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GoDaddy is garbage. I think most tech-inclined people switched years ago. Namecheap has never let me down.

traeregan 5y ago
Switched here long ago as well (and still recommended switching to all clients). 1and1 / IONOS isn't much better, and I'd recommend switching from them as well. Hover.com FTW.
bluedino 5y ago
I always find the founder or the first "other" person at the company registered the domain at Godaddy or Netsol or somewhere equally terrible. And then it's "well we bought five years so let's wait to renew it somewhere else"
- djbusby 5y ago
  Why fix a bad decision for $100 - amirite? We gotta be "smart" with our money.
- oefrha 5y ago
  > well we bought five years so let's wait to renew it somewhere else You do realize you can transfer at any time after the 60-day ICANN change of registrant lock period, and it’ll just add to your five years at the new registrar, right?
edgyquant 5y ago
Uh oh :( I’ve been using godaddy since like 2005 and never used anywhere else. Of course that’s just for domain names I haven’t hosted with them since VPSs (and the cloud in general) became cheap. I could Google it, but what else is bad with godaddy and should I switch?
- karlshea 5y ago
  I'll shill for Hover, been with them for many years.
  - traeregan 5y ago
    +1 for Hover!
  - manuelmoreale 5y ago
    I’ll add my +1. Clean UI, more than decent customer support, reasonable prices.
- Fckd 5y ago
  they steel domain names if thats not good enough, i do not what else can be
  - maaneeack 5y ago
    Hopefully that's enough to galvanize them to action
  - edgyquant 5y ago
    Yeah that’ll do (and there and the owners lack of respectful for animal life) I didn’t even know I only use them to hold a few domains I’ve never even looked at or thought about using anyone else. Weird how out of the loop I am on this for being a web developer, but that’s why I asked here.
- wswope 5y ago
  I’ve used quite a few different registrars over the years, and the only one that really stood out as bad was in fact GoDaddy (tacky UX* and dark patterns in registration flow). Most other big name services you choose will be fine; personally I’ve been using Google Domains… but I’m not exactly a Google fan either. As for historical reasons people dislike GoDaddy, here’s a starter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GoDaddy#Controversies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GoDaddy#Controversies *NOI if you’re reading this, Darren
  - edgyquant 5y ago
    Huh I guess I should look to switch. I never really cared for their interface either but since I only use it change the DNS over to point towards my own servers I didn’t really consider it could be worse than anywhere else.
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- guessbest 5y ago
  I used to think the same thing, but considering their name registration isn't even price compatible $13 annually without coupons and their shared hosting is over $10 a month, they are worth considering moving on from. I did because their hosting was just too expensive with them refusing to offer coupons to existing customers to renew hosting or domains. They used to be a lot better.
  - edgyquant 5y ago
    Yeah honestly I’ve never looked at the competition because I only own about 5 domains personally, but I bought the domains for like 12$ and I definitely pay >100$ a year now, so more than double what I paid for some of them.
    - guessbest 5y ago
      Godaddy raising prices made me switch. Namecheap offered 30$ for hosting for a year so I transferred over a year ago. It was very annoying to transfer the domains, but I don't like feeing gouged. Anyway godaddy's hosting was bad and hacked at least twice in three months years ago, back in 2010 or something. Namecheap has softalicious or whatever it is called. Godaddy can't compare.
sanat 5y ago
I can attest that GoDaddy managed WordPress hosting is Garbage too. Have been a very happy customer of WPEngine - and have had a lot of clients thank me for WPEngine's brilliant support. Get 5 months free on annual shared plans, effective 11/22 - 11/30 - for cyber week. Here's an affiliate link if you feel like supporting me. https://wpengine.com/plans/?coupon=cyberweek2021&SSAID=1383593&sscid=b1k5_r7f2y&utm_source=SAS&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=1383593&utm_content=1907400 https://wpengine.com/plans/?coupon=cyberweek2021&SSAID=13835...
aww_dang 5y ago
They recently bought Uniregistry and transferred all of the customer domains. If you had a Uniregistry account, you can't transfer away from GoDaddy for 3 months from the date, coming up in a few weeks. As much as I am looking forward to getting away from them, I'm not looking forward to jumping through the hoops they'll inevitably put in my way. I was shocked at how terrible their service and prices were. Whenever I renew a domain I'm met with an absurd stunt billing attempt. Support is horrible, they can't even do email with tickets. Instead they have a chat system which automatically closes and the support staff game it by stalling.
- prox 5y ago
  What kind of practice is that??

Switched here long ago as well (and still recommended switching to all clients). 1and1 / IONOS isn't much better, and I'd recommend switching from them as well. Hover.com FTW.

bluedino 5y ago

I always find the founder or the first "other" person at the company registered the domain at Godaddy or Netsol or somewhere equally terrible. And then it's "well we bought five years so let's wait to renew it somewhere else"

djbusby 5y ago
Why fix a bad decision for $100 - amirite? We gotta be "smart" with our money.
oefrha 5y ago
> well we bought five years so let's wait to renew it somewhere else You do realize you can transfer at any time after the 60-day ICANN change of registrant lock period, and it’ll just add to your five years at the new registrar, right?

edgyquant 5y ago

Uh oh :( I’ve been using godaddy since like 2005 and never used anywhere else. Of course that’s just for domain names I haven’t hosted with them since VPSs (and the cloud in general) became cheap. I could Google it, but what else is bad with godaddy and should I switch?

karlshea 5y ago
I'll shill for Hover, been with them for many years.
- traeregan 5y ago
  +1 for Hover!
- manuelmoreale 5y ago
  I’ll add my +1. Clean UI, more than decent customer support, reasonable prices.
Fckd 5y ago
they steel domain names if thats not good enough, i do not what else can be
- maaneeack 5y ago
  Hopefully that's enough to galvanize them to action
- edgyquant 5y ago
  Yeah that’ll do (and there and the owners lack of respectful for animal life) I didn’t even know I only use them to hold a few domains I’ve never even looked at or thought about using anyone else. Weird how out of the loop I am on this for being a web developer, but that’s why I asked here.
wswope 5y ago
I’ve used quite a few different registrars over the years, and the only one that really stood out as bad was in fact GoDaddy (tacky UX* and dark patterns in registration flow). Most other big name services you choose will be fine; personally I’ve been using Google Domains… but I’m not exactly a Google fan either. As for historical reasons people dislike GoDaddy, here’s a starter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GoDaddy#Controversies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GoDaddy#Controversies *NOI if you’re reading this, Darren
- edgyquant 5y ago
  Huh I guess I should look to switch. I never really cared for their interface either but since I only use it change the DNS over to point towards my own servers I didn’t really consider it could be worse than anywhere else.
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guessbest 5y ago
I used to think the same thing, but considering their name registration isn't even price compatible $13 annually without coupons and their shared hosting is over $10 a month, they are worth considering moving on from. I did because their hosting was just too expensive with them refusing to offer coupons to existing customers to renew hosting or domains. They used to be a lot better.
- edgyquant 5y ago
  Yeah honestly I’ve never looked at the competition because I only own about 5 domains personally, but I bought the domains for like 12$ and I definitely pay >100$ a year now, so more than double what I paid for some of them.
  - guessbest 5y ago
    Godaddy raising prices made me switch. Namecheap offered 30$ for hosting for a year so I transferred over a year ago. It was very annoying to transfer the domains, but I don't like feeing gouged. Anyway godaddy's hosting was bad and hacked at least twice in three months years ago, back in 2010 or something. Namecheap has softalicious or whatever it is called. Godaddy can't compare.

sanat 5y ago

I can attest that GoDaddy managed WordPress hosting is Garbage too. Have been a very happy customer of WPEngine - and have had a lot of clients thank me for WPEngine's brilliant support. Get 5 months free on annual shared plans, effective 11/22 - 11/30 - for cyber week. Here's an affiliate link if you feel like supporting me. https://wpengine.com/plans/?coupon=cyberweek2021&SSAID=1383593&sscid=b1k5_r7f2y&utm_source=SAS&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=1383593&utm_content=1907400 https://wpengine.com/plans/?coupon=cyberweek2021&SSAID=13835...

aww_dang 5y ago

They recently bought Uniregistry and transferred all of the customer domains. If you had a Uniregistry account, you can't transfer away from GoDaddy for 3 months from the date, coming up in a few weeks. As much as I am looking forward to getting away from them, I'm not looking forward to jumping through the hoops they'll inevitably put in my way. I was shocked at how terrible their service and prices were. Whenever I renew a domain I'm met with an absurd stunt billing attempt. Support is horrible, they can't even do email with tickets. Instead they have a chat system which automatically closes and the support staff game it by stalling.

prox 5y ago
What kind of practice is that??