Comment by larrik | Hacker News Reader

Comment by larrik | Hacker News Reader

I swore off GoDaddy years ago when I was setting up a website for a friend. It took an entire night to FTP up about 100k worth of files to his account. His website was extremely slow as well, so it wasn't just me.

We're talking about a website that got maybe dozens of hits per day.

He was a paying customer!!!! I've never had such a bad host, even from free ones.

Also, I absentmindedly signed myself up for their WHOIS privacy protection. Holy crap was that a mistake! I can't cancel it because it's actually offered by another company Domains By Proxy, but they won't let me log in because the account was magically setup using some bogus credentials and information which they got from the ether or something. So I can't even migrate that account away without sending them a driver's license, and THAT's assuming they have my correct name on file (which is a real possibility that they don't, since nothing else seems accurate). GoDaddy is no help, I have to call DomainsByProxy (which is GoDaddy, btw). DomainsByProxy is no help either, unless I send them a scan of my driver's license.

It pisses me off so much I just haven't been able to bring myself to do it. It's cheaper just to keep paying. Yuck.

I noticed transferring a domain to different Godaddy account immediately cancels that domain's privacy-protection service. You can probably try that first before transferring your domain out of Godaddy.

I will definitely look into that one.

It totally worked. I have to wait 60 days before transferring it out, but I don't mind that at all.

Thank you!

Domains by Proxy emails you credentials when you sign up. People don't pay attention to this delete or never look at the emails, then get pissed when they can't login.

Their hosting blows, but I've never had a problem with registrations.

That's what they told me too, but I have every (non-spam) email I've ever gotten going back to 1998, including the emails when I bought these accounts, and there is nothing from DomainsByProxy at all in there.

It's possible these emails got sucked up by the spam filter and are therefore lost to history. However, looking at how it works, and after talking with "both" companies, I'm inclined to feel and believe that they were intentionally deceptive.

I had the same problem, but finally discovered that DomainsByProxy uses the same password as Godaddy. The hard part is finding your customer id.

when you make a new purchase at godaddy, it gives you the option to link your new domainsbyproxy purchase to a previous account. it lists all your previous login ids.

so just grab those login ids and use your godaddy password for each of them.

Once I was able to grab the right login id I was able to use my godaddy password (the original password you used when you purchased the privacy protection, if you changed it since then, it will not be the same as the new password). Once logged in it was easy to remove the privacy protection and godaddy immediately reflected the new status.

Here's the thread that helped me... http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=272435

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