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Long long ago, I needed a new website hosted and with no other decision towards the host than I had never tried GoDaddy, I gave it a shot. Within hours, I regretted the decision immensely. In comparison to my previous hosting experiences, it just pissed me off at almost every turn. It was the first time I experienced a company trying to make the interface for non-techy types and made getting to the guts of the tech hidden behind many layers that just frustrated me to no end. I canceled my account and have never looked back.

It is just another one of the examples of a company that advertises that intensely is probably a company I don't really want to be involved.

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For me, this company was Network Solutions. Never have I ever dealt with a thing so bizzare. They even uppercased my email address when communicating with me.

There were a tiny company and couldn't afford the mixed-case terminals.

I tried it once as well, maybe ten years ago. The annoying thing not yet mentioned is that it tries to upsell you at every step. You quickly realize that steps have been added for additional upsell opportunities.

Then the "elephant shooter" drama happened and I moved to namecheap and didn't look back. Was a breath of fresh air in comparison.

I didn't see a way to delete my gd account, so think it is still there. Hope my data didn't get out again. :doh:

> The annoying thing not yet mentioned is that it tries to upsell you at every step

I turn it into a game. I love the feeling of having cheated their systems and cleverly opting out of all the up-sells. I am forced to use GoDaddy because I have profitable blogs and e-commerce stores which would be a holy war trying to migrate all that to other services. It's do-able, but would be a headache and a half.

> I am forced to use GoDaddy because I have profitable blogs and e-commerce stores

Ever more reason to migrate them, imo.

The only thing that annoys me from Namecheap is that their API isn't that good. You can't just update a single record, you have to update the entire zone.

Updating the entire zone just to automatically set a verification token (like for Let's Encrypt) is too risky.

The what drama?

They did have a couple of years with good commercials, though.

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9v5p4

It's sad because I used to remember a long LONG time ago they exposed a bunch of things that other registrars required you to email or call support to do. That stuff is still there, but otherwise the whole site just feels slimy.

They are the only company that ever hijacked my robots.txt.

wtf? what does that look like?

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