32% off at GoDaddy no minimum spend.

Oracle

32% off at GoDaddy no minimum spend. Use code gdx829d at checkout. Valid for 1 week only.

Terms and Conditions

*Not applicable to ICANN fees, taxes, transfers, premium domains, or Search Engine Visibility advertising budget. Cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer, sale, discount or promotion. After the initial purchase term, discounted products will renew at the then-current renewal list price. Offer expires Monday, September 3, 2012 at midnight (Pacific Time).

antodeco

Oracle wrote: »

32% off at GoDaddy no minimum spend. Use code gdx829d at checkout. Valid for 1 week only.

Terms and Conditions

*Not applicable to ICANN fees, taxes, transfers, premium domains, or Search Engine Visibility advertising budget. Cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer, sale, discount or promotion. After the initial purchase term, discounted products will renew at the then-current renewal list price. Offer expires Monday, September 3, 2012 at midnight (Pacific Time).

Awesome. Have a renewal the next 4 weeks Thanks

fl4pj4ck

then maybe it's time to find a registrar which is, like, 4 times cheaper? i.e. namecheap.com or internetbs.net ?

ShooterSF

As much as I don't want to be THAT guy if you had any interest in the whole SOPA affair remember that until they bowed to customer pressure godaddy were in support of it. Not a company I'm willing to hand cash over to any more.

I'm not saying you shouldn't and I don't mean to be preachy but I'm sure there are some out there that knowing that might prefer to go elsewhere.

uck51js9zml2yt

I'm with them and find their servers very slow.
if you want an American hosting company hostgator are better.

nice1franko

ShooterSF wrote: »

As much as I don't want to be THAT guy if you had any interest in the whole SOPA affair remember that until they bowed to customer pressure godaddy were in support of it. Not a company I'm willing to hand cash over to any more.

I'm not saying you shouldn't and I don't mean to be preachy but I'm sure there are some out there that knowing that might prefer to go elsewhere.

I transferred all my domains from them after that. Also, read an article alleging they auto-register certain domain names searched for through their site.

galwayjohn89

There are far cheaper and better hosts out there including Irish based ones. Even with the 32% off

gerryk

For the sake of a couple of euro, I would prefer to give my money to someone that respects their customers not vested interests. There are good value registrars in Ireland too.

Also their CEO is the worlds biggest d*ck http://mashable.com/2011/03/31/godaddy-ceo-elephant/

Capt'n Midnight

GoDaddy have constant allegations of them domain kiting / domain testing. :mad:

When you check to see if a domain name isn't used and one of their servers is queried, the domain name can be registered by them before you can register it. Not sure if they have been caught doing this so legally speaking all I can claim is that they are a bunch of cyber squatters hoovering up expired names. (past stats like 93.5% of names they registered were dropped when it was going to cost them money)

Moral of the story - as long as the likes of GoDaddy exist - if you have a good idea for a domain name, don't look it up, register it as the first step.

Media999

Use blacknight.com. Same price and supports our own country. Same service.

Godaddy spam the **** out of your inbox every single day. Literally every single day.

And before you say block them. think of it this way. Youre not gonna block there emails in case they send you an important email about your site.

fl4pj4ck

Blacknight? The sorry-its-friday-3pm-we-wont-reply-to-your-support-ticket-until-monday Blacknight? Thanks, but no thanks.

The Guvnor

nice1franko wrote: »

I transferred all my domains from them after that. Also, read an article alleging they auto-register certain domain names searched for through their site.

I always suspected some registrars of doing this which made me somewhat cagey checking availability.

The Guvnor

fl4pj4ck wrote: »

Blacknight? The sorry-its-friday-3pm-we-wont-reply-to-your-support-ticket-until-monday Blacknight? Thanks, but no thanks.

I always thought BK had a good rep - if one was looking for a good registrar and host whom would you recommend?

Media999

fl4pj4ck wrote: »

Blacknight? The sorry-its-friday-3pm-we-wont-reply-to-your-support-ticket-until-monday Blacknight? Thanks, but no thanks.

Never really had to ask them anything so that didnt matter.

Do you mind me asking what was it you had to contact them for?

fl4pj4ck

their DNS malfunctioned which left my site down for 4 days until it's been resolved Tuesday morning - 4 days later

there's not one Irish company that offers 24/7 technical support, one of the reasons I don't use any

RUCKING FETARD

fl4pj4ck wrote: »

their DNS malfunctioned which left my site down for 4 days until it's been resolved Tuesday morning - 4 days later

there's not one Irish company that offers 24/7 technical support, one of the reasons I don't use any

Blacknight wrote: »

Our technical support team work 7 days a week, though we do not offer telephone support at weekends.

Someone should be getting back to you shortly with respect to your ticket

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056707648

Just looked outta curiosity...

Blackknight Forum

And that Board reply was a Sunday.

galwayjohn89

fl4pj4ck wrote: »

their DNS malfunctioned which left my site down for 4 days until it's been resolved Tuesday morning - 4 days later

there's not one Irish company that offers 24/7 technical support, one of the reasons I don't use any

I've had replies from a few Irish Companies at all hours. 3AM on a Sunday I got a domain transfer issue resolved from wupav and spiral are good aswell.

fl4pj4ck

after waiting 4 days for a simple acknowledgement I didn't feel like giving them another chance

Media999

fl4pj4ck wrote: »

after waiting 4 days for a simple acknowledgement I didn't feel like giving them another chance

4 days would have pissed me off aswell but i can honestly say i never had a problem with them. Surprisingly they are pretty much the same price as the major American hosts.

Also it benefits you if your aiming at the Irish traffic to host in Ireland. Not 100% sure of that as no one really knows exactly how google works but i thought i read that on the Google blog before. Even if its just slightly quicker load times.

fl4pj4ck

nah, the difference between Irish vs UK is too small to make a difference

and you know a good host by their resolution time when things go wrong, ones I'm using have straight policy: if the uptime drops below 99.9% (which is roughly 45mins) they refund whole month

Media999

yeah i was more on about Irish vs USA but youre right. it probably makes a difference thats not even worth it.

Maybe its the luck of the draw but of everyone ive hosted with Blacknight definitely have the highest uptime. Usually any sites that are aimed at Ireland and make money i use Blacknight.

Worldwide sites i use http://www.server4you.net/.

Fastest Dedicated server i have ever had. Really has never had any problem and really good control panel.

I have an account with Pingdom and its saying 99.76% uptime for last month.

Oracle

You've gotta love Bargain Alerts, almost 2 entire pages of whinging ...... :rolleyes:

uck51js9zml2yt

Oracle wrote: »

You've gotta love Bargain Alerts, almost 2 entire pages of whinging ...... :rolleyes:

shush...don't mention the elephant in the room :rolleyes:

nice1franko

Oracle wrote: »

You've gotta love Bargain Alerts, almost 2 entire pages of whinging ...... :rolleyes:

You raised a bargain alert about a company that a lot of people don't recommend. What do you expect?

It's good that people voice their concerns.

There're plenty of BA's raised where people have nothing but good things to say about the company too.

In fact, I think it's the discussion that takes place here that makes boards BA better than hukd.ie who have ran promotions to try and encourage discussion but haven't really pulled it off.

JR1210

I was dealing with Godaddy recently, not a good experience considering I was just registering a domain name... had to call them up in the USA and found them fairly useless

psicic

I like it as a bargain alert, Op!

I've always found GoDaddy fine for domain registration, email accounts and basic hosting. Starting using an affiliate of theirs back in 2001-ish and now have a few services/domains with them themselves. Switched away from one god-awful Irish crowd, who seemed to begrudge doing the most simple, routine thing - so my urge to 'buy Irish' in relations to registrar services ended back then.

Of course, I don't think they should be considered a service primarily aimed at professionals and experts ( i.e like many of the informed people on this thread) - I think somebody operating a commercial venture or a tech-savvy person with spare time might want to look elsewhere - since, if you know what you're doing and employ a mixture of skill, free tools and technical knowledge - you can get a more tailored experience elsewhere, cheaper.

Where they shine for me is simplicity.

Always found them quick to set-up with, and very good for introducing people to their first website, be it a blog or webstore or whatever. (I'd imagine a small business who wanted to manage a site inhouse without hiring IT staff could also do worse - but I can't honestly say I've experience above a sole-trader level). There appears to be a lower learning curve for their products then some of the free solutions out there (at least back in 2009, the last time I did a comparison for a non-tech savvy person). I've directed numerous people to GoDaddy products over the years. Some have stuck with them, some have delved deeper and ended up moving on - none have gotten themselves 'overwhelmed'.

My own use of them is very vanilla, so I don't find myself having to contact their technical support. I may have lost access to a site for a matter of hours in the last six months that I'm aware of - but it's a low volume site so it didn't really matter.

I have reservations about their corporate structure, the senior staff, some of their previous business practices and, well, a general lack of trust. Just not enough to make me switch.

I just think they're an okay domain registrar if you're not looking for anything too complicated.