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Uh oh :( I’ve been using godaddy since like 2005 and never used anywhere else. Of course that’s just for domain names I haven’t hosted with them since VPSs (and the cloud in general) became cheap.

I could Google it, but what else is bad with godaddy and should I switch?

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I’ve used quite a few different registrars over the years, and the only one that really stood out as bad was in fact GoDaddy (tacky UX* and dark patterns in registration flow). Most other big name services you choose will be fine; personally I’ve been using Google Domains… but I’m not exactly a Google fan either. As for historical reasons people dislike GoDaddy, here’s a starter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GoDaddy#Controversies

*NOI if you’re reading this, Darren

Huh I guess I should look to switch. I never really cared for their interface either but since I only use it change the DNS over to point towards my own servers I didn’t really consider it could be worse than anywhere else.

they steel domain names if thats not good enough, i do not what else can be

Hopefully that's enough to galvanize them to action

Yeah that’ll do (and there and the owners lack of respectful for animal life) I didn’t even know I only use them to hold a few domains I’ve never even looked at or thought about using anyone else. Weird how out of the loop I am on this for being a web developer, but that’s why I asked here.

I'll shill for Hover, been with them for many years.

+1 for Hover!

I’ll add my +1. Clean UI, more than decent customer support, reasonable prices.

I used to think the same thing, but considering their name registration isn't even price compatible $13 annually without coupons and their shared hosting is over $10 a month, they are worth considering moving on from. I did because their hosting was just too expensive with them refusing to offer coupons to existing customers to renew hosting or domains. They used to be a lot better.

Yeah honestly I’ve never looked at the competition because I only own about 5 domains personally, but I bought the domains for like 12$ and I definitely pay >100$ a year now, so more than double what I paid for some of them.

Godaddy raising prices made me switch. Namecheap offered 30$ for hosting for a year so I transferred over a year ago. It was very annoying to transfer the domains, but I don't like feeing gouged. Anyway godaddy's hosting was bad and hacked at least twice in three months years ago, back in 2010 or something. Namecheap has softalicious or whatever it is called. Godaddy can't compare.

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