GoDaddy increases DDC price 2x - $240 a year

[Michael M]

Godaddy is doubling their price for the DDC this year... I am highly disappointed! I have been with them forever.

I feel this is 100% due to their Expired Auctions... They know they have us. If you do the math you might be inclined to write this off as you can make your money back from auction purchases. But to me it feels like I am being extorted. A 2x price increase over 1 year seems greedy!

This year:

Last Year:

 

[Michael M]

Awful. Lots of domains are going to move to dynadot and namesilo.
Not mine though. 120$ was enough.
240$ per account is hard to justify.

That being said if the goal was to get rid of domainers with small # of domains, OK.

Otherwise, thats dumb.

My thought is they really don't care and about domainers anymore. They want that end user big money they charge without DDC - and on the flip side domainers will pay about anything for DDC because they are forced into it to use the monopoly of GD Expired Auctions at a lower price point per domain acquisition.

Sucks cause I have been loyal to them even when there were cheaper options out there, because they have always been solid. They seem solid no more.

There are plenty of other options to acquire domains, and I try to stand on principles even if it inconveniences or costs me. I have a serious decision to make, and very little time to make it.

Actually disappoints me more than anything.

 

[Bob Hawkes]

Has there been a press release or anything? Are they offering more services with the package beyond lower price registrations and the auction membership to in any way justify the huge price increase?

I thought it was high before. If you get many domains at auction, or prefer GD for other reasons such as reputation or quality of staff assistance, you almost need a membership, but this is a major jump.

Hope we learn more of their thinking.

I would have liked to see some sort of different levels at different prices (i.e. x domain names at discount costs Z while 10x costs more, kind of like DCC do).

If you are a small portfolio holder it is hard to justify this price, in my opinion.

Bob

 

[bmugford]

Most of my domains are @ GoDaddy, but $20/month is rather steep. They kind of force you into it now with their high standard retail prices.

Brad

 

[Windoms]

Awful. Lots of domains are going to move to dynadot and namesilo.
Not mine though. 120$ was enough.
240$ per account is hard to justify.

That being said if the goal was to get rid of domainers with small # of domains, OK.

Otherwise, thats dumb.

 

[Joe Styler]

Full original email as evidence they were going to auto charge me 2x the standard cost with no notification beyond 10 days prior to billing.

And the poster above is correct you can manually renew for a 50% discount.

Anyone who wants to pay the old standard rate for the next year I advise you to turn off auto renew and manually renew now while they offer the discount. Then this is just something we will have to deal with next year or decide not to.

@Joe Styler @Paul Nicks - Is this by design or a mistake? Shouldn't you pass the discount to auto renewals also?

Your DDC would have been auto renewed at the discounted pricing as well. It would have given you the discounted rate when it was loaded into the cart just like it did when you renewed manually. The email knows what the price of the product is, it isn't smart enough to know the discount you may be entitled to unfortunately.

 

[Joe Styler]

If you are already a discount club member the renewals will be the old price not the new price increase.

 

[UmerK]

That's some serious raise which hints at greed more than anything else, kind of disregards the purpose of "discount club"

Too bad, I am forced to use them as most of my sales are outbound within 60 days lock and most end users prefer Godaddy.

If this wasn't case, I'd 100% without a doubt use Dynadot.

 

[Start]

Yeah, that's quite an increase.

But in case anyone reading doesn't know:

You can use coupons on that, to reduce it by around 35 to 40%

Also, if you do enough business with GoDaddy, you can ask your rep to give you the DDC membership for free.


Edit: Haha, DrJacoby also suggested the coupon idea while I was writing my post

 

[Jimmysun]

VAMPIRE!

 

[griff]

@Joe Styler @Paul Nicks

 

[Michael M]

Show attachment 174056 Mine is showing that i can renew at 50% off without any promo code $119.88

Wow! You are right. I turned auto renew off, and if I manually renew it is giving me a 50% discount.

So they are going to sneak in all the automatic renewals they can at 2x the cost, while allowing someone to manually renew at the standard cost?

 

[Joe Styler]

Has there been a press release or anything? Are they offering more services with the package beyond lower price registrations and the auction membership to in any way justify the huge price increase?

I thought it was high before. If you get many domains at auction, or prefer GD for other reasons such as reputation or quality of staff assistance, you almost need a membership, but this is a major jump.

Hope we learn more of their thinking.

I would have liked to see some sort of different levels at different prices (i.e. x domain names at discount costs Z while 10x costs more, kind of like DCC do).

If you are a small portfolio holder it is hard to justify this price, in my opinion.

Bob

There is a press release coming so I won't spoil it. I will let you read the blog when it comes out. You will see it in at least one of the domain blogs. Also if you are currently a DDC member your price does not increase if you renew you are price locked at the old price.

 

[Mister Funsky]

Godaddy is doubling their price for the DDC this year

Greed...pure and simple.

 

[DrJacoby]

What if you let the membership expire and then buy a new membership using a discount code? 30-40% off?

 

[trap3]

You will quite often find good or clever coupons out there (where you pay in a different currency for example).

So if those continue to work or be available, you can get 30-50% or more off.

https://www.newcoupons.info/godaddy-discount-domain-club-discount/
Worth checking out or at least was some months back.

For me personally, with that kind of a piss taking increase Godaddy can GFT's.

There are plenty more pleasant and efficient companies out there,
and with cheaper standard pricing.

I won't be renewing my discount club when its up for renewal.

 

[trap3]

I just spoke to live chat and they confirmed the price increase.

 

[Samer]

If you dont know, now you know!

Wake up people! # Bye Felicia

 

[Michael M]

Has there been a press release or anything? Are they offering more services with the package beyond lower price registrations and the auction membership to in any way justify the huge price increase?

I received no advanced notification and never ran across a Press Release, not to say they didn't post one somewhere. Only way I found out was the email notice of upcoming charge 10 days before renewal.

I am aware of no new services being offered.

On a side note I did notice they seem to be pricing everything on their site monthly now - but charging annually. I guess that helps with the initial sticker shock.

Anyone knows the date they autocharge for the renewal? 30 days prior?

Looks like they send out the email notification 10 days prior and renew it on the cancellation date.

You can login to Godaddy and go to Renewals and "Cancel Renewal" and it will not auto-renew - but you will be able to keep using the service until the expiration date. (so long as you don't click the Cancel Service button)

 

[D Haynes]

I honestly can't think of a reason to use GD. They aren't competative in any area from pricing to customer service.

 

[DomainBanana]

Do coupons and first year promos for .com work with DDC?

No

 

[D Haynes]

Why n

If you are already a discount club member the renewals will be the old price not the new price increase.

Why not scrap the DDC and just make your prices competitive? Seems like the best solution all round. I have an insignificant amount of domains but moved them away from GD because 18.99 for a .com renewal is a kick in teeth when it's less than half that elsewhere.

 

[Joe Styler]

Anyone who has the existing Domain Discount club will be able to renew it at the $120 a year rate. You are price locked at that price. The new price only impacts new purchasers.

 

[pb]

It seemed expensive enough at $120 but I did the math and got it to lower the costs of expired auctions / closeout domains. Since I stopped partaking in these, it's completely useless, there are cheaper places to keep my domains without any subscriptions.

Anyone knows the date they autocharge for the renewal? 30 days prior?

 

[anunt]

Mine is showing that i can renew at 50% off without any promo code $119.88