GoDaddy SSL Certificate Reviews

Name: GoDaddy
Rating: 2.7

GoDaddy is an SSL certificate authority that sells web hosting, domain names, SSL certificates, and other web services. GoDaddy was established in 1997, and is headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona, USA.

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2.7 (210 Total Reviews)

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Adam Abdelnoor

If you are not used to installing certificates and using UNIX - it can be tough
September 12, 2014 Permalink

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Product: Premium (EV) Certificate
Website: http://logs.inaura.net
Organization: Adam Abdelnoor

IT's not GoDaddy's fault installing a certificate is tricky. You will have to learn how to use UNIX shell of some sort (this is a command line way to talk to the secure files on your server. You will have to take all the steps very carefully and search the internet to solve every problem. Once you have got on top of the things you have to do to generate a certificate request and you send it to GoDaddy they are terrific, the site is well laid out and if you phoen customer support you get it. A big 'however' is that you need to be contacting the right people for support. If you are stuck server side its your server support team who must help you out, not GoDaddy. SOmetimes its hard to tell whether eg you have the wrong GoDaddy file, or you're doing the wrong thing with the file on your server. Ditto you need to find the support pages for YOUR server when searching for a problem solution. I found a 'solution' on Digicert to a problem - the solution worked right through the sign up and certificate approval process until I tried to use the certificate. Then I discovered the solution I had found didn't work on my server... so start again. Put it this way. I had to do it twice because I requested the wrong type of key certificate the first time. The first time, it took me about 20 hours (not including waiting for the cert to be issued). Then I did it ALL again ;-) ...About 40 minutes from start to finish. I'm completely happy with how GoDaddy did everything and the green bar looks great!!

weya

Employees can't even spell
September 10, 2014 Permalink

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Product: Several different products

I purchased several domains ad hosting from them...only my order would not process, thus forcing me to call. An unprofessional sounding 'bachelor' who may have been eating a sandwich answered the phone and had to manually enter my order. He offered to process the order right there but there were many domains I wanted to verify everything. Good thing I did! He spelled 2 of the names incorrectly by 1 letter (both amazing industry-specific names, the rest personal domains and'oddly worded'..it felt shady that the rep would fudge the easy valuable names and REALLLY tried to push me for phone processing ....and take the name later?...I've heard it happen and this guy sounded the like no professional but the ownerrs slob cousin....a few years later here I am and I want to get SSL...only this ad popped up of an overhead shot of some chesty girl in a push up bra pulling her Go-Daddy tee down to expose her cleavage (like overhead shots of her chestiness, push-ups and a baby-t aren't enough O.o. I'm a businesswoman. I overlooked it out of convenience but the imagery goes hand in hand with their service, like it is owned and operated by disrespectful teen boys. Terrible service.

TheVIPLounge.net

Godaddy is the BEST!
September 6, 2014 Permalink

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Product: Standard SSL
Website: https://theviplounge.net
Organization: The VIP Lounge

I was able to get a VPS for 6 months at a very affordable rate through GoDaddy. The bonus? a FREE standard ssl. They are the ONLY provider to give their clients a free ssl no strings attached when you buy a ssl through them unlike their providers. I would recommend GoDaddy to anyone looking to start up their website.

Bruce Sommer

reasonable price with the 30% code
August 29, 2014 Permalink

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Product: Standard SSL Wildcard
Website: http://*.thechildrenstherapycenter.com
Organization: The Childrens Therapy Center

reasonable price with the 30% code and immediate issue upon validation

Jay M

Great Value
July 17, 2014 Permalink

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Product: Standard SSL Wildcard

We've been buying SSL Certs from Godaddy for years. Certificates are issued immediately after the domain is verified. Which now you can do by putting a small control file on your web server hosting the SSL Name. Trick with GoDaddy is making sure you get your Intermediate Certs in place on the servers hosting the site. If you do that, you'll have no problems. Great Value for what you get!

Kevin Dean

GoDaddy - Wasting everyones time - RUN AWAY!!!!
June 7, 2014 Permalink

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Product: Standard SSL Wildcard

I swear they hire people that do not even know what A certificate is and its use. After fighting with them for three days about what a wild card is...they finally found someone with a clue. Two days later, finally a response...no wait we lost your paperwork. YOU WHAT!!!!???? You cannot find all of my personal information I sent you? GoDaddy should register domains and that is it. They are incompetent on every level that is sadly ridiculously funny.

Zoe Orsborne

Great support!
June 6, 2014 Permalink

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Product: Standard UC Certificate
Website: http://btaworldwide.com
Organization: Building Technoloy Associates

Great group of people to work with. I was new to the SSL/UCC process but they were patient and pleasant to work with. They stuck with me until we got the job done. I highly recommend them based on the great support I got.

Chris

Re: GoDaddy SSL Certificate Reviews
June 6, 2014 Permalink

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Product: Standard UC Certificate

there support basically stated...they don't provide server support.....if you want help from them....make sure you have a ton of time and someone else that can actually provide the assistance you need....because my dog provided better support than they did....at least he didn't waste my time.

Karen Roscoe

Support too long and no email support
May 20, 2014 Permalink

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Product: Several different products

Mostly support. My SSL cert was found in progress instead of active. It had not expired. We discovered this because we were losing sales. I could not email support to find out why. I tried the chat and 1.5 hours later, was dropped off. Desperate, I called. Phone support was okay but the gentleman had to put me on hold to probably ask someone else. He didn't answer why my certificate mysteriously went in active. I knew what was doing with the install, but the steps he gave me were wrong. I didn't think they really knew the answers. I have history with bad support experiences. Long waits, don't answer the question asked. Never fix anything for you. Unless you only buy a domain name, that is all they are good for. Hosting is slow. On old servers and I could go on. At the end of my last call, they tried to sell me on discount for having many domains. Are you kidding. WE are moving everything off, one by one.

Patrick Ryan

Customer Support was Awesome!
May 4, 2014 Permalink

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Product: Standard SSL Wildcard
Organization: Marshalltown Company

The customer support person was very patient and very knowledgeable.

John Stefani

SAN (UCC) prices are rising :(
March 30, 2014 Permalink

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Product: Standard UC Certificate

Been with GoDaddy for over 10 years. Still the best in my opinion. Sad that pricing is on the rise ($89 for my renewal to $149 for new).

Mike

Excellent Support Documentation
February 19, 2014 Permalink

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Product: Standard SSL
Website: http://mammogram.giffordmed.org
Organization: Gifford Medical Center

I purchased a Standard SSL certificate from Go Daddy. The price was reasonable. The documentation to create and install the certificate was excellent. The only problem I ran into is that their SSL checking tool gave me an error. However, I came to this site (sslshopper.com) and it checks out fine. I called support and they quickly confirmed it is OK.

Akhtar Chowdhury

Brilliant Customer Support
February 18, 2014 Permalink

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Product: Standard SSL Wildcard

GoDaddy are a brilliant SSL provider, they are the only provider that I know offering 24/7 customer support and have very knowledgeable staff, I have not been disappointed with them whenever I have had to contact tech support. The One time that I had a delay in having my SSL cert issued they were absolutely fantastic.

Brian Cunningham

No support for any recent Mac OS Server (after 10.6)
January 21, 2014 Permalink

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Product: Standard SSL
Website: http://neb.ca
Organization: New England Bio Labes

After fighting with a GoDaddy cert for two weeks I have given up and gone with DigiCert. GoDaddy seems to have forgotten that the Mac OS has been updated several times since they posted their last instructions. The support tech was arrogant and unhelpful.

Dave W

Not bad at all
November 4, 2013 Permalink

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Product: Standard SSL
Organization: Modus Hotels

I was having issues getting the SSL to work, called support and they walked with me through the process. They get a 4 because they were patient enough to help but I was the one that actually figured out the issue. SSL is up and running most importantly.

Mark

Won't issue secondary UCs if SANs overlap
September 29, 2013 Permalink

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Product: Standard UC Certificate

GoDaddy inexplicably refuses to issue a second UC cert for a new Exchange server with a new CN because they both contain the same 'autodiscover' A record. They require that the old cert be revoked, leaving you with no transition option other than cutting over in a single event with a complicated roll-back. I wasted the time on the phone to figure out why this was happening, and the support person just said, "Because it won't happen." I said, "If this is the answer, then this is the end of our business together." The guy reiterated that it was my problem that FQDNs in the SAN were overlapping. Goodbye, GoDaddy. PS - I never did get a cert to issue from them. We are going with other options during our testing phase and will make a decision that does not involve GoDaddy when we go to pilot.

robert hurst

SSL very easy to install
September 19, 2013 Permalink

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Product: Several different products
Website: http://www.fixitsupermarket.com

After applying for my SSL on go daddy installed the cert there was very little for me to d0. very cheap.

Iain Houston

Re: GoDaddy SSL Certificate Reviews
August 29, 2013 Permalink

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Product: Standard UC Certificate

They seem to know what customers need and have 'done it all before' so you are not on your own even if you are the world's expert on SSL Certificates and all their uses like me! you probably only reuse this knowledge several times a year and it's good to have a service provider to help your rusty brain through every step of buying, installing and renewing SSL Certificates. The could, however, provide more up-to-date help for installing / renewing on Mac OS X Server App.