Bad GoDaddy Experience.

[simplygo]

Hey,

I recently purchased a domain through GoDaddy, I didn't add the security feature to my domain as I knew no body would access it until I started making it public, however within the hour I noticed 9 new members had joined my website, which forced it to crash due to spam, and then I had a DNS error which made me lose my website effectively. I have a feeling that GoDaddy publishes information based on if you purchase their security or not. I will be getting back onto them for a refund.

 

[Adieu]

Hey,

I recently purchased a domain through GoDaddy, I didn't add the security feature to my domain as I knew no body would access it until I started making it public, however within the hour I noticed 9 new members had joined my website, which forced it to crash due to spam, and then I had a DNS error which made me lose my website effectively. I have a feeling that GoDaddy publishes information based on if you purchase their security or not. I will be getting back onto them for a refund.

That has nothing to do with GoDaddy. But you can set-up blocking of all visitors except yourself using an .htaccess file.

You'd put something like this:

order allow,deny
allow from 255.0.0.0
deny from all

(replace "255.0.0.0" with your IP address)

 

[Joshua Farrell]

Hey,

I recently purchased a domain through GoDaddy, I didn't add the security feature to my domain as I knew no body would access it until I started making it public, however within the hour I noticed 9 new members had joined my website, which forced it to crash due to spam, and then I had a DNS error which made me lose my website effectively. I have a feeling that GoDaddy publishes information based on if you purchase their security or not. I will be getting back onto them for a refund.

I've never had spam bots show up immediately on a brand new domain before. Was the site already established on something else?

 

[Page]

I had bad results from godaddy myself however that's nothing to do with them.

 

[simplygo]

No the site was brand new. I was just setting up the forums when I noticed that I could no longer access my website, then I got onto a blank webpage (No theme, just the basic forum things in blue writing) and noticed 9 new members had joined.

 

[Page]

what's the domain then?

 

[simplygo]

It's been cancelled, deleted and refunded. Now I have started using onehost and they work much better!