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You can't get past the cheapness of some people. $5 a month for hosting is very attractive to someone looking to bootstrap off of savings.

You can get much better supported, more feature-full (and also more "unlimited" and oversold) hosting for $5 or less from people less scummy and likely to shut off your box or domain than GoDaddy.

Seriously, is DNS so hard that typing in the nameservers of your shared hosting provider or DECENT VPS provider is so unthinkable? Or is it registering for a second account? I simply do, not, understand.

Maybe those superbowl commercials really do work.

So? That's not a reason to use it or a reason that they're any less scummy than they are. They have flashy commercial and people use them to save 50cents on a $7 purchase. Quite frankly, it's pathetic that people give them their business.

Oh, and if anyone uses GoDaddy for hosting, just leave your username after the beep so I can permanently ignore you.