GoDaddy sucks because they have banned entire countries (including mine, the Philippines). On the IP filter level. No way to login to the control panel and access your account.

Go Daddy is targeting my Anti-Go Daddy blog “GoDaddy no more!” LOL
Take a look!! The banner is at the bottom of the blog via Google AdSenseâ„¢
http://www.auctionswatchers.com/auctionblog/index.php

The importain thing is to keep your web hostcompany separate from your domain registrar company.

If I would have had them separated I could have told Go Daddy to sit and spin! LOL

I use RegisterFly.com for most of my domain names.
I am happy with them as well.

-=Steve Myers

Hmmph… that’s odd that GoDaddy is THAT ignorant on things like that… blocking whole countries too on IP level? Come on! That’s really stupid

They must have too many cleints to do that :O
Well, that’s from where i get my living partly, refugees from poor service & support come to me for hosting

So many big companies just seem to forget what’s important…

If you’re unsure about a domain name and look it up on GoDaddy eventually it will show up as taken. Go search for the domain name somewhere else and see it is still available. Do it with some very obscure name you know someone can’t guess by chance.

I am moving my sites off of Go Daddy (even before reading this). Anyway, yesterday I registered a domain with netfirms.com for $4.95. Anyone have any experiences with them?

Oh, WOW! Allow me to enlighten you all, and offer explanations to your queries and somewhat bizarre accusations. Let me address a few eye-catching posts.

1. “I should have kept the $12.00 sites at Yahoo”

A: HAHA, did you know, that when your purchase your domains with yahoo, that you are agreeing to a TOS that state that Yahoo! co-owns your domain name with you, and you may NOT transfer while the domain is registered with them. Wait? That means that if I register abc.com with Yahoo for $2.99/1yr (their newest promo), next year when it renews, I will pay the “current full price for the domain registration”, and if I chose not to renew with Yahoo, I can not transfer and renew somewhere else, because I have agreed that yahoo co-owns the domain with me.
HAHA Sucker! Still like yahoo? Godaddy does not have any restrictions like that! I called Yahoo, in the middle of my typing this reply, and asked about renewal prices, and the rep beat around the bush, and wouldnt mention a price without my current domain name with them. Shady. I asked about transfering my 20 domains, she said they don’t really handle just domains, so if I wanted to transfer just domains to “save money”, she suggested GoDaddy.Com!!!! Man did I laugh for a good 10 fuckin minutes. How ironic….

2) “GoDaddy sucks because they have banned entire countries (including mine, the Philippines). On the IP filter level”

A: Ugh… Did you know that we receive an annual request from the United States Government, requesting that we not do business with certain countries? Do you think there is a reason for this? Or do you firmly believe that the US Government takes the time to write us and request that we restrict certain country’s servers for no reason? The answer, is of course, that there is a very valid reason for this request, due too huge problems and complaints. A classic case of 1 group ruining it for everyone, but in this case, it happens to be a really large group of people.

It is also very possible, that your country is not blocked at all, and simply the ISP you are using, has been blocked. Either way, let me assure you, GoDaddy.Com would love nothing more than to have your business, so if we are blocking you, its for a damn good reason.

3) “Whenever I do a mailing I get at least 4 or 5 AOL spam complaints.” “I don’t know if I can blame GoDaddy for this.”

A: It is very accurate to say, that often times, our Express Email Marketing mail servers, will be blocked by ISP’s due to “suspected spam”. AOL is definately notorious for blocking our mail servers, and marking us as Spam. It is a common problem, dealt with all day long. However, you are absolutely right, why is this GoDaddy’s fault? We just make software for you to send mass emails, and we’ve included opt-in confirmations to prevent it from being an all out mass mailer. AOL is blocking GoDaddy, GoDaddy is not blocking AOL. Your beef is with AOL, and not GoDaddy.

Listen, I am not posting this to sweep your problems under the rug, I am posting to try and reveal some real issues that can be brought to GoDaddy. I too, just like Steve Myers, feel the need to vent my frustration. Which brings me to my final point, Steve Myers.

4) http://www.auctionswatchers.com/auctionblog/index.php

A: This should be fun. First off, your whole typed out conversation is obviously edited for the writers benefit, so please keep that in mind. Now, we graciously gave you a phone call, to let you know that we had received complaint of possible spam from your account. We attempted to email you, but you didnt respond. You spoke with an outbound support rep, who was simply calling to inform you of the complaints alleged against you, and he informed you to email abuse@godaddy.com, and the Abuse Department will contact you back.

Okay, so thats not good enough. Go ahead, ask for the supervisor. You didn’t get an “Abuse Supervisor” though, you got a “Supervisor” who informed you of the same thing the representative did. Wanna know why? Because we have a special department setup for abuse, and thats the “Abuse Department.” If your asking abuse questions, to a non-abuse department, your not likely to find the answer you want. I mean WTF?!?! Thats like asking the Walmart cashier for advice on Wallstreet trading! So then, you got an attitude with the supervisor, and he was reluctant to assist you… Shocking!

Spam is loosely defined as unwelcome marketing or advertising of a site, product, or service. You stated in your own post that you post to the following newsgroups:
alt.auctions.online
alt.binaries.auction
alt.marketing.online.ebay
alt.marketplace.online.ebay

Well gee, I wonder what kind of messages are in an ebay group? What is ebay again? Isnt that an online marketplace, where products are sold? If your allowed to post ads, everyone can. We can not make special exceptions for spam. So heres what we said:

“Option #1: Provide proof your newsgroup submission is authorized.”

Yea, makes sense. We had received specific complaints about you, and have your admission of guilt for having “posted” in ebay related newsgroups. None of this is grounds for suspension, but it sure is awfully fuckin suspicious, and a certain red flag for our abuse department to investigate. We are inviting you to prove us wrong at this point.

We have 2 serious signs pointing to an abuse issue, and because of that, it is now your responsibility to show us otherwise. We don’t search customer’s web sites for spam and abuse related content, its brought to our attention because someone else found it offensive.

“Option #2: Discontinue all future unauthorized newsgroup practices and authorization for GoDaddy.com to charge a $199 non-refundable administration and stay with GoDaddy”

If your considering this option, it means that you can not prove that your “newsgroup submission is authorized”, and that you are an admitted spammer, and must pay the consequences associated with such infractions of the TOS.

Go put the top down on the red Corvette, and take it to about 140mph on the freeway. Don’t be suprised if the cops give you an expensive ticket. The lesson? You fuck up, you pay the price. Would you prefer we remove this option, and instead just take your domain name and keep it? Or, perhaps you prefer that we simply turn our heads, because the rules should apply to everyone except you. By the way, this option is not presented until the abuse department has sent out multiple warning emails, that get ignored or disposed of.

“Option #3: Initiate the transfer of your domain name to a new registrar within the next 24 hours and authorization for GoDaddy.com to charge a $50 non-refundable administration fee to the credit card on file for your account. All suspended domain names require payment of this fee which is used to reimburse Go Daddy for the costs we have incurred in addressing this issue.”

Okay, so this means you have obviously violated our TOS, and refuse to pay your fine for the crime in which you have committed. Fine. You don’t want to play nice, and you won’t comply with our rules. Please pack your shit up and leave. In my opinion, we should yank your domain name, but lucky for you, I am not Bob Parsons, and can’t make that decision.

However, we do charge you the $50 admin fee, for a number of reasons. If your at option 3, we have more than certainly had an ongoing situation with you and your services. We do not suspend overnight, nor do we suspend without sufficient evidence that the TOS have been broken. We are not some fly-by-night company, we are the Largest Domain Registrar in the WORLD! By now, our team as:

1) Taken time to contact you of the complaints received.
2) Taken time to have the Abuse team investigate the accusations and determine their legitimicy.
3) Taken time to call you at home, and try and help you.
4) Taken time to let the supervisor tell you the EXACT same thing the representative told you!
5) Taken time from the Office of the President, who simply sent your complaint to the proper department.
6) Taken time to suspend your account
7) Taken time to unsuspend your domain name.

All these things, required time, and labor. These things cost money, and we’ll be glad to take the $50 to cover these things, right before the screendoor hits you in the ass on the way out.

We also, do not allow domain name transfers within 60 days of any domain updated date. We are obviously bending this rule in Option 3, because at this point, we don’t wish to do business with someone who violates a standard TOS agreement. So, transfer immediately, and please don’t return.

Please take my comments in stride, and please refrain from the unintelligent comments. I am simply providing the truth, about GoDaddy.Com. It is a great company, with flaws, just like any company. Submit your questions and concerns, but overreacting about a situation is just unneeded. I will answer anything you want to know.

I’m a new customer with Godaddy and I already hate them. I was thinking of a phrase which summarises them and it was “death by a thousand cuts”. Prices look cheap but there is constant selling up, optional extras that are really core features that you need and often functionality has been crippled to make you upgrade. For example I discovered yesterday after buying a hosting solution with PHP that some of the functions of PHP have been disabled, effectively breaking many PHP utils! Oh and the PHP server can’t do XML requests from the backend either. On top of that some of the “value added” applications like EMF are badly out of date beta versions.

This stinks big time. Some might call it clever marketing. I call it dishonesty. I’ve simply lost all faith that I’m anything but a sucker to them. When my sub is up I intend to transfer to a proper hosting solution and they can go to hell.

More bullshit from GoDaddy! Dont ever expect anything even close to privacy from their DomainsBy Proxy service. They will pull the privacy on not much more than a whim, forget having a legal reason such as a court order. They are judge, jury and executioner.

And Bob, hire people who have a freaking clue! One client needed help with several domains he points to one site and your clowns didnt know their ass from their elbow, let alone the difference between a 301 and a 302. He has since moved several dozen to Moniker where he got first class service from someone who actually understands this stuff.

Wow, that reply from godaddy says more than any number of user complaints – they obviously could care less about customer service. Anyway, everywhere on the net their customers are warning people not to use them, so I’d say avoid them like the plague.

Go daddy sucks so much. I just bought my domain and it gives so much of trouble to make dns records also it takes so much of time sometimes i get the 404 error and its not even set in the control panel.