the Emotiomental Graffiti blog

Cheap(er) domain registration prices and cheap(er) basic web hosting packages have never and will never motivate me to choose GoDaddy for any of my domain registration or web hosting needs.

NEVER.

However.

Due to the old RegisterFly fiasco (not my fault!) that happened back in the timespan of 2005-2007, I had a handful of domains that I had been maintaining at RegisterFly get pushed on to GoDaddy while one domain ended up with eNom. Several got moved elsewhere (DreamHost, here I come!) while I let others whose purposes had expired… expire.

Also.

Due to working with various people over the years – paid, voluntary, because we’re friends, and otherwise – I have been forced to interact with GoDaddy as the go-between fix-it and fix-up person.

But those incidents and instances aside, I myself would never – if possible – choose GoDaddy.

Why?

Good grief, but where do I start?

I know! How about in alphabetical order?

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You would think that most of the possibilities are more than obvious and a matter of common sense…

But apparently not.

Apparently, despite how obvious the hatred for spam is all over the world wide web (except amongst spammers, of course!), the best way to get yourself noticed and your actually legitimate website/blog/whatever linked is to spam the hell out of it in all sorts of irrelevant places!

Geeebuz, people.

You know, compared to a lot of my peers in the community, I’m a bit more tolerant of ‘maybe related’ spam commentary. I mean, at least the spam that falls into the ‘maybe related’ category means that the spamming is actually a bit ’smarter’ than the average spam.

So if someone actually took the time to craft a semi decent spam commentary (but I guess then it wouldn’t be spam anymore now would it?), I might very well just let it through with a, “Oh what the hell?” as long as the person weren’t linking to some Viagra or porno or ‘make money now’ site or something.

Legitimate site, slightly spammy but still relevant commentary, okay. Fine.

But a legitimate site combined with irrelevant spammy commentary which I find out has been spammed to hell on however many other sites is a no-can-do.

I don’t want to be associated with a spammer, thanks!

I also don’t want to be giving the spammer a free link to their site, either!

Links are earned in my book, not spammed.

With that said, regardless if anyone cares or not, I will just say upfront that in spamming me with your actually very legitimate website link, you give me a poor impression of both yourself and your site and you have just about guaranteed that any future comments from you will be thrown out with the spam.

If you have a legitimate website, then spend some time building legitimate links!

Please, thank you, and NO thank you to more spam!

~ EMG