From there you can proceed to the checkout and finalize your payment. Sometimes GoDaddy will automatically apply discounts for you, it will be obvious as the total on the right hand side of the checkout page will already be reduced. GoDaddy always displays the amount of money that you saved under the final total, so if there is no discount displayed then that means that no discount has been applied yet.
When I complained they said they would do it for $40.00. I truly believe that I have been scammed and it seems to me that they took down my site so they could charge me more money to put it back. I had to do all the work to get the site back up and after spending over an hour trying to get my domain verified and having Nathan, a supervisor, tell me that he had no problem doing his own site and could not help he told me that I was having the problem because something was wrong on their end. They had many calls about the same issue.
Most of the time, you will save more if you renew multiple domains at the same time. Many GoDaddy codes have a “minimum purchase”, and the more you buy, the higher the percentage of savings. So renewing a few domain names (and other products like hosting and website builders) at the same time will create more savings. Just don’t let your domain names expire while you’re waiting, or you may get hit with that terrible “redemption fee” we mentioned earlier.
GoDaddy accepts payments for purchases in multiple currencies; the payment method depends on the country/region you belong to. Debit/Credit/Prepaid Cards (Mastercard, Visa, Amex) and PayPal are the globally accepted options. Customers with a US bank account can pay via Electronic Check (ACH). Other payment modes like ewallets (Alipay, Skrill) are valid in the local region. Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin are not accepted though.
After 18 days, you can still renew your domain name, but there will be an $80 redemption fee (ouch!). This period lasts from day 18 to day 42. After day 42, your domain name will then go into a public auction where anyone can bid on the domain name. You can get the domain name back by bidding on it, but you will need to outbid everyone else. This is a very risky way to get your domain name back.
There are 4 plans on offer – Basic, Deluxe, Ultimate and Developer. All plans are available for a choice of 1, 3, 6, 12, 24, 36, 60 or 120 months. The best price is available for 3 year or longer term only. The Basic plan allows you to host 1 website with 10GB SSD storage and is apt for a website that expects monthly 25K unique visitors. Deluxe plan increases the storage to 15GB and monthly visitor count to 100K. Also access to SSH and 1-click staging environment and an SEO wizard for site optimization are added in the Deluxe plan. The Ultimate plan builds on Deluxe plan by allowing 2 hosted websites with 30GB SSD storage with 400K total unique visitors in a month. It also adds 1 SSL certificate worth $69.99 free for a year and Website Security Essential package (valued at $83.88 per year). The highest Developer plan provides capability to host up to 5 websites with 50GB SSD storage and 800K monthly visitors in all and a host of several pro features. With all the annual plans you get a domain name free for one year of hosting.
Important Note: GoDaddy has recently stopped giving out promo codes for renewals of their products. We’ll try to host as many as we can until they dry up forever. If you own many domain names, then we recommend the Domain Discount Club, which gives you exclusive codes that will pay for the initial membership fee many times over. You can save 33% off membership in the club with the 2nd code in our list below. We also have some great coupons for new products, including a 35% off site-wide code as well as web hosting for under one dollar, and .COM domain registrations for just 99 cents!
