Nodaddy.com

[binaryman]

Just came across this. http://nodaddy.com/ I myself have never had a problem with Godaddy in the +- 2 years I have been a customer there. I find their service reps quick, friendly and helpfull when I do have the odd issue.
Anybody else have a good Godaddy experience?

Update:

I see that Nodaddy.mobi is registered by Godaddy and resolves to the Godaddy.com site.

 

[bfluid]

i have had no problems with godaddy- but then again i have not had any of the issues posted on nodaddy.

its kinda scary when you think about it. we forget we do not "own" these names- more of a lease, and with any lease, there is always some loophole in which yyou can be evicted. and every landlord has these loopholes.
you think you are gonna be just fine, and then whack.

its kinda scary actually the stuff i read. and what can you do? unless you have deep pockets to fight it

i hate the fact that bob is untouchable- monte has posted on these boards himself. i dont know- the whole thing can be scary sometimes.
and these damn eggs we colored for easter are stinking up my fricken house.

I'm for GoDaddy.

But Bob is gay.

1. He is like 52 and he wears an earing.

2. I mean come on, you're selling a poster of yourself???

Dude, colored eggs...

 

[Name Trader]

I have had one major issue (that my rep couldn't help with), which went all they way to the office of the president of GD, but they refused to admit a problem or help me. A week after their "final" decision, they made a change in their TDNAM website to prevent/correct the problem they said didn't exist...which was good, but I still lost about $500 on the deal.

I have almost an identical experience to you.... at eNom

 

[raredn.com]

I'm for GoDaddy.

But Bob is gay.

1. He is like 52 and he wears an earing.

2. I mean come on, you're selling a poster of yourself???

Dude, colored eggs...

:hehe: he he, Bob thinks he is a CK model

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[goodkarmaco]

For a guy who was a marine, then gets into the domain thing and becomes the world leader in domain registrations you have to admired him somewhat. Hes tough and smart. After earning that status, he can wear a ring in his nose for all I care.

Thats the beauty of our business, you don't have to look or dress a certain way.

I have the same issues of going thru all the sales gimmicks to register or renew a name. Other than that no problems.

When I personally have a problem about something I don't understand, I give them a phone call. Contrary to what some say, I find their customer service very good. I do think being nice goes along way though when contacting them, they are people too.

 

[wikes82]

the story behind nodaddy, actually quite interesting.
If you're a computer security expert, you must know about the story, it happened to Fyodor, the creator of nmap (http://nmap.org/) - Fyodor site (http://insecure.org)
he has a security forum, seclists.org, one day in the forum, one hacker posted passwords list for myspace account. Then myspace reported it to godaddy (the registrar of seclists.org). Within minutes, GoDaddy shut down the website, by suspending the domain name (seclists.org). It happened without godaddy contacting the owner of the domain name first (Fyodor).

Then few days later (or months), Fyodor set up a site called NoDaddy.com

 

[lzy]

He got back the domain eventually or?

 

[smashfactory]

For a guy who was a marine, then gets into the domain thing and becomes the world leader in domain registrations you have to admired him somewhat. Hes tough and smart. After earning that status, he can wear a ring in his nose for all I care.

Thats the beauty of our business, you don't have to look or dress a certain way.

I have the same issues of going thru all the sales gimmicks to register or renew a name. Other than that no problems.

When I personally have a problem about something I don't understand, I give them a phone call. Contrary to what some say, I find their customer service very good. I do think being nice goes along way though when contacting them, they are people too.

ah yes, but often times, the bigger they are, the harder they fall. customer service is excellent, as long as you chug along and do not ruffle any feathers. then from what i read, every answer is canned.
many a leader has worked hard, earned his title, then let all the glory get to his head- or his ear. and that has also been the downfall of many in power-

 

[wikes82]

He got back the domain eventually or?

yes, he got the domain back, then transfer all his domains to moniker.

 

[TheWatcher]

Nothing against anyone here so don't get angry. :hehe:

But I hate everything about GoDaddy. First of all I'm from Canada so I can't register .ca names. Thats fine no problems. Nothing against them for that. Its not a massive market.

But I hate the look of their site. Its so messy and filled with ads at every turn.

I hate their logo, looks like a guy with spaghetti hair on fire. Or a guy who never showers with stink lines coming from the top of his head.

I hate their colours. Green and orange or whatever it is now.

I hate the "Congratulations, hamandcheesesandwich.com is available! Click Next........ Do you want privacy for this name? Its only $8!..... No thanks........ Just to let you know the .net .org .info .biz .gc .ph .pk (500 more variations)........ are available for only $56,953.46 more! With the domain privacy that you should be getting for free, its only $102,432.63. Do you want to take advantage of this offer?..... No thanks............ Ok you have been billed for $5.95, do you want to hand over your credit card to GoDaddy for random billing by us?... No thanks...... Congratulations! Please navigate through the main page and open windows magnifier, you should see your account tools in size 3 font in the top left beside the 50 ads. Thank you for using GoDaddy!

My god, you have to go through like 20 pages of ads to buy a name.

I hate the GoDaddy girls. I don't get the concept of this. Thats like having the Hooters girls advertising the wall street journal. Its the wrong crowd!

Finally I hate the name. I feel like an idiot even saying "GoDaddy"

Sorry thats my rant!

Just like going to IKEA store, I just need to buy one thing and I need to see all of them. Tsk tsk

I hate their control panel and push domain approach.

 

[binaryman]

Update:

I see that Nodaddy.mobi is registered by Godaddy and resolves to the Godaddy.com site.

 

[goodkarmaco]

Its all good

Smash,

just wondering why the eggs are stinking up the place?. Are you boiling them for Easter decorations and then painting them? They should not stink if you boil them first.

True, unlike the bank bailout for the biggest financial investment bank Stearns, Godaddy would be on its own if it went down. The government won't bail out those in the domain business.

For all the work of being number one, it takes much less effort to fail then it took to be the big kid on the block.

Not to compare these two companies, but look at Moniker for a minute. I just renewed some domains there and the price was $6.25. Thats cheap. But saying that I am assuming the price is that low as they look at registering names as a service not a profit making plan. My thinking is they don't charge much as they want domainers to park, buy and sell names with them. So registering names for them is more of doing a service to domainers over making big bucks doing it. I mean really what are they making if it costs $5.95 to renew a name with them?

Godaddy on the other hand set out to be number one in domain registrant business. If you know little you will pay more and if you know alot as most domainers do you pay less, (coupons, codes, etc.).

If a company has no hook, they will loose money. I can imagine how much they would charge for registering a name if they had no add ons to show a profit. I can literally register a name with them in a couple to three minutes, ( or more than one). All you have to do is skip real fast the add ons and you are done.

Now for credibility selling a name and having your client take control of it, its important to think about the fact that some of your buyers have little knowledge of the process and many run scared before the transaction is complete. You want those folks to trust you and the place they are to receive the name. I have to say Godaddy gets the prize for credibility.

Godaddy is as branded as you can get. The only thing a big part of the general population knows about domains is Godaddy!

If you sell a name in Ebay, or a person finds you thru a who is look up, it is not going to scare the interested party away if you mention you have the name at Godaddy.com. Say Moniker, Fab, or Register, or most of the other registrants and many times you will get a huh?

If you are selling names you want complete trust to end a transaction, so in my view a little hassle with add ons to go thru before check out is a small price to pay for more deals going thru to completion.

Everyone knows Godaddy, they are the brand for domains. You have to think about this if you are selling names. I know for me even recently selling a $1,000 name to a person who found me thru the who is look up I had no problem getting the person to open an Godaddy acct and push the name to him. He had no knowledge of domaining. But he sure knew of Godaddy.

Sometimes its easier to make money when we look at domaining thru our customers eyes.

 

[raredn.com]

Yes that is what godaddy has going for it. It is the non domainers regsiter, which makes it better for sales to the normal people

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[htmlindex]

Sometimes is seems that their reps are a bit stupid as when you ask a specific question, sometimes they cut & paste a totally unrelated answer that doesn't even address your question so you have to re-email them & ask it again! But usually when you ask a question, they answer prompty & with the correct answer.

Could do with cheaper prices also. Besides that, they are an ok company.

 

[squid]

Godaddy have been great for me, never had a problem.
When i contacted them to cancel my domain, the domain was cancelled and money refunded within 24 hours.

 

[.11]

I agree with everything xvxmatthewxvx has said.

And what about the LLLL.com scams that happen on digital point? You think that GD will do something since it was a lot of people who lost their domains

 

[VisualArtistFrankBonilla]

Nothing against anyone here so don't get angry. :hehe:

But I hate everything about GoDaddy. First of all I'm from Canada so I can't register .ca names. Thats fine no problems. Nothing against them for that. Its not a massive market.

But I hate the look of their site. Its so messy and filled with ads at every turn.

I hate their logo, looks like a guy with spaghetti hair on fire. Or a guy who never showers with stink lines coming from the top of his head.

I hate their colours. Green and orange or whatever it is now.

I hate the "Congratulations, hamandcheesesandwich.com is available! Click Next........ Do you want privacy for this name? Its only $8!..... No thanks........ Just to let you know the .net .org .info .biz .gc .ph .pk (500 more variations)........ are available for only $56,953.46 more! With the domain privacy that you should be getting for free, its only $102,432.63. Do you want to take advantage of this offer?..... No thanks............ Ok you have been billed for $5.95, do you want to hand over your credit card to GoDaddy for random billing by us?... No thanks...... Congratulations! Please navigate through the main page and open windows magnifier, you should see your account tools in size 3 font in the top left beside the 50 ads. Thank you for using GoDaddy!

My god, you have to go through like 20 pages of ads to buy a name.

I hate the GoDaddy girls. I don't get the concept of this. Thats like having the Hooters girls advertising the wall street journal. Its the wrong crowd!

Finally I hate the name. I feel like an idiot even saying "GoDaddy"

Sorry thats my rant!

Ha! I have to agree 100%. There is just too much crap on Godaddy! Could be called Crapdaddy!

Frank

 

[IAmAllanShore]

The search will only work in this link for a little while, but plug "nodaddy.com" into the search form at the top of the forum to get a lot more of the story, including some info from the horse's mouth itself
http://www.namepros.com/search.php?searchid=2022030

-Allan :gl:

 

[N-grace]

I always use namecheap.com for my domain name registrations and have started using godaddy just few days back when I have bought some sites here. Just to give a try I registered a new domain name there and it cost me $16 something (I am new to remember godaddy figures) with the whois privacy option even after adding the promo code for $6.95 per .com domain. I was wondering if I could have registered it at namecheap, it would have cost me $9.99 only with free whois guard enabled..

 

[seven]

N-grace, Godaddy has free registeration if you register 5 domains at a time right now. Godaddy has great customer service reps. My only problem is I've had 4 names (including 2 yesterday) where I get an email a little after I register the domain and it was magically taken before I registered the name. I still register there because of the superb prices, but I always hold my breath a little bit. Oh yeah, I think they'll nab your domain if you search for it and don't register it.

 

[Dave_Z]

Could be called Crapdaddy!

Damn, registered and parked.