What's the motive to make this process painful? Would people really say Oh screw it, I'll just stay with GoDAddy? Ive never transferred a domain before so I don't know what the process or delay is normally like
This is standard practice to increase the friction of unsubscribing. How many clicks does it take you to logout of Facebook or Google...and see if your grandmother could even figure out how.
Two clicks. Google is easy: click your name, click sign out. Facebook is slightly harder: click the menu triangle in the upper right hand corner, click sign out.
Most people won't understand it is 'go daddy' hijacking the process and may get frustrated by delays. One guy in this thread thought it was a name cheap problem, for example.
> Would people really say Oh screw it, I'll just stay with GoDAddy?
Yes, actually they would. Or more likely, they intend to, only have small time slices and take weeks or months longer to leave.
Aggregated across millions of subscribers, and this adds up to big $$$, some of which can pay a high-priced spokesmodel to defray a large amount of the downsides.
Yes, people would. Obviously, the people who are really adamant about switching away won't be deterred by this, but there will be a lot of people who are less forceful about it who might well just give up if it's too hard.
