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Do a piece on GoDaddy - they're absolutely disastrous. Eg, when you need to do any kind of downgrade of a service, you need a 2fa over email which they intentio

Do a piece on GoDaddy - they're absolutely disastrous. Eg, when you need to do any kind of downgrade of a service, you need a 2fa over email which they intentionally delay for like 15mins. If you leave the page, you have to request a new one. Of course, when it's 2fa for something that's not negative in terms of revenue, it arrives immediately.

LolBatmanHuntsU 2y ago
GoDaddy flagrantly steps over the line from deceptive practices into unethical shady business territory. Continues to amaze how they are still running.
- Joker_vD 2y ago
  To this day I am not entirely convinced that they did not start as something sex-industry-related and then for some strange reason switched to DNS registrar business later. Seriously, "Go, daddy!"?
  - EGreg 2y ago
    I always thought the founder had a bit of a gradiosity complex and it was actually meant to be read like “god addy” as in address
richardw 2y ago
Despise Godaddy. And google domains sold to Squarespace, who makes a transfer take up to 15 days. It’s faster to carve the document from wood and send it across the world than it is for them to automatically click the button to let go of a domain. I’ve never had a transfer go that slowly anywhere. https://support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/115011719247-Domain-transfer-timing https://support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/1150117192...
swarnie 2y ago
Do they still do the thing where if you search for a domain name and decided not to buy it they mysterious buy it themselves a couple days later and increase the price threefold?
- cloudwalk9 2y ago
  As of 2022, iirc yes
- meindnoch 2y ago
  yes
dijit 2y ago
Another fun one for godaddy: 'forgetting' to email you about a renewal, letting it lapse and then charging you literally double to "reactivate it" when the DNS stops working. Happened to my company, I moved DNS to porkbun immediately after reactivating the domain. Wasn't a cheap one either so that cost was especially unwelcome.

LolBatmanHuntsU 2y ago

GoDaddy flagrantly steps over the line from deceptive practices into unethical shady business territory. Continues to amaze how they are still running.

Joker_vD 2y ago
To this day I am not entirely convinced that they did not start as something sex-industry-related and then for some strange reason switched to DNS registrar business later. Seriously, "Go, daddy!"?
- EGreg 2y ago
  I always thought the founder had a bit of a gradiosity complex and it was actually meant to be read like “god addy” as in address

richardw 2y ago

Despise Godaddy. And google domains sold to Squarespace, who makes a transfer take up to 15 days. It’s faster to carve the document from wood and send it across the world than it is for them to automatically click the button to let go of a domain. I’ve never had a transfer go that slowly anywhere. https://support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/115011719247-Domain-transfer-timing https://support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/1150117192...

swarnie 2y ago

Do they still do the thing where if you search for a domain name and decided not to buy it they mysterious buy it themselves a couple days later and increase the price threefold?

cloudwalk9 2y ago
As of 2022, iirc yes
meindnoch 2y ago
yes

dijit 2y ago

Another fun one for godaddy: 'forgetting' to email you about a renewal, letting it lapse and then charging you literally double to "reactivate it" when the DNS stops working. Happened to my company, I moved DNS to porkbun immediately after reactivating the domain. Wasn't a cheap one either so that cost was especially unwelcome.