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So GoDaddy is utterly terrible both when you're their client and when you're not their client. Great. Could that company be burned to the ground already?


Sadly it seems good marketing can compensate for being terrible.


It's pretty much the law of businesses this days. If you pump enough money to market your product/company, then your sales will be orthogonal to the product itself. You can sell any crap, as long as your marketing team is good enough.


Hold the torches and pitchforks there.


Why? GoDaddy is merely popular. They do not provide a service that is not fulfilled as competently or as featurefully by a competitor. If GoDaddy ended as a business overnight, there would be a transition cost while people figured out which competitor to go with and moved their things, but nothing would actually be lost.

The only reason they can ignore internet rage is because their market share is gigantic, and it's gigantic only because they're really good at marketing.




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