This acquisition shows that GoDaddy knows Uniregistry is good.
On a phone call with a GoDaddy rep several months ago, I mentioned that most of my domains are elsewhere and he asked where. I told him they’re
mostly at Uniregistry and he asked why and I explained that
it’s far easier to manage my domains there.
I welcome the proposed integration with Afternic DLS but I really hope GoDaddy doesn’t make too many changes to Uniregistry and their
user interface because GoDaddy’s own website is a labyrinth of too many pages and
a simple action that takes 5 seconds on Uniregistry takes 5 minutes on GoDaddy.
I’m also
concerned about pricing because even though Uniregistry isn’t the cheapest,
their renewals are half what GoDaddy charges. While GoDaddy may be able to charge end users that sort of price,
domain investors are aware that they have many other options of registrar. This is one reason why I transferred all of my good domains away from GoDaddy and the ones I left there are expiring
Probably like many others, I registered my very first domain at GoDaddy and I no longer use them, but if GoDaddy handles this well and switches to Uniregistry pricing (which I doubt they'll do), I can see myself staying (for the management system that Uniregistry created). I currently have my high value domains on Uniregistry landers with brokerage and my standard domains listed on and pointed to DAN.
So GoDaddy, please, keep it simple, and keep it affordable.
Please don’t kill a good platform just to make it bad. User interface and price are very important.
@Paul Nicks @Joe Styler
@Quintin