{"id":2198,"date":"2011-12-28T18:19:06","date_gmt":"2011-12-29T00:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/?p=2198"},"modified":"2011-12-28T18:19:56","modified_gmt":"2011-12-29T00:19:56","slug":"godaddy-sucks-and-its-not-just-because-of-sopa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/archives\/2198","title":{"rendered":"GoDaddy sucks – and it’s not just because of SOPA"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve had a bajillion domains registered at GoDaddy for years, not because I particularly liked them, but more because it was easy. After my friend Dave<\/a> died, I inherited all his domain names, and they were all on GoDaddy, so for ease I just transferred them to my account there.<\/p>\n

But given their recent support of SOPA<\/a>, plus their half-hearted retraction of same when they realized their<\/a> posturing<\/a> was not winning them any friends<\/a>, was pretty disgusting. They backed down, but they won’t actively denounce SOPA. And they should.<\/p>\n

So I started the process today to move all 46(!) of my domains to another registrar. (I inherited a LOT of domains from Dave!) But you can’t transfer a domain if it’s set to expire in the next seven days, so I had to renew six of them through GoDaddy before I could move them off. Here’s what happens when you renew domains on GoDaddy:<\/p>\n

Click any of these for full size versions.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nThe first upsell. Notice all the disclaimer marks at the bottom.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nThe second upsell. This is just the part above the fold; about one third of all the “Special Offers” I had to scroll through before finding the “No Thanks” link.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nLOLWUT??? I tried to renew ONE domain – faerytrail.com – for $8.99, and it tacked on 32 extra domains<\/em> for a total of $293.44. Neato! All six domain names I tried to renew had at least one extra one tacked on that I didn’t want. This is, at the very least, highly immoral.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nLast, but not least, the final upsell, after I winnowed out the chaff and bought the renewals for the six domains I wanted.<\/strong><\/p>\n

So, there you have it. Why GoDaddy sucks – and it’s not just because of SOPA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve had a bajillion domains registered at GoDaddy for years, not because I particularly liked them, but more because it was easy. After my friend Dave died, I inherited all his domain names, and they were all on GoDaddy, so for ease I just transferred them to my account there. But given their recent support […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[49,39,26],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2198"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2198"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2230,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2198\/revisions\/2230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}