OT: should I move my domain to GoDaddy?

[Amos Shapira]

On 5 February 2010 16:12, Michael Shiloh <michaelshiloh1010 at gmail.com> wrote:
> While not technical, I left them for the following two reasons:
>
> 1. I found GoDaddy's usage of an attractive woman in their advertising,
> calling her the "GoDaddy Girl", offensive.

No problem for me, every time I have to deal with their login/logout
page I think I'm lucky that my boss knows it's the godaddy site :^).

>
> 2. GoDaddy very aggressively encouraged me to purchase more services. With
> every purchase I made, I had to wade through 5 or 6 additional service
> offers before I could finish the purchase of the one service I needed.

Once you learn to skip the extra steps it's not a bother for me.

>
> Technically, I must confess, I didn't have any complaints.

No complaints here either.

We manage a few dozens of domains with them and their interface (to
Australia) is sometimes a bit heavy and slow it is possible to do
anything with it.

I called them up two-three times for support when the interface was
too confusing for me (they have an Australian local number, probably
forwards to US, maybe also in Israel?) and got excellent service from
the other side of the line.

> Shlomo Solomon wrote:
>>
>> Sorry for the OT, but had no-one else to ask.
>>
>> My domain is currently registered with ENOM and I'm considering a move.
>> Does anyone here have experience (good or bad) with GoDaddy?
>>
>> And to make it a bit on topic, is the management interface (changing
>> e-mail forwarding, managing DNS, managing free hosting, etc) Linux friendly?
>>

I do all my work on Linux (currently Ubuntu 9.10) and have no trouble
with their site.

--Amos