Nineteen years on GoDaddy ended with annual cost near AU$800 for 5 emails, 1 site and 2 domains versus under AU$100 elsewhere.
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A score out of 100. Negative and mixed reviews take points off, and so does having only a few reviews, so a handful of glowing reviews can’t beat a product many people like.
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Most customers report poor support, constant upsells and fees that pile up, plus steep renewals and some DNS or hosting outages.
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Customer reviews (497)
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GoDaddy gives a big discount at purchase then renews at double, upsells everywhere, and the site is painful to navigate.
A small-business owner regretted GoDaddy: heavy upsells, a much higher renewal price, and a $2.5k website service that dragged on and was only partly refunded.
A GoDaddy domain climbed toward 150 dollars a year before switching to Cloudflare for under 20.
A GoDaddy domain customer never had a problem but says renewals cost nearly double Porkbun or Cloudflare and it nickel-and-dimes for extras.
GoDaddy Website + Marketing Basic rose from 127 dollars to 217 dollars in three years.
GoDaddy auto-renewal produced a large bill that felt expensive versus other providers.
Managing a nonprofit site on GoDaddy meant horrible price gouging on hosting and SSL; moving away saved money.
GoDaddy renewal for a WordPress site and Microsoft 365 email was ridiculous, about 249 dollars per mailbox per year.
GoDaddy auto-added MS Office that renewed at $100 per domain per year; caught only at the second renewal, $200 total.
GoDaddy SSL renewal for Website Builder 7 sites rises from 100 to 120 dollars.
Moved family domains from GoDaddy to Porkbun because GoDaddy was more expensive, upselling was aggressive and privacy cost extra.
GoDaddy UX is built to upsell, renewal price jumped 35 dollars mid-session and a transfer-out was met with scare tactics.
GoDaddy renewals cost far more the second time; it wanted 100 dollars for one email that Namecheap did for under 5.
GoDaddy email migration caused the loss of 20+ years of emails and the apology was pricey free months.
A 7 dollar GoDaddy domain wanted almost 250 dollars to renew after a year.
GoDaddy changed the hosting plan without notice and charged the higher price, plus bad customer service; stopped using them in 2012.
GoDaddy charged 90 dollars to renew a domain; transferred to Cloudflare in 3 hours.
Monthly GoDaddy domain and marketing cost went up twice in five months.
GoDaddy asked over 150 dollars to renew domains that cost under 20 to register, with unclear renewal pricing compared with Namecheap.
Holds 32 domains and saves about $10 a year on each by moving away from GoDaddy renewal pricing.
Price hikes over time and a painful transfer-out process that forced extra year purchases drove them off GoDaddy.
GoDaddy Discount Domain Club rose from 89.99 to 332.57 dollars.
On GoDaddy since 2006, yearly domain cost rose from 6 dollars to 20 dollars.
A small business on GoDaddy domains and hosting saw its renewal fee jump from 100 to 1,400 dollars.
GoDaddy wanted 187 dollars to renew a .tv domain that cost 25 dollars at Cloudflare.
GoDaddy would not unlock a domain for transfer, saying it would take 5 working days even though renewal was 6 days away; extortionate renewals and poor DNS.
GoDaddy wanted 21.99 a year to renew versus 10.66 for the first year at Namecheap, and its free email was discontinued.
GoDaddy reclamation fee turned a 36 dollar domain renewal into 176 Australian dollars.
Paid 50 dollars a month at GoDaddy and auto-backup did not work; moved to Namecheap EasyWP.
Developer who fell into the GoDaddy trap young says it price gouges, pushes upsells and the service is poor; moved last domain out when renewal hit 21.99.
GoDaddy transfer-in is 9.99 then 20 on renewal plus 10 for privacy, versus 7 total at Namecheap.
A decades-old GoDaddy email and domain package for four family addresses rose from under 20 dollars to a couple hundred a year.
A client's GoDaddy invoices showed far higher prices than AWS, Cloudflare, Google or Namecheap for the same services, including a website security subscription for non-hosting customers.
GoDaddy charges inflated retail prices on renewals and zapped the poster a few times.
Feels trapped at GoDaddy and buys the Discount Domain Club because prices for renewals have gone up so much.
GoDaddy wanted 250 dollars to renew a domain that costs 13 at Route 53.
GoDaddy is the example of cheap first-year and high renewal domain pricing.
Common questions about GoDaddy
What do customers say about GoDaddy?
Most customers report poor support, constant upsells and fees that pile up, plus steep renewals and some DNS or hosting outages. Domains held for resale at high prices come up repeatedly. A fair number call it reliable and fine as a registrar, but weak for hosting and email.
Is GoDaddy worth it?
Of the 299 reviews with a clear verdict, 11% are positive, 5% mixed and 84% negative. The praise mentioned most is reliable. The most common complaint is poor support.
What do people like about GoDaddy?
The praise reviewers mention most: reliable (25 reviews), helpful support (16 reviews) and good control panel (6 reviews). For example: Has registered domains with GoDaddy for years without problems and accepts the price rise as the market rate.
What are the most common complaints about GoDaddy?
The complaints reviewers mention most: poor support (136 reviews), upsells (79 reviews) and hidden fees (64 reviews). For example: GoDaddy support misunderstood how to set a DNSSEC DS record and the first rep put 10K of products in the cart.
What does the signal score of 53 mean?
It's how well reviewed GoDaddy is, out of 100. Negative and mixed reviews take points off, and so does having only a few reviews: a service needs plenty of them, compared with the most-reviewed services here, to reach the high 80s and 90s. It's worked out from reviews only, needs at least 5 of them, and updates as new ones come in.
What are the specs of GoDaddy?
Category: Domain registrar.
Where do these GoDaddy reviews come from?
497 are quotes from Reddit and YouTube, each linked to the original. Customer reviews are checked for spam before they appear. Every review, written here or quoted, is read as positive, mixed or negative.