“As an experienced web developer, I've relied on GoDaddy for years. With about 20 domains registered through them, GoDaddy has consistently delivered excellent results. Let me share why they're my go-to choice in the online world.
GoDaddy makes domain registration a breeze. Their user-friendly interface simplifies the process, allowing me to secure domain names quickly.Security is a top priority for GoDaddy. Their SSL certificates and firewall protection ensure my websites and visitors stay safe, building trust and credibility.
GoDaddy values its customers. They offer regular discounts and enticing deals, helping me save money while expanding my online ventures.
They keep me in the loop with personalized recommendations and updates on the latest trends and technologies, keeping me ahead in web development.”
“GoDaddy employs the most uneducated people.
I can't enter my phone number because GoDaddy has the wrong country dialing code for Tajikistan.
That is, it is not possible to set the value +992 in the list of country dialing codes. When I choose the name of the country of Tajikistan, it has a value of +7, which coincides with Russia. Didn't you guys study geography at school?
I have already reported this bug to support, but apparently, they don't give a f*.
P.S. Please do not write here that you would like to talk by email. Take a look at this damn list and correct it, please.”
“Never try to find a domain through GoDaddy. Never use their services. Here is what they do:
You search for an empty domain. But you do not know you are competing with goDaddy directly. So one of their business areas is SELLING Domain Names. So they reserve them to sell them for a lot of money. If you search for a good name, they might have detected this right away. They also might right away register this domain for their own usage so that they can sell it to you (for a lot of money) or to others. So whatever you type in - found a cool name, it most probably will be stolen by them in a short time. So never use them. I think they are one of the worst "service" companies out there.”
“Avoid at all costs.
Find another provider. "they aim to exceed your expectations".
Their email servers are stuffed and it's not the first time. Can't send/receive emails for a day. Impossible to run a business with such shoddy service. Pathetic!!!”
“My account # is ******97 and I have lost my two factor authentication. I requested through your digital plat form for turn off the two factor authentication. Your employees are so stupid and helpless people handlining my case. No one helping me instead of asking stupid questions. I am ending the long relationship with godaddy and I am closing other business accounts with godaddy.”
“Dreadful company. Stole my money and refused to talk to me. 5 times i have asked to speak to a manager, and they have promised to call me back in 72 hours, and never did.
They stole £47.95 from my credit card. (For services i never signed up for) I have already spent days on the phone pressing numbers and trying to get through to a manager. (All other staff say i need a manager)
I have now given up, as i have spent more time then the money is worth. I have considered taking them to court.. but again its not worth the costs of taking them to court over £47.95.
GoDaddy = Thieves. Simple as that.
I'm very unhappy, and they wont even talk to me.
Im still waiting for you to call me GoDaddy..”
“AVOID AT ALL COSTS GO TO WORDPRESS OR WIX etc!!! Absolutely the worst company I have ever had the displeasure of dealing with! Renewed my "website builder" without informing me that they were going to charge me £7.99 for an old version when the new version only costs £5.99. Not only that but when I came to renew this year they were unable to transfer my website from the "old" version to the "new" verison as they are not compatible and said I will need to start from scratch again. Customer service said that's just how it is and they are sorry about that. Of course I will not do that so will go elsewhere! There are many great website builders that only cost £2-3 so I highly recommend avoiding this pathetic service and using a better company. You will find it much cheaper too!!”
“Social media advisor just kept sending a link that didn't deal with my issue and then started referring me to an online chat service that didn't work. I am now at the point of just being ignored. Absolutely terrible service.”
“Blood suckers. I am a 5 year customer. Times are a bit tough right now. I have called in twice to renew my domain names and websites. When I told them I only wanted a "month-to-month" renewal the rep quickly became disinterested and tried his best to get me off the phone. I will not renew and will transfer all of my accounts. They seemed to have forgotten how they became a major player.”
“Two weeks, 5 sites consistently down and Godaddy still ruins my life.
One job lost, thousands of membership site clients unsubscribing and my partners wanting to kill me.
This was not just one of the worst IT experiences I have had (after 8 years in the industry) but it was one of the worst experience of my life. Businesses lost, unimaginable stress and teams of workers sitting around for 2 weeks as they could not access the sites.
In total I spent over 90 hours working on something that should be the most simple process ever - moving from one hosting to another. Wrong.
To begin with they tell you to make a backup of your current hosting and upload it their server which can then unzip it and 'away you go'. Well, it couldn't unzip it, 2.8GB is a super large file.
So I had to download the file unzip, re upload the unzipped files and then the fun began. This is when wanting to kill myself and everyone at go daddy began.
From a host of MySQL database errors, some they fixed, some they caused and all of which was 'outside of our current support' but of course the sales staff say 'no worries we help guide you through all that'. It's not simple with them, its not easy and they may even ask you to upgrade to a Cpanel system which means all your emails etc go back to the stone age. I hate you.
Before that their 500MB of email space was only 500 accounts at 1mb each - bastards. There's another $100 given up for extra email space - not what sales tells you. Lies.
The Music: What do you think would happen if they actually played depressing / not-upbeat music the whole time? People would be topping themselves.
Finally I spoke to 'Phil' - who, after spending an hour on the phone and helped me escalate my claim twice - one of my other sites on the server failed. FML . Thank god after a few biscuits and episodes of 24 they fixed what they broke. After now a total of $100 skype dollars of credit wasted they told me to begin it all again as they can't seem to fix the database for the primary domain or guide me on how to do it. Now, I do wish I was an American so I could go postal on their customer service department.
Hear me guys - nothing, not even FREE hosting forever and ever is worth going with these guys. You know when you buy a ticket for a flight at a cheap price but after one piece of luggage and taxes the $60 flight is now $190? Well that's Godaddy on the web.
So much has been lost in business, time and sanity with these guys. It took so long that my house-mate bet me he could learn all the countries in Africa before this problem was solved. http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/interactive/2012/dec/20/geography-game-how-well-know-world
He got it to 51/51. He beat me - and Bob Parsons I'm gonna hire Jean Claude Van Dame from your stupid ads to come and sodomise you in the skull.
I hate you go daddy.”
