Buying a Domain

Hydhypedplaya · Feb 21, 2011

Fatty FatBastard said:

Look. I don't try to make websites. I just try to find them.

If you are successful in hiding all affiliations with godaddy? More power to you. I've seen pathetic sites with that dumbass 45 year old balding gif with the sunglasses.

Now if I WERE making a website, I sure as s*** am not going to godaddy, because they are trash.

Are we clear now?
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Why are they trash? They have some of the best customer support for a registrar that I have ever seen. They have 99.999999% uptime. They have numerous hosting locations. The reasons you gave for disliking them are pure childish and completely asinine.

Hydhypedplaya · Feb 21, 2011

SwoLy-D said:

I know what Marketing and Advertising are, sir. But... about the Coca Cola stuff... do you mean that seriously? Please show me a racy and sexist Coca Cola or Pepsi commercial, sir. AND, please, make sure it includes something along the lines of "go online to see unrated material."
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFFXNYgxaEw

And the reason they use that line is because of their company name, I figured that was obvious.

SwoLy-D · Feb 21, 2011

Hydhypedplaya said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFFXNYgxaEw

And the reason they use that line is because of their company name, I figured that was obvious.
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Use what line?

LOL @ you comparing your Diet Coke commercial which has only suggestive matter with the GoDaddy's girls losing their tops at congressional hearings and girl-on-girl scenes.

CrazyDave said:

and what you're saying is, if someone gives you a site... you guys, instead of just going to the site, search the WHOIS info and check to see if GoDaddy is listed as their technical contact, and thus determine if they are unprofessional?

I agree their ads are tasteless, but ... really?
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No. Like what Fatty said, I say that I won't go directly to GoDaddy to get their domain registration or hosting, is all. If someone already has their hosting or web development and domain registered with GoDaddy, I will more than likely try to suggest using another company.

Scionxa · Feb 21, 2011

FrancisFan said:

I've been a GoDaddy customer for a few years now; for both domain registration and hosting. I have never had troubles with either. I feel as a satisfied customer I must dispell some of the stupid comments from those that don't know what they're talking about (can't we have Fatty blocked by default?).

- Domain Registration - I think I currently have ~10 domains with GoDaddy (I've let a few expire). They offer a long list of top level domains (TLD - .com, .net, .org, .cc, etc.) and for a good price. When they sell you a domain they will also try to sell a privacy service. When you register a domain you will need to enter information about the owner (WHOIS). When you register for the privacy service, a GoDaddy company's information will be entered in the WHOIS and they will essentually serve as a proxy for contact. They charge a little less than $10 a year for the service.

GoDaddy offers auto-renew on domains if you're worried about them expiring (they also send you a lot of reminders). If you plan on having a lot of domains, their domain management interface offers some bulk actions functions.

- DNS - When you register a domain name, you're going to want it to direct somewhere; this is DNS (domain name service). DNS is what essentially says that DOMAIN.COM goes to your server. With DNS there's multiple types of record for multiple usages (email, web, etc). Like all DNS providers, GoDaddy allows you to edit the DNS records. I haven't had any issues with their DNS, but that would be a hard thing to detect for minor problems.

- Hosting - I currently have a shared Windows hosting account with GoDaddy. Shared hosting is where GoDaddy has servers and they give me a piece to use. (At a super high lever) when someone types in my DOMAIN.COM, the computer will go to DNS and look for IP address for DOMAIN.COM, this will return with the location of the shared hosting server (there's a lot more than that at the technical level).

GoDaddy has a few points to their Hosting that are pretty good. They have an interface that allows you to easily install a large array of web applications (WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, DotNetNuke, etc.) with just a few clicks. There are some dangers in this as they have the process so streamlined a non-technical personal can setup the application, but not understand how to support it. Another problem is that they don't (from what I know) automatically update the web apps, so the apps may have security issues. Apps like WordPress has a nice and easy (even for a non technical person) update process, but not all do.

This is where a problem comes, non-technical people sign up for a $6 a month service and expect full support for whatever they do.

In addition, GoDaddy has website builder applications (a wizard you walk through to create your website) and I'm guessing this is what Fatty is taking exception to. Yea, some of the output of the website builders suck, realy, really bad. But they also offer some small businesses a web presense they would not otherwise have.

With the shared hosting, I get a couple Microsoft SQL databases. From looking around, trying to find security problems, I didn't see anything blaring. There was a few permissions I wished they would have denied, but I think I know why they allowed them. I don't know enough of MySQL to judge them on that setup. Clearly for the low amount a month anything with heavy database usage would not work too well (plus they have some small data file size limits).

- Marketing - As a customer I do not like their sleezy marketing. I am a customer of many businesses where I do not agree with their marketing, their business practices, or other parts to the business. Anyone who drives a car, talks on a cell phone, etc should all agree on this. They also try to upsell you A LOT. But, its as simple as know what you want and don't purchase more.

Last week I've transfered a domain to namecheap.com since they offer free privacy registration service. I haven't had too much experience with them yet, so I can't speak for their service.

So, my experience with GoDaddy has been good. From other posts in this thread it's mainly people that don't know what they are talking about judging them for their marketing.
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Nicely put.
They have a very good domain manager, and they're pretty reliable in terms of hosting.
As you mentioned, it has tools to help you install and CMS. Although they're not hard to install anyway
I personally prefer Drupal.

Clutchfans registrar is go-daddy so dont call this site not classy Fatty

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