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GoDaddy.

I was going to cite some specific examples but really the entire site is a perfect case study for bad UI.

On the other hand, it is extremely well optimized for revenue (but that's a different discussion).

I hate when I have to do anything on Godaddy. It might be optimized for revenue, but I find the added steps so they can upsell very annoying. I've been using namecheap a lot more lately and their UI is not much better, but I'm able to do what I need to do much faster.

It would be nice if GoDaddy had an option for your account like: "I'm never ever going to buy a shopping cart, or email addresses, or any of that other stuff from you, just take me right to the payment page, please."

Just finished transferring all my domain names to NameCheap for that very reason -- I got tired of sifting through tens of pages with links in various font sizes to find that ever-elusive DNS setting ... among other things.

Although NameCheap's website is also horrible. I mean now that I know my way around I can get stuff done, but to say that it's busy/cluttered is an understatement. I've never had any problems with them though, so I'm stickin' with 'em.

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