For a long while I had purchased my domains through them... Switched to name cheap a little over 2 years ago. My brother in law ran a pretty popular mobile tech blog on a domain he purchased from godaddy. Due to lack of time.. He stopped blogging and let the domain expire. I hosted the site for him and still have a backup. I thought i might try to reboot it the other day. So I searched for the domain to find out that godaddy is now selling it as a premium domain for 1K! They must have saw the attraction that domain was getting and jumped on the opportunity to make money off of it.