GoDaddy

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What people reported, in their own words. Every line links to where it was said.

• “GoDaddy stole several domains from me. And they've acknowledged it. It was through an Afternic exploit. They still haven't fixed it, even though I've disclosed it. They returned the two domains that were stolen from me, but refused to provide me with a list of other stolen domains”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-04-26

• “I kind of already knew GoDaddy was trash? I used them something like 10 years ago to spool up a website for a friend of mine. The whole experience was garbage then and I said, "never again"”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-04-26

• “Godaddy Registry sent my registrar an email including the following: "If we do not receive a response and the abusive content remains active, the referred domain will be suspended (-ServerHold-) twelve (12) hours after this notification, to limit any potential damage." Yes, only 12 hours' notice. And this was in response to what looked like an automated scan, with a screenshot of a directory listing showing some files with (accurate) modification times in 2011. This would not have passed more than a quite cursory human review.”

  NEGATIVE · Hacker News · 2026-01-05

• “GoDaddy had already allowed the attacker to authenticate with the sms (dumb!) and port the domain name”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2025-12-25

• “started using it for my work systems when our GoDaddy certs came up for renewal a bit less than a year later”

  NEGATIVE · Hacker News · 2025-12-03

• “GoDaddy informed us that the domain was already being prepared for auction, and that the only way to recover it would be to bid for it like any other buyer”

  NEGATIVE · support · Hacker News · 2025-11-12

• “A/B testing helps us innovate at GoDaddy and turn bold ideas into a scalable impact”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-10-23

• “I bought tombert.com in 2014 and forgot to renew it in 2015, and it was auctioned off by GoDaddy”

  NEGATIVE · Hacker News · 2025-10-20

• “I have had nothing but trouble with GoDaddy and their ridiculous identification routines. We've spent hours with (allegedly) real humans who will tell us "ok I've released the domain for transfer. It will be clear in about 30 minutes" (or whatever it is at the time) and it never is, and then we have to start the entire process over with a new rep.”

  NEGATIVE · support · Hacker News · 2025-07-17

• “Godaddy burned me in 2012. They registered a very low value domain (has bunch of digits in it) days after I searched it. They added it to their "Premium domain" service and wanted $250 for it.”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2025-06-01

• “I got shafted by GoDaddy a decade ago when I moved everything there: domains, email, and hosting. GoDaddy has very similar quality and support issues just like Hostinger.”

  NEGATIVE · support · Reddit · 2025-05-18

• “drag and drop set up GoDaddy offers a free trial website builder that I have used in the past”

  MIXED · ease of use · Reddit · 2025-04-20

• “GoDaddy's predatory WordPress offering (they were charging $1k a year just for some security add-on)”

  NEGATIVE · price · Hacker News · 2025-04-05

• “forgot to renew it, GoDaddy auctioned it off and a squatter sat on it, and they wanted $1800 for it back”

  NEGATIVE · Hacker News · 2025-04-03

• “GoDaddy is notorious for over-selling you stuff. It's a purposeful and frankly garbage tactic because they realize that a huge chunk of their audience "doesn't know what they don't know". They bank on you not knowing that most of their services are total b.s.”

  NEGATIVE · support · Reddit · 2025-03-12

• “That's why I left GoDaddy and now only use them as a domain registrar”

  NEGATIVE · Reddit · 2025-01-17