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GoDaddy General ImpressionGoDaddy.com is the world's largest domain name registrar and is the flagship company of The Go Daddy Group, Inc.
The Go Daddy Group of companies also includes Wild West Domains, Inc., a reseller of domains and domain-related products and services; Domains by Proxy(R), a private registration service; Starfield Technologies, a research and development affiliate; and Blue Razor Domains, a membership-based discount registrar.
As an ICANN-accredited domain registrar, Go Daddy has more names under management than any other registrar, offers products at prices up to 70% less than the competition and supports them all with world-class 24/7 live customer service.
We are the sole developer and proprietor of our technology, do not license any products from others, and do not outsource or offshore any of our operations. This enables us to provide better support and ensure the most advanced and competitively-priced products and services available today.
Founded by Bob Parsons in 1997, The Go Daddy Group has grown to include more than 10 million domains under management. We offer a complete product line, including comprehensive hosting solutions, Web site creation tools, Secure SSL certificates, personalized email with spam and anti-phishing filtering, e-commerce tools and more.
Go Daddy is widely recognized for its success, having been ranked #8 on the 2004 Inc. 500 list of the nation's fastest-growing privately held companies; #20 on the 2005 Deloitte Technology Fast 500 (growing 8,274 percent!); and having won the CNET Editor's Choice award in 2001, the Name Intelligence Largest Net Gain Award in 2002, 2003 and 2005; the Name Intelligence Users' Choice Award in 2005 as well as the #1 Best Overall Registrar in 2003. Go Daddy also won the Arizona Corporate Excellence Award for fastest growing privately-held company in 2003 and Most Innovative Large Company in 2004.
Go Daddy has become the world's #1 choice for domains by providing innovative, competitively-priced products, delivering the highest quality customer service, and by always appreciating and listening to its customers!
GoDaddy Price & CostYou are probably wondering how they can charge as much as 70% less than our competition and still be in business, right?
First of all, they run a tight ship. They choose their promotions carefully and ensure every advertising dollar pays for itself; they streamline their systems and billing processes; they don't have any frills (like the $5,000.00 office chairs of some of the now bankrupt dot-coms). They also don't waste money on unnecessary things like toll-free telephone numbers that are often abused anyway.
Second, they are straight shooters. There are no tricks in what they do, just good, old-fashioned, reliable business principles. Quite often they are asked if they bait their customers with low rates and then charge high renewal prices. Anybody that expects them to do that will be disappointed. They believe in the old saying, "You can shear a sheep many times but you can only skin it once." So, your renewal rates will be no higher than the rate you paid when you initially registered your domain name, or what their registration rates were when you transferred your domain name to them (the only exceptions would be if the price the registry charges us increased, or if you took advantage of a limited-time, special price. And if the registry increases their cost, yours will go up only by the amount their did, never more).
What's the end result of all this? Well, they are happy to tell you that they are a small but profitable company that expects to be in business for many years to come. All this, of course, is due to value-conscious customers like you.
GoDaddy ReliabilityBackup, Restore and Disaster Recovery
- Enterprise-class backup and restore technology protecting your data. *
- Weekly full backups and daily incremental backups. *
- Long term off-site retention. *
*(shared hosting plans only - dedicated server plans require additional purchase)
Operating System and Application Management
- Hardened operating system builds. (hosting plans only)
- Host based security. (hosting plans only)
- Vigorous patch management. (hosting plans only)
- In-depth 24x7 monitoring help to ensure that their systems are secure. (hosting plans only)
GoDaddy Data CenterGoDaddy.com provides world-class hosting every bit as good and often better than that which a hosting-only company might offer.
They take pride in their operations being superior. In fact, because unlike many competitors, they own, operate and support the hosting services they provide, down to the very last cable and disk.
Bottom line: You'll be just as satisfied with our hosting as you are with our domain registrations. You'll get fast, dependable hosting, 24/7 customer support and unbeatable prices. Still not sure? Scan through the specs below and we're sure you'll agree.
World-Class Data Centers
- World-class networking including multiple OC-48, OC-12 and OC-3 connections and a fast gigabit Ethernet backbone.
- Connected to multiple diverse upstream providers totaling 4 Gbps of Tier-1 Internet Bandwidth.
- Full BGP peering with all providers.
- Fully redundant power and air conditioning supply, with state of the art fire protection providing the maximum possible protection against potential disasters that could affect your site.
- Advanced smoke detection and fire suppression systems.
- 24X7 monitoring of building and environmental alarms by a local staff as well as a centralized Network Operations Center.
24x7 Physical Security
- Closed-circuit cameras.
- 24-hour guards and physical location monitoring.
- Biometric scanners and secure card-key access.
- 'Man-trap' restricted access to the data centers.
- Locked cages enclosing all equipment.
Systems and Network Infrastructure and Security
- Best-of-breed equipment for routers, firewalls, and servers.
- Full network redundancy.
- 24x7 dedicated/prevention systems ensure network perimeter remains secure.
- Automatic email scanning for virus detection and cleaning provides complete protection.(hosting plans only)
About GoDaddy- More than 21.6 million domain names under management - The world's largest hostname provider - Approximately 4 million customers - Founded in 1997 by Bob Parsons - as Jomax(R) Technologies - Company stemmed from Parsons' computer programming hobby - The Go Daddy Group includes three ICANN-accredited domain name registrars: flagship registrar - GoDaddy.com(R), Inc., membership-based Blue Razor(R) Domains, Inc., and reseller Wild West Domains(R), Inc. - Private domain name registration services through Domains By Proxy(R), Inc. - SSL Certificates through Starfield Technologies(R), Inc. - Over 1,400 employees - More than 200 in-house developers - 24/7, 365 Round-the-clock call center operations with no outsourcing or offshoring - Seven facilities, maintaining operations in Arizona, Iowa and Washington, D.C.
Contact GoDaddyTelephone Support & Sales
24x7 Technical Support & Sales - (480) 505-8877
24x7 Domain Support - (480) 505-8899
Billing Support - (480) 505-8855 | Available Mon-Fri 5:30AM-9:00PM MST, Sat-Sun 7:30AM-9:00PM MST
Expert Hands Support - (480) 505-8871
Reseller Consultant - (480) 505-8857
Email Support : Access Email Support System | Help Center
Go Daddy ConclusionGoDaddy.com delivers superior value. Here's how:
1. Guaranteed renewal price.
You'll never pay more to renew your domain name than the rate you paid when you initially registered it, or what our registration rate was when you transferred. (The only exceptions would be if the price the registry charges us increased, or if you took advantage of a limited-time, special price. If the registry increases our cost, yours will go up only by the amount ours did, never more.)
2. Risk-free, money-back guarantee transfers.
No matter how hard they try, a domain transfer occasionally fails. This is usually due to your former registrar trying to keep your money, even though it is legally required to comply with your transfer request. With Go Daddy, you're protected. First, the Rapid Transfer System saves time and eliminates errors by extracting critical information automatically. You no longer need to find it and type it in yourself. Second, their Transfer Concierge team is trained, dedicated, and available to you 24/7 with personal, caring assistance. And finally, they believe that you paid your money and that you have every right to expect that transfer to occur, no matter who is at fault. So we've made your transfers absolutely risk free and fully refundable. If your transfer to GoDaddy.com fails for any reason, they will let you know and refund your money. Guaranteed.
3. More FREE, value-added services with every domain.
At Go Daddy, they are proud to have you as a customer and want you to get the most out of your domain ownership. So they give you all of the following FREE with every domain purchase: Quick Blog, Hosting with Web site builder; Complete Email ($9.95/yr value!); change of registrant; parked or "For Sale" page; domain locking; status alerts; domain forwarding; domain masking; total DNS control; and 100 email forwards.
4. Consistently lower prices on everything we offer.
It starts with low-cost domains. But it extends to everything else they develop (right there, in-house) and offer. Like hosting accounts, spam-protected email accounts; domain services, utility software and more. And they are constantly developing more, better, lower-cost ways to improve your domain ownership, Internet- and PC-experience.
5. Best-in-industry live customer support, 24 / 7.
This is a point of pride for them. You deserve the best, and they won't settle for providing anything less. They are available to you either by phone, web board, or email 24 hours a day, everyday. Many of their competitors don't even provide a telephone number for you to call!
6. Fast, easy bulk domain transfers and registrations
Their super-low prices, intuitive tools, Rapid Transfer System(TM) and concierge support make it a snap.
7. Just-right, affordable hosting options.
They host all of their customer sites on their own secure servers. Most of their competitors job their hosting out to the lowest bidder. If you ever have an issue with your Go Daddy hosting, just call them and they will be on it immediately. With the competition, there's no telling who you should call.
8. Superior domain search and management tools.
Their domain search and portfolio management tools are second to none. Once you've registered your domain names, just log in at "Manage My Domains" and select domains to modify, either individually or in bulk. Apply your changes or add additional services Ac it's fast and easy.
9. Fierce protection of your personal information.
They do their best to prevent your data from being "mined." And unlike some of their competitors who will happily sell your information to anyone for a price, they will never under any circumstance make it available to third parties, unless legally required to do so. (Please do understand, though, that information in the Whois database is public domain. They do everything possible to prevent screen access to it, but under certain circumstances it can be obtained.)
10. Unique, valuable and innovative software and services.
At Go Daddy, you can get everything you need to make the most out of your domain ownership and Internet experience. They offer private "unlisted" registrations; Traffic Blazer (search engine registration) c-Site (copyright application); Internet- and PC-privacy and security software; merchant accounts; and more.
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Last update: 2008-10-01 12:51:47 GMT | | Owner: | Go Daddy Software | | Web Site Title | Go Daddy | | Website Description | Domain registrations and hosting services. | | Statistics for www.godaddy.com | | Site in business since | 2-Mar-1999 | | Links to the site | 52332 | | Popularity Rank (1 best) | 110 | | Site language | en | | Website details www.godaddy.com | | Website Name Servers (DNS) | MX::smtp.secureserver.net:72.167.238.201
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| | Testimonials | Customer Testimonial Go Daddy ( godaddy.com GoDaddy ) |
| | "The web is maturing, and so are us designers: welcome to the LongTail! I started out with GoDaddy after suffering with "upscale" hosters in the beginning years who were too complicated and expensive and unresponsive for my noobie needs. Now that I've got some expertise, 20+ domains, and am making money, GoDaddy's features allow me to do what I need to. I've graduated to Adobe CS packages, and GoDaddy's tech support has just what I need for quick response for the tools I'm using. You can't beat a host whose PHP and MySQL works out of the box on the Unix platform. All my hardware is Apple-based, and its seamless with GoDaddy's products. Once you get past the learning curve in this business, GoDaddy's got everything you need! Check out my site:rcsinc-online.com." William Randall<wmrandall@rcsinc-online.com> / www.rcsinc-online.com
"As a web developer I have provided Wild West domain (Go Daddy) products for three years. I can tell you for a fact that the control panels and support are miles above many other hosting providers. I have used other providers in the past and I have current customers who already have their site hosted somewhere else. With many of these companies I have seen simple issues that have taken DAYS to resolve and many times email support is the ONLY option. With Wild West Domains, if I have a support issue or I just have a stupid question, I pick up the phone and minutes later a friendly knowledgeable person helps me out. And if he or she does not know the answer - they will go find someone who does. I've been a happy customer so far." Dan Knapp<dan@redhotmediaproductions.com> / www.redhotmediaproductions.com
"We have been working with GoDaddy for a long time as a domain reseller , and other stuff. We really like this company and think they are one of the leading ones in many fields. " Gally Rez<gally@site123.com> / www.site123.com
"godaddy is good. I was a pest always emailing tech support but they always got my problem solved. they even included a free blog for me. i would highly recommend them.i dont plan to use anyone else." ben matheny<ben@benmatheny.com> / benmatheny.com
"I am extremely pleased with every product GoDaddy.com offers. The Technical Support staff are very helpful, courteous and knowledgeable in ALL fields, and really go to great lengths to make sure when the time comes to disconnect the call that you are totally satisfied and reassured that everything will run smoothly. They are all to be commended for their efforts." from Christine Saladeen
"I cannot begin to tell you how thrilled I am with Godaddy.com. Not only was I able to create a tight Web site for my own corporation, but for my own publishing company, too. Your reseller program REALLY put me on the map! You guys are the bomb." from Jennipher Thomas | | .CO Domain Names Now Available to the Public - July 20, 2010 - With all the good .COM names already taken, new .CO domains offer infinite possibilities.
.CO Internet S.A.S., the Registry operator of the .CO domain, today announced the General Availability of the new .CO top-level domain (TLD), which will enable individuals, businesses and organizations to acquire global, credible and easily recognizable domain names that fit their online business or branding needs. The company mentions that .CO domains are now available through leading accredited domain Registrars, such as GoDaddy.com, Register.com and Network Solutions, and a multitude of resellers.
It claims that since it was announced in February, .CO domains have already received support and adoption from the business and Internet communities, who applied for 39,000 .CO domains during the company's "pre-launch" phase. The domain names for nearly 70% of the brands listed in the Brand Finance Top 500 have already been registered, including Amazon, American Express, Apple, BMW, Cartier, Canon, CNN, Coca-Cola, Disney, Ebay, Exxon, Ford, Google, Hilton, Honda, IBM, IKEA, Kodak, McDonalds, Microsoft, MTV, Nestle, Nike, Nokia, Panasonic, Pfizer, Samsung, Sony, Toshiba, Toyota, Unilever, Visa, Yahoo and many more.
The company articulates that many visionary companies see the new .CO domains as an opportunity to extend their brand or expand their online offerings in a way that was not previously possible due to limited availability of .COM domains. Recently, the e-commerce powerhouse Overstock.com announced it paid $350,000.00 USD to acquire 'o.co' to target new audiences and expand its global brand.
It states that other well-known companies are using the .CO domain to expand their products or services. For instance, Twitter uses the t.co domain as part of a service to protect users from harmful activity, provide value for the developer ecosystem, and as a quality signal for surfacing relevant, interesting tweets. The popular political blog Politico is using politi.co as its official URL shortener. Many other companies have already built sites on .CO domains, which are currently showcased on www.opportunity.co.
According to the company, today's Internet is crowded and lacking in opportunities for those who wish to establish a presence online. After 25 years, nearly all of the recognizable or marketable .COM domain names have been claimed, making it exceedingly difficult for start-ups and established companies alike to acquire meaningful domain names for their businesses and products.
It further states that whereas most other TLDs focus on a particular niche or region, .CO domain names, like .COM names, are generally flexible for use in a wide variety of activities, including promoting companies, content providers, communities, contests and countless other applications. The "co" in .CO already has broad global recognition as a pseudonym for "company," "corporation," and "commerce." In addition, more than 20 countries around the world currently use ".CO" in their country specific domains, including the UK (.CO.UK), Japan (.CO.JP), Israel (.CO.IL), and others, further fueling .CO's global awareness and adoption. To date, .CO domain applications have been received from 113 countries.
The company explains that for greater peace of mind, .CO domains also provide a greater measure of safety and security for its user's online intellectual property. Other domain extensions allow proxy registrations or otherwise obfuscate the domain owner's information, making it extremely difficult to identify potential domain squatters, trademark infringers or other fraudsters. .CO domain ownership will be highly transparent, which will deter those who seek to use the domain for fraudulent or abusive practices. .CO Internet has also instituted a Rapid Takedown Policy to suspend or remove domains in cases where phishing, pharming, malware, or other significant criminal and/or security threats have been established. It adds that it was required to meet stringent technical and operational criteria designated by ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) in order to be re-delegated as the official operator of the .CO domain.
The company avers that .CO domains are now available to the public through a select list of accredited global Registrar partners and resellers who have committed themselves to the growth, development and integrity of the .CO domain. The accredited Registrars include GoDaddy.com, Register.com, Network Solutions, Melbourne IT, eNom, InterNetX, Open SRS, Dotster, My.co, and Dominio Amigo.
It further explains that with the launch of .CO domains, certain generic domains relating to specific industries, products and business categories, such as car.co, lending.co, adoption.co, insure.co and others are expected to generate extraordinary demand. As such, the company has withheld approximately 2,000 premium generic domains from today's General Availability and will auction them to help promote and maintain the .CO domain. The auctions will take place at a variety of online and off-line venues over the course of the next 12 months.
"Today's launch of the .CO domain represents the next phase in the growth and development of the Internet," said Juan Diego Calle, CEO of .CO Internet. "The .CO domain will create new opportunities in global commerce, content development, social media and other forms of interactivity, which will enrich the overall Internet experience for everyone."
"We've invested heavily in technologies and processes that address the needs of the business and Internet communities for greater brand protection and overall security," said Nicolai Bezsonoff, Chief Operating Officer, .CO Internet. "With so much promise and expectation riding on the success of the .CO domain, protecting the reputations, brands and businesses of our users is a top priority."
"The o.co domain presented us with an unprecedented opportunity to add a meaningful online presence that will enhance recognition for the "O" brand, align with current marketing initiatives, and make it easier for shoppers to find our products and services online," said Overstock.com Chairman and CEO Patrick Byrne. "Dollar for dollar, it's a homerun and well worth the investment because it reinforces among consumers that 'O' is synonymous with 'Overstock'."
"For all intents and purposes, the .COM reservoir is empty of meaningful domains," said Tim Draper, Founder of the global venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson. "It's a constant struggle, especially for start-ups, to find a credible domain name that best describes their business or product. For years, many companies have been forced to name their company based on what URLs were available, and then spend millions of dollars to educate their world that names like Afloxis, Bivly or Zoopr really stand for something else."
Draper continues, "The new .CO domains are a breath of fresh air across an otherwise stagnant ocean, and I'm personally excited to be able to help my portfolio companies achieve their desired goals starting with building the best possible online brand. Plus, we save everyone a keystroke!"
"When a good domain name extension like .CO comes to market, you see how strong the Internet really is and how powerful its growth is going to be for years to come," said Go Daddy CEO and Founder Bob Parsons. "Let's face it, domain names are 21st century real estate."
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| August 30, 2010 | 26839537 domains | +75153 domains | | August 23, 2010 | 26764384 domains | +74780 domains | | August 16, 2010 | 26689604 domains | +138943 domains | | August 9, 2010 | 26550661 domains | +65210 domains | | August 2, 2010 | 26485451 domains | +1726084 domains | | Quick and brief overview of few months from previous years | | December 28, 2009 | 24759367 domains | -18416 domains | | December 21, 2009 | 24777783 domains | +4012283 domains | | December 29, 2008 | 20765500 domains | +14977 domains | | December 22, 2008 | 20750523 domains | +4977629 domains | | December 31, 2007 | 15772894 domains | +54717 domains | | December 24, 2007 | 15718177 domains | |
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August 19, 2010
naeem ( nthaver00(at)gmail(dot)com ) | this is the worst hosting service i have ever seen. I transferred to godaddy because my previous host went down maybe twice a year. i was told godaddy has 99% up time... BULLCRAP!!! within 1 mnth, we have been down 3 times already!!!!these guys are horrible...DO NOT USE THEM!!
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July 23, 2010
SM Chavoya ( -no email- ) | Godaddy is the worst service I’ve ever seen. FREE SERVICES HAVE BETTER SUPPORT! I canceled my website service and it didn’t even ask for a confirmation, they just went in and deleted everything. When I called in to ask them WTF they said it’d cost 150$ to restore, they’re f**king scam artists and if you’re stupid enough to purchase their services you deserve to be taken for every dollar you have.
I’ve been a loyal godaddy customer for three years and at the drop of a hat they basically told me to go f**k myself.
They’ll hold your website hostage if they happen to get hacked or you accidentally do something you’re not supposed to on their confusing piece of sh#t website. They won’t even send you an email confirmation when it comes to deleting your entire website, BE WARNED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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July 1, 2010
michael moore ( mxcape21(at)cox(dot)net ) | I would definitely say GoDaddy web hosting is the worst for many reasons.
First I let me point out that technically Godaddy has the worst technical support, why you ask? because their support is nothing more than a 24/7 answering service, with the most common and technical support assistance being "it's not the server...check your code".
Godaddy Technical Support = 24/7 very un-knowledgeably staffed answering service.
GoDaddy is definitely and simply the worst hosting service.
This isn't just based on one bad experience with them, no matter what the problem, slow page loads -upto a minute to load some pages, scripts that worked and suddenly does not work with out any code changes, FTP errors, website down, cannot load page errors 500 and 403 for ever, the extent of godaddys' tech support for all of these issues and any other problems that you may have is the same response "check your code".
In every category Godaddy proved to be slower, error filled and more problematic than other popular hosts.
I can't understand why they are so popular.
There are other hosts that are better than GoDaddy, have real 24/7 customer technical support and cost less.
Do a Google search for;
"Godaddy problem" or "Godaddy sucks"
Godaddy is very slow, they seem to have issues with the servers seems like every other day so your site is down half of the time, All negative comments that they feel will reflect badly on Godaddy support forums get filtered out by moderators or held until they can come up with what would appear to be a legitimate response.
I will be leaving Godaddy for sure... still trying to find a host that is reliable. Everyone recommends BlueHost and HostGator but they dont have Windows Hosting plans, but now may be the right time to switch to a linux server anyway so I think I will try Arvixe after reading some of the reviews here for the top 10 hosts.
Only go with Godaddy if you won't ever need any technical support or you welcome sever and website downtime in between the 1 minute page load times on your websites....Google hates that!
Avoid Godaddy like the plague for websites, customers and your own sake...
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June 28, 2010
Bryan Hadaway ( bhadaway[at]gmail[dot]com ) | I would personally say that GoDaddy web hosting is easily the worst for a few reasons.
First I should point out that technically, there are many many that are worst, but generic cracker jack no name hosts REALLY don't count.
I'm an experienced web designer that has thoroughly used and tested many of the mainstream hosts; GoDaddy, Hostmonster, BlueHost, Host Gator, 1and1 etc. etc... and of the most popular hosts, GoDaddy is purely and simply the worst.
And I didn't just have one bad experience with them and then formulated my entire review of them on that, I've managed dozens of websites hosted on GoDaddy and experienced nearly all the tasks associated with a hosting account; setup domains, emails, SSL, databases, WordPress, uploaded/downloaded files both via the built in file manager and FTP, forwarded domains, changed nameservers, transferred domains, talked to customer service over; chat, phone and email and so on.
On every single account, GoDaddy proved to be flawed, slower, error filled and more compared to other popular hosts. The worst part is that they are THE MOST popular, no argument about it, they have gone commercial and are a household name in hosting. Unfortunately, most of my clients use GoDaddy and will continue to unless I have a chance to educate them first.
Other hosts that are 4 times better than GoDaddy also cost half as much...
Do the research people, please. A quick Google search for;
"web hosting best vs worst"
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"godaddy sucks"
will bring in plenty of search results filled with useful information.
Thanks, Bryan
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June 25, 2010
Jim Lines ( jimlines1(at)gmail(dot)com ) | Godaddy has locked my domain name and email site, and in spite of repeated attempts to provide the information they have requested verifying our identity...they still refuse to unlock the site. I would never use this site for anything again. I have filed a complaint with ICANN, which was a waste of time but short of legal action, which is the route now taken...there didnt seem to be anything else to do.
This company is one of the worst I have ever dealt with.
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March 25, 2010
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( moseslakewashington(at)hotmail(dot)com ) | I used to like Go Daddy until I found out they lied to me twice. I have had their hosting for about 5 years and they are good at sucking money out of people by selling worthless upgrades and poor at achieving any results. I was told I could increase web traffic by adding more domains and bumping up my hosting. They told me they would direct all domain traffic to my primary domain. 5 months later I found out they were stealing my money because they were using all my domains to direct traffic to their own web site. Did they care, NO. Do they lie, YES.
I think now I should build my own server and host my own websites. There is no honest rating of web host to my knowledge so all hosting sites are a gamble.
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March 12, 2010
Mark ( mark[at]g33kco[dot]com ) | This hosting is a joke. The setup for multiple domains is a night mare. If you're .NET developer, avoid this place at all costs. I setup my own membership and role provider, and go figure, there's basically no way to get it to work, also if you set it up on your main site, then you have to add it to all of the additional domains that you have, because the web.config for the main site overrides all of the sub sites, even if you set allowoverrid=true. The security permission block just about everything, so you can't do anything that requires a trust above the lowest possible setting. The support staff have no clue what they're talking about and shouldn't even be trying to provide support for hosting, and don't even bother trying to get help with code related errors or issues. If you submit a ticket, prepare to wait a few days for any kind of solution, if you ever get one. It'll take 7 or 8 emails back and for to get anywhere, and most of the time you get things that they have copied and pasted form the support forums, as if I haven't already checked there. There are other hosting companies out there, that are a little more expensive, but they work so I'd recommend going with any of those before going with GoDaddy. Once my year is up I'm outta there. Don't forget about all of the "Extra" features that have the "Extra" fees attached to them, like email, what a joke!
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January 14, 2010
Sherry ( -no email- ) | I was pleased to purchase my domain name through godaddy.com, however after receiving a sales call about hosting and pricing of what they could offer me - they went ahead and charged my credit card for a 5 year hosting plan which I did not authorize. I had specifically said "do not charge me" because I had to speak to my design guy.
I am highly dissatisfied with what this company had done especially the sales girl who proceeded to follow through with this fraudulent act!
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December 23, 2009
Patrick Bock
( patrick[dot]t[dot]bock[at]gmail[dot]com ) | I have been with godaddy for years. I own 80 domains and have over twenty website hosted with them. Some very complex. Running many scripts,ecommerce and php pages. For the price godaddy can not be beat. I moved form hostway to godaddy. I was paying 49.95 a months with hostway and now pay 6.95 with more features. I have not seen any down grade in speed and I run server and speed tests monthly.
The downside is they don't offer a 800 customer service #. Some times I have waited up to 10 min to speak to someone. I use a site monioring service to check up time. I have only had one of my sites go down for few minutes. Not sure of the exact time. Sites are check every fifiteen minutes.
The biggest problem I have with go daddy is their security, I had an ex employee hack my sites. Godaddy uses your billing info for security. Any one who has access to your credit card or check account # depending on how you have billing set up, can gain access to your account. I solved the problem by getting a new credit card and I only used it to pay my godaddy account and I don't share the # with anyone. Wish they would fix this.
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October 27, 2009
Patrick ( peebz75(at)godaddy(dot)com ) | My client ordered a domain and hosting account Saturday morning; it's now Monday night and the site is still not live. I called support 3x... this last time, after reaching a human being -- he put me on hold for 20 min, came back and I've been back on hold for another 15 min. I'm still waiting... while I'm writing this.
I'm a web designer and it makes me look terrible with my client. She orders the account, and it's still not live. And there's nothing I can do.
Terrible.
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October 3, 2009
James Burke
( webmaster at virginia912project dot com ) | I have been a customer of godaddy.com since June and the site has been down about 80% of the time. I have reported it to godaddy.com support dozens of times, each time they start by accusing me, then they make excuses, then the elevate the issue and then nothing ever happens. I have several websites with another host and they never have down time, godaddy.com is by far the most unreliable webhost I have ever seen. The initial blame tactic is that they give each time is that my home page must be too large, unfortunately for them my home page is very small. In addition I cannot even access the wordpress admin page which completely bypasses all content including my home page therefore that excuse cannot possibly be the problem.. My other sites are large complicated sites, the one at godaddy.com is a small wordpress blog and if they cannot handle it then what can they handle?
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August 31, 2009
tony ( -no email- ) | godaddy is crazily slow... =( i have been with them for year... initially it was because of the cheap price. but they are really slow.
I am also using their VPS, again... crazily slow. there was a time the Plesk control just blocked and i asked Godaddy support for help. they basic quick response is as usual "there is no problem on the server". and the guy ask me to pay 150USD for assistant. f off...
i m moving away from godaddy for sure... still trying to find a service that is reliable. people said HostGator is good but they dont have Windows Hosting plan ... =(
my recommendation is "stay away from the daddy".
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August 17, 2009
susan woodworth
( keeponravin at live dot com ) | Reading through these reviews already posted, I have heard a lot of negative about godaddy. Dumbed down? Well I must say I am no techie, but to date "Knock on wood" I have had none of these issues people complain about. Yes, the admin panel can be a bit slow at times, but I never had it time out. I've run dating services, 1 social network, and a reseller account without any issues. Wait, I had one issue; but it was resolved in 24 hours.
If things are too dumbed down for the techies, open your own hosting companies. If I ever do have trouble, I will have learned enough by then to buy and run my own servers. I have heard some nightmare stories as well about godaddy, but who do you believe? Heck, I'll be accused of being a godaddy rep for saying positive things! lol
Believe me, if they screw me, I would be the next in line to complain, this is just an unbiased opinion of my experience SO FAR.
Let's hope it stays good! lol
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July 26, 2009
Connie ( conraku2[at]yahoo[dot]com ) | After years of not really being happy with GoDaddy I decided to go elsewhere. When I first signed up they talked me into the "privacy" thing which I didn't need. Now I call to get a transfer authorization code and they tell me that I have to get rid of the Privacy through their company "Domains By Proxy" but I don't have the special user ID and password necessary to gain access and can't get it because the e-mail address is set up for Domains by Proxy and that is an e-mail address that has not been in use for several years. I changed my e-mail address with godaddy and it was never brought up that I had to also change it with the Domains By Proxy. So now I must mail a form and a copy of my driver's license to them in order to obtain the password and ID. Godaddy employee and supervisor were not helpful. I have had trouble with their customer service before and would tell anyone that if you need webhosting, go elsewhere and stay away from this company. I spent over an hour just on hold the 3 times I had to call back because the first 2 calls I wasn't given all the information I required.
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July 25, 2009
Jenna ( crazy4conures at gmail dot com ) | "Go" Daddy is more like *Slow* Daddy!
I can't stand working on client's sites who buy into all the hype surrounding this dreadful, slow as snails host. The only good thing about SlowDaddy is they
they're particularly gifted at marketing their crap services.
First thing: The interface has been so dumbed down for non-technical end-users who think they're "tech-minded" because they can connect Slowdaddy's
"ABC" dots, it's a REAL tech's worst hosting nightmare to wade through.
FTP takes forever, and then when you think you're almost good to go, it times out and you're stuck doing it all again. Irritating! When you've FINALLY
uploaded everything onto slowdaddy via FTP and try to change file names and permissions, etc, slowdaddy reports back with a "you do not have permission to
do that" error message. So, after you've had about as much as you can take of that, you go to slowdaddy's elementary filemanager to make your changes there -
only to have it time out, too, or just sit there, stuck in slowdaddy oblivion, saving, saving, saving changes, then informing you that it cannot be done at this
time and to check back later. When slowdaddy does actually WORK, and you're successfully working in the control panel, it logs you out and asks you to
log back in. Annoying!!!!
I usually have incredible patience for most things, but slowdaddy, on a regular basis, has me wanting to rip my hair out! There is no reason why something
simple should be such a major inconvenience. Sure, they have great customer service who try to upsell the sun and the moon when you call, but to require
"technical support" from people whose service is built for people who are NOT web and tech savvy, is insulting.
Grrrrrr, I loath finding out that a new client hosts with slowdaddy. Just because of a frustration-filled weekend, I've decided to change my terms of service:
Clients using slowdaddy hosting will be charged $10.00 more per hour. That's it!
The *only* positive thing I have to say about this host, is that they seem to have good uptime.
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July 16, 2009
Dean Pham ( deankjm at yahoo dot com ) | It's so unethical that Go Daddy join the domain cyber squatter, they bought lots of domain names and list them for resale at high prices. I was about to host with them but found out the domain name that I wanted is being squatted the godaddy , so how would they expect me too host with them. Very bad customer relation.
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June 14, 2009
Dan Harvell ( circuitswell(at)yahoo(dot)com ) | I am a musician and a photographer. Music files and photographs can take up a lot of space. This is why I went with GoDaddy's hosting plan that not offers the space I needed, but also the bandwidth.
On the rare occasion that I would run into a snag, the GoDaddy support team was able to answer my questions with speed and accuracy. That is, until the day I called with a real PROBLEM.
Wishing to offer my new CD as various quality digital downloads, I uploaded a 113MB ZIP file, containing 13 tracks encoded at 256kbps/stereo. The upload to my server seemed to go off without a hitch, as I was able to unarchive the file into a directory on the server, itself (proving that the file was intact and functional). I wrote the PHP script that would initiate the file download and tested it on my test server (a LAMP server, much like the ones that GoDaddy use). On my test server, the script and the download performed, perfectly. Happy with the script, I uploaded script and target file to my GoDaddy server.
GoDaddy's servers would terminate the download with 1-2% of the download remaining. This would, of course, result in an incomplete (and therefore, corrupt) ZIP file... completely unusable.
I contacted GoDaddy's support to help troubleshoot why their servers would prematurely terminate the download, but all the tech support would do is blame my script or blame my file as being corrupt. No matter how many times I would prove that both, script and file, were good, they would come up with excuses as to why it is MY fault, rather than fix the problem.
As of right now, the problem is still unresolved.
My contract with GoDaddy is up in 2 months. If they do not have the problem figured out by then, they have just lost a customer.
Save yourselves the trouble... find a host that will work with you. Not against you!
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May 29, 2009
Iris Allen ( irismallen(at)hotmail(dot)com ) | I decided to let my host site expire. My options were set to "Manual Renew". i received an email saying that I was on "manual renew" and that my site would expire unless I took action. Then they still billed by credit card anyway and I had to phone them to get it reversed. I resent that.
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May 14, 2009
lfpth ( thowatt at gmail dot com ) | The user interface is the absolute worst I've seen in ten years of web development. There must be an evil plan hidden in the tortuous navigation, they could not be this inept. Don't call for help, either, the support staff are primarily sales people. Maybe THAT's the reason the interface is deliberately confusing. And GoDaddy is like Walmart - the teasers are cheap, the other services are not, and if you build a plan that has in it what other hosts include for free, it's not a good deal anymore. And did I say it's like Walmart? Run, don't walk, to another host.
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April 29, 2009
Brian ( owner[at]piap2[dot]com ) | I have many client hosting accounts at GoDaddy and they all work fine. I think it's possible that the negative GD reviews are a product of the environment. By that I mean that since GD has a price point that entices a large number of customers with a limited experience level, they are likely to receive complaints when these customers cannot get things to work. I find that if I "speak the language" to the customer support people, I get my issues resolved instantly. The sites I manage for my clients are very complex with extremely large databases. I use all the tools anyone would use; stored procedures, triggers, inline and scalar functions, code behind server calls, concurrency, etc.; and the only problems I have are the ones I create myself out of stupidity. I think GD is great if you know what you are doing. I do wish they could work out a full trust hosting account with a price point above the meduim trust shared accounts and the dedicated hosting accounts so reports could be more easily managed - like Crystal.
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