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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago

I was looking for EU or UK registrars to transfer from GoDaddy and also learned 123-reg.co.uk has been bought by GoDaddy it seems?

I went with names.co.uk

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I've always found it weird that its called "GoDaddy" and I've never heard anyone question it. Like why on earth is that the name of the company?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago

I remember the era of "GoDaddy girls" and a different woman on the homepage each month. I actually emailed them feedback that it made me embarrassed to use their service in the workplace.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Because the domain for "Big daddy" was already taken.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

GoDaddy was teaching master classes on enshittification before that was even an idea.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Oooh, that explains so much. I had to switch the provider after many happy years with them and found a new home at Hetzner.

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

GoDaddy has been horrible forever.

[โ€“] hddsx 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Okay, I have no opinion on the whole but European thingโ€ฆ but OVH is garbage.

Iโ€™ve never used hetzner but Iโ€™ve heard nothing but good things. If I were to go European, that would be my choice.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why? I don't know much about these services but I bought a domain on OVH. No issues so far but would like to know if I might get some in the future...

[โ€“] hddsx 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

OVH is notorious for bad support. I believe they might also have uptime issues.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I've spent way too much time and effort on OVH first line support. But then again, I've seen worse supports as well.

I've also had quite a lot uptime issues on all of their zones, but this was several years ago. Mainly their networking randomly going out.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

I left GoDaddy back in the Charles Dickens days of the interwebs. Absolutely, GTFO of there.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I am super happy with Uberspace if you need a simple host.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

siteground has been a blessing after starting out in godaddy and getting out. Some of the best support I have had as well for wordpress hosting. I spit in the general direction of Godaddy any chance i can get