Godaddy shuts down site for password file

[raymor]

Originally Posted by gonzo

How come we dont see everyone on Godaddys nuts?

I think we don't see a lot of people making much noise, especially Godaddy users,
largely because we know Godaddy. They are the cheapest and their service reflects that
in everything they do. To me, it's like hosting your site with geocities and expecting
customer service like you'd get from a normal web host who hosts professional sites.
Godaddy sells domains for $9 or sometimes even less. Bulkregister sells them for $12.
Others sell domains for $15. If you really need to save the $3 per year by going with the
cheapest service around, expect to get cheapo service. That's not a suprise.

[gonzo]

Originally Posted by raymor

I think we don't see a lot of people making much noise, especially Godaddy users,
largely because we know Godaddy. They are the cheapest and their service reflects that
in everything they do. To me, it's like hosting your site with geocities and expecting
customer service like you'd get from a normal web host who hosts professional sites.
Godaddy sells domains for $9 or sometimes even less. Bulkregister sells them for $12.
Others sell domains for $15. If you really need to save the $3 per year by going with the
cheapest service around, expect to get cheapo service. That's not a suprise.

Very valid point. Thank you

[Jace]

Originally Posted by raymor

I think we don't see a lot of people making much noise, especially Godaddy users,
largely because we know Godaddy. They are the cheapest and their service reflects that
in everything they do. To me, it's like hosting your site with geocities and expecting
customer service like you'd get from a normal web host who hosts professional sites.
Godaddy sells domains for $9 or sometimes even less. Bulkregister sells them for $12.
Others sell domains for $15. If you really need to save the $3 per year by going with the
cheapest service around, expect to get cheapo service. That's not a suprise.

unfortunately I have to disagree. domains are not expensive anymore

basically, what you just said is that if I pay $30 for a domain registration, i should expect some superior support and not get fucked around. but we all know that isn't true, hell, look at netsol.

I have NEVER had an issue with godaddy, in fact they contacted me about a year ago regarding a dmca notice they got, and they even played mediator for the dispute at no charge.

once again, domains are cheap...REALLY cheap, so those people charging $15-20 per domain reg are just making more money ripping you off, but that doesn't always mean they are providing you with more support.....yes, there are always exceptions to every rule, which is why there shouldn't be any generalizations made, and that everything should be on a case by case basis

out of the hundreds of thousands of people I have known over the years that register domains with godaddy, I have heard VERY little negative first hand accounts about how godaddy did anything out of the ordinary

[spazlabz]

Originally Posted by Jace

out of the hundreds of thousands of people I have known over the years that register domains with godaddy, I have heard VERY little negative first hand accounts about how godaddy did anything out of the ordinary

want one? I have two first hand experiences with being fucked over by GoDaddy with two seperate companies and I have heard a few other first hands........
someone I know registers with GoDaddy I go
I see a GoDaddy commercial I go

my opinion is they suck and they suck bad if you have adult. they are just another company quick to take adult industry money but stab ya in the back fast and pull the knife out for a really large fee


spaz

[Jace]

Originally Posted by spazlabz

want one? I have two first hand experiences with being fucked over by GoDaddy with two seperate companies and I have heard a few other first hands........

ok, what happened?

[spazlabz]

Originally Posted by Jace

ok, what happened?

the first first hand experience i had with them that was totally fucked was can be seen in all its glory here
http://www.greenguyandjim.com/board/...hlight=godaddy
(sorry for the link to the other board gonzo but as you can see from that date it was awhile ago and had almost the whole story.

The second instance was another spam complaint against another company I worked for. No notification, the sites were turned off. when we contacted godaddy and let them know the affiliate who spammed our content had been dealt with they turned us back on and offered to give us protection from spam complaints in the future. For something like, I dint recall exactly but I want to say $250, they would arbitrate with the complaint and give us 24 hours to resolve it before shutting us down.... gee thanks, we moved the domains.

bottom line for me is they are exceedingly quick to turn sites off without any notice at all and once they effect someones business like that they should have better support. Anyone can make a spam complaint to them to any site that pisses them off and get the thing turned off.


spaz

[Hell Puppy]

They're all getting too heavy handed.

And again, I'm not a lawyer, nor do I play one on TV, but when you start making your own editorial decisions about SOME things, you open yourself up to being responsible for ALL content using your service.

[spazlabz]

Originally Posted by Hell Puppy

They're all getting too heavy handed.

And again, I'm not a lawyer, nor do I play one on TV, but when you start making your own editorial decisions about SOME things, you open yourself up to being responsible for ALL content using your service.

agreed, and unfortunately you also set precedent for other companies to do the same


spaz

[SirMoby]

Originally Posted by Jace

out of the hundreds of thousands of people I have known over the years that register domains with godaddy, I have heard VERY little negative first hand accounts about how godaddy did anything out of the ordinary

Interesting. Almost every time I hear a complaint about a stolen domain, not allowing transfers or something crazy it seems to involve GoDaddy. I know a number of places where webmasters air out complaints and if you do a search for Go Daddy you'll find plenty. I'm sure that you could search for stolen domain or something like that and find the same results.

I'm not saying that you should stop using Go Daddy as it's a free market and they seem to be good to you.

Personally I'll never use them simply from so many complaints that I've read. However, I've never given them a chance so I don't have any first hand experiences with them at all.

[Jace]

Originally Posted by SirMoby

Interesting. Almost every time I hear a complaint about a stolen domain, not allowing transfers or something crazy it seems to involve GoDaddy. I know a number of places where webmasters air out complaints and if you do a search for Go Daddy you'll find plenty. I'm sure that you could search for stolen domain or something like that and find the same results.

I'm not saying that you should stop using Go Daddy as it's a free market and they seem to be good to you.

Personally I'll never use them simply from so many complaints that I've read. However, I've never given them a chance so I don't have any first hand experiences with them at all.

Most of the complaints I have heard are from people that used their hosting OR didn't lock their domains....I have used them for going on 7 years now, never had one issue, and like I said previously someone sent them a legal doc trying to get my site shut down and they called me the minute they got it and we worked something out

I have used their transfer system hundreds of times to buy and sell domains, and there is NO possible way for someone to steal a domain without the domain being unlocked or the email being wrong on their whois