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Initial Complaint
Date:12/08/2022
Type:Status:ResolvedMore info
Complaint statuses
- Resolved:
- The complainant verified the issue was resolved to their satisfaction.
- Unresolved:
- The business responded to the dispute but failed to make a good faith effort to resolve it.
- Answered:
- The business addressed the issues within the complaint, but the consumer either a) did not accept the response, OR b) did not notify BBB as to their satisfaction.
- Unanswered:
- The business failed to respond to the dispute.
- Unpursuable:
- BBB is unable to locate the business.
On December 8th, 2022, I received an email that one of my domains was set to auto-renew on December 13th. I went into my GoDaddy account today, December 8th, and canceled the renewal. I confirmed that it was canceled.Just a few hours later, I got a notice that $34.97 was charged to the card on file for the renewal of the domain, despite it saying it would renew on the 13th. Not only did I not authorize this charge, the charge should not have even been placed until December 13th if I had not canceled auto-renewal.All attempts to contact their support have been unsuccessful. They have stolen funds with an unauthorized early charge.
Business Response
Date: 12/09/2022
Thank you for the opportunity to address our customer's concerns.
Upon conducting business with GoDaddy, our customer acknowledged and accepted our agreements, found at https://www.godaddy.com/legal/agreements.
RESOLUTION:
GoDaddy upheld its agreements with our customer in good faith and honored its terms of service.
We have communicated with our customer directly. They have received their full refund and require no further assistance.
Thank you again for the opportunity to address the concerns presented by our customer.
Kindest regards,
********
Office of the ***** GoDaddyCustomer Answer
Date: 12/13/2022
Better Business Bureau:
I have reviewed the response made by the business in reference to complaint ID ********, and find that this resolution adequate. I will wait for the business to perform this action and, if it does, will consider my specific issue resolved.
Regards,
*****************************
Initial Complaint
Date:12/08/2022
Type:Status:AnsweredMore info
Complaint statuses
- Resolved:
- The complainant verified the issue was resolved to their satisfaction.
- Unresolved:
- The business responded to the dispute but failed to make a good faith effort to resolve it.
- Answered:
- The business addressed the issues within the complaint, but the consumer either a) did not accept the response, OR b) did not notify BBB as to their satisfaction.
- Unanswered:
- The business failed to respond to the dispute.
- Unpursuable:
- BBB is unable to locate the business.
our domain RenRealty.com was set to auto renew 11/29/2022 the registrant received confirmation from GoDaddy November 24 that no additional action is necessary. December 3rd (a weekend) GoDaddy sent an email to the registrant that the domain "already expired" . Further research proved that Amex placed a temporary hold on the account due to suspicious activity and it was since removed. We attempted to provide another form of payment first thing Monday morning on Dec 5th but couldn't continue since the needed 4 digit validation code was being sent to the email accounts that GoDaddy already canceled without giving us a chance to correct. The 2nd option was to send code to the phone on record which is the business main landline that couldn't receive messages. After holding for close to two hours we were told to complete a changeupdate.com and provide an alternate email address to receive the code. we promptly completed and provided irs ss4 form as proof for business and picture id for owner who is the registrant. a few hours later we were requested to send an image of the individual on the id holding his id. we promptly sent. the next business day we got a request for the id of the owner of the new account we promptly provided. Hours later we got a request for the image of the new email owner holding his/her id that was also promptly sent. It is Thursday December 8th and even though after holding for many many hours we were promised to have it resolved by Wednesday we have ZERO communication from account recovery, last email was Dec 6 2:46pm. I was on hold yesterday from 7:30 pm till 9:30 hearing how "we can't wait to exceed your expectation) only to be disconnected at 9:31pm. we are a legitimate business that was SHUTDOWN for a FULL WEEK by GoDaddy for no fault of our own and were not given a chance to correct prior to shutting us down!!! after holding for hours you get reps that have no clue and give you false hopes that it will be resolved but it isn't.Business Response
Date: 12/09/2022
Thank you for the opportunity to address our customer's concerns.
Upon conducting business with GoDaddy, our customer acknowledged and accepted our agreements, found at https://www.godaddy.com/legal/agreements.
Our office received this complaint on December 8, 2022, and our records indicate that our customer regained access to the account later that day.
RESOLUTION:
GoDaddy upheld its agreements with our customer in good faith and honored its terms of service.
Our Account Recovery Team has advised our customers regarding regaining access to their account. Furthermore, this office will remain available to assist with any outstanding concerns, and we can be reached at ***************.
Thank you again for the opportunity to address the concerns presented by our customer.
Kindest regards,
*************************
Office of the ***** GoDaddyInitial Complaint
Date:12/08/2022
Type:Status:AnsweredMore info
Complaint statuses
- Resolved:
- The complainant verified the issue was resolved to their satisfaction.
- Unresolved:
- The business responded to the dispute but failed to make a good faith effort to resolve it.
- Answered:
- The business addressed the issues within the complaint, but the consumer either a) did not accept the response, OR b) did not notify BBB as to their satisfaction.
- Unanswered:
- The business failed to respond to the dispute.
- Unpursuable:
- BBB is unable to locate the business.
On or around 10/9/2022 my three active email accounts were deleted by GoDaddy apparently because of a changed credit card number which lead to a failed auto renewal payment.Specifically ******************* ******************************* and ***************** When this happened, I contacted GoDaddy chat help and was told if I renewed my email hosting my accounts would be restored. I renewed my email hosting, but my old emails were not restored.OK that logs in but just shows one new email. You are sure everything will come back within 24 hours?***** J at 7:46, Oct 10:Yes, the backup will take upto 24 hours.I tried again the next day:/ at 10:04, Oct 11:The representative told me yesterday everything would be restored within 24 hours. It was not! That is why I want to double and triple check this!******* at 10:09, Oct 11:Be assured all the emails will be in your account with in next 24 hours, However, I will also update the notes for you.Emails still not restored! Tried again a third time: ******** at 11:52, Oct 12:Because I have checked with my advanced team and the emails were set up as new and that is why they were not restored.*************************** at 11:54, Oct 12:I see. Please go ahead. This is a serious mistake on behalf of godaddy and considerable stress and waste of my time! I trust it will be done correctly this time?After three attempts ******************************* is still not restored! I am fed up of wasting my time with this. I am in the process of changing all my online email registrations to my Gmail or Outlook accounts so I can stop using those hosted by GoDaddy I want 1)Old emails for ******************************* restored. Do not break other emails!2)When I open outlook I get this message : Your Mailbox has been temporarily moved on ********* Exchange Server. A temporary mailbox exists. I want this fixed!3)I want auto renew billing turned OFF for all GoDaddy hosting services!Business Response
Date: 12/13/2022
Thank you for the opportunity to address our customer's concerns.
Upon conducting business with GoDaddy, our customer acknowledged and accepted our agreements, found at ***************************************************.
On October 10, 2022, our customer contacted our Care team via Chat regarding email their functionality. Our customer was correctly advised that their email accounts had failed billing and were canceled for non-payment. Our customer re-purchased new email plans and re-created the email addresses. The email history was eligible to be restored, however, the addresses were setup as new accounts instead.
On October 12, 2022, our customer contacted our Care team via Chat to advise that the content was not restored. Our Guide worked with our Advanced Support team to restore the content for two of the three email addresses. The third address was omitted from the restore.
Email content for deleted accounts remains recoverable for 30 days. As such, the content for the third address is no longer available to be restored.
RESOLUTION:
GoDaddy upheld its agreements with our customer in good faith and honored its terms of service.
Our office attempted to connect with them to discuss their concerns. Unfortunately, our efforts have been unsuccessful to date. We remain available to speak with them and can be reached at ***************.
Thank you again for the opportunity to address the concerns presented.
Kindest regards,
*************************
Office of the ***** GoDaddyCustomer Answer
Date: 12/25/2022
Let me get this straight. GoDaddy promised on three separate occasions to restore my emails. They admit in their response that they only restored two accounts. Thus, they did not complete the job as promised. I received ONE voice mail from GoDaddy Office of the CEOwhich promised a follow up via
Email WHICH DID NOT HAPPEN. I tried contacting them via the phone number supplied, left a message and my message was not returned.
Yet GoDaddy believes this behavior upheld its agreements with our customer in good faith and honored its terms of service. So, I am to believe they are fine with deleting my accounts without sufficient warning, breaking promises, and not doing what they said they would do. Not so much as an apology. No company with this attitude deserves my future business or trust and they most certainly will not receive it ever again.
In the meantime they have still left my accounts in a incorrect state that needs fixing!Business Response
Date: 12/30/2022
Thank you for the opportunity to address our customers additional concerns.
We regret any inconvenience this may have caused and empathize with our customers frustration. As previously mentioned, GoDaddy was successful in restoring the content for two of the three email addresses in question. Unfortunately, the content for our customer's third email address cannot be restored.
Our office has reached out to our customer via separate correspondence in attempt to connect with them.
Thank you again for the opportunity to address the additional concerns presented.
Kindest regards,
*************************
Office of the *** GoDaddyInitial Complaint
Date:12/05/2022
Type:Status:AnsweredMore info
Complaint statuses
- Resolved:
- The complainant verified the issue was resolved to their satisfaction.
- Unresolved:
- The business responded to the dispute but failed to make a good faith effort to resolve it.
- Answered:
- The business addressed the issues within the complaint, but the consumer either a) did not accept the response, OR b) did not notify BBB as to their satisfaction.
- Unanswered:
- The business failed to respond to the dispute.
- Unpursuable:
- BBB is unable to locate the business.
Customer ID: *********. Domain auto renewal failed due to expired card on file 11/14/2022. I want to login to add my new card to renew domain abbygalemarie.com before it expires. Professional email goes through this domain. Cannot do 2 step verification because I got a new phone # this year, I no longer have access to phone # used for 2SV. Filed request to cancel 2SV in the correct form on GoDaddy. Never received any contact from them (note: I used a gmail email which didn't expire). Waited for reply and contacted customer service several *********************** chat and phone. They kept saying your ticket is expedited because you have expired domain. (Domain expired while waiting for 2sV to turn off). It has been 3 weeks since I sent the request. My website and email are locked out the busiest time of year as a business owner and I am losing THOUSANDS of dollars due to my site being down and customers cannot reach me due to my professional email not working! Called again today 12/5. Customer accounts can't locate my ticket 3 times. Then finally they say the ticket is CLOSED!? I never received a single email from them to my gmail saying it was closed, fixed, need more info, NOTHING! Lady on customer service confirmed she sees that 2 step verification is still turned on and asks customer accounts WHY did they close my request without fixing? NO EXPLANATION WHY! They said make a new request through the same form AGAIN! Why?! So I can wait MORE TIME TO NOT BE HELPED? WHY CAN YOU NOT ASSIST ME ON THE ***** LIKE A NORMAL COMPANY and fix my problem? I am so angry at this company and I am completely stuck because I can't transfer my domain, because I can't do ANYTHING with my domain because of 2 step verification. I will be cancelling my account IMMEDIATELY and taking my domain elsewhere. But I can't even do that because you say I must use my 2 step verification to make ANY changes. I demand a resolution IMMEDIATELY.Business Response
Date: 12/06/2022
Thank you for the opportunity to address our customer's concerns.
Upon conducting business with GoDaddy, our customer acknowledged and accepted our agreements, found at https://www.godaddy.com/legal/agreements.
On November 16, 2021, our customer enabled Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) on their GoDaddy account, providing an additional security layer. 2FA requires an account holder to provide a numeric code received via text message along with their standard verification information to access the account.
On November 18, 2022, our customer submitted an Account Recovery request with incorrect information causing it to link to another GoDaddy customer's account. Our Account Recovery (AR) Team appropriately responded, stating that the request needed to be submitted using the account holder's information.
On November 23, 2022, they connected with GoDaddy's Care Team for assistance accessing their account. Our Care Team correctly informed them that GoDaddy has a vetted process in place to aid in the removal of 2FA, which can be found in the following article: https://www.godaddy.com/help/cancel-2-step-verification-7628.
On December 5, 2022, our customer submitted a new request using the appropriate account information.
RESOLUTION:
GoDaddy upheld its agreements with our customer in good faith and honored its terms of service.
While we empathize with our customer's frustrations, ********************** takes account security very seriously.
Our AR Team has removed the 2FA from their account, and they can log in to renew the domain name in question.
Thank you again for the opportunity to address the concerns presented by our customer.
Kindest Regards,
Jenn
Office of the *** GoDaddyInitial Complaint
Date:12/05/2022
Type:Status:AnsweredMore info
Complaint statuses
- Resolved:
- The complainant verified the issue was resolved to their satisfaction.
- Unresolved:
- The business responded to the dispute but failed to make a good faith effort to resolve it.
- Answered:
- The business addressed the issues within the complaint, but the consumer either a) did not accept the response, OR b) did not notify BBB as to their satisfaction.
- Unanswered:
- The business failed to respond to the dispute.
- Unpursuable:
- BBB is unable to locate the business.
This morning we discovered that all our ****** ads were disapproved because of incorrect website landing pages (wethepeopleoffice.com). We tried to access our website but it was being redirected to a different website (SIMONSTRANSPORTSBAHAMAS.COM). We contacted GoDaddy technical support. They advised that the website was not hijacked but that GoDaddy moved us to another server without our consent or knowledge and did not update the **** which kept the website url redirecting to the other website (SIMONSTRANSPORTSBAHAMAS.COM).While on the phone with **** we found out that all websites on legalexpressusa server had been moved and godaddy did not even redirect the domains for all of them. WE HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THE WEBSITE SIMONSTRANSPORTSBAHAMAS.COM AND WE NEED TO KNOW WHY YOU REDIRECTED OUR WEBSITE TO THAT WEBSITE. We were neve informed and we never consented to moving us to a different server. The Issues:We lost business and customers as a result of this mishandling by Godaddy. All our payperclick ads expenditure went to waste.Google disapproved all our eds because they were redirecting to this other website. Now they all have to be resubmitted at a high cost and significant impact to our business. The new server is very slow, and godaddy did something wrong while moving the website, mixed up the database, and now the websites are extremely slow and not usable. I asked **** to speak to his manager but he blamed this mess by godaddy on us and was argumentative. We need to escalate this to the highest level of godaddy and we need compensation for our damages. GoDaddy acted in an aggressive and inappropriate manner. We will file a formal complaint with the *** Attorney ******* and will refer to our attorneys for the appropriate legal actions. We reserve all our legal rights.Business Response
Date: 12/11/2022
Thank you for the opportunity to address our customer's concerns.
Upon conducting business with GoDaddy, our customer acknowledged and accepted our agreements, found at https://www.godaddy.com/legal/agreements.
On September 20, 2022, we notified our customer that their hosting plan was being migrated to a new server. Unfortunately, the server our customer was using experienced unforeseen technical issues, and GoDaddy acted to minimize any impact to them. As part of this scheduled migration, our customer needed to update their *** to point to the new server upon completion.
A second notification was sent to them on November 30, 2022 which provided the ** address our customer needed to update.
Our customer contacted our ****************** ****** on December 5, 2022, and our Guide was able to assist them with updating the *** and got the websites in question to load properly on the new server.
RESOLUTION:
GoDaddy upheld its agreements with our customer in good faith and honored its terms of service.
GoDaddy tries to proactively notify our customers of these types of changes whenever possible. In this instance, two separate email notifications were sent informing them of the upcoming migration, and the *** updates that they were required to do.
While we empathize with their situation, our customer failed to take action and update the ** address after the migration completed.
If they are still experiencing slowness or have other technical concerns, we encourage them to work with our Care team for support.
Thank you again for the opportunity to address the concerns presented by our customer.
Kindest regards,
*****************
Office of the ***** GoDaddyCustomer Answer
Date: 12/11/2022
The response from GoDaddy is false and deceptive. We have multiple websites hosted with GoDaddy on different servers. They sent a notice regarding one website only on one server. The complaint is regarding another website hosted on another server for which no notification was sent to us by their own staffs admission.
GoDaddy claims in its response that they were having technical issues but failed to state what type of issues they were having, and their claims are unsubstantiated. Our website was not having any issues at the time, and we believe the server was not having any issues. GoDaddy claims now that they wanted to upgrade us but the issue is that they failed to notify us and failed to take the necessary steps to make sure the transfer was done correctly. In moving the website in question, we believe they botched the job that they messed up the files, and now the website is malfunctioning and is very slow. They actually caused all website on this server to be offline.
Instead of pointing to our website, they had the domain pointed to a website unrelated to us, which caused our website to suffer in SEO ranking, caused us to lose thousands in advertisement we paid ****** for, loss of business because customers could not find our website, and ****** ultimately terminated our advertisement as a result.
We had to spend significant time and resources to resolve the technical issues and damage GoDaddy caused and we are still working on them for a week now. We believe GoDaddy's response is false, untrue and deceptive. We are referring this to the *** and filing formal complains against GoDaddy with the Attorney General, ***, and other regulatory agencies in the ** and in **********. Furthermore, We will be referring this matte to our attorneys to take a legal actions to recover our damages.
We reserve all our legal rights and intend to pursue them to the full extent of the law. GoDaddy wronged us and they are being deceptive about it.Business Response
Date: 12/12/2022
Thank you for the opportunity to address our customers additional concerns.
There are various reasons why a hosting migration might occur, which could include the retirement of an old server, hardware failure, or simply re-balancing the number of sites that reside on a specific server. In the hosting industry, migrations are quite common-place and the reason for a migration may or may not be disclosed. Often, these migrations happen behind the scenes and require no customer intervention. In this case, however, in order for the site(s) to continue to function after the migration, our customer needed to update the DNS.
Our records indicate that our customer was properly notified of the upcoming migration and failed to take action. As a result, their domain(s) remained associated with the previous server post-migration.
While we sincerely empathize with our customers situation, we stand by our previous response. If our customer still has concerns about the performance of their site(s) post-migration, we encourage them to work with our Care team to get them addressed.
Thank you again for the opportunity to address the additional concerns presented by our customer.
Kindest regards,
*****************
Office of the *** GoDaddyInitial Complaint
Date:12/04/2022
Type:Status:AnsweredMore info
Complaint statuses
- Resolved:
- The complainant verified the issue was resolved to their satisfaction.
- Unresolved:
- The business responded to the dispute but failed to make a good faith effort to resolve it.
- Answered:
- The business addressed the issues within the complaint, but the consumer either a) did not accept the response, OR b) did not notify BBB as to their satisfaction.
- Unanswered:
- The business failed to respond to the dispute.
- Unpursuable:
- BBB is unable to locate the business.
Customer Number: ********* I asked to cancel my monthly subscription in March due to cost. They lowered me to Websites + Marketing Basic Renewal for $18.56. I then requested to cancel in April and then asked again in months later with the request of 6 months refund. It was never completed and I was told I could not get a refund and I have to cancel myself. I asked them to review the notes and they stated there are none. Also there is no option to cancel, you can only stop your renewal which still does not cancel the service. I stopped paying last month and the notice states will cancel December 6th.Business Response
Date: 12/07/2022
Thank you for the opportunity to address our customer's concerns.
Upon conducting business with GoDaddy, our customer acknowledged and accepted our agreements, found at ***************************************************.
On April 18, 2022, our customer contacted our Care Staff because their email renewal was more than they expected. Our Care Staff properly explained that their initial purchase included a discount that was not applicable to renewals. Our customer advised our Care Staff they intended to change email providers and would contact us again after setting up the alternative to cancel the plan with us.
On October 30, 2022, our customer contacted our Care Staff to inquire about recent renewals. They were advised that the renewals were related to a site builder. Our customer requested a refund for the most recent renewal as well as previous renewals. Our Care Staff correctly advised our customer that the renewals were beyond refund eligibility and shared information to disable the auto-renewal feature.
On November 2, 2022, our customer disabled the auto-renewal feature for the products in their account.
RESOLUTION:
GoDaddy upheld its agreements with our customer in good faith and honored its terms of service.
Our office empathizes with our customer but account management is a customers responsibility. GoDaddy provides its customers with full control over renewal preferences. Customers may, at any time, log into their account and modify those preferences. GoDaddy also sent our customer email notifications of the pending renewal prior to taking renewal action as directed by our customer. As such, we must respectfully decline our customers request for out-of-policy refunds.
Thank you again for the opportunity to address the concerns presented by our customer.
Kindest regards,
Mat T.
Office of the ***** GoDaddyCustomer Answer
Date: 12/07/2022
I would like a refund for 6 months. The company has been horrible at setting expectations and supporting new small businesses and the reviews are evident.Business Response
Date: 12/12/2022
Thank you for the opportunity to address our customers additional concerns.
We stand by our previous response. Our customer has been properly advised by our Care Staff as well as our office about the ineligibility of their product for a refund.
Thank you again for the opportunity to address the additional concerns presented by our customer.
Kindest regards,
Mat T.
Office of the *** GoDaddyCustomer Answer
Date: 12/15/2022
I want a refund so please just post that they were not able to resolve my complaint.
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