I've been with GoDaddy for @20 years and have over 100 domain sites registered with them. They also host my business website. They have gone from stellar to a total disaster. I'd write a longer, more specific review if I and my co-worker hadn't spent over 4 hours on the phone with their lack-of-tech-support over the past 4 hours. No two people give the same information or advice. It's terrifying for anyone in business. Truly a NIGHTMARE!
GoDaddy Inc. is an American publicly traded Internet domain registrar and web hosting company,[4] headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona and incorporated in Delaware.[5] As of May 2017, GoDaddy has approximately 17 million customers and over 6,000 employees worldwide.[6] The company is known for its advertising on TV and in the newspapers.[7] It has been involved in several controversies related to censorship.[8][9]
If you are not satisfied with a Godaddy product or service, you can cancel it and request a refund by contacting the customer support. For web hosting purchases of annual plans, you get a 30 day money back guarantee. But for monthly hosting plans (i.e. less than 1 year term), you will need to cancel within 48 hours of the date of purchase for a full refund. Rules for cancellations of domain names are different based on the TLD. For standard .COM domains, you need to cancel within 5 days of registration.
GoDaddy's Economy basic shared hosting package ($7.99 per month, with a three-month minimum sign-up term) includes a free domain name, 100GB of storage, the ability to host one website, unlimited monthly data transfers, and free Microsoft 365 Business email (for 12 months). The Deluxe plan (starting at $10.99 per month) builds on the Economy package by adding unlimited storage, and unlimited domains. The Ultimate package (starting at $16.99 per month) adds a premium DNS management tool and a one-year Secure Socket Layer (SSL) certificate. the top-tier Maximum (starting at $24.99) plan includes double the memory load speed and a free SSL for as long as you subscribe.
GoDaddy has a bit of a tumultuous history, with controversial ad campaigns and questionable behavior on the part of former CEO Bob Parsons. Despite all that, GoDaddy became the largest ICANN-accredited registrar in 2005, continues to register the most domains in the business, and offers many more products and services beyond just domain registration. Until 2001 Network Solutions had been the only place you could register a domain. You can purchase Linux and Windows based web hosting at various service levels, virtual private servers, dedicated servers, email services, website builders, and participate in domain auctioning and cash parking.
I recently agreed to have GoDaddy restructure my web page. I should have known better when they made me pay up front for the service. After spending a significant and detailed amount of time explaining the essence of our work and specifying precisely which content CANNOT be continued in the new version, I received a presentation piece I can only say was written by a first year high school student masquerading as a marketing professional. If it weren't for the $1,600.00+ dollars at stake I would find it humorous. It seems GoDaddy is hiring kids to perform the work of a professional, paying them the usual chump change, and passing this off as first rate craft. Then they want to rewrite what they didn't understand the first time...so guess what. Now, you the customer, will have to spoon feed every morsel of data to someone who has no understanding of or interest in your business. At this point you can get 30% back or roll the dice and let them redo for all the money. So now "Who's The Moron?" Now I'm looking for another web provider and they will eventually loose more money than the $1,600.00 they stole. Hopefully, the word will get out and other buyers will beware. Hats off to Matt at GoDaddy...nice work!
On September 10, 2012, a major networking failure caused by corrupted router tables resulted in a DNS outage intermittently affecting millions of customers' sites for a period of 4.5 hours.[125][126] Initial reports attributed it to a DDOS attack. This claim was disputed by Wagner, who stated that the isolated incident was due to internal mistakes that led to corrupt data tables. Wagner stood by the quality of GoDaddy's infrastructure, citing a 99.999% uptime.[127] GoDaddy later said in an apology e-mail to its customers on September 14, 2012, that the outage was due to the corruption of router data tables,[128][129] confirming indications that millions of web sites and e-mails were affected.
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