Help me to use GoDaddy

[frank-germany]

for .com domains only:

what is the best and cheapest way to use godaddy as a registrar?
( transfer and hand reg)


is it recommended to use godaddy?

does using godaddy give you a benefit when it comes
domains sales?

what are the disadantages when you use godaddy?


is there a way to not have a 60 days lock for transfers at godaddy?



@Joe Styler
@Paul Nicks

 

[MapleDots]

Here is my list of good at godaddy...

PROS

1. Instant push to most domainers (almost everyone has an account)
2. Option to turn off 60 day lock
3. Seems to get less spam when registering a new domain (godaddy whois somehow provides more protection)
4. All domains are actually with godaddy, a lot of registrars use other services for some extensions.
5. Absolutely great bulk tools.
6. Listing at auction can be done in a couple clicks, no verifying needed.
7. Can cross list with Afternic
8. Can use godaddy landers
9. Can have godaddy or afternic do all the negotiating for you.
10. Integrate godaddy appraisal tool into your control panel, shows godaddy appraised value (nice tool)
11. The interface is getting almost constant updates now, getting easier all the time.
12. Lots of warnings even when auto renew is shut off, you should never lose a domain.
13. No waiting to get transfer codes (unlike some other registrars)
14. Everything is automated so it works on weekends and nap times.
15. Very easy to park domains.

CONS

1. Sales are only good on new registrations or services, not on renewals.
2. Pricing is higher than at other registrars.
3. You have to purchase domain club to get pricing at par with the more aggressive registrars.



So for me the big question was....

Do I pay for Domain Club to get all the PROS for godaddy and is it worth it to me?

Well for me I value my time the most so the answer was yes. Godaddy has saved me so much time that I figured the domain club was worth it. For one of my businesses I charge for my time and I can make way more money instead of wasting time doing useless domain verifications etc.


Who would I consider if I ever changed?

My top choice would be Epik and I predict an epic battle coming in the future for which one of those two companies will take the most domainer business.

In my opinion the leader will be the one of convenience..... real domainers own hundreds if not thousands of domains. Give me the tools, convenience and pricing and you will get my business.

 

[frank-germany]

I am going to be a little "Cynical" here and say that there is not one experienced domainer on this forum who doesn't know how Godaddy works (even if they don't have any domains there currently).

Frank is just pretending to be Newbie here because by creating this thread he has set a trap (for guess who) to see if a certain person is going to jump in and promote his registrar.

Maybe we shouldn't be so naive here folks.

IMO

Maybe I should ignore you again...

But as you invoke suspicion
let me explain:

I hold my domains mainly at german registrars
owning mainly .de domains

I couldn't care about using GoDaddy or any other international registrar for .de domains
as you may understand.

Having used Epik
and wanting to leave them

and having sold a domain at afternic for more than I asked for
due to the great support and negotiation skills of an afternic employee

Due to the fact the I absolutely disliked GoDaddy
for their interface
and upsells
I tried to never use GoDaddy at all

Mike Mann has moved his domains to GoDaddy
I read about GoDaddy sales a lot at namepros

read about GoDaddy auctions
and have not used them at all

So I might have missed out on some great opportunities...

I might change my mind now
and use GoDaddy for my .com only

beeing a member of namepros
I don't need to make all the possible mistakes
and can just ask here.

 

[boker]

"3.Whois protection works the same for most big registrars and I don't see any difference between them"

I don't want privacy on my names
so no valid point for me


"6. Listing at auction can be done as fast at any other registrar, even faster at some of them."

GoDaddy Auctions?


"8.Do you think that godaddy landers are better than let's say epik landers? The dozens of namepros threads about landers will not agree with you."

I just want to leave epik
and I really don't appreciate their landers more than lets say like DAN


"13. I have never counted them, but for example epik starts giving you warning starting with 3 months ahead, so I can't understand why do you think that godaddy is better"

They are far better, as I said earlier
you can take out expired domains at GoDaddy

and Godaddy definetely sends more warning emails


"15. So it's hard to park domains with namesilo, epik, dynadot???"

I don't want to own domains for parking
but for sales

Selling through godaddy the main pro thing will be their marketplace, but I don't think that to many end users are buying through godaddy auctions, as I see it there are mostly domainers. If you want to benefit from godaddy marketplace for end users you will need to use the make offer feature, but in the same time you need to handle their bugs, their 72 hours response time, their upsells and much more...so from my point doesn't worth it.

 

[golan]

For $8 pricing you need discount club.

Then you need something like $5 per year for Auctions membership. Then you just open your Auctions page and list all your domains.

The GD auctions listings are somehow interconnected with Afternic but not for 100%, so you need separate listings on Afternic.

The major advantage of having your domains at GD was that then you can list them at GD premium auctions. This was until recently however there is some change in this now and it is unclear whether the premium auctions still exist in the same way.

Just start the process and many things will become clear. Otherwise search here and there are tons of discussions here. I don't think you will find any ready A-Z guide however.

 

[Windoms]

When I joined NP I saw that people were talking negatively about GD. I see nothing wrong with them, they are just providing services and making money as a mature cash cow. These days they're into updates and innovations so it's exciting.

The only disadvantage is having to pay for privacy protection on domains that need privacy. It should be included with discount club.

Everything else is great, and getting better.

I plan to have all my domains at GD, and have acquisitions there.
Sturdy keepers (genuine xx.xxx) to Uni.

3rd registrar for hand-regs if I ever deal with them (I have very few).

Discount club pricing is great for all TLDs.
See posts below
https://www.namepros.com/threads/new-gtlds-renew-or-drop-advice-thread.1110552/page-4#post-6989486
https://www.namepros.com/threads/new-gtlds-renew-or-drop-advice-thread.1110552/page-3#post-6989211

does using godaddy give you a benefit when it comes
domains sales?

When buyers see dan epik sedo vs godaddy domain they'll almost always use godaddy to make the purchase. Everything will work out, and if something goes wrong GD will work it out.
vs. losing your time/money somewhere.
GD BIN landers without any afternic logo or appraisal data should've been there a long time ago.

The new domain manager is great and getting better, bulk editing is no longer an issue.

I recommend you use GD.

 

[MapleDots]

The best part about using GoDaddy is when you have hundreds of domains and wish to list them on Auction, you have to verify nothing.

Now try to do the same thing and list hundreds of domains at sedo.

With GoDaddy a few clicks you can do a mass listing.

 

[MapleDots]

Obviously there is no verification needed to list your own domains listed at your own registrar’s marketplace.

That is true but if you keep your domains at namesilo the work involved to get all domains listed at godaddy and afternic can be quite a chore. I cannot see anyone calling namesilo home and not using the godaddy marketplace. I can see being at godaddy and not using the namesilo marketplace though.

Sheer size is the difference and the ease of listing at godaddy makes a huge time difference.

So any domainer who has hundreds of domains is in for quite a task to list all their domains at godaddy.

Now with the partner list growing all the time godaddy automates this process for you and you will automatically get pulled into other marketplaces. I can see this getting more and more automated as time continues.

I'm kinda glad to be at godaddy just because they are innovating at such a dramatic pace now. I predict godaddy will lead the pack in innovation and the only other registrar that will give them a run will be epik because they are also a huge innovator. Everyone else is kind sitting on the sidelines a bit.

IMHO of course

 

[tonyk2000]

the only registrar that allowed me to generate auth codes for expired .com
is GoDaddy

neither epik nor namesilo nor dyndat do that

Unsure about Epik, but you can definitely download csv with authcodes (including expired domains codes) on NameSilo. It may not be possible to unlock the expired domain using GUI though.
CSV download also works in GD case, with authcodes included. May be easier (vs. requesting emails)

 

[boker]

Here is my list of good at godaddy...

PROS

1. Instant push to most domainers (almost everyone has an account)
2. Option to turn off 60 day lock
3. Seems to get less spam when registering a new domain (godaddy whois somehow provides more protection)
4. All domains are actually with godaddy, a lot of registrars use other services for some extensions.
5. Absolutely great bulk tools.
6. Listing at auction can be done in a couple clicks, no verifying needed.
7. Can cross list with Afternic
8. Can use godaddy landers
9. Can have godaddy or afternic do all the negotiating for you.
10. Integrate godaddy appraisal tool into your control panel, shows godaddy appraised value (nice tool)
11. The interface is getting almost constant updates now, getting easier all the time.
12. Lots of warnings even when auto renew is shut off, you should never lose a domain.
13. No waiting to get transfer codes (unlike some other registrars)
14. Everything is automated so it works on weekends and nap times.
15. Very easy to park domains.

CONS

1. Sales are only good on new registrations or services, not on renewals.
2. Pricing is higher than at other registrars.
3. You have to purchase domain club to get pricing at par with the more aggressive registrars.



So for me the big question was....

Do I pay for Domain Club to get all the PROS for godaddy and is it worth it to me?

Well for me I value my time the most so the answer was yes. Godaddy has saved me so much time that I figured the domain club was worth it. For one of my businesses I charge for my time and I can make way more money instead of wasting time doing useless domain verifications etc.


Who would I consider if I ever changed?

My top choice would be Epik and I predict an epic battle coming in the future for which one of those two companies will take the most domainer business.

In my opinion the leader will be the one of convenience..... real domainers own hundreds if not thousands of domains. Give me the tools, convenience and pricing and you will get my business.

First of all, I should say that I think that you are in the first place mostly a buyer and just secondly a seller, so you don't have to go through all the pain an average domainer has to go, but I could be wrong.

Let's see your pros:

1. I have seen a lot of domainers( including pros 15+ years accounts) who really hate godaddy or at least they don't like them, but I didn't heard to many domainers to hate/dislike namesilo/dynadot and others, so the push to a domainer could be done as easyly to namesilo, dynadot.
2.As far as I know, you can remove the 60 days lock just in special cases, like hen some info is changed and some others, but for a freshly registered domain the 60 days is there as per Icann rules, correct me if I'm wrong PS: some registrar are removing your lock automatically in these cases, without having to ask them
3.Whois protection works the same for most big registrars and I don't see any difference between them
4. I don't really understand this point, you are saying that namesilo or dynadot are using other registrars for ngtlds?
5. I wonder what bulk tools can you name comparing them with epik, namesilo, dynadot
6. Listing at auction can be done as fast at any other registrar, even faster at some of them.
7. Registering with namesilo, dynadot, epik, your domains will appear in the same time at afternic network(including godaddy) and at sedo in the same time, so I can see it as a minus.
8.Do you think that godaddy landers are better than let's say epik landers? The dozens of namepros threads about landers will not agree with you.
9.Do you think that a company with tens of millions of customers are doing more for you than let's say epik, namesilo, uniregistry( including here the 72 hours response time, the upsells and much more)
10.Uniregistry has just gived up to estibot appraisal tool, after couple of years of using it, so that should prove that there is no value in an automated appraisal tool when you list your domains.
11.This is a point which should have a dozens subpoints, talking about the multitude of bugs at godaddy, so it will be easier to just redirect you to around 10 namepros threads talking about godaddy
12.interface/bugs
13. I have never counted them, but for example epik starts giving you warning starting with 3 months ahead, so I can't understand why do you think that godaddy is better
14. I can't understand what do you mean by automated, do you refer to the 3 days response time, to the 7 days checking the funds, to the 72 hours verifying a listing...automated is a system like undeveloped(even for them not everything is smooth) for me goddady is archaic when you are talking about automated and 2020
15. So it's hard to park domains with namesilo, epik, dynadot???

 

[MapleDots]

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Also the go daddy appraisal tool will not show in your control panel unless you select USA as your language.

If you set language to canada the appraisal tool disappears in the control panel.

This is separate from the currency setting.

 

[golan]

as for the cheapest way: https://www.namepros.com/threads/go...year-35-2-year-67-and-huge-discounts.1099068/ the prices now may differ but still check this guy out, if you plan to buy more than i think 15 or 20 domains there in a year to come then it's definitely worth.

 

[lock]

Discount club is a must and godaddy auctions. Not sure how many names justify it all but I would say once you hit a hundred names it would be worth it as would be getting serious at that point anyhow.

 

[Windoms]

Discount club is a must and godaddy auctions. Not sure how many names justify it all but I would say once you hit a hundred names it would be worth it as would be getting serious at that point anyhow.

Less than a 100.

In September I bought 50 domains + privacy from Godaddy for approx $1200. A couple days later I found out about godaddy domain discount club and I realized that with the same $1200 I could have bought more domains + paid for the 100$ discount club fee..

 

[xynames]

Well the value of the marketplace might be one factor that induces you to register your domains at that registrar, especially if there is no other way to list your domains in that marketplace. For example - DynaDot marketplace - I get regular offers there and sell occasionally, and DD marketplace is available only for domains registered at DynaDot.

But as mentioned there are ways to get into the GoDiddy marketplace without registering your domains at GD (such as via Afternic premium, for example).

Still your point is valid about that it’s easier to list your domains at a given marketplace if your domains are already registered with the marketplace owner (since no further ownership verification needed), but it’s just not a huge benefit unless there is no other way to get into that marketplace other than by registering your domains there.

 

[forge]

1. Instant push to most domainers (almost everyone has an account)

Not always true. It can often take days.

13. No waiting to get transfer codes (unlike some other registrars)

Also not always the case. It can take multiple attempts before successfully getting an auth code by email. However, this seems to be improving.

 

[oldtimer]

Maybe I should ignore you again...

But as you invoke suspicion
let me explain:

I hold my domains mainly at german registrars
owning mainly .de domains

I couldn't care about using GoDaddy or any other international registrar for .de domains
as you may understand.

Having used Epik
and wanting to leave them

and having sold a domain at afternic for more than I asked for
due to the great support and negotiation skills of an afternic employee

Due to the fact the I absolutely disliked GoDaddy
for their interface
and upsells
I tried to never use GoDaddy at all

Mike Mann has moved his domains to GoDaddy
I read about GoDaddy sales a lot at namepros

read about GoDaddy auctions
and have not used them at all

So I might have missed out on some great opportunities...

I might change my mind now
and use GoDaddy for my .com only

beeing a member of namepros
I don't need to make all the possible mistakes
and can just ask here.

Okay, maybe you are a Newbie when it comes to GoDaddy.

But you surely understand why I might be a little suspicious here, nevertheless I like Godaddy and have used them for many years now, but in general I am not happy when a registrar is in competition for your domains and can't wait to grab them once they are about to expire, the only registrar that I know of that gives you full 35 days to renew your domains I believe is Fabulous.com

IMO

 

[boker]

It's a love hate relationship but in the end you use whoever has the best tools and for me it's godaddy.

Remember it's always the squeaky wheel that gets the oil, for every one domainer that complains there are 10 using godaddy with no complaints. THe one guy that has an issue is always the one to complain.

I know that you have bought some great .ca domains and if I'm not wrong, you were saying that you have around 1k domains or so, btu I don't don't how many transfers/change of registrars and so on have you done. I can tell you that I've done a little over 1000 transfers/pushes just in the last 3 years so I have a lot of experience with most registrars that matters. I can start listing issues I've had personally with godaddy, but I will derail the thread so I will just list a few: selling to a guy in UK, he had an account at godaddy and wanted the domain moved there, so I've gived him the auth code and it took 8 days to send me the email to confirm the transfer, so it took around 13 days to finalize, with godaddy put me on wit for 3 days every time, almost lost the sale( the bug was that godaddy has automated emails for confirming a transfer, so they were sending the confirmation to the registrar, not the registrant but they didn't cared about solving the issue, they were just resending the confirmation again and again to the wrong place. Also, you should try calling from Europe( because you don't want to wait 3 days for them to answer through email) and put you on hold for 30 minutes and then to let you know that they UK team is just for customer service regarding sales and if you want something from the auction team you should wait until the next day, when they are online(and than wait another 40 minutes for them to contact you). Also, I'm not even talking about their 22 days payouts, about their prices, about their missing lot's of cctlds and ngtlds. Also, I don't don't how many pushes were you doimg a few months ago, when it took forever to do a push. And I can go on and on with this bugs. Strangely, I don't have the same issues with namesilo, dynadot or epik and others. Also, you are saying that they have the biggest marketplace( and that's true) but you keep forgeting that they own only 17% of the total domains, so 83% of domains, if you will try to move them from other registrar,you will need a lot of patience. Also, the sales for last year are just here. they sale roughly for the same mounts as sedo, 30% more than uniregistry and double than undeveloped, so you are making it bigger than it is. You could say that you are benefiting from their big marketplace or that you loose the benefit from dealing with the registrars owning the rest of 83%.

 

[boker]

Actually that is not quite correct, I don't use privacy with godaddy and will rarely if ever get a spam phone call when I register a new .com. By comparisons when I was with another registrar I started getting spam calls the next day after I registered a .com. Godaddy forces you to go to their site to look up whois and I think that is another layer some of the other registrars don't have.

I use around 10 registrars at the moment, and I have around 15-20 spam emails a day, that takes around 10-15 seconds to delete them, so no issues here. I've just checked my only domain with godaddy and it doesn't forces me to go to their website, so I don't know about this. Also, we should talk about the spam from godaddy, telling you that you have a 30% discount from the $17.99 full price or that a domain that you had checked through their system, is still available( this is another bad and long story)

 

[Windoms]

Does anyone know if it is possible to get the GD Discount Club prices in US dollars? Every way I try removing the .ca it fills into URL it seems to revert to Canadian dollars. I simply ask because I wanted to do comparison with other pricing, but would prefer the US dollars for that. Thanks.
Bob

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[golan]

the only registrar that allowed me to generate auth codes for expired .com
is GoDaddy

neither epik nor namesilo nor dyndat do that

NetSol gives you codes for expires as well.

 

[Windoms]

Also, I rarely use email or phone customer service with GD.
I do everything through live chat, even on sundays.
Day and night, including refunds for purchases.
You have phone support in any language.
godaddy.com/contact-us

Hard to beat.

 

[frank-germany]

For $8 pricing you need discount club.

Then you need something like $5 per year for Auctions membership. Then you just open your Auctions page and list all your domains.

The GD auctions listings are somehow interconnected with Afternic but not for 100%, so you need separate listings on Afternic.

The major advantage of having your domains at GD was that then you can list them at GD premium auctions. This was until recently however there is some change in this now and it is unclear whether the premium auctions still exist in the same way.

Just start the process and many things will become clear. Otherwise search here and there are tons of discussions here. I don't think you will find any ready A-Z guide however.

thanks a lot
that was the info
I was looking for

 

[Bob Hawkes]

I am not currently a member of GD Discount Club, but I believe the auctions membership is included with it. Note that although you are shown the discount club as a monthly amount, you need to pay for a year in advance. Also there are various discount codes around to get it a bit less than full price.

I am not sure if privacy is important to you, but note that is a significant extra charge per domain at GD, I think even with discount club?

I am not sure if you use fast transfer, but GD are of course part of Afternic (since they own it!) but not Sedo.

With the continuing integration steps I am not sure of advantages of being at GD for Afternic. I have Afternic listed names some at GD some elsewhere, and with Fast Transfer it does not seem different to me where they get shown.

Bob

 

[Bob Hawkes]

It probably depends slightly on your country currency, but I think the breakeven point is just below 50 .com. That is if you are registering 50 or more .com at GD you save enough on registrations to pay the annual discount membership (not counting a few other benefits it brings). Of course even with that, will not be as cheap as some other registrars, especially if one wants privacy. But GD have advantages as noted by other posters here.
Bob

 

[Chacha Wixard]

I am moving out from GoDaddy to DynaDot. In GD I have to pay privacy, in DD is free. I have around 50 domains, and I have "bulk pricing" already.

DD customer service is good enough. They answered my tickets in less than 12 hours. Some complained on DD in the forum, but that is normal.

I also can put some credit/balance pay from Paypal w/o any money transfer fee (I bet DD has to eat the fee) even $5 transfer. With balance, you can apply to auto renewal fee, so you do not need to forget to renew certain domain.

Landing parking, or sale on domain, DD has it all free.

DD mobile app is also awesome. I can bid an auction just in clicks away from my phone. I could claim available domain in just less than 30 seconds by entering name, add, and my auth code.

The negative about DD may be they have some marketplace lock on when you win an auction there, but I guess that is also at other registrar when you can't move domain out registrar.

I wish DD will have API for their system (they only have auction API which lot of people still complain), so I can code my website for domain related features. For API may be Epik is better. @Rob Monster gave me a list of their API and looks awesome. But if you are not developer, then no need this at all.

GoDaddy. I won an auction a domain that will be expiring in a week. Ok, I understand that I could not move out after the domain was mine because expiring in a week. So, I renewed with their price which is more expensive than DD of course. Then I requested to move out. They denied and I have to stay 60 days. I was not happy, and decided to move all domains I have in GD to DD soon it is available to transfer.