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Dang, ok, I'll be the dissenter. I like Godaddy. Despite their slimy personna, their one saving grace is that when I am setting anything up that requires a DNS

Dang, ok, I'll be the dissenter. I like Godaddy. Despite their slimy personna, their one saving grace is that when I am setting anything up that requires a DNS configuration (example: Heroku-hosted site), there is ALWAYS a Godaddy-specific tutorial available to help me get through it. For that reason alone, I bailed on Namecheap (et. al) and embraced Godaddy as a registrar. Now, because the brand is so horribly raunchy, I rarely mention this to anyone... as it embarasses me personally.

guildchatter 15y ago
I'm in the same boat as you. Websites usually have tutorials specifically tailored for GoDaddy. Also, whenever I call their customer support, they've always been friendly and helpful. Man, my karma is already negative. It's gonna plummet now... =]
shazow 15y ago
I don't care about a slimy persona or raunchy brands. Have you never used a registrar where making a DNS change doesn't require 11 clicks and each one takes 3~10 seconds to load? Not to mention how everything is plastered with upsells that are worthless to me. GoDaddy goes out of its way to make what you're trying to do harder. This is why I don't like GoDaddy. Edit: I use Dreamhost for my domains. It may be a mediocre shared hosting solution but the domain registering and managing experience is fast, clean, market-priced, and they provide free whois anonymizing.
- nt_mark 15y ago
  Exactly why we created http://nametoolkit.com http://nametoolkit.com, I've used Gandi and they're not bad, but even their interface is a bit clunky, makes you click twice (to commit the DNS change you've just submitted).
- sjs382 15y ago
  > Have you never used a registrar where making a DNS change doesn't require 11 clicks and each one takes 3~10 seconds to load? Yeah. And I won't be moving from name.com anytime soon.
- nolite 15y ago
  seriously.. get amazon route53, and manage it with DNS30.com. You get all the power, in a really simple inteerface. No 11 clicks
mikeryan 15y ago
So I've used Godaddy for years but have recently moved on to using namecheap. I've not felt the need however to move older domains over to namecheap godaddy is pretty painless now that its set up. The name host thing has become old hat so thats not a big win for me. My biggest issue with GoDaddy has been their effing upsell process when you try to buy or renew a domain. I find it slimy how they try to stick you with all these damn add ons when you just want to purchase or renew a domain you have to go through about 3 screens of upsells with huge "Buy Me / Next" buttons and one tiny "no thanks" link at the bottom of a massive page. I would never recommend anyone to use GoDaddy because of this because there's a pretty large chance of them getting stuck with some stupid add-on they didn't need. I'll keep my existing domains there because my understanding is that transferring is a bitch but they're not getting any new domain registrations from me.
mtogo 15y ago
It's not about the slimy brand, it's about how trivial tasks like updating DNS records take minutes whereas with a different registrar they would take just a few seconds, how they try to upsell you on everything, and how every page in their admin panel is filled with ads. I also don't see how the DNS thing is an issue. Some setup guide or tutorial says "Add an CNAME for your subdomain pointing to example.com" and it's pretty clear no matter what DNS hosting you're using.

guildchatter 15y ago

I'm in the same boat as you. Websites usually have tutorials specifically tailored for GoDaddy. Also, whenever I call their customer support, they've always been friendly and helpful. Man, my karma is already negative. It's gonna plummet now... =]

shazow 15y ago

I don't care about a slimy persona or raunchy brands. Have you never used a registrar where making a DNS change doesn't require 11 clicks and each one takes 3~10 seconds to load? Not to mention how everything is plastered with upsells that are worthless to me. GoDaddy goes out of its way to make what you're trying to do harder. This is why I don't like GoDaddy. Edit: I use Dreamhost for my domains. It may be a mediocre shared hosting solution but the domain registering and managing experience is fast, clean, market-priced, and they provide free whois anonymizing.

nt_mark 15y ago
Exactly why we created http://nametoolkit.com http://nametoolkit.com, I've used Gandi and they're not bad, but even their interface is a bit clunky, makes you click twice (to commit the DNS change you've just submitted).
sjs382 15y ago
> Have you never used a registrar where making a DNS change doesn't require 11 clicks and each one takes 3~10 seconds to load? Yeah. And I won't be moving from name.com anytime soon.
nolite 15y ago
seriously.. get amazon route53, and manage it with DNS30.com. You get all the power, in a really simple inteerface. No 11 clicks

mikeryan 15y ago

So I've used Godaddy for years but have recently moved on to using namecheap. I've not felt the need however to move older domains over to namecheap godaddy is pretty painless now that its set up. The name host thing has become old hat so thats not a big win for me. My biggest issue with GoDaddy has been their effing upsell process when you try to buy or renew a domain. I find it slimy how they try to stick you with all these damn add ons when you just want to purchase or renew a domain you have to go through about 3 screens of upsells with huge "Buy Me / Next" buttons and one tiny "no thanks" link at the bottom of a massive page. I would never recommend anyone to use GoDaddy because of this because there's a pretty large chance of them getting stuck with some stupid add-on they didn't need. I'll keep my existing domains there because my understanding is that transferring is a bitch but they're not getting any new domain registrations from me.

mtogo 15y ago

It's not about the slimy brand, it's about how trivial tasks like updating DNS records take minutes whereas with a different registrar they would take just a few seconds, how they try to upsell you on everything, and how every page in their admin panel is filled with ads. I also don't see how the DNS thing is an issue. Some setup guide or tutorial says "Add an CNAME for your subdomain pointing to example.com" and it's pretty clear no matter what DNS hosting you're using.