ha! That cracked me up as I had the same reaction. I'll add that, while I agree with the gist of athst's comment, the advice was much better than the average for this kind of article.
> He forgot to mention the whole part about objectifying women
(Rolls eyes) Yes, these poor, naive women aren't intelligent enough to determine that they are being "objectified". Do you feel the same pity for the I'm on a horse, Old Spice guy?
In fairness to GoDaddy, I doubt there's a significant portion of its historical customer base that has "fallen for it," i.e., bought products or services from the company solely or primarily because of its scantily clad models.
GoDaddy got to where it is today because it was -- at least for a long period of time -- the cheapest provider of domain registration widely known to the general public. Say what you will about its upsell tactics, or its spotty service level, or its arguably shady subscription terms. But the sticker price of $2.99 per domain was a monumental proposition back when GoDaddy first came onto the scene.
Do its ad campaigns objectify women? Yes. Are they cheesy, sleazy, and in questionable taste? Yes. But their purpose has always been simply to attract attention and traffic to the site. Now, that branding might get folks in the door, but it doesn't actually sell product. To claim that people have purchased GoDaddy registrations because they "fell for" the ad campaign is a bit of a stretch.
> While it is annoying, it is how he got to where he is.
Not necessarily. For years GoDaddy has had the cheapest non-promotional domain pricing. That's what made a lot of IT-savvy people use GoDaddy despite of its annoying user interface.
GoDaddy's problems go far beyond an annoying user interface.
In the early days of the internet boom GoDaddy was like AOL. Most people who used either didn't know any better.
Really tech savvy people avoided them like the plague, because they valued not being pestered with garbage, preferred to deal with companies they could respect and on whose service they could depend on.