GoDaddy Alternatives

Users criticize GoDaddy for poor support, spam, and shady practices while strongly recommending Namecheap and other registrars like Porkbun, Gandi, and Cloudflare as superior alternatives for domain registration and DNS hosting.

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Sample Comments

hereforphone Nov 24, 2021 View on HN

GoDaddy is garbage. I think most tech-inclined people switched years ago. Namecheap has never let me down.

re_todd Dec 22, 2011 View on HN

I've had good luck with namecheap.

notyourwork Jan 13, 2019 View on HN

Namecheap has been great, I've also had good luck with Gandi.

qxxx Sep 18, 2020 View on HN

I used to use goDaddy like 15 years ago... than moved to namecheap. namecheap is so much better. I needed the godaddy support few times, it was always a terrible experience. And the UI was always bloated with unnecessary crap.

glitch273 Jun 22, 2013 View on HN

namecheap.com - absolutely no problems in the 2+ years I've been using them.

__d Sep 9, 2020 View on HN

Namecheap is the least worst in my experience

oomkiller Aug 7, 2009 View on HN

I use namecheap.com. Never had any issues with them.

Yusadolat May 19, 2020 View on HN

Namecheap HandsdownI have more than 24 domains with them, they never fumble

danamit Apr 9, 2022 View on HN

Try Namecheap, I am using it for 4 years now. No issues.

hornbaker Dec 2, 2011 View on HN

Another vote for NameCheap. Have had ~50 domains with them for nearly 5 years now, never a problem.