your position. Unfortunately once it happens there's not a lot you can do.

Check back here for replies from the NoDaddy regulars: they understand the company internals and may be able to suggest a way to get your domain back without paying the 'administrative fee'.

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This is unfortunately business as usual from GoDaddy. We've seen many cases of this. I had a friend accused of sending spam from a domain - he wasn't, and had his account locked until he payed the administrative fee. It isn't hard to get locked and while I haven't checked lately, last time I looked anyone could make an anonymous complaint against a web site and get it locked and hit with the GoDaddy fee for their 'investigation'.

Consumers are hung out to dry: To me these fees have always felt like extortion, but I haven't heard of anyone who has had help from the authorities in sort, and don't expect any help from ICANN either. Funny: You pay both taxes, but when it comes to the crunch neither will help. And since lawyers are expensive, your path of least resistance is to pay the $75 anyway, wait, then transfer to a more reputable domain registrar. You're not alone: we see many people come to NoDaddy in your position. Unfortunately once it happens there's not a lot you can do.

Check back here for replies from the NoDaddy regulars: they understand the company internals and may be able to suggest a way to get your domain back without paying the 'administrative fee'.

One last little thing, sorry to double/triple post.

My domain registrant is a proxy, will I be allowed to set it to public before I transfer? Else I won't receive the confirmation e-mail.

Thank you.

Yes you should be able to disable the domains by proxy before doing the transfer.

I have called Godaddy. As always, no help.