Originally Posted by CarolCox

We still use DirectNIC for our important domains. I would never trust Godaddy with anything important. They have that nice little clause in their terms that say they retain ownership on the domain and can take it back at any time. A friend of ours owned virginbeer.com that he was going to use for a microbrewery he was developing in the British Virgin islands. Richard Branson came along, and Godaddy took back the domain and gave it to him for an undisclosed sum of money. All Malcolm got was a refund on the years left on his "lease". That is just scary.