Originally Posted by eroticsexxx

Every company has their "stories" and Godaddy is the proverbial elephant in the room that everyone wants to shoot.

I have never seen an online company garner so much negativity, often from persons who heard a story from another person, who happened to read something online. Or from persons who happened to not control some aspect of their operation and mistakenly let things get out of hand.

For me it isn't that serious a situation to listen to the noise in the market, which is why I use multiple domain hosts. For the past 5+ years, I have never had a problem with Godaddy though. I have other options.

The way that I look at it is this: The minute that one of your sites consistently is pulling more than a few grand a month, Godaddy shouldn't be the host in any event. They're a bargain-based operation. Period.

Such a strategy in itself nullifies any chance of them having the opportunity of ransoming something that is of any real value. If they were to try that with any of my GD domains that are making less than $500/month, I would just let it die. Now if they tried it again after that, then I would make a move.