That makes no sense. Buying a domain (or even hosting) from GoDaddy means absolutely nothing as far as the professionalism of a website. GoDaddy is the largest domain registrar in the world for a reason. All of you that are talking down about haven't even given a valid reason why it's bad.
WHOIS information... it's public, unless the client has bought protection. GoDaddy will want to keep their name as "technical contact" to promote themselves. I'll put it to you this way, without even investigating someone's website: I wouldn't want to buy from a vendor whose sales skyrocket from racy and sexist videos on Super Bowl night. It's just my opinion based on my principles.
yeah, and godaddy and ENom will change your name servers too. Alot of people don't realize that they are listed in the Whois directory. You can go with domainsbyproxy to keep that info safe, but oh wait... it's not classy. It's run by godaddy
OK, I'll rephrase. When I see that the site is hosted by godaddy, I know they are unprofessional. If you are able to hide it, good for you. BTW, can anyone figure out who hosts my company's website? If it is godaddy, I'll s*** a brick. www.radiantfinancialinc.com
lol all go daddy. wildwestdomains is basically a huge reseller of GO-daddy, and domainsbyproxy is also owned by GO daddy
Let me rephrase that, Wildwest domains IS godaddy. It's an alias. Also, your name servers are go-daddy.
The Superbowl ads had an entirely opposite effect on me. I will never use that site for anything. I've no problem with sex in advertising, either. They were just so trailer-trash with it.
The way I see it, your company didn't go directly to GODADDY to purchase their domain or website hosting. I know what you mean.
That's called marketing. If you've ever bought Coca Cola or Pepsi before, then you've went against your principles because each have made racy commercials in the past. BTW, GoDaddy was the biggest domain registrar before the 2005 Super Bowl ad (that's how they were even able to afford the commercial).
Still makes no sense. Hosting a website anywhere has absolutely nothing to do with its professionalism. Someone could take an old computer and make it into a server and host a website off that. That doesn't mean the website isn't professional.
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."
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?
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?
Domain Name: CLUTCHFANS.NET Registrar: GODADDY.COM, INC. Whois Server: whois.godaddy.com Referral URL: http://registrar.godaddy.com Name Server: NS1.CLUTCHCITY.NET Name Server: NS2.CLUTCHCITY.NET Status: clientDeleteProhibited Status: clientRenewProhibited Status: clientTransferProhibited Status: clientUpdateProhibited Updated Date: 08-sep-2010 Creation Date: 30-sep-2003 Expiration Date: 30-sep-2012
When you buy a domain, you're only purchasing it for a limited time, you can buy it for 1 year or up to 10. You can set up with your registrar to auto renew so you don't have to worry about it. Even if you forget you have all the way up until your redemption period, this can be up to 2 months in my experiences with opensrs and enom. day 59 i believe. It can be very costly if you wait, after that if you don't renew it will be placed back into the available domain pool up for grabs by anyone. There's lots of different types of scenarios for domains, you can even grab them in an auction lol
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.
