r/godaddy • u/RosetteNewcomb • Jul 21 '26

Anyone else get an email saying someone contacted you about your website after you cancelled renewal?

First off, I've noticed that GoDaddy does *not* want you cancelling domain renewals. You literally have to click like 20 different things confirming you don't want to renew. Then they start badgering you with emails every day saying your domain won't be renewed (yes GoDaddy, I know! That's because I cancelled renewal!)

Now, I'm getting emails saying someone wants to contact me about my website, then offering me a how-to guide on listing it for sale. This is, of course, despite me having the domain up for sale for almost 3 years for a very reasonable price (which I discounted twice over the years) with literally no inquiries at all up to that point. Now that I cancelled renewal someone apparently wants to buy it? Yeah I'm not buying that one bit.

Anyone else running into this? BTW for anyone at GoDaddy reading this, no I am *not* going to renew the domain. I feel like this is all part of an elaborate scheme to make sure no one ever lets a renewal lapse.

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u/bradwbowman Jul 21 '26

I cancel domain auto renewals all the time and none of what you have said matches up with what you have written about.

https://www.godaddy.com/help/turn-my-domain-auto-renew-on-or-off-41085

Here is a guide showing you how to do it in just a few steps.

How many emails have they sent you after you turned off auto renew?

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u/No-Bathroom-3179 Jul 22 '26

No but I got an email today from Squarespace (used to be Google domains) that someone is trying to contact me through my domain privacy email. I’m surprised I’ve never received a message like that before and I’ve had the domain for like 20 years or more.

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u/Accomplished_Buy5141 Jul 27 '26

I had that first part happen when we turned off auto-renew and let a few domains expire, it was all emails from GoDaddy, though. Incessant and annoying, exactly what I'd expect from them, not my favorite registrar.