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GoDaddy really lived up to its bad reputation and recently changed their API rules. The rules are simple: either you own 10 (or 50) domains, you pay $20/month, or you don't get the API. I personally didn't get any communication, and this broke my DDNS setup. I am clearly not the only one judging from what I found online. A company this big gating an API behind such a steep price... So I will repeat what many people said before me (being right): don't. use. GoDaddy.

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[–] csm10495@sh.itjust.works 9 points 4 months ago (9 children)

Recommend cloudflare for DNS. I use it for DDNS via API and it works great.

You also basically pay the wholesale rate without markup for the domain.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 points 4 months ago (6 children)

Is it cheap? I got shifted to SquareSpace from Google Domains and it's pricier. I switched the name cheap but have no loyalty to them.

[–] irotsoma@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's reasonably priced. I was in the same boat with the Google domains shutdown. As long as you aren't a heavy user, it has lots of cool features. But if you get their attention they've been known to fleece the crap out of small businesses that were using their free services. Most of my stuff is self hosted applications to move myself off of Google services, so my traffic is minimal.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago

I only have two domain names and both just redirect to my public code repositories.

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