I've heard of this technique way back in the 00s. Just as I heard about GoDaddy being crappy registrar and crappy hoster. Namecheap and Gandi essentially rose a

I've heard of this technique way back in the 00s. Just as I heard about GoDaddy being crappy registrar and crappy hoster. Namecheap and Gandi essentially rose as alternatives to GoDaddy that don't suck. So the surprising things here are that someone still uses that scam and that someone still uses GoDaddy. BTW, I now remembered that this isn't even the main reason why GD sucks. IIRC perhaps the main reason is that their support is susceptible to all kinds of social attacks and transfer domains left and right. Basically, account security is rendered poof by support people who don't care. So probably don't want to use GD if you like to at least keep your purchases after paying.