GoDaddy status: hosting issues and outage reports

Problems in the last 24 hours

The graph below depicts the number of GoDaddy reports received over the last 24 hours by time of day. When the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line, an outage is determined.

Most Reported Problems

The following are the most recent problems reported by GoDaddy users through our website.

• E-mail (40%)
• Hosting (33%)
• Domains (20%)
• Cloud Services (7%)

Live Outage Map

The most recent GoDaddy outage reports came from the following cities:

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Quito	E-mail	7 days ago
Long Branch	Domains	8 days ago
Township of Evan	Hosting	9 days ago
Glen Burnie	E-mail	12 days ago
Logroño	Domains	22 days ago
Manassas	Hosting	26 days ago

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GoDaddy Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  LonestarDomains (@LoneStarDomains) reported 7 minutes ago

  Hi @DNJournal here is a feature idea.. lists and editorials of the WORST registrars, why they are bad for small business, predatory aspects of their business models, dark patterns, bad faith credential aggregation companies (newfold) etc. All fact based. NAME AND SHAME. ill go first, Godaddy.

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  Zach Holder (@ZachHolder) reported 7 minutes ago

  I just wish you valued your customers instead of gouging them. You were not there to help and it took forever to get a hold of you. Beware of using their service. @GoDaddy

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  HOURLY LIFE of Fred Campos (@FredsDaily) reported 8 minutes ago

  10a On GoDaddy support for 2026-Client-586A. The client has two A records (one that points to the old website, and one the new). Trying to help them straighten it out.

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  NanoCheeZe MEQUAVIS (@mequavis) reported 8 minutes ago

  @GoDaddy Your india phone support center is out of ****** control!!!!! they all need to be fired and replaced and relocated pronto!!!! I am so done with your ****** service!!!!!! Auto ip banned by hosting and talking to agents is like dialing a different universe where everyone is stupid

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  Jason X (@JenerasonX) reported 13 minutes ago

  @GoDaddyHelp @GoDaddy You auto-renewed a service I never used and charged me $216. I didn’t know it was renewing. Two of your phone agents submitted Out of Policy Refund requests. Both denied. No appeal. Policy is the last word. I’ve spent thousands with you. This is the last dollar. Refund the $216 or I’ll move every domain and never come back.

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  Ken Lin (@KenLin1985) reported 20 minutes ago

  Sold CineArt․com for $4,166 net to me. The buyer must have paid more, as GoDaddy still charges a commission. The funny thing is that I had completely forgotten to list the domain on Afternic and had left it on a blank GoDaddy parked page. The buyer came through GoDaddy Broker Service, and after several rounds of negotiation, I accepted the offer even though the price wasn’t great. A name like this is completely beyond my ability to develop, so I decided to let it go for cheap. My guess is that the buyer is a company involved in AI filmmaking. 🤔

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  FRESH CULTURE (@FRESHCULTUREIAM) reported 21 minutes ago

  BREAKING: GoDaddy Airo AI Accused of Systematically Misleading Users - $100 Million Lawsuit Allegedly Being Prepared August 30, 2026 , Breaking News A growing controversy is emerging around GoDaddy Airo AI, with allegations that the company's AI-powered website-building platform may be deliberately designed in ways that mislead, frustrate, or take advantage of customers. Three GoDaddy employees have allegedly come forward with information raising serious questions about how Airo was designed, how it responds to customers, and whether certain behaviors are the result of technical failures or intentional programming decisions. According to the allegations, Airo can repeatedly provide users with inaccurate information, claim that functions have been completed when they have not, make promises about capabilities that the platform cannot actually deliver, and continue directing users through processes that ultimately fail to produce the results promised. $100 MILLION LAWSUIT ALLEGEDLY BEING PREPARED The controversy is now escalating beyond customer complaints. A $100 million lawsuit is allegedly being prepared against GoDaddy, with the proposed action seeking compensation for customers who claim they were financially harmed, misled, or otherwise damaged while using Airo services. The proposed lawsuit would seek to recover losses and damages for affected customers and could potentially include claims related to deceptive representations, failure to deliver advertised services, consumer harm, and other allegations that may emerge as evidence is reviewed. The stated objective is to repay customers who allegedly paid for services they say were not delivered as represented. “THIS ISN'T JUST BROKEN AI” The most serious allegation is that these problems may not simply be the result of an unreliable artificial-intelligence system. Sources claiming knowledge of the situation allege that certain behaviors are specifically programmed into the platform, raising the possibility that users are being systematically misled rather than merely encountering ordinary AI errors. If proven, this would represent a dramatically different situation from an AI product that is simply buggy or unreliable. It would raise fundamental questions about consumer protection, transparency, corporate responsibility, and how AI companies are permitted to interact with customers. THREE EMPLOYEES ALLEGEDLY SPEAK OUT The involvement of three alleged GoDaddy employees makes the accusations particularly significant. If the employees can substantiate their claims with internal communications, development documentation, source-code evidence, product specifications, recordings, or other documentation, the allegations could warrant substantially greater scrutiny. WHAT HAPPENS NEXT? The central question is simple: Is GoDaddy Airo simply a badly designed AI product or was it intentionally designed to behave in ways that cause customers to believe something has been accomplished when it has not? And now, with a potential $100 million legal action reportedly being prepared, the financial consequences could be substantial if the allegations are ultimately substantiated. If a lawsuit is formally filed, it could force the company to address questions about Airo's development, internal safeguards, customer representations, refund practices, and the alleged involvement of employees who claim to have knowledge of the system. THE STORY IS DEVELOPING GoDaddy should be given an opportunity to explain how Airo is designed, what safeguards exist to prevent misleading AI-generated representations, how customer complaints are handled, and whether any Airo behaviors are intentionally programmed to influence or retain customers. This is a developing story.

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  Atomic Man Productions (@AtomicErectus) reported 22 minutes ago

  @GCanada3146 No problem, and good luck! I know that feeling, @GoDaddy is a dogshit company that basically laughed me off when my late best friend’s memorial website got hacked. Just an awful brand all around.

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  Dain Bramage Entertainment ❄️ (@EOTWoffgrid) reported 24 minutes ago

  @SkyXFunNext Ugh.... i have been fighting a DNS issue between godaddy and cloudflare, i cleared the cloudflare cache yesterday and that causes some pages to time out until they are cached again. sorry for the inconvenience, if you refresh or close the tab and try again it often works. Should sort itself out next time the page is cached.

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  360 (@360Domain) reported 24 minutes ago

  @BrandAimCom @GoDaddy Yeah, seems like GoDaddy is still keeping XYZ appraisals pretty light. @GoDaddy fix this as well

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  🇺🇬 Zulu 🇺🇬 General 🇺🇬 Korpez 🇺🇬 (@KorpezTV) reported 26 minutes ago

  @ReardenMines all his seo data was deleted when he "forgot to pay godaddy" for 3 months. any seo data he had on other platforms is spaghetti and **** now bc of this

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  No Filter (@hvg108) reported 28 minutes ago

  @VEDANJANAM @techprofuse @GoogleIndia I have only always used GoDaddy. Never had any issues. Yes, slightly more expensive.

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  JESUS ARMY ΙΧΘΥΣ (@Jesusarmy) reported 29 minutes ago

  Godaddy sucks They used to be such a great company before they got sold. $25 for renewals. I am moving all 150 domains OUT of there. None of my sites are even hosted there. Such greedy *******. @GoDaddy

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  Nametra (@NametraDotCom) reported 29 minutes ago

  After about 27 years as a @GoDaddy customer and domain investor, I lost two potentially profitable domains because of what I consider GoDaddy’s negligence in communicating a major change to its closeout process. A closeout domain is no longer reserved when added to your shopping cart. Multiple buyers can check out simultaneously, and the first transaction to process wins. Yesterday, I placed two domains in my cart and proceeded through checkout, but received no confirmation or order record. A GoDaddy Premier Services representative later told me someone else had beaten me to both domains by seconds. The explanation: customers had been holding domains in their carts for up to two hours. I agree that was excessive—but why not shorten the reservation period to five or ten minutes? Instead, GoDaddy eliminated it entirely, turning checkout into a Wild West race. I received no email, call or clear warning about this consequential change. Had I known, I would have adjusted my purchasing process and checked out each domain immediately. Instead, I handled the transaction under the rules I reasonably believed were still in effect—and lost two potentially profitable investments. I should not have had to discover this policy by losing domains during checkout. Has anyone else lost a @GoDaddy closeout domain this way—or received advance notice that the policy had changed?

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  What he said (@KennyJ1975) reported 33 minutes ago

  @KrystleSanDiego @MSFT365Status I have godaddy and its not working.

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  David Haddad (@daveying99) reported 34 minutes ago

  @levelsio @Cloudflare Easy decision. Only thing I would like more is domain favoriting (considering buying) and more tld support (namecheap has more and godaddy much more)

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  Vrillionaire (@ug0tpwn3d) reported 37 minutes ago

  @st8less @GoDaddy Ah okay, I get it. Yeah, it was a weird brief problem I had a few months back when I switched PC's. I have tried uBlock Origin since on Brave and it's worked perfectly, I just can't be assed to switch back and reconfigure, even though Brave is still installed on this.

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  J OC (@J214627) reported 38 minutes ago

  @GoDaddy All lies, the company is low tech, the support is crap, and the service only get worse. Your team is very advanced on ND (natural dumbness) not on AI for sure

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  B. Williams (@BodineWilliams) reported 39 minutes ago

  @GoDaddyHelp I do not want a GoDaddy "credit" as all my accounts are paid up for the next 2 years. I was promised the credit/refund back to the original Citibank MasterCard payment. Please so so asap or I will dispute the entire charge citing GoDaddy is acting in bad faith.

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  CA Milap Gatecha (@milap_gatecha) reported 41 minutes ago

  @GoDaddy ticket number:17880321753327 customer#282388102 not resolved even after 24 hours!!!

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  SI Munna (@MunnaDomainer) reported 46 minutes ago

  Are GoDaddy or @afternic currently experiencing domain search issues?

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  Nametra (@NametraDotCom) reported 46 minutes ago

  After nearly 27 years as a @GoDaddy customer and domain investor, I lost two potentially profitable domains because of what I consider GoDaddy’s negligence in communicating a major change to its closeout process. A closeout domain is no longer reserved when added to your shopping cart. Multiple buyers can check out simultaneously, and the first transaction to process wins. Yesterday, I placed two domains in my cart and proceeded through checkout, but received no confirmation or order record. A GoDaddy Premier Services representative later told me someone else had beaten me to both domains by seconds. The explanation: customers had been holding domains in their carts for up to two hours. I agree that was excessive—but why not shorten the reservation period to five or ten minutes? Instead, GoDaddy eliminated it entirely, turning checkout into a Wild West race. I received no email, call or clear warning about this consequential change. Had I known, I would have adjusted my purchasing process and checked out each domain immediately. Instead, I handled the transaction under the rules I reasonably believed were still in effect—and lost two potentially profitable investments. After nearly 27 years of loyalty, I should not have had to discover this policy by losing domains during checkout. Has anyone else lost a @GoDaddy closeout domain this way—or received advance notice that the policy had changed?

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  NameBio (@NameBio) reported 47 minutes ago

  Sales With History 📈 DragonStone․com sold for $12,230 at Sedo - up from $2,495 in September 2023 at DropCatch. 📈 Toloco․com sold for $6,824 at Sedo - up from $1,105 in January 2024 at DropCatch. 📈 TheWarranty․com sold for $6,600 at GoDaddy - up from $3,088 in February 2023 at BuyDomains. 📈 LetHerCook․com sold for $3,495 at Sedo - up from $51 in June 2026 at Namecheap. 📉 BeCash․com sold for $3,049 at Namecheap - down from $14,995 in August 2024 at Sedo. 📉 Trade․io sold for $75,000 at Sedo - down from $88,000 in February 2021 at Park․io. Yesterday's Word Cloud + TLD Breakdown 👇

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  Dain Bramage Entertainment ❄️ (@EOTWoffgrid) reported 51 minutes ago

  @GoDaddyHelp i know this much.... @Cloudflare has suggested whitelisting their IP ranges.... i have told this to two different support staff and they instead Cleared a cache.. and said wait a few hours..... SAME PROBLEM!! Just as site traffic is starting to pick up.... this becomes and issue.... i need it resolved ASAP one way or another. Solutions.... Let's hear them....

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  Shamsuddin Roshan (@ShamsuddinRosh5) reported 52 minutes ago

  @GoDaddy They reply email after 3 days. My website kept going down and Google found the site not worth. It deranked many keywords

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  Amir Khela (@amir_khela) reported 54 minutes ago

  I'm low key shocked I achieved $3,000 in ARR without ever testing the software I (Claude) made, didn't advertise it, didn't even go through all the web pages. Everytime Claude suggested something, I'd say yes lets do it. Made this a 2 months ago, Claude already has access to my godaddy api, vercel, stripe, twilio, elevenlabs etc. Made the whole platform, the SAAS, a hyperniche product. Suddenly I saw stripe payments coming in and I didn't even know what for. It caught my attention. Let's see if I can achieve $100,000 ARR in the next 4 months if I sit down and focus.

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  Dominique C. Brack (@M70Vault) reported 57 minutes ago

  @Darcymason There are no premium domains on GoDaddy. Most .io domains are priced at less than $100 or even just have a dash. Maybe GD should fix this for its customers first. Then Afternic just builds on that wrongful assumption. FiFo or LiFo BS in BS out.

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  Sourav (@deysourav7091) reported 58 minutes ago

  @GoDaddy i just purchased a domain and its worst experience , your support not working ? I need help why you are taking too much time to verify .in domain

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  Adithya 🚀 (@adithyashreshti) reported 1 hour ago

  WTF, @Namecheap. Need recommendations. For YEARS, I’ve recommended Namecheap over GoDaddy because the support was great and I trusted the experience. Now I’m finding that EVERY SINGLE domain I searched on Namecheap’s WHOIS less than 24 hours ago is suddenly “taken.” Not one. Every. Single. One. People on Reddit raised this exact issue months ago. I defended Namecheap because I’d never experienced it myself and even mentioned it is trust worthy. Well, I faced it now. I searched each domain ONCE. Just once. I wasn’t repeatedly checking them or trying to register them. And now they’re all “taken.” Maybe it’s a coincidence. But it’s a pretty damn weird one because every domain I that I had checked for availability is gone at easily 10x the price. I’m seriously considering moving everything out of Namecheap. Who are you guys using instead? Already using Cloudflare for .com, but I still have a lot of domains at NC.

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  Bodhi- Local SEO (@irentdumpsters) reported 1 hour ago

  An HVAC client in Orlando opened his third profile last month and immediately bought three separate domain names. Building fresh domains splits your backlink authority and forces you to compete against your own company on Google. Keep everything on your main domain. Build dedicated location pages (/tampa, /orlando) and attach a verified Google Business Profile to each physical shop. Took me two hours on the phone to convince him to cancel the GoDaddy cart