I have had good experiences with Go Daddy.

They're quick and inexpensive.

Originally posted by spacecowboy
I have had good experiences with Go Daddy.

They're quick and inexpensive.

glad you have because others have not.

May I ask what issues?

I currently have 8 domains with them. :confused:

IMO their fine if you only have personal domains and don't have mailing lists and your not from a country that has high credit card fraud and your domain doesn't get stolen from you...but other than that their fine. BTW, do a search here at WHT and you'll see some of the issues I mentioned.

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=275597&

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?threadid=156363&

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?threadid=158823&

Where is the prophet?

Originally posted by acts837
Where is the prophet? He's never around when you "need" him :D

I have been using both Go Daddy and Enom. They are good.

Never had an issue with them. Whatever.

Don't get me wrong... I use GoDaddy for their backorders and sometimes they have a good sale. But then I transfer those domains out after 60 days.

I believe that they have had problems managing their tremendous growth. They HAVE had software issues that have caused problems for customers. I really don't like the way they ask you if you want to buy everything including Ginsu steak knives while you try to checkout. In addition, I find their customer interface is just too slow to handle a lot of domains.

If you really do love GoDaddy, then you should checkout some of their resellers like www.Domainut.com and at least save a little. (Same basic system - same support).

We all have our preferences, and while I respect your opinion, GoDaddy doesn't work for me and my number of domains.

I find GoDaddy.com to be ok if you are running a small site. But if you would like security and a good backbone...find someone else :)

I guess that's the issue why I don't have a problem too with GoDaddy.


Originally posted by acts837
IMO their fine if you only have personal domains and don't have mailing lists and your not from a country that has high credit card fraud and your domain doesn't get stolen from you...but other than that their fine. BTW, do a search here at WHT and you'll see some of the issues I mentioned.

Originally posted by Compu
I find GoDaddy.com to be ok if you are running a small site. But if you would like security and a good backbone...find someone else :)

A good backbone with domain registration?
What would a good backbone have to do with domain registration? Or are you talking about their other services such as mail services?

Originally posted by tiggee
A good backbone with domain registration?
What would a good backbone have to do with domain registration? Or are you talking about their other services such as mail services?

Correct

We changed the nameservers on 10 domains for a reseller last night at go daddy and within 2 hours they were already hitting our server. Suprised me how quick it was. We have used them on and off for the last 4 years and we have never had any issues with them.

I do not have domains with them for than a year now. Good for you, Spacecowboy.

I find GoDaddy reliable but annoying. Buying a domain takes so long becaouse you have to scroll thru all the adverts. And their admin panel is hard to use for me. Never had any serious issues with them, though.

I think most of the recent complains have to do with their hosting service.

People use to complain about domains disappearing from their account (over a year ago), but everyone that took the 5 minutes to call got it all straightened out.

Then of course you get the people saying it's not cheap enough.

I have been using GoDaddy for about a month

Problems:
# 1 Forced AUTO RENEWAL of Domains, every domain you order you have to turn off auto renewal. Support says there is no way to have this default to off!

# 2 Massive Ads - Have to go through about 5 Ad Pages when ordering a domain!

#3 Defaults to 2 Year when ordering a domain. Now way to switch default to 1.

#4 BackOrders are a joke, missed 10+ backorders in a row!

On the plus side, nice web interface, pretty quick on the domain changes!

As for me, I'm moving on the eNom!! Same price, but FREE API!!

Originally posted by christowang
People use to complain about domains disappearing from their account (over a year ago), but everyone that took the 5 minutes to call got it all straightened out.Ya... I wouldn't worry about domains disappearing from your account. :eek:

I have heard their policies on spam and blocking of countries is horrible. I would never use them

I just moved my last names from Godaddy. Bye Bob

comparing with other registrars, godaddy is the fastest growing registrar http://www.webhosting.info/registrars/fastest-growing-registrars/global/
and 2nd biggest http://www.webhosting.info/registrars/ without even adding WWD to their total number of domains.

they are cheap and end users find it reliable, but yet tons of ads during checkout :D

Originally posted by Bashar
comparing with other registrars, godaddy is the fastest growing registrar http://www.webhosting.info/registrars/fastest-growing-registrars/global/
and 2nd biggest http://www.webhosting.info/registrars/ without even adding WWD to their total number of domains.

they are cheap and end users find it reliable, but yet tons of ads during checkout :D

This is because they advertise more than any registrar. I am quite sure most of their "profits" are spent on advertising

Originally posted by hideal
I have been using both Go Daddy and Enom. They are good.

I've been using domain people dot com for about five years - most of that time as a reseller - I believe they currently only require 10 names a month to qualify and the price is $10 for com net and org

they were a fledgling outfit when I started--still developing software for 24/7 online payments for example but I had no trouble EVER getting my account exec on the phone or any one of a range of other support folk

as recently as last week when their system slowed down and my template didn't go through I got through to a tech guy in 3/4 minutes and he phoned me back about 15 minutes after the call to tell me the system would be coming back up at such and such a time (which it did)

You have to do domain transfers on paper if you initiate them but if the buyer initiates it can be done online in 7 days

In short I really have no complaints with them at all - I realize I could save a buck or two bu renewing/registering elsewhere but I trust these people and find them totally accessible, friendly and helpful

Carl

carl

domainpeople seems pretty expensive compared to other services. For the fee they charge I would expect very good service

Just started to switch over a few a few sites to GoDaddy and have had nothing but problems.

7 days of down time on our first day with them. While they are fast to reply to a support ticket they seem powerless to fix any glitch or problem when it happens.

I get the we are working on it and will get back to you when its fixed. Its been a week. A week on a sales site hurts.

They just don't care. Its not the quality of service they make the money on its how many accounts they can sell.

After 7 days of down time in our first week we told them to close our account and refund our money. Now the games start.

Had to do chargebacks via PayPal and file complaints with PayPal because they just don't get it.

We have many sites and hosted on may different servers. Never have we had such a hard time as we do with GoDaddy.

We have no confidence in them to be able to provide a reasonable level of service now or in the future.

Don't waste your time.

kinda a old post but,
i have been using them for about 3-4 years and have 60+ domains with them never had any probelms on any of the domains ever.

The ads are easy to avoid "its called hitting no thanks link" i think the admin panel is simple. but i have been using it so long i know it inside out.

But maybe im lucky.

No major problems with godaddy here. Had some initial credit card probs at the start, but a couple of emails and it got all cleared out.

Originally posted by mtsprogramming


#3 Defaults to 2 Year when ordering a domain. Now way to switch default to 1.

This is the same on enom, I think.

#4 BackOrders are a joke, missed 10+ backorders in a row!

For the price it is fair enough, you can't compete for the high value domains with it.

On the plus side, nice web interface, pretty quick on the domain changes!


Their web interface is slow as hell, particularly if you have lot of domains. This is a downside from my point of view.

But the thing that bothers me the most with GD is their transfer policy. You can't transfer domains with accounts of different resellers, GD included. Also that 60 days no transfer out policy that resets itself whenever you change whois info or account. This makes them really domain seller unfriendly.

nah, the whois info change doesn't reset the 60 days count. I have pushed a domain to a friend, that sold it and pushed it further. there were no problem.

Pushing again whithin GD/WWD system is ok, but transfering out is not possible.

aah.. ok.. .

oh, your new frontpage looks nice!! :)

Thanks, still needs few tweaks though..;)

I've used GD for a few years now. Granted I only have 10+ domains that I am responsible for, but have not had any problems with DNS changes (very quick usually), or the interface guess it just makes since to me now.

I've been considering selling domains and have looked at enon and wwd. A lot of people seem to think enom is better. After finding out that you have to fund your account up front that kind of turned me off. People say that wwd has the $99 fee, but it seems like it's a wash since you have to fund the enom account upfront anyway. I know wwd also handles support for the resellers (not making a call on whether it's good or bad, just stating that they do it) and I don't think enom does this. Can someone clarify for me? Thanks...

David

eNom doesn't take your money, it takes a deposit for the domains you sell. WWD takes the $99 as a fee.. i's a big difference.

Getting into domains, you will see it is even hard get back the fee.. and the upfront deposit will take a long time to cover, but at least you don't lose your money.

eNom resellers are much happier resellers. I am with wwd myself, but what wwd does to you, by having absolute control over YYOUR customers, but not even give you their full info, by cdompeting with you directly with Godaddy prices that sometimes are way lower than your wholesale, and occasionally sending mails to YOUR customers with commercials THEY seem fit, I can say I begin understanding eNom resellers more and more.

but there are others, like directi, opensrs and ******. directi have bad reliability, opensrs domains are expensive.. (and ******, I know nothing about)

why is c-n-o-b-i-n censored??

because they haven't obeyed the forum rules in the past. Take a look around, they are banned on many other forums as well.

wow.. a domain registrar ?? hehe, ok!

Originally posted by AbsolutelyFreeWeb
Getting into domains, you will see it is even hard get back the fee.. and the upfront deposit will take a long time to cover, but at least you don't lose your money.


I think it was 4solutions that said it best a month or so ago...the market has changed over the past year. You almost can't run a business selling domains alone because of the loss leaders and discounted registrars.

Either you have a reseller account for added value to your hosting/web design compmany or you have one for personal use on a large portfolio. If you only have a few domains it really doesn't matter "that much" who you use (disclaimer - aside from the well known thugs -- dxxa, etc). Think about doing editing 250 nameservers or url forwarding? How about simple things like pushing? When you start managing several domains it becomes very clear which control panels are better than others.

Originally posted by AbsolutelyFreeWeb
eNom doesn't take your money, it takes a deposit for the domains you sell. WWD takes the $99 as a fee.. i's a big difference.

Getting into domains, you will see it is even hard get back the fee.. and the upfront deposit will take a long time to cover, but at least you don't lose your money.

eNom resellers are much happier resellers. I am with wwd myself, but what wwd does to you, by having absolute control over YYOUR customers, but not even give you their full info, by cdompeting with you directly with Godaddy prices that sometimes are way lower than your wholesale, and occasionally sending mails to YOUR customers with commercials THEY seem fit, I can say I begin understanding eNom resellers more and more.

but there are others, like directi, opensrs and ******. directi have bad reliability, opensrs domains are expensive.. (and ******, I know nothing about)

OK, I think I see what you're saying. The $100 is a bucket that gets deducted each time a customer buys a domain from you, vs. the $99 fee that is just that a fee for doing business with them and to get your reseller storefront setup? Yes, I have seen several posts before about your same concerns and that is quite frankly what has caused me to not get a wwd account thus far.

Can anyone clarify the question about support for your customers?

David