Go, Daddy?
Eek. They aired racy commercials and allowed controversial websites to remain. So what's the fallout. According to longren.org:
Godaddy has surpassed Network Solutions as the top domain registrat. This is the first time any company besides Network Solutions has held the top spot. It’s no suprise that Godaddy is #1. They have some of the cheapest prices if not the cheapest.
On April 17th, Godaddy had 6,830,420 domains under their management while NetSol had only 6,822,496. I despise Network Solutions as they were the only option for domain registration a number of years ago. I remember when domains were $70 for one year of registration.
Purfoods, the company I work for, has a number of domains with Godaddy. I don’t really like Godaddy very well....And they try to push extra services on you like crazy. I’m still glad to see Godaddy overtake NetSol as the number 1 registrar though.
Needless to say, Bob Parsons is his usual, shy, retiring self about this accomplishment:
We just passed Network Solutions in total domain names under management. We are now #1 in every category. I’ll tell you how we managed to go from a brand new registrar with no registrations to number one in the world in just 4 years and 4 months. We did it without acquiring another registrar!
Here's a post I found from February:
Hey, Network Solutions....It's bad enough that you still think you can charge $35 for a .COM domain name. Do you think you are the only game in town? Sure, you used to be back in the 90's but those days are over! Get with it! I see that you are now trying to bundle free domain names with other, more lucrative services like web hosting but I don't think that strategy is going to work, baby. Your competitors like GoDaddy are starting to really push with SuperBowl ads and such. Wanna' stay alive? Offer some serious value and you'll do all right.
Of course, Godaddy is not universally adored, as this anonymous message indicates:
If your domain name expires by even 1 hour, shithole godaddy.com charges you
80 dollars to get it back.
Sounds like a scam to me! No where do they mention you have to pay 80 dollars
to get your domain back.
All other registrars give you a grace period to get your domain back at regular cost.
Not godaddy. They got you by the balls and you must pay ANY price they ask.
You have no option but to let your domain expire and get taken by someone else or pay their outrageous price.
Why stop at 80 dollars godaddy? Why not charge 1000 dollars to get your domain back 1 hour after expiration?
Do not buy domains from godaddy or you will be sorry!
Godaddy sucks XXX! Do not do business with godaddy!
GODADDY SUCKS! BEWARE OF GODADDY!
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