Don't go to GoDaddy

[goneDaddy]

Hi All,

I have used GoDaddy for a couple years and registered lots of domains with them (over 300)

I liked them for a long time until Oct/Nov 2005.

First I get a marketing call from a person who says he is my account manager and he had called me "about 6 months back" I don't know him from Adam but he promised to help me get better prices, etc.

Long story short I renewed a lot of domains and did save over their advertised price for renewels

This got me to thinking thought that they must be scrambling to save their accounts or something so I checked around and found another registrar which was significantly cheaper but unknown to me at the time.

...

A couple weeks later I get a couple of emails from GoDaddy out of the blue saying that two of my domains contact addresses were not correct and GoDaddy charged me $9.95 per domain for having incorrect addresses.

I checked with GoDaddy and they informed me that a contact address stated was not valid and they were within the bounds of our contract to charge me for this violation without notice! Upon inspection I had input an incorrect postal code.

This seems pretty arrogant to me, to think they have the right to ding folks for having what amounts to typos in contact info.

At any rate this led me to update the contact info for all my domains and start transferring ones coming up for renewel to a new registrar.

I try to transfer a few and am then informed by GoDaddy that since the contact info was updated recently that the domains cannot be transferred for 60 days!

This seems like a ploy to make it hard to transfer away, don't you think ?

I informed GoDaddy that I would not take that, and lodge a complaint with BBB and state my case in public. They didn't budge. So here I am in public at one of my favorite websites, have used ResellerRatings a lot!

Hope this helps somebody!

Feel free to reply with suggestions on more good places to post this info about GoDaddy

GoneDaddy

[ELF 5]

I agree with what your saying and i hope to help get the message out with you, they are not what they want you to think they are do not be fooled by there low price yes the price is low but this comes with many surprises that you will soon find out about when being with them for a bit so i suggest if your looking to host with them do not make the mistake so many have made.

They do not care about the customers they have at all, as much as they want you to think they do by there wholesome words about old fashioned business practices ya right thats not true at all, the tactic that you speak of was used on a client of mine so i know what your saying is 100% true.

They don't listen to reason either, I was able to show them there are some serious security issues that i cant go into here and they
just tell you that thats the way we have our servers set up most would thank you say were looking into this and will fix it shortly, not this company so far no fix and i spent an hour and 40 Min's on the phone with them for nothing.

I have written to them again after talking on the phone and we shall see if that has any impact I doubt that.

Bottom line is if you call tech support what should you get?
Ill tell you you should get tech support... thats not what you get when hosting with godaddy what you do get is a sales pitch they will try and sell you anything and everything.

They tried to sell my client another package to fix problems they created they are not a nice outfit.

If you do a Little research on godaddy you will find a lot of garbage on them that is infact true.

Check out how many complaints they do have on file against them
all these people have one thing in common they fell prey to this company so i say to all say nodaddy to godaddy.

Let's prove to them the net is very powerful and that this message will spread throughout the net very quickly.

Maybe if they start to see a drop in what they call there high status they will change there tune as more find out what they really are all about.

One last thing the president of the company has his own internet radio show maybe he should spend a little less time on the
air and more time fixing the problems that his company suffers from, then worrying about some babes autograph. He was pretty adamant to some PB gal that he wanted her to send a copy of a mag with her autograph should this be the person you trust your business to? I say NO...

I ask you this should he even have the time to run a show and be the host with a side kick? what does he think he is? "good" well he is not. I will not even give the satisfaction of supplying a link here to it. If anyone wants to see what I'm talking about just look it up. I am in no way going to plug his show I just want the public to know that this is what the owner of the company does, so he must have way too much free time on his hands don't ya think?.

ELF 5