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AdWeek: Watch GoDaddy’s New Ads, and Tell Us What on Earth You Think You Just Saw
“GoDaddy has tried various things to break out of its reputation for sleaze. First, it kept the attractive women but added some geeky guys. Then it had an attractive woman make out with a geeky guy. Then it did a quirky ad with Jean-Claude Van Damme.
Good. Very good.
“Stick it” is exactly what GoDaddy say to web developers trying to use their backend. It is the most horrendous user unfriendly backend in existence. Completely inflexible.
But I guess it you’re not using a web designer it doesn’t matter…
… But once you do want to use a web designer, you’ll pay a premium for the increased man hours to jump through the GoDaddy hoops.