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Besides having an unforgettable name, GoDaddy also has an unforgettable site. This is one registrar that swamps your eyeballs with a plethora of offers and features. The problem is that is not a complement. GoDaddy’s overabundance of content and offers tend to make the site appear to be more of a cookie cutter-style website, that can be regularly found on Ebay, than one of the largest domain registrars online.

This cluttered feeling does not go away once you open an account with them either. During orders, you constantly are being asked to buy cheap software products. Transferring a name to a different account at GoDaddy will also bring up offers of software products and you are lead through a maze of pages and procedures to accomplish the same process that can be done via a simple push feature at registrars such as Dotster, eNom, and Namecheap.

On the positive side, GoDaddy’s immense size allows it to offer cheap backorders and a fairly cheap reseller program. In fact, a large portion of the smaller domain registrars on the Internet are GoDaddy resellers. You can tell if they are or not because they have the same general interface. For backordering, GoDaddy offers backorders in the $12 to $18 range across its own site and its multitude of resellers. That price range is the cheapest for backorders and trails only Namewinner (if you are the only bidder) in terms of the cheapest way to catch an expiring name. However, the lack of user-friendliness hurts GoDaddy’s overall value to customers.

Domain Radar’s Rating (out of 5 stars): *** 1/4

Pros
•  one of the best reseller programs
•  sells very cheap backorders
•  cheap transfers at $7.95 each

Cons
•  interface is not user friendly
•  no easy push feature for domain selling
•  easy to have multiple accounts when you want just one
•  no PayPal support
•  looks like a spam convention with the wide assortment of junk

The Verdict - Being one of the biggest does not mean being one of the best.