GoDaddy Reviews

GoDaddy DNS API limits broke a Cloudron setup until switching to Cloudflare.

After cancelling hosting, GoDaddy website email costs 107 dollars per address per year; everything is a la carte and the site is confusing.

After 20 years as a customer GoDaddy purchased the poster's name to try to sell it back.

GoDaddy quoted 1,000 dollars for a lapsed school team domain while the .org cost 20.

GoDaddy charged for two months and a $130 unrequested report; the card issuer said it is flooded with GoDaddy complaints.

GoDaddy let a business domain lapse after email-only renewal notices and offers a $99 broker to buy it back.

GoDaddy redemption fees nearly 600 dollars for domains worth about 200, with dismissive support.

GoDaddy charged a large unrequested 3-year, 5-seat Office 365 auto-renewal and support refused a refund.

GoDaddy fined and locked out a private-WHOIS domain after a cease-and-desist letter with no chance to respond, taking a month to restore.

A won GoDaddy auction was cancelled at the last second and the domain relisted at 10,000 dollars.

GoDaddy failed to renew only the bulk Discount Domain Club membership, cost about 300 dollars extra across 130+ domains, and refused a credit.

GoDaddy's cancellation code bug blocked cancelling, products auto-renewed and a refund was refused despite admitting the bug.

Someone helping a business owner saw GoDaddy hold an expired domain for ransom, then re-buying it meant dodging upsells across multiple screens.

GoDaddy broker service took 2-3 weeks and failed to get the domain, though they offered to try again free; fee is 20% on top of price.

GoDaddy's paid domain negotiation service led to back-and-forth emails and then a claim they could not get the domain unless more was paid.

A domain expired four days earlier was gone and GoDaddy pointed to a broker to buy it back.

After GoDaddy acquired the poster's provider, auto-renewals broke and the lapsed domain was offered through a broker.

GoDaddy told a new domain buyer he must buy Microsoft through them, at higher cost and a full year upfront, instead of using his existing 365 plan.

GoDaddy charged 42 dollars for one domain for a year and support rudely refused a refund, so they disputed the charge with their card provider.

A .com.au domain shown as available on GoDaddy was later labelled taken with a brokerage fee.

GoDaddy took an expiring domain two weeks before expiry and listed it for 5,000 dollars; GoDaddy support denied involvement.

A developer finds GoDaddy nickel-and-dimes customers, doesn't offer free Let's Encrypt SSL, and has terrible support.

GoDaddy charged 200 euros for two years of a domain by bundling hosting and email, and its own instructions failed to help transfer out.

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.

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

GoDaddy domain backorders repeatedly failed then the program was sunset with credits lost and no compensation.

A domain looked up on GoDaddy was promptly bought and cost 15,000 dollars to acquire.

Decades-long GoDaddy accounts and finds tons of unethical hidden fees.

Of 140 domains in various GoDaddy accounts only 124 could be transferred; re-registering the rest carried a huge markup.

GoDaddy auto-renewal produced a large bill that felt expensive versus other providers.

GoDaddy renewal for a WordPress site and Microsoft 365 email was ridiculous, about 249 dollars per mailbox per year.

GoDaddy charged a defunct club's domain renewal, refused to discuss it without the account email, and refused credit afterward.

Company uses GoDaddy with no service issues, though pricing and business practices seem predatory.

Small business paid 1,700 dollars upfront for three years of three GoDaddy mailboxes and vague security, still got phishing and hacked email, and was pitched more security add-ons.

GoDaddy showed a domain as expired early despite auto-renew and charged a 55 dollar redemption fee on a roughly 7 dollar domain; support blamed the user.

After nearly a year at GoDaddy, wants out because they overcharge for unnecessary things.

GoDaddy renewals cost far more the second time; it wanted 100 dollars for one email that Namecheap did for under 5.

GoDaddy hosting email forces a $19.95 per user per month Microsoft license for each Outlook use.

GoDaddy agent added 900+ dollars of products with max-term auto-renew and renewed products after auto-renew was off.

A GoDaddy agent falsely said a domain was sold, offered a 99 dollar broker fee and added 900 dollars of products to the cart.

Bought a domain from GoDaddy for 3,000 dollars, account email was changed so no renewal notice arrived, and it was relisted for 10,000.

They run a medical practice on GoDaddy email and say it costs them $40-45 per user per month plus hosting and malware add-ons. They are also hitting syncing issues with Dropbox.

After a decade at GoDaddy, a domain lapsed despite auto-renew, support ignored them and buying it back cost over 5,000 dollars.

Tried GoDaddy's domain negotiator, found it a scam that came back saying the budget was too low with no owner counter-offer.

GoDaddy removed VIP status after nearly 20 years and dropped free email accounts, so they are transferring 50 to 100 domains a month out.

A decades-old domain lapsed during hospitalisation despite an email to GoDaddy and was resold.

At least three domains were snatched within a week of searching them on GoDaddy, which never happened on Namecheap.

GoDaddy shut down DNS API access for customers with under 20 domains without warning.

Enquiring about a stale domain at GoDaddy led to it being renewed and the price shooting up.

Domains priced at 12 dollars on GoDaddy repeatedly became unavailable after a couple of days, with GoDaddy offering a 199 dollar service to get them.

GoDaddy held all their domains hostage over spam and demanded a 600 dollar cleanup fee, then restored them when asked for written terms; they moved out.

In the early 2000s GoDaddy registered an available domain they searched for and offered to resell it at a premium.

A client's GoDaddy domain missed auto-renewal and GoDaddy itself sniped it and referred them to its broker.

GoDaddy keeps pitching a niche domain at 3,000 dollars, then offered 40% off after raising it to 3,500.

GoDaddy charged about 100 dollars without permission, then support changed reps three times over two hours and offered a refund only if the email account was deleted.

GoDaddy cancelled a 10,200 dollar premium domain sale and refunded only 9,900.

GoDaddy charged around 100 dollars to reactivate an expired domain still in the renewal phase; transferring to Namecheap avoided it.

Regrets using GoDaddy, saying they charged about double for domains.

GoDaddy keeps adding charges, hides what is included at renewal and bills the domain a day later.

Lost a domain to a timezone difference and GoDaddy wanted a grace fee over 100 euros.

An 80 dollar domain redemption fee was the final straw for leaving GoDaddy with a non-profit WordPress site.

After acquiring Uniregistry, GoDaddy listed the user's domains for sale with made-up buy-it-now prices despite paid-up accounts.

A lapsed business domain was held by GoDaddy and had to be bought back for 225 dollars.

A slightly late renewal led GoDaddy to say the domain was gone while it tried to sell it for 18,000 dollars.

After the API restriction news, migrated domains from GoDaddy to Namecheap easily.

Four-year customer: OTP emails for nameserver changes took 5 to 10 minutes despite paid domain protection, support took 7 days, and everything is overpriced.

GoDaddy auto-renews purchases and refuses refunds beyond 30 days even for unused products.

After 17 years GoDaddy wants 19.99 a month for API access, so 300+ client domains are moving to Cloudflare.

GoDaddy charged a card for a hosting plan cancelled four months earlier, so they went to Amex and placed a merchant block.

GoDaddy charged an expired card for a renewal of an unwanted domain and support waited hours without helping.

GoDaddy charged over 10 dollars a month for mail forwarding that used to be free, so they moved to Cloudflare.

GoDaddy reclamation fee turned a 36 dollar domain renewal into 176 Australian dollars.

GoDaddy transfer-in is 9.99 then 20 on renewal plus 10 for privacy, versus 7 total at Namecheap.

Bought GoDaddy website and marketing by mistake; the builder is limited, the interface slow and payments push extra fees; turning off auto-renew took many tries.

A lapsed personal domain was snapped up by GoDaddy and still listed at 750 dollars after five years.

A domain priced at 60 dollars a year was listed for 13,000 dollars the day after they hesitated on buying it, suggesting front-running.

GoDaddy revoked a new-TLD domain after a couple of weeks, refunding but offering a rebuy bid starting at 6,000 dollars.

After a reissued debit card caused one failed billing, GoDaddy took the business domain and listed it for nearly 3,000 dollars.

GoDaddy kept two domains hostage and demanded $120 extra per domain to release them.

GoDaddy tried to extort them over an expired domain, so they will never use it again.

A former GoDaddy customer left in 2020 because GoDaddy charged for SSL certificates on every site instead of offering free ones.

GoDaddy refused to waive a 100 dollar redemption fee on a 22-day expired domain, then removed it the next day and listed it for 5,000.

GoDaddy charged a card again years later; they needed a refund request, a card dispute and a new card number.

After a missed renewal GoDaddy took the domain and listed it for auction starting at 10,000 dollars.

Over 15+ years, good domains they searched on GoDaddy were repeatedly taken right after.

GoDaddy charged extra for privacy and leaving was an enormous pain.

Dislikes GoDaddy for constant upsells and charging extra for WHOIS privacy.

GoDaddy pushed a private domain sale, then 45 days later the payout still had not arrived, with conflicting emails, bank-detail changes and the domain listed as premium.

Charged 286 dollars for unwanted GoDaddy services; two reps gave conflicting refund promises, GoDaddy denied any record, and the bank reversed the credit.

Pays about 650 dollars a year for GoDaddy shared hosting of 11 sites plus 1,200 dollars for security and backup add-ons.

A 1994 domain was taken by GoDaddy at redemption, would not be released and is listed at 12,500 dollars.

GoDaddy upsold its own WHOIS privacy and the MS365 custom domain feature never worked right.

GoDaddy tried to charge 550 pounds for SSL certificates for three websites over two years.

After a $100 recovery fee GoDaddy said another user bought the domain, then offered it back for 1,000 dollars.

GoDaddy API changes broke certificate renewals for days with 403 Forbidden errors.

GoDaddy picked up a lapsed family-name domain and parked it at 5,000 dollars with no willingness to negotiate.

GoDaddy made the poster pay full market price to transfer 18 domains back.

Domains searched on GoDaddy were gone within five minutes several times.

GoDaddy registered ten .tv domains the user kept looking up on a customer account within two days.

After letting a domain lapse, GoDaddy "saved" it and wants a special fee to use it again.