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I guess its just the power of advertising but its amazing to me that GoDaddy continues to be a popular solution for hosting, domain registration, etc given thei

by jmuguy 2y ago

I guess its just the power of advertising but its amazing to me that GoDaddy continues to be a popular solution for hosting, domain registration, etc given their absolute toilet of a reputation.

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lenerdenator 2y ago
They got their product out. Who else is there that the average person would know about?
- grajaganDev 2y ago
  Yup they dominate mindshare. And their UI for choosing a domain name is excellent.
- bogwog 2y ago
  Squarespace advertises a lot too, probably more than GoDaddy nowadays, and they are also a domain registrar. Maybe GoDaddy just sells themselves better? I see Squarespace as kind of an amorphous boring blob of internet business services.
  - Linkd 2y ago
    Squarespace is not 'tagged' in my brain under the "domain registrar" category yet. When I blindly think of domain registrars, as much as I dislike them, Godaddy is the first to come to mind.
  - stronglikedan 2y ago
    Squarespace positions themselves as a website builder more than a registrar. In fact, I doubt the average person would even realize they are a registrar, since that is abstracted away in the website building process.
- stronglikedan 2y ago
  Correct. And the average person isn't aware of their "toilet of a reputation".
  - apocalyptic0n3 2y ago
    This is the real key. They have an awful reputation amongst technical people (for good reason) but that reputation largely fades away the less technical you are. The average person knows them for their effective marketing, seemingly low prices, and seemingly decent products. They don't get into the weeds enough to expose how untrue those things really are. For a long time, I worked in an office across from their (now former) headquarters in the Scottsdale Air Park. The number of clients we had come in amazed that we must work so closely with them and expecting great things made the location of the office so invaluable that when they moved to Tempe and Chandler, we had to seriously discuss internally if we needed to follow them.
palmfacehn 2y ago
They bought out another registrar I was a customer of. Now I am paying 40% more for renewals. If I want to migrate I need to expose my whois info. They're always looking to upsell me into some horrible hosting garbage.
- andybak 2y ago
  They've bought up a whole series of services I was using and ruined them. Anyway. Nice to see the FTC getting a few wins in before they are defanged by the new administration.
- fraXis 2y ago
  Can you temporarily change your whois info before you migrate to somewhere else?
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  - uxjw 2y ago
    I've had some registrars lock the domain from transferring for a few weeks after changing whois.
    - tredre3 2y ago
      It's called the 60 day registrant change lock. Most changes to administrative or technical contact information will trigger it. Although it's a real ICANN rule, the registrar is allowed to override it if they want. Of course very few registrars offer that kind of customer service, so that escape hatch might as well not exist...
- kachapopopow 2y ago
  Update your whois to bogus information, transfer the domain, restore whois information. Cloudflare is the cheapest domain registrar long-term, you might get cheaper ones for the first year or first 3 years.
kstrauser 2y ago
I don't use GoDaddy, but I had to transfer some domains of NetSol a couple months ago, and it made my experiences with GoDaddy look like a happy dream. People will put up with all kinds of awfulness if they don't know better.
DonHopkins 2y ago
An unofficial ranking of the most NSFW GoDaddy commercials ever: https://www.golfdigest.com/story/an-unofficial-ranking-of-the-most-nsfw-godaddy-commercials-ever https://www.golfdigest.com/story/an-unofficial-ranking-of-th... The Woman(!) Behind GoDaddy's Tasteless, Effective Super Bowl Ads: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffbercovici/2013/02/06/the-woman-behind-godaddys-crass-effective-super-bowl-ads/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffbercovici/2013/02/06/the-wo... Who Let These Commercials Be On TV? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rRopnyZaR0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rRopnyZaR0 GoDaddy's most infamous ads: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7yFCqOAb9Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7yFCqOAb9Y 10 SEXIEST GoDaddy Super Bowl Commercials - Sexy Super Bowl Ads: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ECUIQv9ruo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ECUIQv9ruo
- RIMR 2y ago
  Hilarious to see all the takedowns on these videos. Who the hell DMCA's a reposted advertisement? It's literally free advertising. The only reason they would take these down is because they were ashamed of them - and they probably should be.
  - DonHopkins 2y ago
    To be fair, they should also have a site gaydaddy.com and tv commercials that objectify sexy men.

by jmuguy 2y ago

I guess its just the power of advertising but its amazing to me that GoDaddy continues to be a popular solution for hosting, domain registration, etc given their absolute toilet of a reputation.

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lenerdenator 2y ago

They got their product out. Who else is there that the average person would know about?

grajaganDev 2y ago
Yup they dominate mindshare. And their UI for choosing a domain name is excellent.
bogwog 2y ago
Squarespace advertises a lot too, probably more than GoDaddy nowadays, and they are also a domain registrar. Maybe GoDaddy just sells themselves better? I see Squarespace as kind of an amorphous boring blob of internet business services.
- Linkd 2y ago
  Squarespace is not 'tagged' in my brain under the "domain registrar" category yet. When I blindly think of domain registrars, as much as I dislike them, Godaddy is the first to come to mind.
- stronglikedan 2y ago
  Squarespace positions themselves as a website builder more than a registrar. In fact, I doubt the average person would even realize they are a registrar, since that is abstracted away in the website building process.
stronglikedan 2y ago
Correct. And the average person isn't aware of their "toilet of a reputation".
- apocalyptic0n3 2y ago
  This is the real key. They have an awful reputation amongst technical people (for good reason) but that reputation largely fades away the less technical you are. The average person knows them for their effective marketing, seemingly low prices, and seemingly decent products. They don't get into the weeds enough to expose how untrue those things really are. For a long time, I worked in an office across from their (now former) headquarters in the Scottsdale Air Park. The number of clients we had come in amazed that we must work so closely with them and expecting great things made the location of the office so invaluable that when they moved to Tempe and Chandler, we had to seriously discuss internally if we needed to follow them.

palmfacehn 2y ago

They bought out another registrar I was a customer of. Now I am paying 40% more for renewals. If I want to migrate I need to expose my whois info. They're always looking to upsell me into some horrible hosting garbage.

andybak 2y ago
They've bought up a whole series of services I was using and ruined them. Anyway. Nice to see the FTC getting a few wins in before they are defanged by the new administration.
fraXis 2y ago
Can you temporarily change your whois info before you migrate to somewhere else?
- deleted 2y ago
  [deleted]
- uxjw 2y ago
  I've had some registrars lock the domain from transferring for a few weeks after changing whois.
  - tredre3 2y ago
    It's called the 60 day registrant change lock. Most changes to administrative or technical contact information will trigger it. Although it's a real ICANN rule, the registrar is allowed to override it if they want. Of course very few registrars offer that kind of customer service, so that escape hatch might as well not exist...
kachapopopow 2y ago
Update your whois to bogus information, transfer the domain, restore whois information. Cloudflare is the cheapest domain registrar long-term, you might get cheaper ones for the first year or first 3 years.

kstrauser 2y ago

I don't use GoDaddy, but I had to transfer some domains of NetSol a couple months ago, and it made my experiences with GoDaddy look like a happy dream. People will put up with all kinds of awfulness if they don't know better.

DonHopkins 2y ago

An unofficial ranking of the most NSFW GoDaddy commercials ever: https://www.golfdigest.com/story/an-unofficial-ranking-of-the-most-nsfw-godaddy-commercials-ever https://www.golfdigest.com/story/an-unofficial-ranking-of-th... The Woman(!) Behind GoDaddy's Tasteless, Effective Super Bowl Ads: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffbercovici/2013/02/06/the-woman-behind-godaddys-crass-effective-super-bowl-ads/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffbercovici/2013/02/06/the-wo... Who Let These Commercials Be On TV? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rRopnyZaR0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rRopnyZaR0 GoDaddy's most infamous ads: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7yFCqOAb9Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7yFCqOAb9Y 10 SEXIEST GoDaddy Super Bowl Commercials - Sexy Super Bowl Ads: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ECUIQv9ruo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ECUIQv9ruo

RIMR 2y ago
Hilarious to see all the takedowns on these videos. Who the hell DMCA's a reposted advertisement? It's literally free advertising. The only reason they would take these down is because they were ashamed of them - and they probably should be.
- DonHopkins 2y ago
  To be fair, they should also have a site gaydaddy.com and tv commercials that objectify sexy men.