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I had this happen as well in the past when researching domain names for a new product. Pro Tip: Stay the hell away from GoDaddy for everything. I've had the u
by mdorazio 6y ago
I had this happen as well in the past when researching domain names for a new product.
Pro Tip: Stay the hell away from GoDaddy for everything. I've had the unfortunate task of managing a server hosted with them and it's been consistently awful (ex. I literally cannot upgrade PHP because the VPS doesn't support it and there is no upgrade path without spinning up an entirely new VPS on a different, and of course more expensive, plan). The constant upsells on garbage are basically predatory at this point, too.
- mark-r 6y agoI have no choice, they bought out my hosting provider a year ago.
- dannydenhard 6y agoLikewise, although recently it's improved
- whatch 6y agoWhy not to migrate to another one? There are plenty of them nowadays
- mark-r 6y agoEventually I probably will, but I'm not looking forward to the effort. I'm paid up for now so there's no rush. Luckily my domain service is with a different company.
- pkphilip 6y agoI have had serious issues with Godaddy as well. Absolutely horrible performance as well.
- koonsolo 6y agoMe too. But the worst was that I can only contact them by calling them. What?
- mitchdoogle 6y agoAt least you are able to talk to a real person. I've always had good experience calling GoDaddy customer service. Many other online companies make it a very big hassle if you have an issue that's outside the scope of their FAQs.
- wenc 6y agoGodaddy spammed me so much and so often that I transferred my domain to porkbun.com. It's been so problem-free that I couldn't even remember the provider's name -- I had to WHOIS my domain to figure out who was hosting it.
- pottertheotter 6y agoI've been using Porkbun for a few years and have no complaints.
- isaacimagine 6y agoI've been using porkbun for a while and it works great. Worth a look.
- tanatocenose 6y agoSpam
- nett18 6y agohonestly, the company is amazing, they are the discord equivalent of domain hosting
- opan 6y agoWait, do you mean something positive by this? Discord has always struck me as pretty horrible... I'm not even quite sure how to interpret what you've said in a positive way. Maybe implied popularity, but it's debatable whether popularity is in fact a positive even.
- rytill 6y agoWhat about discord has been horrible for you?
- nonbirithm 6y agoNo ability to use third-party clients without being banned.
- aerovistae 6y agoRecommendations for superior alternatives? I'm an indifferent GoDaddy user but would be happy to switch to something else since I've never liked them as a company.
- daneel_w 6y agoI have used https://joker.com/ https://joker.com/ for 20 years, and have yet to find a single thing to complain about.
- aviraldg 6y agoNameCheap (which I use) and Gandi are common recommendations on HN AFAIK.
- notyourwork 6y agoI've had great experience with Gandi over the last 10 years.
- Hoasi 6y agoGandi is fine. Their domains are slightly more expensive than others.
- 91edec 6y agoNamecheap
- Shared404 6y agoI like Porkbun personally.
- antihero 6y agoCloudFlare (yes they are a registrar now) or Gandi are my go-tos! Never had an issue. GoDaddy are just bad in every conceivable way.
- donarb 6y ago
- tzfld 6y agoGave up Godaddy recently, after 10 years. Overpriced ssl, old php version and no sign for upgrades and improvements.
- rezonant 6y agoIf you are hosting a PHP website, then just host it yourself. You can get cheaper and better hosting from one of the "economy" clouds like DigitalOcean or Linode, and nowadays TLS certs can be automated for free with LetsEncrypt. GoDaddy as a registrar is fine but the rest of its services are completely unnecessary today.
- cloudwizard 6y agoWhenever I talk to startups, I check their domain. If they are on GoDaddy, it means that they are technically incompetent.
- ars 6y agoNot necessarily. I used to think that, but it's rather common for the person with the idea to just go and buy the domain on GoDaddy. Then they'll search for technical people to implement their idea. So being hosted there is not necessarily connected with the people actually doing the work. I think you may be used to cases where the startup idea generator and implementer is the same person. But it's not always that way.
- tomjakubowski 6y agoYeah, I joined a startup as the first engineer and inherited a GoDaddy registration, which the non-technical founder had purchased. I may have been technically incompetent but the startup's GoDaddy registration had nothing to do with it. :-)
- jansan 6y ago>If they are on GoDaddy, it means that they are technically incompetent. Let's just say it can be used as an indicator.
- tyingq 6y agoOne exception is domains picked up from a GoDaddy auction. I believe you have to pay for a year, which you might not want to waste. Or even a transfer takes a while to complete.
- jlgaddis 6y agoYou don't lose or "waste" the registrations/renewals you've already paid for when you transfer a domain to a new registrar. Most registrars will include a year as part of the transfer so if you have a domain at GoDaddy that expires in 2024, you can transfer it to Namecheap and then it'll expire in 2025 -- without "wasting" what you've already paid for.
- mc32 6y agoThen they must hand select the ones they frontrun because I’ve looked up silly names to see if they did this )like a bunch of random stupid queries like bvrankdorfgherbd.com and I don’t think they squat those. Of course I’m still leery and never use them to search for my actual target domains.
- Florin_Andrei 6y agoSounds like a dictionary check of some sort.
- whyaduck 6y agoThe spirit of GoDaddy's founder soldiers on in it's current policies and behaviors. Disappointing but unsurprising.
- coredog64 6y agoIt’s a dysfunctional sweatshop. I’ve seen high level execs leave in groups, colonize another company, and bring their dysfunction to the new org.