Well, if you read this blog regularly… you’ll see I’ve been having a few problems with Registerfly or rather their PayPal system isn’t up and running and it’s pissing me off So rather than just sit and be pissy all day I thought I’d do a bit of investigating into domain registrars… that I’ve come across in the past couple of days.

So here we go, with the Domain Registrar….

GoDaddy.com
I think everyone has heard of GoDaddy at some point. I think they really got their exposure with those SuperBowl ads and the momentum just kept going. I went to the site and the first thing that went through my mind was… “Holy Crap they’ve got a lot of stuff here”.

I was giddy with excitement of a new opportunity. That feeling soon disappeared when I spent five minutes trying to find where to sign up. Ummm… might want to make that a bit more obvious.

Well I find where I need to sign up and it was super easy after that - quick and easy to become a member when you find the link. *cough, cough* But when I got logged in, I then got a bit confused as to where I had to go to register a new domain. I found that link after about another five minutes of looking around.

No worries I thought, its just because I’m new to the site and need to become more aquainted with it all. But I would wonder how the “newbies” find their way around that site…. to me, in my own opinion - the site seems to want to sell you everything… and in the process confuses the hell out of you. But it’s GoDaddy… they’re big and feel that they can. I don’t know.

So today I decided to buy my first domain through them. I thought I was in luck because they offered PayPal as an option. I went through their registration process and when it got to the point of paying - I was led to PayPal… no problem so far I thought… this will be good. They offered WhoIs protection and that was perfect… I thought I was on my way.

I clicked on their PayPal button and was wisked away to PayPal…. I log in…. and then it askes me for my credit card number.

*deep breath*

FRUSTRATION ensues.

I use PayPal because I DON’T have a credit card. I had money in my PayPal account, but it didn’t give me an option to move funds from there to GoDaddy - they just wanted the Card. So my only option available to me was to cancel.

I thought maybe I’d missed a step so I went back through the process and ended up at the same place as before…. CREDIT CARD VILLE. Damn it. It was so frustrating. So taking this as an omen I didn’t attempt to buy a domain name from them, because of the credit card debaucle. It is very frustrating when they offer PayPal… but really just want your damn credit card.

So what’s a girl to do? I gave up. Plain and simple, I just didn’t have time to fart around with GoDaddy. I decided that I was going to look somewhere else. I’d heard good things about NameCheap.com and so that’s my next story in my mini-series about Domain Registrars.