123-reg pull this kind of stunt all the time. I recently had a 2-month debacle where I nearly lost my domain due to their terrible systems.
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Re: GoDaddy deletes my domains and charges me to restore them
#62Normally I would try to be fair to the registrar, after all we are only hearing one side of the story, but it is very hard to defend a piece of shit company like GoDaddy and frankly I don't have much sympathy for anyone who continued to pay them to screw them over (removing card on file or not). The time to have moved away from those scumbags was when they came out in support of SOPA. There are very few companies tha…
I'll throw another vote in for Hover, their site is much nicer to navigate and service were recently very helpful to fix an issue involving email delay (that turned out to be caused by my ISP).
Re: GoDaddy deletes my domains and charges me to restore them
#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thank you for that advice. I will remember that...I will be moving my domains to Hover or namecheap soon.
Looks like you have many domains. My unsolicited advise - do not keep them all in one place and NameCheap is not the only better one. I am from India and use BigRock(Indian) and Name.com. No problems till now. Choose at least 2-3 and distribute. Keep a track. I am sure you have made calendar entries to track their renewals &c, or maybe there's some automated service for that(would love to know, if there's one).
I agree. NameCheap is a good option though. They have been leveraging GoDaddy's fuckups to gain new customers. Their social media antics have got them a lot of socially savvy customers. So they know that, if they stray, they will be flayed publicly, and all the goodwill will vanish quickly.
Another registrar I will recommend is Dynadot, simply because I have used them for several years without any hassle, and they have a live support that's actually helpful.
Re: GoDaddy deletes my domains and charges me to restore them
#64GoDaddy? You were warned. No sympathy.
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#65I moved all my domains to namecheap for a similar reason.
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#66I'm sorry to be callous, but at this point I feel little pity for someone still buying domains through GoDaddy. It is a terrible company with terrible policies, terrible management, and a horribly misogynistic marketing team. Why are you continuing to pay them rent on your domains?
Could we be constructive and maybe name some GOOD domain registrars - so that if people read this and are on GoDaddy they could move?
I've heard good things about "namecheap."
Re: GoDaddy deletes my domains and charges me to restore them
#67I'm sorry to be callous, but at this point I feel little pity for someone still buying domains through GoDaddy. It is a terrible company with terrible policies, terrible management, and a horribly misogynistic marketing team. Why are you continuing to pay them rent on your domains?
Could we be constructive and maybe name some GOOD domain registrars - so that if people read this and are on GoDaddy they could move? I've heard good things about "namecheap."
I've had great results from domainmonster and gandi (both European based, but that shouldn't make a difference).
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#68I used to have my domains on GoDaddy but I switch to Bluehost after a year. I recommend it to everyone. Great customer service. Bluehost.com
Re: GoDaddy deletes my domains and charges me to restore them
#69I'm sorry to be callous, but at this point I feel little pity for someone still buying domains through GoDaddy. It is a terrible company with terrible policies, terrible management, and a horribly misogynistic marketing team. Why are you continuing to pay them rent on your domains?
What other companies would you recommend then?
Re: GoDaddy deletes my domains and charges me to restore them
#70I'm sorry to be callous, but at this point I feel little pity for someone still buying domains through GoDaddy. It is a terrible company with terrible policies, terrible management, and a horribly misogynistic marketing team. Why are you continuing to pay them rent on your domains?
Could we be constructive and maybe name some GOOD domain registrars - so that if people read this and are on GoDaddy they could move? I've heard good things about "namecheap."
I am using namecheap for 5-6 years now (can't remember for how long). I never had to do anything except manually renew the domain I needed.
I also set myself in a mission to 'help' people who need help with setting up their DNS and uses Godaddy to transfer them to Namecheap first before helping out - simply because I wouldn't want to deal with Godaddy horrible UI.
To date I think I've been able to move about 100 domains out of Godaddy.
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By the way it's a shame since I know some Godaddy Execs and they're very nice, I feel they're like trying to navigate a old ship that won't turn its course no matter how much energy they put in.