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Godaddy hosts websites? I kid, but it's so clearly not their core business. Their advertisements have one single message: register your domain at GoDaddy. And they do that great. Now that you have your domain name, go find a business whose core business is hosting! Wow.

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The domain reg is a 'loss' leader for the shared hosting packages. The whole business model is based on the idea that all 95% of people need to do is get Registration + DNS + POP3 + host some static HTML. The pricing is inline with that. GoDaddy keeps the 95% of people who can be served on that model. The other 5% should know well enough that they won't be served well by that.

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