Remon Talks

GoDaddy is having a sale on .info domains. They’re only $.99 each plus $.25 ICANN fee per domain. Still a very good price.

If you go to their How to pay page, you see they also accept payments with paypal. Great! I wanted to register 31 info domains for some niche minisites, added them to my shopping cart, chose paypal as the payment method and then the horror;

I had to add a creditcard

That’s just lame. At their how to pay page they say;

It (Paypal) lets you use funds from either your bank account or credit card;

and

All you need is a PayPal account to get started. Don’t have one yet? It’s fast and easy to set up; in fact, you can do it while you complete your GoDaddy.com purchase.

It doesn’t let me use funds from my bank account and a paypal account is not all you need. You need a creditcard as well. Creditcards are not very common here by the way, and if you’re self employed it’s even harder to obtain one.

I emailed GoDaddy support and this is what they replied;

I have to inform you of this but, in order to use paypal in purchasing domain names or whatever it may be we require that you have a credit card on file with paypal. You only have one other alternative, that is using good as gold.

Is it just me or is this really silly? I checked what good as gold was, and you need a minimum deposit of $100, that’s $70 more then I want to spend with them. Screw it, I’ll buy my domains elsewhere, somewhere where they actually want my business.

Enough rambling, time to write a post for you guys! Any requests for a subject?

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