GoDaddy CoFounder: Never give up (but be very quick to change).

Re:GoDaddy CoFounder: Never give up (but be very quick to ch... by sam_in_nyc on Sunday February 01, 2009 @11:32PM (#461867)

GoDaddy is scum.

They are known for selling domain searches to squatters. It goes something like this:

  1. You search for a domain
  2. Praise Jesus! It's available!
  3. You come back in 24 hours.
  4. :( sorry, a squatter has taken it because GoDaddy whored out your search to them.

They are complete sleaze. Their mascot is a girl with big tits. They try to offer every imaginable rip-off feature with a domain registration. They are the car salesman of domain name registrations.

I can't believe nobody else managed to get the "place where you buy domain names" brand. It's sad.

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Re:GoDaddy CoFounder: Never give up (but be very quick to ch... by psadauskas on Monday February 02, 2009 @12:47AM (#461930)

For your first point, I know network solutions was caught [1] doing that. Never heard of GoDaddy doing it. Your other points, I'm willing to ignore for the benefit of /really/ cheap domains. They're not the car salesmen of registrars, but more like the grocery store, putting the candy bars in the checkout isle.

Disclaimer: I have 4 personal sites registered with godaddy. I was using a couple others, but I transferred them all to godaddy for simplicity's sake.

[1]http://www.dotsauce.com/2008/01/08/networksolutions-scandal-...

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Re:GoDaddy CoFounder: Never give up (but be very quick to ch... by breck on Monday February 02, 2009 @12:37PM (#462565)

I've never heard of GoDaddy doing this (heard of someone else who did though), and I've personally bought hundreds of domains from GoDaddy (and many times a few days or weeks after the initial search).

I do dislike some things about them (the cleavage in the ads is a cheap trick and their UI is terrible), but:

1. Great prices.

2. Amazing support(for the price).

3. I respect Bob Parsons and really enjoy reading his blog posts which always share hard data which is rare and helpful.

4. It works! (I have a number of servers with them and hundreds of domains and it's been 100% reliable for me in the past 5+ years)

If GoDaddy had an API so I could develop an alternative UI for their services, I would never consider leaving them (besides hosting--for big sites I use other providers).

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