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My domain transfer completed today (interesting, since it said it would complete on Tuesday, but I'll chock it up to volume).

Immediately before the domain transfer, I received an e-mail indicating that GoDaddy was sorry to see my one sad domain go away. I replied asking if there is a way to completely eliminate my account with them.

As I don't expect a reply, does anyone know if GoDaddy provides a way to eliminate your account completely? I'm planning on removing saved Credit Card information and setting a random, max-length password. Far from bullet proof, but I expect I won't be doing business with them again and don't want some random hack to result in account disclosure and some troublemaker deciding to buy a bunch of services in my name. The probability is low, but the amount of anger resulting from this SOPA nonsense has to have made them a bigger target for such nefarious activities ... I'm thinking Sony from recent memory.



Short answer: No.

Long answer: The best you can do is delete all services on your account, delete your payment information, and trash the registered name and address.


For legal reasons, there is likely an ICANN policy regarding retaining of customer records for a period of time.




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