FINALLY
Friday: GoDaddy CEO donates $1,000,000 to Trump’s inauguration fund
Monday: Trump takes office
Tuesday: Senate confirms new FTC chair
Wednesday: FTC announces a settlement with GoDaddy where the FTC will withdraw the case and GoDaddy agrees to a $125,000 penalty paid over the next five years
That’s very generous with the penalty. More likely to get off Scott free
I feel like I must be the only person on Earth who has successfully used Godaddy for anything and not had a problem…
Did you try getting an SSL certificate on your website by chance? Without paying $400/yr…
Yes.
I just had to log in and check. We pay $49.99 per year for our SSL cert. Do they do surge pricing or something…?
I mean, SSL certs are free now:
Maybe not worth $50 a year to change your setup but there’s no reason to pay for them anymore.
The company pays for it. Not my dime. The expense doesn’t seem onerous and is just to name one example probably a small fraction of what we spend on pens in a year.
And we get everything of that ilk from one vendor with one bill. It’s all managed in one place. The renewals all happen at the same time. They like that.
That’s not a good argument for GoDaddy. It just means that you and your company don’t care and are not qualified to make any claims about GoDaddy’s actual service.
The problem is they are screwing you over without you knowing about it. Just because you’re oblivious doesn’t mean it’s not happening. Yes, they make it easy to give them money, but the services they provide are horrendous when you know how they compare.
Of course, if you’re not qualified to determine how bad they are then you’re not going to see much of it. Just like if you don’t know anything about cars and your mechanic charges you way too much and for things that you don’t need, like “blinker fluid”, and you just think “oh this is fine”, that doesn’t mean that’s not an awful mechanic.
