Comments on: GoDaddy sucks, and a new web host

By: frank

frank — Sun, 08 May 2011 17:32:28 +0000

GoDaddy is in the news again this week. Bob Parsons went on vacation in Zimbabwe, and shot (and killed) an elephant. He proudly posted a video of himself with a big grin standing beside this dead elephant. From reports I’ve seen from other web hosting companies, they’re seeing a real uptick due to people leaving GoDaddy in outrage.

By: Dominic Grieg

Dominic Grieg — Sun, 08 May 2011 15:45:40 +0000

“Sorry to hear about your godaddy pain. I guess about the only (cold) comfort is, you’re certainly not alone.” – Frank

And the two of you were not alone. And I think we have the case which were worse than the others. How much have you spent for hosting that you haven’t seen the results? Ouch!

By: Kirk

Kirk — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 23:50:44 +0000

that was suppose to say GoDaddy rather just so we are clear on who I am ranting about.

By: Kirk

Kirk — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 23:44:43 +0000

Seriously advice against anyone signing up for a godday account!!!!!!! Hard to imagine that any web hosting service could be worse. Poor, slow and confusing admin interface! Absolutely useless customer support! Problematic emails! These are just a few of problems I have encountered in my relatively short time using this service. Luckily for me my site is still in the setup and testing phase so changing to a different provider will not cause too much of a problem.

By: David

David — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 04:11:50 +0000

Great article im in the domaining buisness and I find this information very useful

By: david

david — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 01:12:49 +0000

Wow this really suck I really havent run into any problems yet I guess I’ve been lucky. Atleaset now I have the heads up so when things do start happening thanks..

By: Domain Host

Domain Host — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 03:21:30 +0000

I like having full controle over my domain and the hosting I can definatly feel your payne. I chose one that offered me as much controle as i could find.

By: Endless Racing

Endless Racing — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:29:40 +0000

I wish i found this review before!

I changed hosting with a company as they were absolutely useless. I was recommended GoDaddy by my new computer guy. All done with GoDaddy now and emails keep bouncing (sometimes they do, sometimes they dont).

I had a customer this morning email me and I replied. He then couldnt reply to my email and it bounced (even though this customer could originally email me!).

Been on to godaddy but they are slow and at the moment its not fixed and possibly losing me business!

Looking to transfer over and will look at the posts above and go and look at those sites!

Very frustrating

By: frank

frank — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 21:22:45 +0000

Good for you for trying. I couldn’t close my godaddy account either. All I could do was turn off the payment info, so that it cannot renew, and with a bit of luck will automatically close one day due to non-payment.

By: Jesse

Jesse — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 20:56:48 +0000

I transfered my one domain name to Pairnic (which I really like – clean but powerful user interface, free URL/email forwarding, free WHOIS Privacy, etc) and now I’m trying to close my account with Godaddy – but they absolutely refuse so far (after 5 emails each way). I’ll probably try sending them written demands to close my account next. For some odd reason they just won’t close out the account. And as long as the account is open, (and maybe even after its closed) not only I but my children and their children forever (“Heirs”) are bound not only by the current GoDaddy User Agreement — but by any future User Agreement that godaddy may come up with in the future!

I strongly advise against signing up with GoDaddy – if you ever want to close your account you will wish you’d never signed up.

The reason I wish to close my account is severalfold – one is to make sure I don’t get more notices from them. Another is so there’s no chance of somebody in the next 20 years hacking into my account and signing up for stuff in my name. (Yes, I removed all payment methods. But still.) Another reason is this: Let’s say GoDaddy decided to change their User Agreement so that accounts with no services activated would be charged $5 a year (or even a month) — and let’s say I had a different email address then, I’d still be bound by the user agreement, and they could start charging up this debt against me and I’d never know it!

When I asked for my account to be closed, they say that they can’t delete my information for legal reasons – but (and I’ve told them this over and over to no avail) I’m not asking them to delete all my information – just close/disable/deactivate my account, but they still refuse!

And besides, any reputable company is willing to close an account. It happens all the time.

But with GoDaddy, it’s a lifetime-multigenerational bondage with evil, I guess.