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Summary of a review onRedditr/webhostingNov 11, 2026Negative

Was charged for a domain they never ordered; GoDaddy said a staff member with account access made the purchase and gave no clear explanation of how.

Summary of a review onRedditr/HostingNov 11, 2026Negative

Has used GoDaddy for over 12 years and feels it declined; contact-form emails stopped reaching their inbox and GoDaddy branding is on their emails.

Gandi

Customer reviewNov 3, 2026Negative

My domains have sat at Gandi since around 2009. Back then the mailboxes came free with each domain and renewals were never something I thought about. Since the company was bought, both changed. Mail became a paid add-on, so I moved it to another provider and only kept the free forwarding, and my .com renewals now cost more than three times what I pay at Porkbun. The DNS editor is still clean and I can't remember a single outage. Twelve domains moved so far, the rest will go as they come up for renewal.

Summary of a review onRedditr/webhostingOct 29, 2026Negative

Calls starting a website with GoDaddy the worst decision of their life.

Summary of a review onRedditr/sysadminOct 26, 2026Negative

During GoDaddy's certificate mass revocation, certificates had 3 hours or even negative warning, and GoDaddy's delegation settings were a joke.

Summary of a review onRedditr/sysadminOct 25, 2026Negative

GoDaddy-backed certificates were mass revoked with only 3 hours notice at 2am on some and no notice on others, forcing rushed renewals.

Summary of a review onRedditr/sysadminOct 23, 2026Negative

GoDaddy revocation emails arrived at 20:30 CET and 80 certificates had to be reissued overnight.

Summary of a review onRedditr/sysadminOct 22, 2026Negative

GoDaddy gave a generic ChatGPT-style answer that would have cost the company its data during an outgoing migration.

Summary of a review onRedditr/sysadminOct 22, 2026Negative

During the GoDaddy certificate mass revocation, communication was generic, the portal did not show affected certs, support was clueless and Europeans got 3-4 hours notice.

Summary of a review onRedditr/sysadminOct 22, 2026Negative

Needed nearly four hours on the phone with GoDaddy support to renew an OV certificate after the revocation purge.

Summary of a review onRedditr/sysadminOct 22, 2026Negative

GoDaddy phone support transferred the caller and a 65 minute wait ended with no help because a customer ID was needed.

Summary of a review onRedditr/sysadminOct 22, 2026Negative

All certificates went untrusted after hours during the revocation and GoDaddy's cert manager was crawling.

Summary of a review onRedditr/DomainsOct 20, 2026Negative

Accounts get locked for identity confirmation, taking 3-4 days and public pleas to get a human to review documents, with no way to upload them early.

Summary of a review onRedditr/sysadminOct 20, 2026Positive

Super happy since moving from Namecheap to Porkbun a couple of years ago, only missing an iOS app.

Cloudflare Registrar

Summary of a review onRedditr/selfhostedOct 20, 2026Positive

Cloudflare sells domains at cost, about 10-11 dollars for a .com.

Summary of a review onRedditr/sysadminOct 20, 2026Mixed

Ten years with Namecheap with stellar support until recent months, when renewing a basic hosting plan went badly and they migrated sites to company-managed cloud servers.

Summary of a review onRedditr/DomainsOct 19, 2026Positive

Porkbun made a mistake with their domain, admitted it and renewed it free for three years.

Summary of a review onRedditr/sysadminOct 19, 2026Negative

Namecheap disabled a domain with 20k user sites over an outdated abuse report with no prior notice; it came back quickly once they answered the email.

Summary of a review onRedditr/sysadminOct 19, 2026Mixed

Says Porkbun is fine but demands ID verification if the account is created over a VPN with no way around it.

Summary of a review onRedditr/sysadminOct 19, 2026Positive

Has been with Namecheap for 15 years with only good experiences.

Summary of a review onRedditr/sysadminOct 19, 2026Positive

Has been with Porkbun since Google domains closed, with no issues and 7-8 domains, pairing it with Proton email and GitHub pages.

Summary of a review onRedditr/sysadminOct 19, 2026Negative

A change to Namecheap’s renewal process required re-enabling auto-renewal on a domain they had auto-renewed for a decade; it lapsed and was auctioned off with the profits kept.

Summary of a review onRedditr/sysadminOct 19, 2026Negative

Years ago one Namecheap email in spam led to everything being disabled in 72 hours; answering the info request unlocked the account and they transferred out.

Summary of a review onRedditr/selfhostedOct 19, 2026Negative

Dumped Namecheap, which marks costs up well beyond actual ICANN fees.

Summary of a review onRedditr/sysadminOct 18, 2026Positive

Has used Namecheap since 2019 and appreciates the support for SSL certificates and getting them installed.

Summary of a review onRedditr/sysadminOct 18, 2026Negative

After a hijacked session set URL forwarding on their Porkbun domains, support replies were AI nonsense and they gave up; an earlier domain registration was also blocked without explanation.

Summary of a review onRedditr/sysadminOct 18, 2026Negative

A Namecheap domain expired without a single expiry reminder email, which they had received in prior years, so they are moving it to Porkbun.

Summary of a review onRedditr/sysadminOct 18, 2026Negative

Says Namecheap hijacked their account by blocking password reset after they forgot the old registered email password.

Summary of a review onRedditr/sysadminOct 18, 2026Negative

Moved away from Namecheap after several years because customer service was terrible.

Summary of a review onRedditr/sysadminOct 18, 2026Positive

Has never had problems with Namecheap and has been a customer since asking a founder early on about exit pricing.

Summary of a review onRedditr/sysadminOct 17, 2026Negative

After 12 years Namecheap locked their account and disabled all domains behind a 72-hour ID verification demand, knocking their company email offline, with support only deferring to a risk team.

Summary of a review onRedditr/sysadminOct 17, 2026Positive

Has used Porkbun uneventfully for three domains.

Summary of a review onRedditr/sysadminOct 17, 2026Negative

Namecheap accused them of fraud for parking a new domain, locked them out and refused a refund for a month, so they had to reverse the charge through their bank.

Summary of a review onRedditr/sysadminOct 17, 2026Positive

Uses Porkbun and says it has been great.

Summary of a review onRedditr/sysadminOct 17, 2026Negative

Left Namecheap because the UI could not set IPv6 nameservers, forcing a support request per domain that was sometimes done wrong.

Summary of a review onRedditr/sysadminOct 17, 2026Negative

Porkbun locked their whole account for a week after a transfer because the domain contained the word server and warned it could seize all domains on any complaint.