Go Daddy a No-Go. Screw them.

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Comment by Erik Deckers on September 9, 2008 at 11:17am

Doug Karr knows a lot of good companies. But Heid does a good job as well, AND he's a Smoosier. Doug uses non-Indiana companies (Commie!)

Comment by Andrew Ball on September 8, 2008 at 6:23pm

Heid's link: http://www.smallerindiana.com/profile/Heid

Comment by Andrew Ball on September 8, 2008 at 6:22pm

Talk to Heid - he's a Smoosier and hosts my site and all of Lorraine's Roundpeg sites.

Comment by Chris Hadley on September 8, 2008 at 4:56pm

Hey Erik. Thanks for the reply. Do you (or anyone else) have a good hosting company you can recommend? I'm still not sure if I want to tackle taking on hosting my own site just yet. Still need to tinker with an old computer to see if I can figure it out haha.

Comment by Erik Deckers on September 8, 2008 at 4:08pm

Chris,

Don't buy a new domain, just switch it over to another host. No point in reinventing the wheel just because GoDaddy isn't working out. You should be able to regain traction once you make the switch.

Comment by Chris Hadley on September 8, 2008 at 3:53pm

I'm done with GoDaddy as well. I bought some basic hosting from them for my blog and it has failed to show in Google search results after months. The site has pages indexed in webmaster tools but they fail to show in search results. In the end, numerous people suggested that the host may have been blocked in the past and is causing me issues. For this I say boo to GoDaddy and will be buying a new domain and hosting service and starting from scratch with another company... or maybe I will just run a web server at home.

Comment by Kyle Lacy on June 19, 2008 at 9:10pm

You have to link it though... www.godaddy.com

Comment by Lorraine Ball on June 17, 2008 at 4:39pm

I think you have done a good job of mentioning how bad the service is at GoDaddy.com

Comment by Theresia Whitfield on June 17, 2008 at 1:27pm

You mean if we keep mentioning www.GoDaddy.com more and more people will find out that www.GoDaddy.com is crappy and no one would register their domains with www.GoDaddy.com?

See, how many more ways can I throw www.GoDaddy.com in this post?!

Comment by Lorraine Ball on June 17, 2008 at 1:08pm

One of the interesting things about the web, is that the more you use the name of the site: www.godaddy.com, the more likely these posts are to come up when someone searches for information about them.

So the more we discuss how www.GoDaddy.com is no longer a reliable source of domain names, the more likely it is that others will find out about it as well.

I did discover, that my client actually bought the names this time, but this has happened on other occasions.

And while i am on the subject of why I hate GoDaddy... Domains registered with them are a pain to transfer to a new host. It has been two weeks, and we can't get the site moved. Despite repeated requests.

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