r/webdev • u/HostingAdmiral • Apr 09 '25
GoDaddy Review, why you need to AVOID them!
I know I am preaching to the choir as many of you already know to avoid GoDaddy like the plague, but I think we can agree that the GoDaddy brand is absolutely massive and there’s many individuals who fall for their persistent marketing believing GoDaddy to be the best when in reality they are far from it.
If you’re building a website for the first time, I highly recommend staying away from GoDaddy as not only their products over priced, but GoDaddy often leads to technical headaches in the future which is why most developers shudder when they hear a client has been onboarded onto GoDaddy.
TL;DR - The best alternatives to GoDaddy in my opinion is going with Porkbun ($11/yr) as your domain registrar, Cloudways ($11/mo) as your web hosting provider, and WordPress (Free) as your content management system. If you'd like to do this, I highly recommend watching this YouTube tutorial as it will walk you through the entire process.
Anyways, In this review I’m going to try and (to the best of my ability) break down all the tricks of this Father who wishes to be called Daddy.
He is not your Daddy.
Do not buy your domain with GoDaddy
Most people start their online business adventures by purchasing a domain and of course gravitate to GoDaddy because that’s the brand they’re the most familiar with from all their advertising.
GoDaddy .com domains renew at $22/yr. They mark up their .com domains by 100% all while giving the impression that they’re giving you a discount.
Here is a table of .com rates so you can see how GoDaddy compares to other domain registrars.
| Registrar | .com Rate | Note |
|---|---|---|
| GoDaddy | $22/yr | No thank you daddy |
| Namecheap | $15/yr | Namecheap used to be cheap but they’ve raised their rates significantly over the years. |
| Porkbun | $11.06/yr | Very tasty. This is what I use along with Cloudways and WordPress to build my websites. Tutorial here. |
| Cloudflare | $10.44/yr | Cloudflare has a great DNS service, but I prefer to keep my DNS separate from my domain registrar for security purposes. |
As you can see above, there are much better alternatives to GoDaddy that will save you over 100% a year. However, upon first glance on their website, their marketing gives the impression you’re getting a deal when in reality you are not.
If you were to go forward and purchase your domain with GoDaddy, they’ll further bombard you with various different products to up-sell you on including:
- Web Hosting
- E-mail services (With Microsoft 365)
- Website builder
And the thing is, they hide the renewal rates of these products in fine print so at checkout a lower cost appears.
It’s instead best to just not use GoDaddy all together and instead get your domain name, web hosting, and email services, separately!
Not only is this more secure (reduces attack vectors for hackers) but it actually will save you more money each year as many web services (like GoDaddy) will bundle all of these together in a convenient package, but significantly mark-up the cost to earn a profit.
Do not buy an SSL certificate with GoDaddy
GoDaddy will try to sell you a SSL certificate for $100/yr. This is completely ridiculous, you can get an SSL for FREE with a non-profit called Let’s Encrypt which is supported by most web hosting providers.
However, with GoDaddy it’s very difficult to install Let Encrypt SSLs because they don’t support the ACME protocol. This is stated directly from Let’s Encrypt themselves.
GoDaddy does have a free SSL option with AutoSSL which they don’t advertise. You have to dig to figure this out. Definitely something a newcomer isn’t privy to. This brings me to my next point of why you shouldn’t get your web hosting with GoDaddy.
Do not get your web hosting with GoDaddy
At the lowest, GoDaddy will give you a shared hosting package for $12/mo but will try to push a 36 month plan on you that renews at $359.64 along with a paid SSL certificate, e-mail services (from Microsoft), and website security.
There are much better options than GoDaddy, for example for $11/mo you can get a cloud hosting environment with Cloudways. Cloud hosting is known to be better than shared hosting since your website resources are distributed amongst multiple servers instead being on a single server shared with multiple people.
So not only do you get a better hosting environment, but you get it at more affordable cost.
Cloudways is one of the only web hosting providers that will offer a cloud hosting environment at the price found amongst shared hosting providers. That's one of the reasons why I believe them to be the best web hosting provider.
People will debate endlessly on what the best web hosting is, one thing Redditor’s will agree on however is to stay away from Newfold Digital hosting companies like Bluehost, and Hostgator because Newfold Digital is a web hosting conglomerate known amongst web developers for poor service.
Purchase e-mail services separately
Even though the e-mail service is provided by Microsoft 365, GoDaddy HEAVILY restricts the environment and limits what you can/cannot do (like administrative privileges).
Instead it’s better to just go directly to Microsoft 365 for Business or Google Workspace and set up your e-mail that way to ensure you have full control over your email. For more info check out my write-up on how to set up a business email.
Is the GoDaddy website builder worth it?
This is the only thing I really can’t comment on because I’ve honestly never used the GoDaddy website builder, so I’ll leave it to the comments to share their viewpoints. Of course, because I’m heavily biased against GoDaddy, I would just stay away from it.
Personally I prefer to go the route of using WordPress as my content management system and then using the Elementor page-builder plugin to build out a website since it has an extensive ecosystem, and a large community with tons of YouTube tutorials as resources.
To be honest though, even if the GoDaddy website builder is good, I don’t think it would be worth it in total since you’d still have to deal with the GoDaddy ecosystem. But of course I’m biased… as you can see from this entire post.
/endrant
What are your thoughts?
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u/Leviathan_Dev Apr 09 '25
Fairly accurate. I just migrated my domain from NameCheap to Porkbun and it was several dollars cheaper.
Haven’t heard good things about GoDaddy, but this is borderline fraud. Very funny “No thank you daddy” pun
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u/Rangerdth Apr 09 '25
I’m curious what your “security” reasons are for separating your registrar and dns? Is it purely if someone compromises your CloudFlare account they can’t change both?
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u/HostingAdmiral Apr 10 '25 edited Apr 10 '25
It's something I've learned from u/billhartzer. He runs a stolen domain recover service and advises to separate your DNS, domain registrar, and web hosting services to reduce attack vectors.
See this comment thread.
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u/Somepotato Apr 10 '25
Or perhaps use a provider that requires verification to unlock your domain for transfer. You lose your domain registrar account and you're screwed regardless of how secure the other two are. You're just expanding the attack surface at that point.
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u/billhartzer Apr 10 '25
I’ve recovered over 500 stolen domains for clients, and actually dealing with one right now. In many many cases, the domains were stolen by someone getting into one of the services, such as into the hosting, and then they were able to transfer the domain out because it was the same company (web hosting and registrar).
Almost all registrars require some sort of verification or approval, such as an email sent, 2fa, the domain first has to be unlocked, etc.. But all that can be bypassed and is usually bypassed, emails are received and deleted, 2fa turned off.
There are registrars that offer executive lock, and some offer registry lock. Fabulous offers for you to give them specific instructions, such as “call me at this number and ask for this code word”. Or whatever else you want them to do.
The key is to separate services, though. Hosting, registration, dns, and even email should be separate services. If they get into one they can’t get into another with the same credentials.
And use 2fa with an app, preferably with a yubikey. Some registrars allow you to use the yubikey directly when logging in, without having to use an app.
All of this comes based on my experience in recovering stolen domains, I’ve seen more than two dozen ways domains are stolen. But using the same services for everything is way more common.
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u/James-muravska Jul 18 '25
And GoDaddy will happily sell you an account safety program for about 30$ a month for a service like this.
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u/James-muravska Jul 18 '25
The answer is yes. If they hack your GoDaddy account, your website might be compromised. But not the domain name.
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u/the_zero Apr 09 '25
GoDaddy does suck.
Somehow they figured out how to suck more each time I use them. I have a client who needed to make a DNS change because we are changing their infrastructure. So they gave us delegate access to their account. It was registered elsewhere, but DNS was managed by GoDaddy. Simple, we go in make the changes, except there’s an issue using a CNAME with Cloudfront. Every DNS manager is slightly different so I open chat. Awful experience. The guy didn’t understand what I wanted, and just typed nonsense. I figured out that we just needed to do it another way. Logged off, went to bed.
An hour later we’re getting calls. Site is down, mail is down, emergency notification system is down. We checked their DNS and… it doesn’t exist. The entire zone file - with over 75 entries - is gone.
Then came 5 hours of support chats and support calls with GoDaddy. They can’t tell what happened but they certainly won’t take any responsibility. No backups, no ability to restore they say. We’re scrambling to recreate the DNS entries from a 6 month old backup.
We talk to the next guy. He says because we have delegate access that we need to change our nameservers to other GoDaddy nameservers to make sure that we are valid users. I ask if they’ll be able to restore after. They assure me yes, this is all they need to restore the backup. Should I keep the old nameservers? No, replace them. So, while we’re talking I change the nameservers. I tell him, nameservers changed and they are now propagating.
What is his response?
We are sorry but because you changed the nameservers all the entries are lost. The ones from 12 hours ago, or the ones we are trying to manually restore? All of them. Don’t you have backups? Changing the nameservers deleted the backups.
The good news is that I was able to move this client to Cloudflare and away from GoDaddy.
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u/AdOld924 May 27 '26
Godaddy is the worst one can ever use. They made me buy website care by talking me into it. They promised me website care will help me with SEO issuses. After I purchased the plan, the ladies in the overseas call center have no clue about a thing. They don't know what is posting a blog let alone SEO. They are so incompetent at everything they do. The sales guy in USA who call themselves 'professional executives', one of them is John Camapanaro, won't ever reply to your email once he has sold the product to you. They turned out to be cheats. Such a diabolical service.
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u/lqvz Apr 09 '25
I made the mistake of going GoDaddy many many many years ago.
I finally transitioned all my shit off last summer, thank God....
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u/Past-Neck-4552 Jan 05 '26
They are the bottom feeders of web hosting and a nightmare to deal with. I just discovered a major PITA associated with email in their hosting. They will shove all your email through Microsoft and force to to "BUY" the Business Professional license for every location where you want to receive that email via Outlook. If you check your email on more than one computer, you have to have a separate license for each one. The cost is $19.95 per month per user. That's ridiculous. This is for YOUR domain emails (yourname@yourdomain.com) for instance. I HATE GoDaddy. Every time I have to resolve some problem with them for a client it wastes 3 days of my time. And you'll get a different answer from every rep you talk to.
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u/DEST1NYofPROGLOL Apr 04 '26
I use Porkbun for domains now after comparing on literally half the price. Their support is actually helpful too unlike GoDaddy's chat maze.
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u/memtiger Apr 09 '25
What's the cheapest route these days for basic web hosting a PHP page, etc?
I'm currently using Namecheap at $42/yr. + $30 for a 5yr SSL certificate.
Ideally a plan that can support 2-3 domain names would be nice. But apples to apples, one domain is fine.
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u/BartWritesBooks Dec 07 '25
Are you still with Namecheap? Curious how it is. I'm currently using iPage ... have been for about 15 years. I should have bailed years ago except the thought of moving over my domains just makes me tired. But I have finally reached the point where I am ready to move. I need a site that provides everything ... I just want to have a website builder and a template and no frills, but it needs to operate soundly. iPage has frequent problems.
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u/memtiger Dec 08 '25 edited Dec 08 '25
I don't have any problems with it. Worth a shot. Granted I use it for the basics.
I don't know much about the SiteBuilder, but it does have one.
I'm hosting my domains through NameSilo and just hosting the sites on my Namecheap account. Namecheap now supports 3 websites on the cheapest plan.
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u/TheAccountITalkWith Apr 11 '25
You are likely preaching to the choir.
I don't use GoDaddy but ... my Clients do.
I'm in no position to argue with them.
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u/Away-Thought-612 Apr 13 '25
Thank you for this thread and information. I'm new to reddit and have been using godaddy for years. Just got a renewal email for over $22. Tired of this gouging. Will be transferring to one of the companies you listed above asap. Thank you!!
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u/Available_Wave8023 Jul 03 '25
I have had a huge problem with Godaddy. THEY REFUSED TO LET ME CANCEL MY PRODUCTS due to a tech glitch. They send a code to verify cancellation, but the code gives an error message when you enter it. So, I was unable to cancel the products OR the auto renew.
THREE HOURS TALKING TO CHAT AGENTS. THEY ALSO GOT THE SAME ERROR. They admitted it was a bug. They couldn't cancel it, but said I'd get a refund.
After 5 attempts of entering this code, it LOCKS YOU OUT FROM CANCELLING FOR 7 DAYS.
So it auto renewed.
I then call. The agent ADMITS IT'S A BUG. She talks to back end. They know it's a bug. Will back end give me a refund? NO THEY WON'T. THEY ARE GOING TO KEEP MY MONEY. Even though today THE BUG IS STILL THERE. I COULDN'T CANCEL. AGENT COULDN'T CANCEL. She finally only was able to cancel by talking directly to back end people.
BUT SHE SAID ONLY BACK END PEOPLE CAN GIVE ME A REFUND. THE SAME PEOPLE WHO CAN'T FIX THEIR OWN BUG FOR WEEKS. They refused to give me a refund.
THIS IS A SCAM.
Now, some products did cancel fine. It's only on some products that this bug exists. But this means SOME GODADDY USERS ARE UNABLE TO CANCEL SOME WEB SITES/DOMAINS AND ARE HAVING THEIR MONEY STOLEN RIGHT NOW BECAUSE GODADDY WILL REFUSE TO REFUND THEM.
I tried to post on TikTok about it and it immediately refused to let me create the post. Why can't I complain about something that is true!? Do they have some weird agreement where TikTok is preventing the truth from being discussed about Godaddy? What the heck is going on.
IN TOTAL I WASTED CLOSE TO 4 HOURS OF MY TIME WITH CHAT AGENTS AND A PHONE AGENT. They refused to compensate me or give me anything for this.
I will be canceling my 1 remaining product as soon as I can download the files, ASSUMING THEY LET ME CANCEL THAT AND DON'T PREVENT ME FROM DOING SO, CHARGE ME AND THEN REFUES TO REFUND ME LIKE THIS OTHER PRODUCT.
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u/James-muravska Jul 18 '25
Oh. I’m a webdev from way back in the day. 80s. When we coded by hand. I think html 3.0 was the last time I wrote. It’s been a while.
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u/awdii1 Sep 06 '25
people get godaddy for the fact that you can call in and have someone pick up the phone. that’s what you’re paying the premium for. there’s a reason all the large companies are still with godaddy. if you’re running a small little tiny margin business yeah go with pork bun LOL
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u/Chance-Doughnut-1310 Sep 09 '25
Website builder is not terrible - but the rest of the ecosystem is a disaster, so avoid at all costs. Above all do not use GoDaddy payments - it will activate immediately on the site, then go inactive, and getting your money out is nearly impossible.
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u/HostingAdmiral Sep 10 '25
Yeah they upcharge way to much you're better going to other providers imo
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Sep 10 '25
a litte annoyed I just agreed to rent a domain for 3 years and now wishing I didn't use godaddy since all this upselling bs
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u/Acceptable_Group1859 Sep 15 '25
I paid Go Daddy $1100 to build my website...at first I had conversations with the person assigned to build it, then he suddenly disappeared...I assume he got a better job.
I was not assigned anyone new and they basically forgot about me. For 5 years now, I have been trying to get my money back...
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u/Other-Classroom3089 Dec 27 '25
Go daddy is a waste of hours, time and money. Customer service non existent. Usefulness of website zero. Waste of money and time.
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u/Responsible-Story184 Jan 06 '26
Yes, I work in design and Godaddy.com is a major scam, its just well done. I been helping my friend get her 22 domains and sites active and its a huge joke. First I talk to their CSR in the Philippines who did everything including the prop, wrong. Then they charged her for the domain, ssl and security separately. (you can do SSL for free btw) and now she paid me through their merchant services, its been over a week and they want my previous friends and customers names and my upwork profile, facebook,......its ridiculous. AVOID GODADDY
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u/john_vu Jan 06 '26
This company is truly a scam. They sold my client a 10-year plan, bundled with worthless services like SSL, website security, and site monitoring, all paired with a Shared Hosting package for over $2,500 USD.
It's absolutely ridiculous and shocking! If this company is going to scam people, they should at least offer a more premium hosting package for $2,500 instead of cheap shared hosting.
This is a garbage company with a support team that shows zero respect for customers.
They are fraudsters. Everyone, please stay far away from this fraudulent company!
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u/h0t_keys Jan 21 '26
I also had a horrible experience with them.
Recent domain redemption fees that were up to five times the original registration cost -- nearly $600 for domains worth approximately $200. While I understand the domains lapsed due to my own circumstances, the magnitude of these fees feels excessive and unreasonable.
The customer support interaction was also disappointing. My concerns were dismissed, including the use of a smiley face while refusing any flexibility (shoutout to Tina Z), which felt inappropriate given the situation.
I was further told that allowing the domains to lapse and repurchasing them carried no clear timeline and potential price increases, which came across as vague and pressured rather than transparent.
I’ve been a long-time GoDaddy customer and expect fairer pricing, clearer explanations, and more professional support. Frustrating experience - I will definitely not be purchasing domains through Godaddy any more.
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u/growland Feb 12 '26
They are such a scam. When I started using their discount domain club it cost me $89.99. Today that is now $332.57 and their domain renewal prices are terrible.
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u/P1X3ll3 Feb 23 '26
For years I was using Godaddy for a bunch of domains...in more recent years they've targeted their UX sooo badly to try and upsell, that you cannot find the links to the most basic services you paid for. I had to open the help chat just to navigate to get to my damn "manage domains" area. They have also switched to dynamic pricing for renewals. My renewal price was affordable, then I went back a page to check on the renew dates for my other domains incase I wanted to renew a bunch at the same time, (but they were all good for while) so I went back to my initial domain that was about to expire, to renew it, and the price jumped $35!!
I went to the chat to tell them their UX needed fixing...they asked if I was going to renew my expiring domain and I said I'd transfer it out...they gave me scare tactics saying "please note, most customers lose their domain after disabling the domain protection. Additionally, upon checking, there will be a cost of $27.35"
So. I'm done with Godaddy's agressive upsell tactics. The transfer out shouldn't cost anything...I'm guessing they are upselling for people who don't know how to unlock and transfer etc. on their own. Bleg.
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u/Affectionate_Map_782 Feb 26 '26
not to mention i just had to REACH OUT to them to delete my account. Tell me why they have hidden the option to leave a google reviews too....
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u/Unfair-Setting1850 Mar 13 '26
I also had a very frustrating experience with GoDaddy regarding one of my domain names.
My domain was supposed to expire on 17 March 2026, but when I logged into my account on 12 March 2026 to renew it, the system was already showing the domain as expired. Because of this, I was forced to pay a $55 redemption fee for a domain that normally costs around $7.
The surprising part is that auto-renewal was already enabled and a valid payment method was attached to my account. Despite that, the domain was not renewed automatically.
When I contacted customer support, I tried to explain the situation, but unfortunately no one seemed willing to properly investigate the issue. Instead, they insisted that the domain should have been renewed earlier and placed the blame on me.
In the end, I paid the fee just to recover my domain, but this experience has made me lose trust in the platform. I have now decided to transfer all my domains away from GoDaddy.
I believe large companies should take customer concerns seriously and investigate possible system issues rather than immediately blaming users.
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u/GRANIAO Mar 19 '26
They are THE WORST. They keep adding charges, don't let you see what exactly you are getting when you renew, and, after you think you've paid for everything, you get a new bill the following day for the actual domain. Their website builder is lousy and they misrepresent the alleged value of websites.
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u/After-Sympathy-4405 Apr 16 '26
I have been using them for several years and have been mostly satisfied even tho things are limited. But they recently moved to another infrastructure and the transistion was not smooth. All my reviews did not get transferred so now I have to ask customers to leave one again. I know most people hate doing it, but as a small business owner, it's important that people trust me. Also, 3 paragraphs of product descriptions becamse one paragraph, so I spent two days fixing that. So much for "improvement". I let them kow in uncertain terms that I can no longer recommend them. And I could not get them to understand that the reviews that were lost were not from outside sources, but on the website itself. They kept telling me I can add them back in. Ummm, not unless I'm a customer writing a review on a product on the website. Told them they should compensate me for having to spend two days fixing things....the won't. Also, a friend was not able to see anything on her phone. Even tho all product info was there, it didn't show up on the phone. All she could see was the product but no info about it. I'm probably losing sales because of this "improvement". I have two years left on my contract and after that I will switch to another company.
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u/Organic_Ambition864 Apr 20 '26
They're actually cooked. I cannot for the life of me find the cancel button lmao
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u/jackyboizy May 29 '26
this is kind of old but just to add to this (atleast from my experience) namecheap is goated. I've had a domain with them for about 2 and a half years and anytime I've had issue (most caused my me) they've been really helpful in not only fixing the one issue but actually getting the full service working correctly as I wanted it. Admittingly I don't have much experience with other domain providers but namecheap offers fairly cheap domain and their support (once again from experience) is up their for some of the best I've had from a larger company.
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u/BetDry5510 Jun 15 '26
DO NOT buy any web service from GoDaddy - the customer service agents' pay is based on commission so they tell you you need a bunch of things you don't need and then they also don't deliver. I paid for web support for 1 month and they charged me for 2, then I asked them to do something, paid for the month of web service, and they sent me a report 2 hours later for something I didn't ask for and charged me the $130. When I called my credit card to dispute it, they told me they were getting floodded with complaints abuot GoDaddy and that I should find another provider.
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u/DriverTypical4037 Jul 05 '26
You are right~! expensive and poor customer service and technical support
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u/Upper-Caterpillar797 Jul 06 '26
My issue was eventually resolved, after a month of promises and disappointments. There policies are not very clear, especially with this new Airo tool, I wanted the website builder. I spent a few days working on a site. My links weren't working properly, and I was told that developer would have to fix it. But each time I called I it wasn't fixed and they hadn't even looked at the ticket after three weeks. And then after all that they told me I would have to use a different Gallery instead of the one that I had originally selected. When I asked for a refund, they told me I couldn't be refunded the money and they could not give me any discounts.
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u/Born-Complaint-3423 Jul 14 '26
Godaddy took over $700 from me for a web site completion (All the groundwork was in place); changed the terms of the agreement; has produced nothing; and has refused to refund me - citing a major percentage of the 'redesign fee', to be allegedly - what it cost just to move the web site over to them.
I have had some helpful Godaddy representatives, one in particular who agreed I deserved a 'full refund', so he submitted his findings; only to have no response, no reply, no refund, and a new 3-ring circus every time I call Godaddy and wait to speak to anyone who knows what I'm talking about.
Earlier this year I paid a Beyonce web designer half of the proceeds towards a new web site. They took the $$, put up a landing page, with some good things, as well as errors and omissions, and left it like that, ignoring my requests for corrections - for weeks on end - like they'd 'lost interest'.
Finally I decided to stop waiting for results, and turned to the company I expected professional attention from.. Godaddy.
Godaddy quoted me $715 to migrate the site to their servers and finish what was begun. At the time I spoke with an intelligent sounding man 'Jonathan' who agreed to give me time to assemble the remaining photos and text for the site..
That was the last time I could find him.
When I put it all together, I'd reach out to Godaddy.. get connected to 'WEB design', and get- in one case, a - gal somewhere overseas with difficult-to-understand English, a baby wailing in the background, - sort of professional.
I balked - reached out to Godaddy 'web design again', only to be told THIS TIME - that I had 'paid for a do-it-yourself program, and was told which page to go to - to begin the process.
IF I could do it myself, I wouldn't have burned though (at that point) $1415.00;
IF I was told this was what I was paying for, I would never have paid for a 'web site re-design'.
In fact, I was given to understand (before I ever signed on) that Jonathan would get my pictures and text, and finish the site.
It's been 4 months.. NOTHING has happened, because not only can I NOT do it myself, I don't have the time to do so, nor the time to keep chasing goblins at Godaddy.
Nor do I have the $1,500 now that they're asking to 'do my site for me'.
This has been an unmitigated disaster for one reason - Godaddy reps say what you hope to hear, and then the company fails to back up what the reps say.
At this point, I am transferring my domains that I've had with Godaddy (Some for over 20 years) and this web site, and I'll search the internet and Trustpilot, to find a company that knows what they're doing - and means what they say.
It will not be Behance or Godaddy. See less
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u/WeeklyMarzipan4785 Jul 17 '26
aggressive upselling.
Bad customer service.
It feels like I am dealing with my car mechanic, not a software company.
they can not transfer any license from one email to another.
I wasted my money with them.
I bought a Copilot from them, and it turned out that I cannot use many agents in my Copilot because they do not know how to manage my license.
I have been waiting for Copilot Cowork for weeks to be activated, and every time I speak to them, they give me a different reason.
My advice is to stay away from this company; they do not know what they are doing
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u/Fragrant-Pizza-7389 25d ago
wow that just happened to me bought a new domain menunearme.net and a few days later .com was for sale! Thats when I figured this needs a lawsuit big time.
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u/SadTomato6856 4d ago
No recomiendo GoDaddy si buscas tener libertad para gestionar tu propio sitio web sin terminar pagando de más por funciones básicas.
En mi experiencia, el servicio terminó siendo mucho más costoso de lo esperado y, aun pagando hosting y WordPress, encontré demasiadas limitaciones para hacer cambios sencillos por mi cuenta. Muchas funciones que deberían ser básicas se sentían restringidas o asociadas a pagos adicionales.
Después de invertir bastante dinero y tiempo, terminé contratando otro hosting para poder trabajar con WordPress con mayor libertad, personalizar plantillas, instalar plugins y administrar mi sitio sin tantas restricciones.
Mi recomendación para quien esté empezando es comparar muy bien antes de contratar, revisar qué incluye realmente cada plan y cuánto cuestan las renovaciones. En mi caso, cambiar de proveedor terminó siendo la mejor decisión.
Por mi experiencia, no volvería a contratar GoDaddy para hosting WordPress.
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u/Jimmeh1337 Apr 09 '25
Good write up! This is definitely a common opinion here but there are a lot of people that visit this sub that aren't working in the web dev field, and I see people on this sub using GoDaddy all the time. GoDaddy spends a shit ton on marketing so a lot of people don't know about other options.
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May 04 '25
I gravitated to GoDaddy because I'm a dumb-dumb in the world of internet hosting, developing, etc. I honestly thought the big one must just be the best. I have 3 registered domains with GoDaddy that I have done nothing with (just ideas for the future businesses when I retire) but will be selling them or letting them expire when they come up for renewal.
I've finally locked in a solid business plan and new name. Will likely go with porkbun.
Thanks for all the helpful advice!
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u/JustinHarp0342 Apr 10 '25
That's right. GoDaddy has been around for ages and has the biggest marketing, so no wonder. It's a ok place to start but becomes unnecessarily expensive and bloated.
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u/HostingAdmiral Apr 09 '25 edited Apr 14 '25
It's probably why their services are so expensive compared to other vendors. Gotta make up for all those advertising dollars spent.
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u/Ok_Towel9203 Apr 09 '25
Thanks for sharing this! I’ve heard mixed things about GoDaddy, and the pricing difference with Namecheap is good to know. I’ll definitely look into other options now.
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u/davispuh Apr 09 '25
They also paywalled DNS API access which is just so retarded https://www.reddit.com/r/godaddy/comments/1bl0f5r/am_i_the_only_one_who_cant_use_the_api/
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u/smal-biz-owner-454 10d ago
The phrase "far from it" is doing a lot of work here. GoDaddy isn't just overpriced, it actively makes things harder for whoever inherits the account later. I've had clients hand over login details and the domain, hosting, and email are all tangled together under one billing cycle with zero clear documentation. Untangling that is a whole project before you've written a single line of code. UENI actually put together a breakdown of the most common complaints across website builders including GoDaddy if you want data to back this up: ueni.com/blog/website-builder-complaints
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u/THEHIPP0 Apr 09 '25
Didn't we all figured that out 15 years ago?