10 engineers on Hacker News describe using GoDaddy first-hand: 0 endorse it, 7 regret it, 2 are mixed.
“The whole experience was garbage then and I said, "never again"”
regret · personal · piloto_ciego · 2026-04-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I'm very very glad we migrated our customers off GoDaddy years ago. Their customer service was terrible and their web servers were shite.”
regret · production · mrlonglong · 2022-03-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“slowly migrated away from GoDaddy which is kind of horrible”
regret · personal · stanislavb · 2021-12-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“they simply locked our entire account with approx. 20 domains ... Never again GoDaddy.”
regret · production · philfrasty · 2016-03-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using GoDaddy for twelve years, and have always had excellent results with their Tech. Support. ... (Yes, their control panel feels like running through a gauntlet).”
mixed · personal · 12 yr · GnarfGnarf · 2013-12-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We switched to EasyDNS after (one of the) the godaddy fiascos.”
regret · production · tedroden · 2013-06-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I'm embarrassed that I chose Godaddy in the first place. Never again.”
regret · personal · fjarlq · 2011-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“It works but I'm probably being overcharged since I don't bother with coupons.”
mixed · personal · seles · 2011-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We were using GoDaddy before and we had an issue where they were returning faulty DNS records from certain hosts”
regret · production · tylerrooney · 2011-09-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“To answer the actual question, we use godaddy.”
neutral · production · bunchesofdonald · 2010-11-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?