My thoughts on GoDaddy

[Ed Jones]

This thread is basically great, but it would be even greater if there were a "top 10" list of tips & tricks. That is, I think I know more than this poster - CJC-anything "may" (under ? circumstances) be good for a single use. Or maybe that's basically FALSE but someone either at GD or who's smarter than I could amend the hypothesis to make it more sound. Almost for sure, if one has used "Art149," one will have no hope trying Art199. So I think your guess about a DDC penalty is simply off-base. Obviously, GD has the simple goal of maximizing revenue while this board basically has the opposite goal. I'm ever so grateful for the person who posted the trick of emptying one's cart and then putting "back" what ONE y'want to reg.... As I say, while there is the occasional genuinely new code posted and/or new "hack," these 800 pages could be distilled into 5 to everyone's advantage. Maybe, somebody can point me to such a site. Until then, I'll be mostly reading.

 

[DomainGnome]

Ed, I hear you. But I have been able to use multiple variations of similar codes in the past, much to my own amazement. Hear me out - I'm not really sure if Godaddy would post a CJC code for veterans that would be invalid if they had ever used another CJC in the past. If so, the banner should read, "Welcome Armed Forces and Veterans! We kinda maybe salute you with a $0.99 .COM Domain that may be invalid if you've used another similar code in the past!!" That would be a bit of a slap in the face, yes? (Not worse than a safari, but not good PR.) So I'm waiting to hear about other DDC members' experience with this code before knowing for sure.

I'm a little worried about posting too many tricks here, as you suggest, because I'm concerned that the GD folks who read this thread will just pick up on them and disable. As you say, GD's goal is to maximize revenue, and frankly no domainer using this thread is really their target audience with these coupons. That company has probably not made a dime on me in several years.

BTW, Congrats on a most interesting first post for just having joined today. Keep the good ideas coming. Your familiarity with the DDC suggests you subscribe? If you don't mind my asking, why this thread for first comment literally minutes after you joined?

Sorry to be perhaps a bit off topic with my last 2 posts, but I hope it's relevant.

 

[ulterios]

Almost for sure, if one has used "Art149," one will have no hope trying Art199.

This is actually incorrect. Using a 99, 149, 199, 295 version of a code does not stop the other $ amount versions of the same code. Many times I have (And I know other have as well) used a $ variation of the same code and it worked with a different $ amount variation of the same code. I have not tried every variation of every code but the ones I have tried worked for me and I know the same can be said for others.

GoDaddy does have some grouped codes that f you use one then you are not able to use another but that's not always the case.

 

[Ed Jones]

First, you surely know about lurkers, and I guess that's what I mostly am - but I feel I owe "this community" something. Don't worry about GD making money - somehow (and you could probably figure it out as easily as I can), they prove that selling "razor blades" still works ... especially when you're the Gillette in a very big "niche." (And plenty of people pay 'em $5-10 REGULARLY, out of ignorance or laziness.) No DDC for me - my specs either work out within 12 mos. or they don't. Basically, GD *must* be good at marketing, because they really would have gone bust if my sense about everything they do except "price" - a very negative outlook - were anything like mainstream. But offending people is probably NOT something they worry about, even vets. I think their goal must be to keep some healthy percent of "people like us" in their fold - as I say, the whole story is not that my last 300 buys maybe averaged $3/each - AND THEN go from their current "share" of 2% of the 300 million Americans (total guess!) and the 0.01% of folks outside the U.S. ... to some much bigger percents, with many of those good for 2-10 names probably averaging $6-8 per. Make serious coin on whatever percent get renewed ... and maybe I ought to check out what the stock's selling at. It's like AOL used to be - good enuf and cheap enuf and there early enuf and advertising so much that you wonder if any other choice will be there a year from now (if tech is NOT your field).... In short, so easy a decision to make that more people (50% + ??) regging their 1st d.n. do it with GD than anybody else - I'd guess BY FAR. LAST - I think their algorithm treats different customers differently, depending on whether they're "bulk purchasers." I can't prove this, and maybe it's mostly paranoia, but it seems obvious to me that they COULD - and it certainly makes good business sense. (I have some, albeit far from conclusive, evidence, too. I mean that on the same day that you or I might be nixed on CDCsomething, somebody else might have success with it - and NOT because they were a virgin before they did, just not "spreading it around quite as much.) Seriously, if the micro-pennies they realize from the millions of names that get clicked on with only their ads ... and aftermarket auctions ... amounts to as much money as I think they do, maybe they even view US as OK customers to have, however low our average reg. price is. Somebody must know what THEIR actual cost is just on dot coms - by the 100's of millions per year. I'll bet it's under $5 per, maybe way under, so $2.95 may or may not be a "loss leader." Maybe, they're just doing what Amazon is doing - albeit with just a single product and barely anything to think about except how aggressive to price and how many billions of ads they should place here and there. At some point, they hope to morph into Wal-Mart, again on a much smaller scale.

 

[DomainGnome]

LAST - I think their algorithm treats different customers differently, depending on whether they're "bulk purchasers." I can't prove this, and maybe it's mostly paranoia, but it seems obvious to me that they COULD - and it certainly makes good business sense....

This seems to contradict Ed Jones stated disbelief that they may be penalizing me on codes as a member of DDC. Whatever. More importantly I would be interested to hear from fairly active DDC and NON-DDC members regarding their success with the code in question (please without repeating the code so that everyone's happy). That might settle whether my suspicions have any foundation. Thanks!