Godaddy is arguably the worst domain registrar because it's very easy to lose the domain - and GoDaddy will be the one stealing it. This has happened to our company. We hosted more than 100 domains with Godaddy and Godaddy stole one of our domains. It had not expired - they simply took it. That was just one of the nightmares you have to deal with, when registering sites with GoDaddy.

Godaddy honors all foreign court orders to deactivate domain registrations - including those from North Korea, China, Russia and Iran.

How do you lose your site to GoDaddy? Simple. Godaddy honors court rulings from all countries on Earth. Godaddy confirmed this to us over the phone. When you say something the government of Iran doesn't like, an Iranian court will rule that your domain be shut down, send it to GoDaddy and the same day the emailed scan of the ruling arrives, GoDaddy will permanently confiscate your domain. This scenario played out exactly like that with us. The same goes for Turkish court orders, Chinese court orders and Mexican court orders. As soon as your site draws the negative attention of a person, company or government entity anywhere in the world and they obtain a court order in their own country to shut your site down, there is no appeals process, no way to defend yourself and no advance notice: GoDaddy permanently deactivates your site registration. GoDaddy admitted to us that it is their policy to honor all such foreign court orders, even those hypothetically coming from North Korea. Let's hope NK doesn't find out! Godaddy even told us they don't require an English translation: GoDaddy believes the sender on their word that the attached scanned documents in any foreign language are a valid court order of a Uzbekistan or Indian court. As long as it "looks legit".

GoDaddy randomly reverts "manual renewal" to "automatic" and you have to set them back to "manual" individually

One of the most costly and frustrating things you have to deal with, when registering domains with GoDaddy, is that their systems will randomly set all manually renewable domains back to automatically renewable. Usually this happens a couple of days before they are auto-renewed by GoDaddy. Complaining does not help - they will deny it. You will not be refunded. This has happened to us, with many domains, multiple times. We keep setting them back to "manual expiry" and days, weeks or months later they're all back to "automatic". It takes a very long time to set a hundred domains back to "manual", because GoDaddy's site is excruciatingly slow and they do not offer a way to bulk-update domain settings.