ok... hold on there. So your complaint is after a domain has "expired" they hold on to it a while and charge you extra to get it back. When I had a godaddy domain name they sent me a bajillion emails when the domain came up for renewal. If you don't renew the domain name then that is entirely your fault, you need to keep up with a domain name that is important to you. Now if instead of just releasing it back to the public they hold on to it for you and for a fee will give it back, that sounds pretty reasonable to be honest. The bottum line is, if it was important to you, they do everything on their end to remind you, and you should be doing everything on your end to make sure you keep that domain, ( you should probably have it on auto renew anyway) if it is a domain you dont care that much about then just wait till it expires and rebuy it from a different registrar. Also they give you i think 3 weeks after it has expired to recover it without a fee, really man, godaddy does some shady stuff, but this isnt one of them, this sounds like something you messed up on

Wow, so many of you are missing such an important point. You're not worried about viruses because you can just reimage/reformat? Ok so what about a virus that steals your credit card information while entering it into a site? Once you do a format, that's not really going to help you is it?They already have your information. and if you do need to wipe and reformat, what if windows say "nuh-uh you have reached the maximum reinstalls" or that person does't have their windows cd anymore? I would say about 99% percent of the machines that are brought to me ( whether it be for an upgrade, a driver problem, whatever) that are running windows, have some sort of infecting software on them. I used to recommend that people use linux, but I don't don't do that anymore, after so many "why can't I use such and such device" questions you realize that if there is even one program the user uses that windows can run, which linux can't ( even if there is an alternative) they aren't happpy with their new OS. So im basically stuck letting them use windows, and I see all kinds of antivirus software, which does very very little, but with so many competing companies in makes me think that it really just isn't possible to secure and protect windows. I can't imagine how hard it would be to write a piece of software that protected a linux distro that always ran in root with full privledges. I think the only answer to a secure windows os is..... a secure windows OS, made by Microsoft. Maybe this new google-os will have good security, catch on and microsoft will have a reason to make their OS secure. Oh and to all of the, "its the users fault, they or as smartnessers as us!!! durrr!" Alright look, not everyone out there sits around poking and proding their computer like we do. It is our hobby, do you do stupid shit with your car, house, custom-remodeling job? Yes, because that isn't what interest you and you don't spend allot of time messing with it. This doesn't mean that you are smarter than everyone else as much as you wish that were true. -- -AJH