It is very strange.
101domains wanted to charge me ~13,000 USD for a domain / year.
gandi, however, allowed me to purchase it (the same domain!) for ~650 GBP / year.
What is going on?
101domains wanted to charge me ~13,000 USD for a domain / year.
gandi, however, allowed me to purchase it (the same domain!) for ~650 GBP / year.
What is going on?
I was confused because gandi and 101domains did not explicitly state the phase. And gandi took my money and deducted it from my account but apparently did not actually obtain the domain yet.
Maybe 13k gets you a fully registered domain, and the £650 is like buying an option or a chance to be in the running.
Indeed, Gandi did not actually obtain the domain. But merely offered to try to bid with the money once the price of the domain reached that point where it was available for that price.
In my case, that failed. The domain was purchased by someone else at a higher price.
I now have to fight to get my money back into my bank account. Gandi made their life extra hard by not being fully transparent.