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GoDaddy is just a general clusterfuck of arbitrary decisions. I don't have anything ready offhand to point to, but the general consensus is that you should avoid GoDaddy pretty vehemently.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3381822 still holding Godaddy's support for SOPA against them

Their TOS isn't very protective of domains. Tend to disable at the slightest fake email. Namecheap/Spaceship are a little better, IIRC.

Namecheap was recently sold to PE. I had been with them for decades and immediately transferred to Cloudflare. Lessor of evils.

Cloudflare is still a greater evil than Namecheap. Try Porkbun or Dynadot.

I've had really good success with porkbun. Everything seems to work for me.

https://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyle/peta-closes-godadd...

they're particularly incompetent