[bkovacic]

Do a piece on GoDaddy - they're absolutely disastrous. Eg, when you need to do any kind of downgrade of a service, you need a 2fa over email which they intentionally delay for like 15mins. If you leave the page, you have to request a new one. Of course, when it's 2fa for something that's not negative in terms of revenue, it arrives immediately.

[dijit]

Another fun one for godaddy: 'forgetting' to email you about a renewal, letting it lapse and then charging you literally double to "reactivate it" when the DNS stops working.

Happened to my company, I moved DNS to porkbun immediately after reactivating the domain. Wasn't a cheap one either so that cost was especially unwelcome.

[swarnie]

Do they still do the thing where if you search for a domain name and decided not to buy it they mysterious buy it themselves a couple days later and increase the price threefold?

[cloudwalk9]

As of 2022, iirc yes

[meindnoch]

yes

[LolBatmanHuntsU]

GoDaddy flagrantly steps over the line from deceptive practices into unethical shady business territory. Continues to amaze how they are still running.

[Joker_vD]

To this day I am not entirely convinced that they did not start as something sex-industry-related and then for some strange reason switched to DNS registrar business later. Seriously, "Go, daddy!"?

[EGreg]

I always thought the founder had a bit of a gradiosity complex and it was actually meant to be read like “god addy” as in address

[richardw]

Despise Godaddy. And google domains sold to Squarespace, who makes a transfer take up to 15 days. It’s faster to carve the document from wood and send it across the world than it is for them to automatically click the button to let go of a domain. I’ve never had a transfer go that slowly anywhere.

https://support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/1150117192...