Comments on: Godaddy versus Namecheap

By: Amy

Amy — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 14:57:40 +0000

Actually, GoDaddy sucks balls. Have fun when they hold your domain for $200 ransom just because Joe-Blow says you spammed him with no proof. Oh and they’ll also give out your “private” whois info to whoever and charge you $50 to forward any requests sent to that whois. Ya… GoDaddy is REAL good…

Plus, if you have to “google” how to use an interface, something is seriously fucked up.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 15:16:00 +0000

The reason I don’t use godaddy is their long history of being very easy to get a domain removed. I’ve talked to more than a few guys who lost their domains after the first C&D notice to Godaddy for a site. Namecheap also has privacy at a much lower rate (free for first year, then $3 thereafter).

As one of the above people mentioned, the $200 ransom is quite real, and has been used by some marketers to get the little guys out of the game. Also from what I hear , it was recently increased to $500.

By: foucist

foucist — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:50:48 +0000

Last time I tried namecheap, absolutely none of the coupons worked on the renewals. But I’ll check that next time.

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 04:50:41 +0000

Name.com is cheaper than both & has free privacy (and coupons work on the renewals.)

& I think the interface is pretty easy.

By: foucist

foucist — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:06:38 +0000

Hey Nick,

I’ve never been charged $50 for getting contacted through the private whois, not sure if you’re talking about something else?

I agree that having to google an interface is pretty fucked up, but I’ve had to do it with both godaddy and namecheap. I had to figure out how to transfer a domain from godaddy with google’s help. Which is a pretty rare event for me. However, namecheap’s interface is even worst and I’ve had to get google’s help on more mundane things that I needed to do in namecheap.

I’ve never heard of the $200 ransom before, and I don’t think I’m gonna pay extra to namecheap for the privilege of avoiding that issue ;)

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:45:55 +0000

Plus, if you have to “google” how to use an interface, something is seriously fucked up.