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GoDaddy has crazy marketing and dominate search results in that regard. They bait and switch their customers into buying a really cheap domain for the first ye
by miguelmota 8y ago
GoDaddy has crazy marketing and dominate search results in that regard.
They bait and switch their customers into buying a really cheap domain for the first year and then rake up the price for subsequent years.
It's annoying for businesses to switch everything over to a new provider, especially not so technical people that don't want downtime, so they eat the cost.
GoDaddy alternatives which aren't shady are:
Namecheap
iwantmyname
AWS Route53 Domains
Google Domains (wouldn't be surprised if they kill this service though)
- rawoke083600 8y ago"Namecheap" used to be my fav but their backed is totally unreliable and broken.. At times when you add a new item to your domain (say mail) its not uncommon for the DNS settings to reset ! Happend to me twice. Also lost my DNS settings for another domain after i "browsed" their backend !
- aaronds 8y ago+1 for iwantmyname - such a simple service - does exactly what I want without any fuss
- stephenhuey 8y agoYes, I moved some stuff from Hover to iwantmyname because they don’t abstract anything important and there’s no clutter. Hover isn’t bad, but I was looking for something even more geek-appealing!
- tracker1 8y agoI don't think Google Domains is going anywhere, it's complementary to Google Docs and their cloud services.