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Judge says plaintiffs didn’t show subject matter jurisdiction. The judge overseeing a dispute over GoDaddy’s clawback of expired domains has dismissed the suit (pdf) over subject matter jurisdiction. The Swedish company Crisby Studio AB bought calor.com (heat/hot in Spanish) in an expired domain auction at GoDaddy in early April this year. GoDaddy returned the domain...

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Not surprising Godaddy violates their own TOS against 3rd-party domain disputes.

I wonder if there was a *cough* $$$$ involved.

Best thing anyone can do is transfer any domains out of Godaddy as soon as possible. That also activates the 60-day transfer lock. Newbie mistake for them unfortunately. Only cost me $1500 when GD stole a domain from my account in a similar situation. Mine was purchased at a marketplace, this is even more cold-blooded that it was an expired domain on their own platform to boot!
 
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