GoDaddy. One of the Internet’s biggest domain-name registrars, was kind enough on Sunday to send out a message to all of it’s buyers who bought domain names anytime after July 1st 2006. The killer?

You can claim a whopping 3 cents back one each domain name purchased through the vendor, after details emerged that the supplier had overstated ICANN charges at ‘25 cents’ as opposed to the actual fee of ‘22 cents’. I think it’s great that such a large company can take such a small amount of cash per customer seriously (particularly as 3 cents per domain actually amounts to quite a large figure when you take into account the number of domains sold buy GoDaddy each year), whilst other smaller registrars are refusing to rectify the payments, meaning that effectively, many customers may be being overcharged by 3 cents per domain! All GoDaddy customers received notification via e-mail of the situation and were assured that the company was working on rectifying all mistaken payments.

However - some customers seem a tad miffed that they’re not actually receiving their 3 cent, but instead are being paid the owed money via GoDaddy credits. Credits, of course, expire in 12 months. Isn’t there some way that domain-owning-vampires can withdraw that 3 cents? What’s the beef?

Picture via DrTweeker.