Comments on: Now We Start Taking Hostages

By: Miriam Schwab

Miriam Schwab — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 08:09:10 +0000

Yikes. This is really horrible. I have a few domains at GoDaddy, and I also do a bit of email marketing with at least one of them. I’m not a spammer, but like you and others said, people often mark email as spam just out of laziness, instead of pressing delete or unsubscribe.

It’s such a pain moving domains to another registrar. Luckily I’ve been buying my most recent domains from name.com, and I’ve been pretty happy so far.

By: Virtual Impax

Virtual Impax — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 17:47:06 +0000

The fees Godaddy is charging have changed, but the story hasn’t.

By the way, they started this “tax” shortly after Bob Parson’s attempt at taking GoDaddy public failed. A coincidence? I think not!

By: Adam Covati

Adam Covati — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:46:54 +0000

“Now everyone (trust me here) deals with a spam complaint every now and then as consumers feel it is easier to mark as spam than it is to unsubscribe.”

A spam complaint? If you have any volume you will get quite a few every time you send. It’s part of life, as you said, many people use the spam button to delete an email or to unsubscribe from a list. They don’t know or care if there is a difference.

This just further proves that GoDaddy has no idea how to manage an email system. From this alone I would be very concerned about what kind of deliverability they are getting.

By: Andrea

Andrea — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:31:16 +0000

What a bunch of crap! I have a domain hosted on GoDaddy, and I’ll be shopping around now. Any referrals you could offer? Thanks for posting this!

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We have a bunch there as well and are moving to another provider. We have looked at Dotster lately but are still evaluating our move. With 1000s of project and campaigns domains set up for clients, this is not an easy move.