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It's surprising how many cells of that table say "GoDaddy."
by charliepark 17y ago
It's surprising how many cells of that table say "GoDaddy."
- jf 17y agoYes, that surprised me too, considering GoDaddy's lackluster reputation. Which reminds me, you can click on the table header to sort the columns.
- kevindication 17y agoI've had no problems with GoDaddy as registrar, and they're priced right (and that seems to be where they win most in that chart). I can't speak to their quality as a hosting provider though. Have they been screwing up as registrar for others?
- Locke1689 17y agoWell... I do have to make a slight UI criticism. Which would you rather see when managing your domains? http://www.godaddy.com/default.aspx http://www.godaddy.com/default.aspx or http://www.dyndns.com/ http://www.dyndns.com/ Also, I have had very good experiences with DynDNS. Support is helpful and their services are top-notch. I am always confident that I'll get someone knowledgeable at DynDNS, while my experience with GoDaddy was nowhere near as nice. Seems they have a good reputation as a company too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DynDNS#Awards http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DynDNS#Awards
- kevindication 17y agoTo be honest I barely ever see the front page, so I don't think it's a useful comparison. The so-called "Total DNS Control" page that GoDaddy offers works well enough for me. Is DynDNS' control panel nicer? As far as support I'll have to defer as I haven't had any problems worth bringing up yet. I moved from Register.com some time ago and that was a breath of fresh air in so many respects.
- zandor 17y agoAs with Locke1689, I have only good things to say about DynDNS's services. Coming from GoDaddy, UI-wise, DynDNS are a bit nicer, but it's their support which really makes a difference.
- eswat 17y agoNo problems with GoDaddy here. My domains were at RegisterFly before the ICANN fiasco and subsequent move. Now THAT was a screwed up registrar.
- drusenko 17y agoIf you are running a user-generated content site and you get to a large enough size, it's near certain that GoDaddy will shut off your domain. We had a very, very close call with Weebly where someone from GoDaddy called at 10am on a Saturday, didn't get through, and started shutting off the domain. If I hadn't called right back it would have been disastrous. For some reason, GoDaddy sees it as their job to police the Internet, which is completely not acceptable for a domain registrar.
- danielrhodes 17y agoWere they checking the authenticity of the registration info? If so, that's them enforcing ICANN rules. They usually don't do that though unless somebody requested it.
- drusenko 17y agoNo. They field abuse requests for phishing sites, DMCA requests, etc. When notified, we take them down promptly. However, whenever someone makes a phishing abuse request on the .weebly.com subdomain to GoDaddy, they don't even look at your traffic or website and just override your DNS servers/records to be blackholed if you don't answer your phone when they call.
- jhancock 17y agoWho would you recommend that does not see DMCA take-down notices as "their job"?
- donw 17y agoI've had great service from GoDaddy as well, and it's a lot cheaper to buy a wildcard SSL cert from them ($199/year) than pretty much everywhere else I've looked.
- jf 17y agoI figured that price was the main reason why people buy SSL certificates from GoDaddy. (Speaking of which, it's worth checking retailmenot.com for GoDaddy discount codes: I recently bought several wildcard certificates from them and was able to get discount codes for 10-30% off.)
- kirubakaran 17y agohttp://www.google.com/search?q=godaddy+sucks http://www.google.com/search?q=godaddy+sucks Of course you'll personally have a great experience until you get screwed. Learn from others. I use namecheap.
- vaksel 17y agoNot that surprising, Godaddy is pretty much the amazon of domain registrations. I'm surprised however, that there are 2 companies that are using them for webhosting.
- oscardelben 17y agoActually amazon try to make my life easier when I want to by something. Godaddy instead is trying to sell me tons of stuff I don't want.
- bradgessler 17y agoTheir UI is horrendously busy for YC founders, but as everybody else is saying, "the price is right."
- tdavis 17y agoEverybody complains about the UI -- but it's domain registration! How often do you really use the UI? A couple times a year, maybe? GoDaddy is super cheap and reliable (for domains). Until somebody makes something better (and equally cheap), I'm staying.
- bradgessler 17y agoYou must be a light user; I'm on godaddy at least once a week doing something. The checkout process is obnoxious; I just want to buy something, not be upsold a billion times. I understand why they do this so godaddy probably isn't ideal for me. I just deal with it because of the price. On the other hand, I'd love to see some enterprising company (even godaddy; all it "GoDaddy Pro" or something) come up with a no-frills domain reservation/management service inspired by http://domai.nr/ http://domai.nr/ and http://manage.slicehost.com/ http://manage.slicehost.com/ (Slicehost has an awesome, simple management interface).
- sanswork 17y agoGoDaddy has a no-frills solution with wildwestdomains. We use the api in our systems and it was a nightmare to implement but works well enough.
- mattmaroon 17y agoDude, that's what I said and then someone here told me about dynadot. Check it out. It's cheaper than Godaddy if you're using private registration, and the UI is about 100x better.
- sant0sk1 17y agos/surprising/depressing/ GoDaddy's "used car lot" salesmanship makes me loathe the company. I'm in process of transferring all my domains elsewhere.
- potatolicious 17y agoLikewise. Have a fairly budget-price but not-so-shady registrar in mind? [edit] WTF guys, why am I being modded up? I asked a question without providing additional insight - this doesn't deserve +points.
- sant0sk1 17y agoI have been happy with http://www.name.com http://www.name.com (so far). $9 .com's with free private WHOIS and they don't mess with you at all. Actually, I called them today to check on a transfer and the customer service was good too.
- pg 17y agoIt's common for people to vote up a question they would also like to have answered.
- tdupree 17y agoI have had good experiences with 1and1.com as a registrar. $8.99 domains, free private whois, and a decent domain management dashboard, YMMV.
- codyrobbins 17y agoI second 1&1 — they are cheap, incredibly responsive to support requests, and generally a pleasure to deal with all around.
- staunch 17y agoI have 50+ domains with them. I like them okay, but I don't love em. I did call support ~2-3 time recently and they were really quite good. 24/7 and almost no waiting. When you cancel a domain they reveal your contact information for some period of time. Maybe they can't help this, but I blame them anyway. Overall I think they're pretty good.
- kogir 17y agoFor a while at Loopt we considered becoming a Tucows reseller and only holding our domains, but it wasn't worth the effort. Whoever bought our first domain used GoDaddy we just stuck with it. We've seen no pressing reason to switch.
- staunch 17y agoTucows is more of a pain. You can become an eNom reseller in a day or two very easily. As I recall, there's a little faxing involved, but no biggie. It's convenient if you need to register or modify domains programmatically.
- jmcnally 17y agoI'm with OpenSRS/Tucows. We've recently overhauled the signup process and I think you'll find it much simpler now. Have a look: http://opensrs.com/signup/ http://opensrs.com/signup/
- staunch 17y agoGood to know. It was my first choice, but seemed complicated/slow. I'll definitely give it a shot next time.