GoDaddy.com Rant

[Seraphim]

I have just a handful of domains left to transfer out of GoDaddy, and then I will never use them again. Their website and domain interface is an absolute nightmare, it's like Picasso meets Walmart in slow motion. Apart from the gui issue, their renewal rates suck, their reps are cheezy and dishonest, they have a long history of seizing domains without warning, and their bottom bin firesale-ish domain aftermarket creates serious trust issues for me.

And I almost forgot, WTF is up with the name GoDaddy? You can't tell me that something isn't rotting at the bottom of that pile of sticks. Was Bob watching some gay porn when he came up with his brand name?

[ezimedia]

HI

I have with GD for a very long time and also am a member of their discount club, and paid parking program and I have nothing but good things to say about them and my EXrep is great to..

Tom

[clemzonguy]

They even increased prices on the discount club when I joined and persisted in trying to renew the membership, although I had not opted for auto-renewal. Right now I am looking at a $12 renewal on a .com. I have $7.99 pricing at another registrar, so this is just plain crazy.

[Sapphiro]

Use coupon codes to renew your domains, the pricing is still about $7.19 only...

[MAllie]

And I almost forgot, WTF is up with the name GoDaddy? You can't tell me that something isn't rotting at the bottom of that pile of sticks. Was Bob watching some gay porn when he came up with his brand name?

GoDaddy's name = gay porn? There are a lot of daddies in the world who are real goers and would disagree with that.

But I must confess to being more than a little peeved at the usage of 'gay' as something reprehensible nowadays. Is gay porn worse than other porn?

When I was young - quite a long time ago now - the word gay was usually teamed with happy. Maybe that's why I see gay people as on the whole happy people doing their merry best in a world that's tough for all of us. So please watch your language - putting a smilie beside what you say doesn't necessarily take the hurt out of it.

MAllie

PS. I think GoDaddy is an excellent name, easy to remember and with the right touch of paternalism for a caring registrar, which - within the constraints of running a profitable business - it seems to me to try to be.

[ksinclair]

GoDaddy is the cheapest for me, no one else is as cheap, so I like that, and I like the folders and the tools. But godaddy is far from perfect so anyone who posts they are perfect is probably an employee at godaddy (that applies to any registrar recommendation - dont trust posts that are too glowing).

Godaddy has too much upselling. I think upselling is fine for the general user but why do that for accounts that are bulk users? What bugs me is that godaddy refuses to put in the right tools for the bulk buyer. If someone has over 1,000 domains then godaddy ought to have: a longer timeout, a direct path to the cart on purchases, and faster DNS updating (instead of sitting on their own PPC for hours and hours - godaddy is, IMO, STEALING income by their abusive dns setup; you get stuck on their ppc so easily, in several ways).

What i do: I buy .com at godaddy; I buy .net and .org at Moniker since Godaddy is VERY expensive for .org domains. Moniker has a very fast user interface now, fast dns updates, and is relatively easy to use.

But Moniker does not have all the features of godaddy, and Moniker seems to never change anything. Never any new features. They ought to hire a programmer some day. Moniker could potentially be the best registrar if they ever decided to add a few features. I could give a list.
In fact if one registrar were to list the very best features at each registrar, and implement them, it would be fantastic; but no one does.

Enom has a very fast dns update, the fastest I have seen, and I like their folder system the best. But they lack certain other features and do not have the best price. Their support, like Moniker, varies in speed - sometimes fast, and sometimes, just takes days. godaddy never takes days, they are always fast response. I dislike certain registrars a lot that dont have bulk tools, or have hidden modes you have to learn. I dislike fabulous, name.com, and really most of them. Maybe I am just not 'used' to them. I dislike 1and1 quite a bit, and of course the old RegisterFly was beyond bad; I think they are reborn under some new name, definitely avoid.

Godaddy wins just by being the largest, for Pushes: it is likely, for any domain sale, that a push can happen between buyer and seller. That is nice. For moving domains from registrar to registrar, only Enom has helped me move it faster - the registrar can directly approve the transfer, after you have done your approvals, *if* they they want to; godaddy and moniker refuse to do this for me, but enom will (on ocassion).

Summary: I tell people: use godaddy wins for .com and anything you plan to flip soon; Moniker for .net and .org; Moniker for bulk search on a lot of different TLD (Enom used to have bulk search for many different TLD but got rid of it). I also like, for escrow, just two companies: Escrow.com and Moniker escrow. I have not used sedo escrow (the one time I tried, recently, they never followed through), and I would never use other, smaller/startup type of escrow services - your money is too important, just stick with Escrow.com and Moniker Escrow.

Kevin