Review of GoDaddy Domain Registrar
GoDaddy.com is one of the most popular domain name registrars and web hosting companies around. They are certainly big and reliable, but I find their user interface somewhat clunky and difficult to get around. That said, they still do domain registration very well, with a LOT of services available.
Unfortunately, their pricing structure is practically impossible to figure out. Many extra features cost extra, and you will only find that out once you have registered your domain. For example, they do not have free domain transfers.
On the plus side, GoDaddy offers a VAST variety of extensions, including many international extensions that may be difficult to obtain elsewhere without speaking, say, mandarin Chinese.
- Well-established, experienced registrar
- Highly reliable
- Immediate registrations
- Enormous amount of extensions available
- Extensive, but largely useless free features
- Excellent customer support
- ICANN accredited
- Go Daddy Girls!
- Many unadvertised charges
- Constant efforts to up-sell more services
- Incomprehensible pricing structure
- Complicated control panel
- Many useless features just for their own sake
- Fee for transfers
Summary
GoDaddy is a great registrar, but personally I feel you would get better value with Namecheap.com for your domain registrations. GoDaddy has excellent service, competitive prices and a huge variety of extensions to choose from. The service is let down by complicated control panel and fees and charges that seem to pop up from everywhere.
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Feature summary
- Extensions: .com/.net/.org/.us/.biz/.info/.eu/.me and MANY more
- Free e-mail account
- Go Daddy Photo Album
- Free hosting with Web site builder (don’t fall for this)
- DNS control
- Free URL forwarding and masking
- Quick Blogcast
- Starter web, “For Sale” page or Parked page with domain
- 100 pack of e-mail forwarding
- Domain search tools
- SSL certificates
- Marketplace for pre-registered domains and Domain Name Auctions
- Paypal payments