GoDaddy Review

My Top 3

If you need a cheap domain name for your website - GoDaddy offers some really neat tools.

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Here are just some of the cool features we found:

Register a domain name for just $1.99 - they would actually lose money on this if it were just the domain name, but to get this pricing you must checkout with something in your cart that isn’t a domain name. So you could do this with hosting, privacy, or a number of other products.

CashParking - this is a really neat tool that you can use to monetize your domain names. I’m not aware of any other domain registration company that allows you to do this. You can pay an annual fee and get up to 80% of the revenue from your domains. Watchout though - you might want to make sure that you actually will get enough type in traffic to support this - otherwise - godaddy just owned you! They are the king of upsells and will make you think that you need one of everything they offer. Just make sure you can make more than what they will charge you for the service.

Web Hosting - they offer plans as cheap as $3.65 per month. I tried one of their hosting plans and found that the hosting control panel was a bit confusing, but after a while - I finally got it. It’s not as easy as Plesk, Ensim, or CPanel.   Watchout on the pricing though - to get the best price you have to signup for 36 months - as you do with almost any web hosting company. If you just do the 2 month plan it’ll cost you $4.29/mo. It’s always better to check out the refund policy of the web host to see if you can get your money back if you’re not satisfied. Then signup for the big discount plan which is usually 2-3 years - as a percentage - the savings is HUGE!

Domain forwarding, domain masking, domain parking, for sale pages, etc. These are almost standard now, but their interface is really easy to use in the Domain Control Center.

Full DNS Control - Manage MX Records, A Records, CNAMES, and more with this feature. This will enable you to point different subdomains or send all wildcard traffic to your domain name - which is really cool! If you want to host your email on a different server - this will cut down on your server processes and save you bandwidth, server resources, etc.  This also allows you to host blog.domain.com at a different server than domain.com - so you can host different elements of your site on different servers.

SSL Certificates - these are some of the cheapest SSL certificates we have seen on the web - they offer different levels of SSL so you want to make sure you get the right encryption level and service.

Site Builder, Logo Design, and Web Templates - these are some cool tools. WebSite Tonight is an alright service with rivals that of Ipowerweb’s vDeck - which has a built in web builder.

For more information - there is a godaddy review on a review site of domain name registrars.

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