GoDaddy Reviews: 4.0/5 — Solid Choice

I like the best their interface, their support if you are going to purchase. The support will be awesome and great if you are assuring that you have to purchase things in nearby future.

They own all the rights... your domain names can be removed from account a month before they expire.... They say unlimited storage or up to some 200 MBs.

Many people who are experienced never talk good about godaddy...I was wondering this as a beginner but now after staying 5 years with them...I have the same view. Godaddy is for small business ...may be not for serious.

Securing a domain name, and managing domain names are pretty easy and straight forward.

Hosting is a pain, they nickel and dime you for everything, (ie when paying for hosting you get 2 email addresses, whereas other hosting I can get unlimited). Of all of the site I have created and worked on, the only site that I had hosted on godaddy was sort of hacked, a malicious file was added to my ftp that redirected my site.

Website creation.

Low prices, available a lot of domain zones.

Really complicated user interface. You need to spend a lot of time learning just how to edit DNS records. They have some kind of new interface but it's still a lot of pain to use it. They need to simplify a lot of things, which is not easy with such amount of features though.

Holding domain names and providing DNS for each of them.

One of the cheaper hosting companies, lots of options (windows and linux, php/python/perl). And Danica Patrick!

User interface is terrible, not intuitive, customer service is subpar. Aligning themselves with SOPA is a bad choice. I dislike some of the below the line business practices.

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Great way to purchase and organize your domains.

Support is very unknowledgeable and unhelpful, they take sometimes hours to resolve a problem, and communicate in very broken english that is difficult to understand.

DNS configuration

How robust they were is what originally caught my attention.

The entire customer support and technical support division

I used them originally to park all my domains and then I attempted to use them for hosting as well.

at the beginning it was good, but it went south quickly

i have spent hours on the phone with them, they ended up deleting my account and teling me i needed to pay extra to get it back.

Website and email admin

Nothing. Bought a domain following the advice of a fake "web developer" Asad Halilovic.

Everything. They suck in customer support the most.

It didn't solve any of my problems.

Clean UI. Easy to buy and manage domains. Transfer Out is pretty quick as well but they won't provide auth code easily. You'll have to fight it out.

They upsell a lot. Customer support is very slow to respond. The support time to resolve an issue for me is an average of over 100 minutes. Their employees are trained in a way that a customer should get frustrated.

Just buying domains. Worst for hosting though.

Nothing. GoDaddy service was appaling, the prices were too high, and it was almost impossible to transfer a domain out without calling support and waiting an eternity with the same short loop of super annoying "music".

Domain renewals are excessively high; you'll pay 300%+ more than competitors. Transferring a domain out is impossible with the website (very convenient business practice to keep you with them?) Support is difficult to deal with. When you eventually get through after an hour-long wait on hold. Difficult as the support person does not have access to areas they need to support you; they don't understand the request or do not respond in the case of email support.

The problem I was looking to solve with GoDaddy was my domain portfolio. Easy to register. However, the renewal and privacy prices are severely over the top, and I decided to move the portfolio to Cloudflare (I highly recommend them over GoDaddy for pricing, service and support - compare for yourself). This is where the real problems occurred. Transferring the domains out of GoDaddy without contacting support by phone is impossible. This takes hours; literally hours of my time have been wasted trying to transfer my domains out of their overpriced system, which seems to break with "unknown errors" when you're trying to transfer a domain out. That's awfully suspicious; it's as if they make it difficult on purpose to ensure 99% of customers don't bother going through the hassle. I highly recommend ANY other company for your domain portfolio. Save yourself time and money.

They provide okey domains... nothing more.

Their customer service is the worst of its kind... not only that they probably will not assist you with your problem, but they will also most likely close the chat\call on you in the middle of the conversation... useless service, I've never seen something like this before in my life. I believe that companies like GoDaddy will not exist in the future and for a good reason.

Provided domains.

Godaddy is not meant for e-commerce businesses

There are zero features. SEO being the most important feature for an e-commerce website is not present. On top of that they ask you to get your own developer if you wish to do SEO related work then why are we paying them. We have to pay them in advance with a one year lock in period

Godaddy is not solving any problems which is we don't use it anymore

Godaddy is cheap. The customer service is open 24/7. That's all that GoDaddy has going for it. It's an easy entry but you'll get suckered soon enough. Beware! It's a trap.

The customer service is hit or miss, but worse than that, you usually wait 45-90 minutes just to speak with a level 1 tech. While their prices are low for hosting you must purchase add ones to keep your site running and secure.

Godaddy provides web hosting and security services for my client's websites. Unfortunately the costs add up quickly when you add in charges for security and SSL certificates. Our sites were constantly being hacked and went down much more than expected. Uptime was around 88%.

I was able to book a domain very quickly. There were easy-to-use templates to create the website.

We had to pay the fees for the entire year in advance which does not seem fair in case we wish to switch. There are almost zero features for e-commerce websites. There is absolutely no chance for the websites to rank because there is nothing that can be done in terms of SEO/

Booking the domain is probably the only problem godaddy solves

Easy to use interface, especially when acquiring new domains.

I can't believe how GoDaddy's customer service has declined. Wait times and communications quality has done a 180 in the wrong direction

Exploring new domain names

Signing up for a GoDaddy hosting account was pretty easy.

I'm not a fan of their marketing, with overtly sexualizing women. Something about it has always felt off to me, and turns me away from using the service.

It is convenient and I don't recall having any issues with their hosting services.

NOTHING. Godaddy doesn't take responsibility and has jeopardized my business.

I have been a Godaddy's customer for many years. I pay them for hosting, backups, and many more products. I host my clients' websites and emails with Godaddy. A week ago I reached out to Goddady support to troubleshoot a webmail issue and while they fixed the issue they deleted my client's emails contacts by mistake. I called them back to report the contact issue, and since then they have not been able to recover the email contacts of my client. Godaddy's negligence has cost me to lose a client. Godaddy just said they can't recover the data they deleted. This is ridiculous, THEY JUST DONT CARE ABOUT A CLIENT BECAUSE THEY HAVE SO MANY. GODADDY, I NEED THAT FIX WHAT YOU BROKE AND TAKE RESPONSIBILITY!!

They don't resolve an issue and now I have a terrible problem with a client.

Nothing. They take your money and don't look back

Just to throw out, i do minor programming and web stuff. Godaddy tricked my elderly mother in to paying over $5k for nothing. They made all sorts of promises but no delivery. She only let me know right before the refund policy, when i contacted them, they fought tooth and nail to refuse her rightful refund. She put in credit card disputes they fought them as well. Despite her being within the refund time frame and having received no service of value. Shark sales people with poor hosting servers (daily notifications of being down but minimal traffic) and no effort UI or Google keywod search. I help manage half a dozen sites and two of my own were all hosted on GD. Transferring over next week. Worst experience I could imagine.

Their business tactics and sales operations are illegal. They have no concern or respect for their customers. All about that $

Nothing at this point! no support, no service. no innovation! why do you exist?

the pricing gimmicks most importantly their user interface is full of errors. every action you try to take results in some kind of error. changing a simple email... "Something went wrong and we're working feverishly to fix the issue. Please wait a bit and try again."

DNS registrar

Domain registration/setup is easy, but the email and website services are very ancient.

The one-page free website editor looks like it hasn't been updated in over 10 years. It's unfortunate that they wouldn't put at least some effort into this tool.

I'm using my domain/website as a personal branding site. Occasionally I do get some visitors based on references to the site on LinkedIn.

GoDaddy è un fornitore globale di numerosi servizi relativi a siti Web. Possono anche aiutarti con servizi aggiuntivi come marketing o ottimizzazione SEO e simili. È possibile ottenere tutto in un unico posto in modo da non dover andare in giro tutti quei diversi siti web per i diversi servizi.

Quando si tratta di cose che non mi piacciono, è difficile scegliere da dove iniziare. Prima di tutto, sono troppo cari. Ti attirano con un affare a basso prezzo anche per il primo anno dell'abbonamento e dell'hosting del tuo dominio, ma i prezzi che ti mostrano sono semplicemente esenti dal costo medio per questo tipo di servizi. In secondo luogo, comunicare con loro non è sempre così facile. Molte volte non sono riuscito a mettermi in contatto con loro per ore. In terzo luogo, i loro servizi non funzionano ad un certo punto e hanno appena non si preoccupano. Una volta ci hanno dato 3 mesi gratuiti di servizi di web hosting ma questo è tutto.

Stiamo usando il loro accordo di dominio e web hosting. È bene poter connettere più domini a un hosting e gestirlo attraverso un'unica interfaccia.

GoDaddy is extremely inexpensive, but really not worth anything at all and you’d be better off paying extra for real support and basic integrations.

Unbelievable in this day and age that there would be an email platform without its own app or easy integration on an iPhone.

Basic business email service.

Easy to use. But there are plenty of options out there which are just as easy to use.

I am under the strong impression they sell your data to web development agencies. Every time I buy a domain off of them my inbox becomes bombarded by agencies trying to sell me services. Also if you search for a domain name they bump up the price compared to if they present that option to you.

Buying domains. It is the only thing worth doing on godaddy. Do not use their website builder...

Their initial intro offers are often very competitive. That's to get you hooked, of course!

I used GoDaddy to set up my domain years ago, at a very decent price (I think something like £5 for two years for a .co.uk). I begrudgingly renewed it once, but this time round I annoyed at their constant reminder emails/scare tactics, I was getting frequent emails months before renewal was due. When it came around, I realised that their renewal charge for .co.uk was considerably more than most places are charging, at £12 a year. And that eleveated price doesn't include even the most basic security/privacy features, which are additional fees. Simply trying to buy a domain was fun in itself, since there were so many attempts to upsell me extra stuff like hosting, webmail, privacy etc. I know that's not unusual in business but when it comes to hosting I'd like to see a bit more professionalism, I guess - it's not something you'd be buying in the first place if you didn't know what you were doing. Strangely, when I moved my domain to Netcetera I found that the controls were locked/greyed out in my Godaddy control panel, even after following all their instructions to the letter. i had several chats with support, who initially blamed the new host (??) before eventually managing to manually unlock the domain controls I needed to transfer away from then. Now I have a strong suspicion that the 'bug' that led to me not being able to move my domain without chatting to support, was at least somewhat intentional, a last-ditch way to retain customers by making it difficult to move away. Overall my impression was of a money-hungry, low-quality company trying to rule the market purely with name recognition, upselling and heavy marketing. I only used them for DNS services; I feel for anyone who had to

They created as many problems as they solved, but to be fair I used them for domain names for a number of years and never had any problems with the product itself. Overpriced and underspecced, sure, but it worked just fine for pointing people to my site. But then that's not hugely diificult...

Phone customer support is good and fast.

If you have a .nl domain do not register it with GoDaddy. There seems to be many issues with managing the NameServer and the DNS settings for .nl domains. Somehow you can not change the Name server of .nl domains. There is in bug in their system that prevents this from working. You need to call customer service and they need to do it for you. This problem has been going on for years and it is not being fixed.

Registering domains are cheap.

You have everyone's' contacts so its easy to get in touch with other coworkers or supervisors.

Program is slow and disorganized. We are fast paced location but the software does not keep up.

Work communication in between coworkers and supervisors. Very easy to get in contact with supervisors, easy place to have all needed documentation for work.

There isn't anything I really like about GoDaddy. I have used them over the years. I have moved NUMEROUS clients to other hosting providers. I still have a few clients and I work with that have GoDaddy and continue to move their domains and websites to better and easier to use web hosting platforms.

I dislike their customer service, I dislike the user interface the constantly change, I dislike the fact that if you have problem with your site getting a 500 error, they try to blame it on you, know full well it's on their side.

None.

GoDaddy used to be good with their dirt-cheap prices and they even have discount coupons for renewals. But ever since their founder sold this company to a competitor, everything has gone downhill since. They are charging way too high for domain names, and the renewal prices are among the most expensive I've seen among all the domain registrars I am currently using.

Too expensive domain prices and they do not offer renewal discount coupons anymore, which was one of the main reasons why I stuck with GD for years before leaving them last year. The upselling of their other products whenever you try to buy a domain with them also annoys me to no end.

They used to be cheap and affordable in domain name prices and renewals, but not anymore.

I thought buying a cheap domain name and walk way in minutes, they facilitate your first steps via the dash which is great. But, that is it. Nothing else.

Two years later buying some domains, I noticed GoDaddy adds over 1000% for a domain renewal - that's insane!! Plus you pay 20% VAT on top of your bill...ouch imagine you have 5-10 domains. Do your maths. I must say they do have a good marketing department. But that's all. The fact users can purchase both the domain, email and hosting for a very low price is great but trust me the fees will go up as described above. GoDaddy's solution isn't the perfect deal, as they hit you hard on the product renewal the second year, or whatever the period you bought for. I suggest reading the reviews across the web and you'll see why. They apply the old school marketing method - they want to sell you anything they can. Pay attention when that time comes, as their pop ups are misleading and renewals aren't easy to turn off. Do not make it easy to access fixtures or the renewal buttons, for example. I recently called GoDaddy's support and they were arrogant, rude and...useless. They send you emails with services you barely know why you need it (get a dictionary to understand it). Be aware that their support & sales work hand -in-hand (same tactics) they will pushy for a new deal.

I only purchased domains with them, as I knew their customer service is slicy below decent - Heard friends and people complained about them. Their dash automatically presents items already ticked (pushing sale after sale) and it takes time to read it all. I still have one domain registered with GoDaddy but I will transfer it soon to WPX I thought i was saving money... benefits are zero.

There is nothing to like. They have not done what I expected them to do.

I have been signed up on GoDaddy Social for 2 months now and paid $400 per month for essentially a photo shoot that gave me unusable and unneccessary photos that amount to a complete waste of time for me personally and my company. They have done nothing to get me new business, they have not even updated the social sites with the correct contact information, which should be step one. I could have spent 30 minutes and done this myself. This has amounted to a complete waste of money and I demand a refund. Do NOT use GoDaddy Social. If you want pics for your Facebook site, hire a photographer for $100 and save the $400/month charge that GoDaddy robs you of.

Nothing has been solved. No benefits have been realized.