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Almost every time I have to work on a client's site hosted with GoDaddy, their unintuitive interface basically requires I call into support (read: sales).

Despite their attempts to pitch me, I always tell them that I'm just working on a client's site, but they still tell me "if you've got the access code, you can make these decisions."

Yeah, that's a great way to keep my clients happy...

>Skeevy, pandering advertising

Agree with you on that, you have to jump though a bunch of product options before you finally see you cart.

>Skeevy, pandering CEO

Also agree with you on that especially the elephant and SOPA issue.

>Bad behavior when it comes to transfers.

Nope I have transferred over so many domains with absolutely no issues. Unlock, get your transfer code, give it to the next registrar and done.

>A checkout workflow that makes it very hard to avoid adding extra things to your cart that you probably don't want.

Disagree even though you have a ton of things offered, none of them are check by default, hit next > next > next and you are at the cart. Its a smooth checkout after that.

> Shoot first, ask questions later attitude to third party complaints

Disagree, even Namecheap has a list of blacklisted keywords that if your domain matches, cannot be transferred over or registered without the help of CS. Gandi has the a weirder TOS that can says they can pull your domain for any reason. Lavabit's or other major domains were located with Godaddy and it was never pulled. So Godaddy is on par with other domain registrations when it comes to complaints.

>Unintuitive, badly designed, and confusing management tools.

Agree but I haven't found better ones elsewhere either.

>Weak, script-bound CS

I had the opportunity to contact them multiple time in the past and they have been helpful and able to resolve the issue.

>Network Solutions seems positively angelic by comparison. Then you have never had any experience with NetSol. They are most shadiest registrar in history.

> I have transferred over so many domains with absolutely no issues. Unlock, get your transfer code, give it to the next registrar and done.

It took me close to 6 months to transfer domains from there the last time I tried. Throughout the entire back and fourth, shit getting switched. Waiting periods, back and fourth emails and everything else I found it amazing that any of that was legal.

In retrospect I could have likely transferred my domains away from them faster if I'd hired a lawyer. Why anyone considers that 'ok' is so far beyond me I can only come to the conclusion that you work for or have some kind of stake in GoDaddy.

I seem to recall that at times they were fairly strongly implicated in effecting and/or enabling domain name "snatching" against users' name searches. (If you don't immediately buy the name you searched, they or someone else will make a provisional claim and then try to flip it to you at a profit. The provisional claim can be backed out of within some number of days if you don't bite in the meantime, for little or no expense to the party doing so.)

If that's true (it's been a while and my memory is faded), that would definitely be scummy behaviour.

I have had several domains purchased out from under me if I added them to my cart. If they go into my cart, I know I better buy them within 90 minutes or they become search suggestions, or who knows what. Makes me want to keep my ideas to myself until I'm sitting there ready to buy.