I love GoDaddy, but I cannot stand how they keep putting more and more of the sexy women all over their site - even in the new customer dshboard. Eeewww. It should be optional to have the women or not.

usually very a head of the times but sounds like they are loosing it by policing the universe

It's cheap to buy domains, but the site experience is unbelievably bad.  Don't forget your password, or the process to retrieve it is brutal.

Furthermore, they are known to pull the plug on sites with no warning.  Check out their handling of the perfectly legal RateMyCop.com.

My partner and I used GoDaddy to set up www.ayrstone.com, an e-commerce site to sell products for small business owners, primarily in agriculture. It was extremely easy to make a useful and nice-looking web site very quickly with the Websitetonight capability. It was a bonus that we could instantly add a discussion forum, and the discussion forum is very nice, easy to configure, and easy to use.

In order to do e-commerce, we chose to use GoDaddy's Quick Shopping Cart, which was not so easy to set up. It took quite a while to set up our merchant account so we could take credit cards, and we ran into several problems. GoDaddy's customer support was excellent, but it turned out that some of the options shown on their site for merchant accounts wouldn't do what we hoped, and it was hard to find the information about the supported merchant accounts. At one point, someone from GoDaddy told us a particular merchant account would work with Quick Shopping Cart when, in fact, it did not.

So, overall we're happy with GoDaddy. It's a particularly good option for someone who's not particularly web-savvy, as the tools are very good and very friendly. Getting e-commerce set up was tough, but, since this is the first e-commerce site I have set up, I can't say whether it was easier or harder than other web hosting operations.

They are very competively priced, and have tons of software options available. It is a very flexible site. I have had no problems with it so far. I haven't had to utilize any support from them yet, so can't rate that.