I am interested in purchasing a domain+hosting from GoDaddy, but I am wondering --

-- are there any sneaky charges, cancellation fees, or downtimes?

I realized the domain was 2$ the first year, "save 8 dollars" leads me to assume it is 10 for the FOLLOWING year.

I have, in my cart, three months at 'Economy', 4.99/mo. and a domain for 1.99/year for the first year.

By my understanding, my charges should be like so (estimated):

1: 17$, 3 months hosting+domain
2: 0$
3: 0$
4: 15$, 3 months hosting
5: 0$
6: 0$
7: 15$, 3 months hosting
8: 0$
9: 0$
10:15$, 3 months hosting
11: 0$
12: 0$
13: 25$, 3 months hosting+domain

Is this correct? if not, tell me where i faulted.You are correct in your analysis.  And, GoDaddy.com is totally legitimate.  In FACT, they are up there to the top of the market for domain name registrars. 

I use them for domain name registration but not for web hosting.  You are quite free to go that route if you choose.  If you find another hosting service you think you'd rather use, you can use them, and still use GoDaddy.com for domain name registration. Indeed, I believe GoDaddy.com initially began as strictly a domain registrar; they did not even offer web hosting in their early days of their existence.

If you decide you'd like to use some other hosting service, the other hosting site will send you a DNS pointer (not sure that's the correct term).  You would then logon onto your GoDaddy.com and change that element of your domain registration.  I have used GoDaddy.com for few years now. I have never had any problems and always found them to be very helpful if any...They called me personally after I registered my domain to make sure I was all SET and didn't have any questions.  Like, really they had had no reason to call, they just did to check up on me.  I thought it was awesome.

-rockI use go daddy for my domains.

I NEVER use a domain seller for hosting.
I lost SEVERAL valuable domains that way.
I am not saying it about Go Daddy. It was SOMEBODY else.

I now ha a business policy of not have any intellectual property in the hands of someone that has control of some other product I use. The risk is high, the gain is little. It is like not lettering your lawyer also be your doctor.
And if ever, ever, you have a problem with a domain  registrar, switch to another ASAP.

You can get average Web hosting service for $2 a month prepaid for one year. If you will accept almost no technical support. They give you a flash video tutorial and then you are on your own for a year.

Go Daddy has the very best telephone support bar none. The guys are in silicon gulch and speak my language.
I was just talking with a client of mine about web hosting, he said he had problems in the past with GoDaddy, specifically support.

I recommend Hostgator.com for hosting, $4.97/month for unlimited storage and bandwidth? I'd take it any day. Packages vary, and I love their tech support.

Quote from: Zylstra on October 17, 2009, 12:32:50 PM

I was just talking with a client of mine about web hosting, he said he had problems in the past with GoDaddy, specifically support.