farp.blog » GoDaddy http://fredandrandall.com/blog Bloggin' about whatever Tue, 04 Nov 2014 07:15:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 Why I’m sticking with GoDaddy… for now. http://fredandrandall.com/blog/2011/12/23/why-im-sticking-with-godaddy-for-now/ http://fredandrandall.com/blog/2011/12/23/why-im-sticking-with-godaddy-for-now/#comments Fri, 23 Dec 2011 23:59:31 +0000 http://fredandrandall.com/blog/?p=686 Continue reading →]]> Yesterday I was all ready to start switching my domains from GoDaddy. I was reading articles about how to do it and wondering how hard it was to migrate a WordPress blog. I got to work and started running WHOIS queries to see who my company’s domains were registered with, ready to start sending emails about how we should change it. Then I opened Hacker News and saw that GoDaddy had flip flopped. They bit the bullet and admitted they were wrong. Getting angry on the Internet had finally worked!

So what was the Internet’s reaction to this? “Who cares!? GoDaddy is still terrible! Transfer everything anyway!” GoDaddy did EXACTLY what everyone wanted but they wanted more? That seems pretty unfair and it defeats the purpose of the boycott. Instead of being about helping stop SOPA, it became about stopping GoDaddy.

I don’t disagree that GoDaddy kinda sucks. Their site is confusing as hell and they try to upsell you all kinds of shit you don’t need. They’ve called me more times than just about any other company I’ve ever bought anything from. But their product isn’t so bad. Their domain name prices are competitive and their hosting (for me) has been rock solid.

GoDaddy did a good thing today, and for now, the pain of switching is greater than my bad feelings for GoDaddy.

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