I've been using GoDaddy.com for a while to register my personal domains, but are they good enough to register business domains? Does it really matter who the registrar is? I thought of going with NetSol to do it "the proper way" instead of the "cheap way" with a budget registrar, but does it really matter which registrar I use?

Two concerns:

1) Performance
2) Security

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Honestly, I've seen plenty of business names registered with GoDaddy. You can use their private registration feature if you'd like for others to not be able to see where you've registered. Honestly, it's a fairly common practice and it saves money in the old budget along the way.

My concern is that this may end up being a very big website. Very high traffic. I wouldn't want the domain registrar to be a weak point of any kind. So, I'm trying to find out if there can be reasons (no matter how small) to go with NetSol instead of GoDaddy...

Why is NetSol "the proper way"? There's no difference between NetSol or any other ICANN accredited registrar, besides the fact that NetSol is owned by Verisign who operates the .com/.net databases. GoDaddy is a very solid company, you can't go wrong with them. With NetSol, you can overpay & get nothing different, maybe even fewer services.

- Matt

If you want a solid registrar and our willing to pay more go with dotster. Very rock solid domain registrar.

I knew how the regisgtrar is important when joker.com disabled 2mhost.com in last NOV because of invalid info, i found its too hard to contact them to fix the problem

i could not transfer the domain because it was locked .. but i found that netsol and enom tried their best to help, so i respected them

in that day only i stopped dealing with joker and moved to enom.

so personally i do not trust a registerar called go-daddy, not prof name in my openion, beside they some times sell tax forms, photo stocks, .. and now they sell hosting .. i do know know what will happend if they emailed my users for some offers of hosting ..

Does godaddy still put ads in whois entries of domains that are close to expiration?

Originally posted by 2Mhost
I knew how the regisgtrar is important when joker.com disabled 2mhost.com in last NOV because of invalid info, i found its too hard to contact them to fix the problem

i could not transfer the domain because it was locked .. but i found that netsol and enom tried their best to help, so i respected them

in that day only i stopped dealing with joker and moved to enom.

so personally i do not trust a registerar called go-daddy, not prof name in my openion, beside they some times sell tax forms, photo stocks, .. and now they sell hosting .. i do know know what will happend if they emailed my users for some offers of hosting ..

Have you actually tried go-daddy?

Also how many of your clients are actually going to perform a who-is check?

So do not get hung up on the name of a company.

As the saying goes "do not judge a book by its cover".

I have MANY domains with them for years.
Problems 1.
Was not all their fault, but they get it taken care of.
None of my domains are for fun.

Originally posted by nvphone
I have MANY domains with them for years.
Problems 1.
Was not all their fault, but they get it taken care of.
None of my domains are for fun.

I agree exactly - Been with GoDaddy for years. I had 1 problem which They took care of right away.... They lack some features that other webhosts provide, but for the most part they are a great value and a great registra...

What kind of "features" does GoDaddy lack? Is Dotster better?

Ive used godaddy for 2-3 years now, got 7 domains with them. Some are fun some are business. Never had a problem with them.

For 2Mhost, use correct whois info, and you won't run into any probs.

"Originally posted by 2Mhost
I knew how the regisgtrar is important when joker.com disabled 2mhost.com in last NOV because of invalid info, i found its too hard to contact them to fix the problem"

Originally posted by CrazyTech
Honestly, I've seen plenty of business names registered with GoDaddy. You can use their private registration feature if you'd like for others to not be able to see where you've registered.

Actually private registration only hides who the individual is. The domain will still show up as registered with GoDaddy.

Originally posted by mainarea
There's no difference between NetSol or any other ICANN accredited registrar, besides the fact that NetSol is owned by Verisign who operates the .com/.net databases.

Actually, Network Solutions is owned by Pivotal Private Equity (http://www.pivotalgroup.com/onews10.16.03.html). Verisign sold Network Solutions (http://www.verisign.com/corporate/news/2003/pr_20031125.html) last year and only retains a 15% stake.

Originally posted by 2Mhost
netsol and enom tried their best to help, so i respected them

in that day only i stopped dealing with joker and moved to enom.

[...] and now they [GoDaddy] sell hosting .. i do know know what will happend if they emailed my users for some offers of hosting ..

Network Solutions and Enom also offer hosting. Hardly any registrar's don't anymore.

Anyway, in response to MetaData, I don't think any registrar currently is perfect. I have, however, had domains registered (including some corporate ones) with GoDaddy since 1999 and have had no major problems with them. I wish I could say as much about Network Solutions. The bottom line, though, is that I don't trust GoDaddy any less than Network Solutions, and in my past history with both, Network Solutions has had many more questionable advertising practices then I have ever seen personally from GoDaddy.

so personally i do not trust a registerar called go-daddy, not prof name in my openion
The name means nothing nowadays, firstly because maybe it started up as a very tiny project and then expanded with little reason to then change a name definetely associated with an increasingly successful co. Also, it's an actual trend to have these catchy easy to remember names, rather than a dull, grey one, difficult to remember.

I think they are i bought all of my domains threw them. I like there 24 hr phone support even though its a long distance number. I havent tried anyone else so i have no one to compare them to.

I think I'll transfer the big domain to Dotster. They offer more security services and I want to prevent any possible tampering or hijacking or domain stealing. Won't hurt to put all kinds of locks on it.

Let me ask you this. If you had a really valuable domain, where would you keep it?

just register it for several years i guess..dont u think? I would keep it at www.verio.com

I have bought all my domains @ Godaddy.com and i have never had any problems with em at all.

They also have a domain locking thing wich means that no one can transfere the domain or change anything unless they have direct access to the account itself.

Stig

GoDaddy is a great service. Don't let the name or the price fool you. I have the majority of my domains with them, those that arn't I intend to transfer. All the domains registered are commercial business domains.

They are one of the larger players in the domain registration game.

As far as names go, Google does not sound that proffessional either but your going to see alot of wallstreet types clamoring for their IPO which is coming up soon.

Sidenote:

Google does sound professional. It's a word, and a relevant one at that. GoDaddy sounds like what a little girl could've suggested when asked what to her daddy's new company.

I don't care about the name or the excessive advertising, so long as nobody can steal the name, I'm happy.

By the way, for the longest time I thought godaddy meant GodAddy (God of internet Addresses)

GoDaddy took over and left Network Solutiuons in the dust. Now they are campaining to have ICANN pull Netsol's accredidation. They have donated 100K toward ICANN's legal fees.

GoDaddy could use a more common sense interface and I am confident they will continue to advance. As far as a domain registration co's they are #1.

like i mentioned before and i do not know why no body else see that .. godaddy is the business style of making money from anything possible, since months they was selling photo stock CD, and tax forms, now they sell tools for mailing lists (!) and site optamizations and so on

now they enter the hosting business .. what your angry customer will do when he see godaddy in whois results and found that goddady sell low cost hosting ? (we all try to keep customers happy but its happend from time to time)

what you will do if your user think that you resell hosting from godaddy?

this style of business do anything to get more money and i do not want to expect what their next step!

<edit: good sample> when i was losing my domain and tried to transfer it to 3 registerars at once as last hope (netsol, godaddy and enom) after transfer failed, .. enom and netsol gave a refund while godaddy did not refund anything!

It seems that an alternative to GoDaddy might be better for you considering that you have a lot of mixed feelings about the company.

So in that case I would recommend the following:

http://www.000domains.com
http://www.directnic.com
http://www.namecheap.com

All of the above are pretty well known around these forums, and the majority of users seem to have no problems with them (including myself).

I would personally recommend going with 000domains.

Godaddy is good from what I have heard. Personally I have experience with Namecheap and Ev1servers.net. I like Ev1servers right now because they are very cheap.

Their ads are a little excessive, not that its a problem, but it is sort of sleezy imo.

Originally posted by MetaData
What kind of "features" does GoDaddy lack? Is Dotster better?

Godaddy lacks your basic control panel.... Stats are not as detailed as many other hosts.. and there php can't handle vbullitin php forums.... Things like that....

I don't see how performance can make a difference from one registrar to the next, however security and customer service are very important. It is nice to be able to get phone support if you have an issue without having to wait on hold for 50 minutes like you do with netsol.

we have a few thousand registered thru godaddy, never had a problem. Recommend them

Kay

I changed my mind don't go with godaddy. If in the future you plan on transfering ownership of your name you will find it very hard to do. Godaddy has a poorly trained support staff. They gave me information that was misleading wich almost cost me a web design account.

I soley use Godaddy and Doster, both work very well for what they do.

We have transfered all our domains to godaddy.com from directnic.com, so I can compare those two. Directnic customer support simply sucks, you need to wait for couple of days just to get basic question answered, more complex were often left unanswered and when you try to transfer domain away from them, well, they will make quite an effort for transfer to fail. Sometimes when we updated DNSes, the update just didn't happen and we need to submit support ticket and wait for two-three days to get it answered and then another 48hrs for records to be updated. With GoDaddy every change happens really fast and as it suppose to do. As security concerns, you can lock the domain to prevent any changes or transfers.

We also had few of very hard to transfer domains (close to expiry date, expired and recently renewed) and GoDaddy people were really friendly and helpful. For one transfer that didn't go thru (it was our fault), they have refunded the money within few days.

All of our domains are for business use and play very important role in our company. So, I would highly recommend GoDaddy!

Dean S.

A domain registrar is commodity service, like your long distance carrier, you could pay a higher price for it but you certainly don't need to. In my opinion Godaddy is very legitimate

With Godaddy it took 6 days to update nameservers :angry:

Out of curiosity - what did they tell you?

Originally posted by 2Mhost
.. what your angry customer will do when he see godaddy in whois results and found that goddady sell low cost hosting ? (we all try to keep customers happy but its happend from time to time)

what you will do if your user think that you resell hosting from godaddy?

this style of business do anything to get more money and i do not want to expect what their next step!



This confuses me WhoIS information will disclose the Registrar of Record and the DNS provider.....What does this have to do with reselling hosting?

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2mhost, I dont see how you can say that Godaddy's hosting is "low-cost". If anything, it's smaller and more expensive than what you can find from many companies on this forum. Honestly, there's no need to pay $35 a year for a service you can get for a fraction of the price at the other 100 registrars available worldwide. You can look for a registrar here http://www.internic.net/regist.html

I have never expirienced problems with GoDaddy, I reccomend them:cool: