Dumped GoDaddy Today!

I have been using GoDaddy since 2008, when I first began using WordPress. Before this I used a hosting/registrar by the name of HostWay. in the early 2000s, this was one of the top choice ones to use! Almost everyone on AOL used it and it was promoted there. Well, AOL was always crap and will always be crap, just like Microsoft - at least, as I see them! WordPress was the key to unlocking to cell of website development hell (Mozilla's infamous SeaMonkey) I was in at the time and GoDaddy was a welcome change to Hostway too!

Things don't stay the same...

Hostway had changed its name and took a nose dive in just about everything - and GoDaddy was the order of the day. It still is - kinda. WA encouraged its use up to recent years.

There are three reasons why I dumped it today.

1.They are tricky

They do have a wonderful front end when it comes to domain management, but when purchasing new domain names, it's confusing and it catches a lot of new people and gets them hooked to things they really don't need! Many, people on here are well aware of this and I'm not really telling anything new here. But it does lead to the next thing...

2. It's Upsell City!

I could shake a stick at it at a time before I started doing product reviews. Now doing reviews for awhile, comparing places like Wealthy Affiliate with other training platforms, we certainly have the best it can get for our time! I have acquired a really bad taste for upsells, and to me, having them is more times than not, a sign of an inferior product - or greed - or both. I may have never considered upsells in this light had it not been for the training here, which led to the creation of a review site!

3. It's No Longer a Wealthy Affiliate Top Recommendation

Time to listen to this and take action!

It's time to renew my main campaign, danieleuergetes.com, and when I went to do this, I got a sick feeling. Since WA began encouraging the use of NameCheap, I had a bad taste for them because of authentication issues. However, when it comes down to it, it's not their fault - it's mine. All I could see during the process of renewal at GoDaddy was drop-down after drop-down with pure rubbish being thrown in my face,..

"Buy this! Buy that! You need it!" Well I don't. I almost went through with it, and stopped dead.

I backed out of it. My domain expires today and I did myself a BIG favour - went over there to NameCheap and created a new account - and my chosen domain name now has a new home!

Tomorrow another domain will expire. It will go the same way! I have two domains that already expired but are still renewable. I'm going to let them go. I have one more domain that expires on Saturday. That one is out the door too.

It simplifies things, those two domains that are already expired were associated with my landlord's website. I'm resigning from working on that too, because my landlord is so stubborn and won't listen to good advice about what to do and what not to do on a website, that I will let him use that site management company I fought so hard to keep him from using.

He can go ahead and be like the rest - mediocrity like the rest. He wants links put on his site that will send his friends business. Okay so be it. I will put those links on. I don't care if he wants to tell his customers to leave the website.

For me?

It's that much more towards greater focus on my own work. When I'm finished with the changes in my life, I'm out of this environment, less domains to take care of, the following year should mean a full-time income from my work online!

Switching to NameCheap is just one of those little changes, how insignificant it is - it helps psychologically - even if I have to pay a couple bucks more per domain - it's well worth it to not have all those stupid upsells!

This alone makes NameCheap more reputable in my eyes. As my remaining domains become due, they will be moved.