Is GoDaddy on Crack?

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.

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. :rolleyes:

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.