GoDaddy supports SOPA, redditor proposes "Move your Domain Day"
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Re: GoDaddy supports SOPA, redditor proposes "Move your Domain Day"
#2To put it frankly, godaddy don't give a shit. Their domain business exists as a way to get people into their other products, hosting, whois privacy etc. the ones that actually make money (nobody makes money on domains nowadays, savvy customers use coupons which godaddy provides a lot of). This won't do anything to Godaddy as a business, they'll be losing customers they don't care about -- unless people shutting off their other services too -- but if it makes people feel good then yay! This would be like walmart losing customers who do extreme couponing and only buy the products that serve as loss leaders.
You could go as far as suggesting these people are helping godaddy. If you take away 120 domains (as one redditor is doing) that godaddy are losing money on and you're only using them because they're cheap... that's a win for godaddy surely, unless the scale at which people do this makes a dent in godaddy's total customer/domain figures, which are a marketing point, but that would require millions to leave.
Re: GoDaddy supports SOPA, redditor proposes "Move your Domain Day"
#3Ive been using bluehost.com for 3 years to host 3 websites. I could list them but I dont want to spam. They have everything I need and I have seen no significant outages or price increases.
Anyone here use Godaddy? How are their prices and service?
Re: GoDaddy supports SOPA, redditor proposes "Move your Domain Day"
#4alternate: use godaddy, but only their loss-leading coupons when they appear.
For example, I registered a domain last week using a code that got me $1.00 domain registration.
The code expired last week unfortunately so posting it would be irrelevant.
Re: GoDaddy supports SOPA, redditor proposes "Move your Domain Day"
#5I don't like GoDaddy any more than most others here, I'm sure. And I certainly hate the idea of SOPA. But don't a lot of big companies support it?
In a quick Google search, I found this post referencing support by the Business Software Alliance, which includes Microsoft, Apple, and many others: http://thenextweb.com/insider/2011/11/17/which-tech-companie...
Re: GoDaddy supports SOPA, redditor proposes "Move your Domain Day"
#6Ive been using bluehost.com for 3 years to host 3 websites. I could list them but I dont want to spam. They have everything I need and I have seen no significant outages or price increases. Anyone here use Godaddy? How are their prices and service?
i use it for 2 domains, just because it was the cheapest at the time i bought the first domain, and since i had no problem i kept using it.
Re: GoDaddy supports SOPA, redditor proposes "Move your Domain Day"
#7I don't like GoDaddy any more than most others here, I'm sure. And I certainly hate the idea of SOPA. But don't a lot of big companies support it? In a quick Google search, I found this post referencing support by the Business Software Alliance, which includes Microsoft, Apple, and many others: http://thenextweb.com/insider/2011/11/17/which-tech-companie...
yea but GoDaddy being a domain registrar and hosting DNS for many domains already is a bit more scary in this case
Re: GoDaddy supports SOPA, redditor proposes "Move your Domain Day"
#8alternate: use godaddy, but only their loss-leading coupons when they appear. For example, I registered a domain last week using a code that got me $1.00 domain registration. The code expired last week unfortunately so posting it would be irrelevant.
I always do a coupon search, or just take the code from whatever their lowest Google ad price is. Just google "domains" they're always the first ad for me, and it's usually 4.99, 5.99, or 7.99 at the absolute most. (For .coms)
Re: GoDaddy supports SOPA, redditor proposes "Move your Domain Day"
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Re: GoDaddy supports SOPA, redditor proposes "Move your Domain Day"
#10Ive been using bluehost.com for 3 years to host 3 websites. I could list them but I dont want to spam. They have everything I need and I have seen no significant outages or price increases. Anyone here use Godaddy? How are their prices and service?
I don't use any of their services except domain registration, I keep my WHOIS up to date, and keep my names regularly renewed, to avoid any mishaps, I have never had an issue.
I have used their hosting in the past, and I wouldn't recommend it to a professional, but would to someone who wants to post pictures of their cats, or run a low traffic personal wordpress blog.