@abbecain You are most certainly welcome. Its unfortunate that so many businesses have hidden costs and surprises. Makes it so hard to believe a good deal when you see it.
Your suggestion will still be great for those who only want to take advantage of one year.
You could get the domain from GoDaddy, then transfer the domain at the end of the term to a different domain provider such as the one I provided. They charge only $8 to transfer and you get that extra whois Privacy for free (check Godaddys Terms first since they may limit this feature with this sale). That way you are paying a total of $9 for 2 years with that domain
Tried to buy some domains but their site was slow as hell, couldn’t even log in Probably too many visits…
Anyway, I would just buy 10s of them and as always, wait till they expire
Find some VCC’s/IPs that work with GoDaddy, 1&1, NetworkSolutions, and Name - abuse their 75c - 99c coupons to scoop massive amounts of .com’s with fake reg info.