noangel

I thought of a domain name I liked and went to GoDaddy to register it.
It said it was available through GoDaddy Auctions, starting bid $10,000.

I thought, Oh no... I'll have to think of something else to use for my site.

But then I thought hey, I'll quickly try NameCheap and see what happens...

Well, I bought it from them for $9.98

Is GoDaddy normal?

nicheblogger75

Too funny! I've done this myself several times. One domain GoDaddy wanted $8000 for, and it wasn't even a dot com. It was a dot net! I went to Namecheap and got it for $13!

zaco

I think this is what happened:

The person who owned the domain listed it on Godaddy before it expired so when it expired, Godaddy didn't remove it and it still showed the old price..

I am just guessing

Matt Red

Haha yea, i've seen situations like this before too.

Godaddy over values some domains WAAAY to much and makes ridiculous claims.

mvirtual

I used Goddady on the beginning of my online career but after some problems I switched to namecheap and register all my domain names with them.

WilsonJ

It may not be relevant to the thread yet I am posting it here..Do you guys know that GoDaddy has lost more than 27k domains in just 2 days??GoDaddy is supporting SOPA and it has ignited the whole issue..People are relocating their servers..

earningbaranaba

i hate it when that happens :L

jimmymc

Go Daddy is a good example of marketing off the deep end or as my Grandpa used to say:

"Too big for your own britches".

I've used them for years and have had no issues, but their marketing methods certainly are annoying as well as their blatant disregard for the value of my hard earned dollar. My namecheap account is growing.

timsoulo

hate this company! they use spammy methods to rank well in Google:
GoDaddy's spammy link building techniques • Yoast

InternetMarketingIQ

Just because it's listed doesn't mean you can buy it. It could be tied up.

Ask yourself this.

Can I pick up the telephone and call NameCheap if I have a problem? Answer: NO

Can I pick up the telephone and call GoDaddy at 3am on Sunday morning: Answer: Yes

Does GoDaddy have a physical Street Address: Answer: Yes

Does NameCheap have a physical Street Address: Answer: Sort of. If you consider a mail box drop a street address. They actually have the EXACT same street address as anyone else who wants to use this address: Regus - California, West Los Angeles - Executive Tower

Is GoDaddy a Registrar? Answer: Yes

Is NameCheap a Registrar? Answer: Sort of... they are a reseller for eNom

GoDaddy also makes it very easy to do things like Domain Forwarding and Masking. NameCheap has a sort of work around for this.

GoDaddy makes it simple to do 301 302 redirects. NameCheap... well kind of.

Why does NameCheap hide from customers? Why don't they offer phone support.

Who offers more real value for the money and peace of mind.

Answer: It's not NameCheap

People like to bash GoDaddy... why? Because they have commercials, they go on Safari?

What do you know about Richard Kirkendall the owner of NameCheap? Not much because he hides.

NameCheap's marketing requires a constant attack on GoDaddy.

GoDaddy built a business by offering products people want. NameCheap has built it's seedy business by bashing GoDaddy and selling to the inept who are easily motivated by emotions and not logic.

mge

I have always used namecheap and have been satisfied with their service.
I've read too many complaints about GoDaddy.

noangel

InternetMarketingIQ you make some very valid points.
I have used GoDaddy for years and find their customer
support to be very good, though I have not heard great
things about their hosting.

I was merely relaying an incident that occurred.

richjr72

Wow.

I never thought to do that. I have ran into that issue many times, and ended up buying another extension version, or not buying it at all.

I didn't even think to try the it through a different registrar.

mywebwork

It must have been a typo, GoDaddy haters and conspiracy theories aside.

It happens, and it's funny when it does.

This summer I was interested in buying a 17' notebook and found a great deal on NewEgg. The price on the notebook was awesome, but one of the up-sells was not such a good buy.

http://jamshedji.net/pics/newegg_msoffice_deal.png

Seemed like a lot when all I wanted to do was use PowerPoint once in a while, so I passed on it!



Bill

noangel

This time it is not a typo and in fact it is still listed for auction at a starting
price of $10,000, even though I purchased the domain a few days ago.

Fernando Veloso

Does Namecheap works like a polite business? YES.
Does Namecheap offers everything I need? YES.
Does NameCheap have a awesome live chat support 24/7? YES
Why bother with suckers? Beats me.

BilalYounas

i know that go-daddy is crack

thanks

DireStraits

There you go again with your inexplicable attacks on a company that has infinitely more respect around these parts than the one you're suggesting as an alternative.

It's funny ... I thought most of this stuff was the other way around. I thought NameCheap was the one that offered what people want, and GoDaddy is the one that persistently offers up useless rubbish they try hard to convince people they need while making it rather clumsy for them to deselect and avoid accidentally purchasing it.

My bad.

Steven Richards

I've personally never had any problems with Namecheap... works great for me!

Fernando Veloso

+ 100000000000.

GD not only is a borderline scam (with all the upsells newbies fall into) but they also supported SOPA - I mean, they PAID to get the law draft.

GoDadyy NEVER again. EVER.

kokopelli

I have domains at both Namecheap and GoDaddy, and even though I'm a "VIP" at GoDaddy, I'm going to drop them as soon as I can. Regardless of the latest GoDaddy/SOPA issue, it's also been worrying me more and more that GoDaddy has more frequently lately simply arbitrarily been taking down websites hosted by them, or grabbing domains - if a "complaint" is received, or they feel (rightly or wrongly) there is a copyright/IP infraction.

Alexa Smith

Very wisely answered in this post, I think: Boycott GoDaddy ?

SincerelyPariah

SOPA aside, GoDaddy has been great for me. Yes, they try and upsell but I have no problem clicking the "No Thanks" button and moving on to purchase only what I need. The two times I've had to use customer service, they've been great and 100% reliable/no downtime in the years I've been using them. Is there better out there? Could be, but I haven't felt the need to look further.

I've never used NameCheap, but I tried indie hosting and such over the years and it was always a nightmare.

dukestravels1972

Anyone tried SOPA.com?

emmanuel7

Hey, I lived long enough and in many countries to be very philosophical about these events/political/media stuff. Call me stupid but I thought SOPA was a sort of soap! Maybe it is? Maybe it is an incredible conspiracy to market the next generation of soap?!

Forgive me for the tongue in the cheek. I prefer to concentrate on working smart, on success and be prepared to about anything. (Almost...) Let's enjoy this amazing new year full of promises and battles!

jpsilver

I'll be using namecheap for all my new domain registrations. I think it's a good idea to diversify.

Greenfatman

I'm just wondering if you go down at Africa hunt some elephants as well

Your same words in "threads about how godaddy sucks" are anoying me to death.
Yes, I stick with namecheap maybe just because of you ...

michaelmac

To be honest i've used Godaddy for 95% of my domain purchases...never had any problems and their customer account interface is second to none.

That said i've heard horror stories about their hosting packages...which i definately steer clear from!

Michael

HeySal

Not at all. I would, however, think it might be time for them to check their water for hallucinogenics.

envisionit2011

I use to use Godaddy for everything, even referred people I built sites for...may not have made then a ton but I definitely gave them good business...

Then one day while trying to swap my domains on a new hosting account I somehow accidentally deleted the hosting plan. So I called them and explained what happened only to be advised I would have to repurchase hosting. It was less than 2 weeks old and I never even uploaded a site to it yet?! But still they wouldn't help me... So I requested a refund....They "submitted" my request only to deny it a few days later...

To make a long story short, I emailed them back with a list of all the referrals I gave them, and copies of receipts for all my purchases and basically told them that there poor customer service and lack of help cost them a lot more than what it would've took just to help me fix a simple accident.

A couple days later I got a notice from Paypal, I was issued a refund from Godaddy. Too little too late though, I will never use them again.

I used to think they had good customer service too, but now YES, I think they're on crack.

Ed Micah

Damn, all my domain names are with them. I always give up when a domain is taken - maybe I've missed alot of them O__O.

CDarklock

Fixed that for you.

I have no actual problem with NameCheap, or Moniker either for that matter. But I simply see no compelling reason not to use GoDaddy.

HypeText

GoDaddy isnt on Crack...

It's worse...

GoDaddy is on SOPA!

GeorgR.

I don't understand why people sound like there's only GD and Namecheap.

For domains, there are about 900.000 other registrars, for example i am using dynadot and i love them. Managing domains is something simple anyway. (There is really not much more to it than setting nameservers and transferring domains once in a while)

As for hosting, there are also infinite alternatives.

Oh..by the way why i NEVER used GD: Because that one time i wanted to purchase a domain with them they wanted a forced, yearly paypal subscription or something. I dont "subscribe"..i pay for my domains usually right away and when it's time to renew i do this myself..respective let the domain expire if i don't want it anymore after a year or two. (Not all domains are worth keeping).

All Night Cafe

I have some swamp land in Flordia if anyone
works at GoDaddy wants to buy.

I will not sell it cheaoer on Name Cheap. Get it
now, my daughter needs a new Barbie.

rkat55

I hate godaddy. Few years ago one of my sites I got a couple spam complaints from a list that one of my affiliates sent an ad on. The A-holes at godaddy immediately suspended my site and wanted a bunch of money from me (like a few hundred dollars) to unsuspend it. I told them to go to hell. Lost my domain and that particular business was going really hot too. DON'T USE GODADDY!

DireStraits

True. That is something I didn't much like. I registered a .me domain with GoDaddy about 3 years ago while they were running a special offer (have since transferred it out, of course), and what I thought to be (because it looked to be) a one-off regular PayPal payment turned out to be some recurring arrangement I'd never before experienced (not a regular PayPal subscription) whereby GoDaddy were authorised to request payment from my account for a variable amount, much like they had my credit-card details on file.

Fair enough, auto-renewal isn't uncommon. But there seemed to be no way to cancel it through GoDaddy's control panel, only through some obscure area of my PayPal account (since made easier to find, I think) which I'd never before seen nor had any reason to visit, and although I saw the confusion as being PayPal's responsibility more than anyone's, it came as no surprise that GoDaddy would be one of the seemingly few big registrars to take advantage of what felt like some opaque, little-used "backdoor arrangement" - a component befitting the ethos of the company as a whole, with a site, ordering and domain-management system that seems an intricately thought-out cesspit of confusion to swindle less discerning customers.

They might operate within the law but they certainly and quite deliberately don't operate within the realm of utmost clarity and user-friendliness, displaying none of the respect for their customers that you'd expect of an honest, upstanding company.

But then that's the whole point. The words unethical, shady and distasteful readily spring to mind, and that's all the justification I need to avoid them.

InternetMarketingIQ

I don't doubt that happened to you. It's an industry practice. You used to be able to watch domains than go and get them when they expired. Registrars now hold expired domains and try to auction them. I find what they are doing with new registrations unethical but they all do it now.

In the future when you want to register a domain don't check it until you are sure you are ready to buy. One thing you can do that isn't foolproof is just search for the domain in Google... if it has been registered it will likely appear. If not then put it on your list to check again when you are ready to buy.

InternetMarketingIQ

Does NameCheap have Telephone support. NO. But of course you won't ever need that because you are always locked to a desk and never travel and have all your hundreds of domains with you... so you don't mind waiting around for however long it takes when one of your site goes down.

You don't mind doing business with a company that uses a mailbox drop box. You don't need many of the domain features that GoDaddy offers for no additional price.

So good for you NameCheap is your hero... right up to the point when something goes wrong, terribly wrong.

When SOPA passes, and there really isn't much standing in it's way. NDAA just passed, PIPA will pass too.

The Smart Money is on GoDaddy because they have a hand in structuring the law and your chances of getting help when you domains get slammed is much better.

But logic be damned, because you don't need logic, you have your wonderful experience with NameCheap and their cut rate cut featured service to fall back on.

InternetMarketingIQ

Does NameCheap have Telephone support. NO. But of course you won't ever need that because you are always locked to a desk and never travel and have all your hundreds of domains with you... so you don't mind waiting around for however long it takes when one of your site goes down.

You don't mind doing business with a company that uses a mailbox drop box. You don't need many of the domain features that GoDaddy offers for no additional price.

So good for you NameCheap is your hero... right up to the point when something goes wrong, terribly wrong.

When SOPA passes, and there really isn't much standing in it's way. NDAA just passed, PIPA will pass too.

The Smart Money is on GoDaddy because they have a hand in structuring the law and your chances of getting help when you domains get slammed is much better.

But logic be damned, because you don't need logic, you have your wonderful experience with NameCheap and their cut rate cut featured service to fall back on.

InternetMarketingIQ

You bring up a very valid point. You shouldn't be responsible for spamming affiliates. But you are. So your best choice is to use NameCheap because they are a haven for spammers. Plenty of consumer complaints to back that up. In fact the address they use for their business is often quoted in consumer spam complaints.

And you bring up and even better point. Legitimate Businesses should use GoDaddy and Spamers should use NameCheap. I've been on the end of spam attacks where I have had to completely shut down email accounts. 1,000's of messages in a day. I still get 85% of my mail as spam even though it's filtered. I truly appreciate the wasted time I spend filtering through spam so I can get to my REAL MAIL I think anyone who does anything to stop SPAM is bad, because SPAM of course is good right?

So GoDaddy is A-holes because they suspended an account that was linked to spamming. I see the logic. You didn't do the spamming yourself but you stood to gain financially from it so it's okay. It's also okay for a hitman to kill someone for money, and the person who hires the hit is not responsible because they didn't actually do the hit they just paid for it. Same logic.

Choose your partners carefully. This is why all legitimate business affiliate programs have anti spam programs and will cut you off in a heartbeat. They also screen their affiliates.

So it is truly GoDaddy's fault?

And the "hot" business wasn't worth a couple hundred bucks?

You're mad. I get it.

But I think any rational person would agree that GoDaddy really had to do something. Should they condone Spam then none of use would even be able to get any mail at all.

Sucks being on the wrong end of a bad person. You should have sued the affiliate for the money. But you probably didn't have a legal binding agreement with them.

InternetMarketingIQ

That's an interesting hosting issue. You deleted your account. How would they restore it I wonder? They didn't have the information that you provided in order to restore it. And they did issue you a prompt refund.

So while I understand your frustration. I'm kind of missing what you expected GoDaddy to do? Once information is deleted off servers in a shared environment the disc space is freed and then written over. Unless they offered some kind of back up (my current host included daily back up as part of the fee... but it's much more expensive than other shared hosts) I'm not sure they could have restored your account if they wanted to.

I'm not siding with GoDaddy on this one, I just read what you wrote and wondered what they could have really done. I wonder if they had a back up to restore. I've not ever used them for anything but Domains.

DireStraits

Wow, IQ ... I was about to respond point-by-point, but they're so contorted and far-fetched that the only thing that really bears saying here is "you're so full of it".

Either you're paranoid and delusional, have atrociously bad judgement, or you're here with an agenda. All render a discussion with you utterly pointless anyway, so I'll be backing out now ...

cesarsan

Why do people buy from a company that makes anything more difficult and expensive than it should be and uses questionable marketing tactics when there are much, much better alternatives like Namecheap and others?

webworm

It is normal. It is the godaddy business policy that really sucks.

cypherslock

...and then there's their support of SOPA. Once they did that, I moved everything away from them. They claim they've dropped support of some of it. But that's not good enough. Hunting the elephants didn't help their cause either.

essmeier

I have always used namecheap and have been satisfied with their service.
I've read too many complaints about GoDaddy.

I've been using GoDady for years and have never had any problems. I've got nearly 1000 domains registered with them and I have my own personal rep. Anytime any issue comes up he's on the phone with me in minutes.

I get good pricing, too.

Charlie

Domainate

Many domain sellers are slow to remove their listings on sites like Afternic, Sedo, GoDaddy etc. when they let their domains expire. Chances are the listing was actually an Afternic or Sedo listing which consequently also gets listed at GoDaddy as both of those marketplaces have partnerships with GoDaddy.

Aussie_Al

I use Go Daddy just for my domains and have not had a problem