GoDaddy has lost my business
For a couple of years now, I have been a avid customer of GoDaddy.com. However, in light of their recent provocative commercials, I have decided to pull out.
GoDaddy has always offered competitive pricing and features to match any registrar out there, and has recently become the world's #1 domain name registrar. A few years ago, I transferred my domains over to them, and have since experienced very good service. There has been an occasional support issue (one of which to this day still goes unanswered), but overall I have been happy with them. Last year, I decided to try out their hosting service and signed up for one of their VPS plans. In fact, this blog is (as of right now) still running on one of their servers.
However, my support for them began to drop as they slowly began introducing offensive material in their promotions. For instance, Radio GoDaddy, introduced in March of 2005, often contains profanity and talks that are sexual in nature. GoDaddy also has a history of producing provocative TV commercials (see last year's Super Bowl), and has just recently started promoting these commercials on their main website. They are currently fighting to get yet another suggestive TV commercial in this year's Super Bowl, making the following statement on their site: "We hope censorship will not kill the creative edge... especially those ads we would choose to run."
Needless to say, enough is enough. If I can help it, I don't want any of my money to aid in the promotion of this kind of material. After doing some research, I found that 1&1 offers comparable (and sometimes superior) services compared to GoDaddy, and I have since started switching my domains and websites over to them.
GoDaddy has always offered competitive pricing and features to match any registrar out there, and has recently become the world's #1 domain name registrar. A few years ago, I transferred my domains over to them, and have since experienced very good service. There has been an occasional support issue (one of which to this day still goes unanswered), but overall I have been happy with them. Last year, I decided to try out their hosting service and signed up for one of their VPS plans. In fact, this blog is (as of right now) still running on one of their servers.
However, my support for them began to drop as they slowly began introducing offensive material in their promotions. For instance, Radio GoDaddy, introduced in March of 2005, often contains profanity and talks that are sexual in nature. GoDaddy also has a history of producing provocative TV commercials (see last year's Super Bowl), and has just recently started promoting these commercials on their main website. They are currently fighting to get yet another suggestive TV commercial in this year's Super Bowl, making the following statement on their site: "We hope censorship will not kill the creative edge... especially those ads we would choose to run."
Needless to say, enough is enough. If I can help it, I don't want any of my money to aid in the promotion of this kind of material. After doing some research, I found that 1&1 offers comparable (and sometimes superior) services compared to GoDaddy, and I have since started switching my domains and websites over to them.


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