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Bought some premium one's right after they opened for registration yesterday morning. They were available, paid for, and got my receipt from godaddy.com . I kept checking the whois data at domain.me to see if my info was updated, and continued to get "Not Found". A domainer suggested I go to the .me auction site to see if they were already preregistered and part of the landslide auctions. They were no where to be found on the auction site with the preregistered domains. Later that day I got an email as someone posted above saying all my domain registrations failed. The whois data for those domains still shows "Not Found", but the domains have mysteriously showed up on godaddys .me auction site. The ones that were preregistered landslide domains seem to show whois data.
Seems a little shady being godaddy are the ones behind domain.me . Maybe a cash grab at it's finest. Start a new extension, keep the best ones that are preregistered to auction off later to the highest bidder. Then open up on the 17th saying "first come, first serve". Then when more premium domains are openly registered they keep those too, and tell the buyer the registration failed. All while collecting everyones money.
Anyway, that's my take on how things unfolded yesterday. Hopefully I'm wrong about something here and godaddy hasn't pulled off something this bad.
When talking to godaddy support on the phone about this I got a lot of "uhh I can't comment on that" and "we'll be refunding your money". Thanks!
Something also strange was the people using outside registers like dynabot.com got their domains right away.
Either way I think I'm done with godaddy after this.
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