Why are NameCheap and DomainSite not included in the results? If you recall when taking the survey they were not options, because they aren\’t within the biggest 10 registrars. I didn\’t list every registrar. But I listed the top 10 even if they don\’t have affiliate programs.

Stop the conspiracy theories and quit whining.

For me, that seriously TAINTS the validity of this “survey”. I was wondering why there wasn’t more data from the survey, since you would expect that there would be a lot of oddball responses. And I was really surprised that neither Namecheap.com or Domainsite.com that I use were listed. Of course, they don’t have any affiliate programs….

I don’t like Godaddy for a number of reasons and some were mentioned above, but others are more subjective in nature and don’t bother me other others. If Godaddy was really bad, THEY WOULD NOT BE SO BIG, now would they? From buying used domains I have a few there and they will all be transfered away when they are due to be renewed. Well, all but one. I have a .ws domain that it seems you can’t transfer for some reason… Oh well.

And I did get nailed with that 60 day transfer hold after I put in a transfer and then changed the registrant from the previous owner to myself. Gotcha! I had to renew it at Godaddy so I would not lose it. I can take some small satisfaction that you can search Google for “godaddy coupons” and find sites that have codes that can get you a discount and not have to pay the full price.

Interesting thread, just remember the #1 rule of forums and blogs: “Please don’t feed the trolls!”.

I am a godaddy customer, and your email just reeks of personal incompentence. I just dropped free hosting for my son’s website last night. The change took 2 minutes to go through godaddy’s system. I then forwarded his domain. 3 days? No. By the time I woke up this morning, traffic was going to the redirect.

Also, after a domain expires, the registry charges a fee to get it back. Yes, right away. And no, godaddy is not a registry. Blame verisign for that, not godaddy. if you have a registrar who will eat that fee for you, feel free to use them to cover your own negligence, but they’ll go out of business because i think that it is a pretty hefty fee (40 dollars?) imposed by verisign, so if they pay that for you, they just lost money on your domain big time.

it is icann policy, not godaddy policy, that domains with false whois information can be challenged and revoked. and no, godaddy is not icann either. blame icann if you want, but if you were a big registrar, i hope you might think twice before violating icann policy.

just my 0.02.