More Problems With GoDaddy

Here’s some of the latest street gossip about common problems people are reporting GoDaddy. 

As several astute readers pointed out, more and GoDaddy is displaying some serious glitches.

Usually when you enable privacy with your domain, this provides you with some layers of protection against people bugging you using your contact information. Privacy protection is supposed to keep your information concealed. If you don’t enable privacy for your domain, your private contact information is nakedly displayed for all to see in your public WhoIs data.  This means you could start receiving late night phone calls from Joey Patone, your stalker from your freshman year. Or you could have wonderful folks from Nigeria phoning you and asking you to transfer money to their account, which they will be then be happy to take off your hands.

So privacy is very important. We Internet Marketing Badgers prefer to lurk quietly in our burrows.

However, there are more and more reports surfacing of people having their websites shut down for no reason just because one person complained GoDaddy about that website.

Even if the website owner didn’t engage in any fraudulent activity.

GoDaddy, it seems, often acts completely without warning, providing no advance notice to the domain holder. One day you wake up and —poof! Your website is gone.

And this is without possibility of negotiation or review GoDaddy. It’s just a done deal.

This is serious business for anybody thinking of registering or hosting their domain GoDaddy.

All those days, months, or even years of work you’ve put in building your website can be gone overnight just GoDaddy was mad at you that day.

Read one man’s horror stories with this NoDaddy.com

So that’s pretty scary.

Most other hosting providers will let the website owner know there is a problem and at least make some attempt to help the website owner resolve the problem. This is good because sometimes a hacker can hijack your email and send out 100,000 emails in one day from your address, exceeding your hosting requirements and causing an instant review of your account. With good customer service, it shouldn’t be hard to correct this problem and unfreeze your domain.

GoDaddy seems very ……..jumpy. They’re fast to dump a website if they receive any complaints at all about it.

And that’s not good.

Another bad Godaddy is doing which is becoming more and more of a problem is that they are exposing the website owner’s private contact info to people upon request, especially if someone dares to use the word “lawyer” at them.  Just mention the word and Godaddy coughs up your private info faster than Paris Hilton giving up the goods to a new boyfriend she met five minutes ago.

(Which is pretty fast, last I heard. That woman has more miles on her than the space shuttle.)

Anyway, at the webmaster forums people are talking about Namecheap.com and other registrars as much less likely to expose your private info after you have privacy protection enabled.

None of this is bullet proof, of course, especially if somebody really comes after you in a lawsuit. But people report that just about every other registrar Godaddy does a better job of keeping your information private and at least giving you some benefit of the doubt if crazies come out of the woodwork to complain about something you did with your website.

So look out for yourself out there, kiddies. And I still recommend either registering your domain at Bluehost.com and also hosting it there, or for an extra layer of protection register your domain at Namecheap.com and point the domain at Bluehost’s nameservers and get hosting at Bluehost.

Your domains are your pieces of virtual real estate, earning you income 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. You need to protect them fiercely - like a mother badger protecting her young.

GRRRRRR. Don’t you be messing with my GoDaddy. You’ve been good to me so far, but I’m growing wary of you. Too many webmasters are reporting serious problems with you.

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