I recently spoke with some individuals who informed me they just registered some additional website domains via GoDaddy.  I immediately felt compelled to share my relatively *painless* and *money-saving* experience moving *away* from <a href="https://godaddy.com">GoDaddy</a> and switching over to <a href="https://namesilo.com">NameSilo.com</a>.  And now that the topic was back on my mind, I also felt further compelled to share my experiences with all of you fine folks on STEEMIT as well!

For well over a decade, we had used GoDaddy for managing and hosting our domain names.  When it came time to renew our various domains, we would always hunt down the current renewal discount codes, which offered discounts anywhere from 30-50% off per domain.  

However, searching for working discount coupons every year or so for each domain type *(one discount code for **.com** domains, a different code for **.net** domains)* just to make GoDaddy’s pricing competitive with other services was a real ***pain*** in the keister...  To make things worse, over the past few years it was *increasingly difficult* to find *any* valid coupons at all
 
And while saving a few bucks per domain may not *seem* like all that much, multiply that out by *dozens of domains*, and soon it starts to look like some *$$$ serious cash*!

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Worse of all, in the past year or so, GoDaddy seems to have stopped issuing discount coupons for domain renewals altogether!  So about a year ago, it finally seemed like the perfect time to check out some of the other domain hosting offerings out there. Needless to say, after **much research** into the matter *(we didn't very well want to risk any downtime of over our collection of websites!)*, we moved all our domains over to NameSilo. 

Given what you might expect from making a move such as this, not only for one domain, but for an entire collection of them, this still managed to rank among one of the *fastest*, *easiest* and *relatively painless* experiences we've gone through!

We were able to move all our domains in a single swoop on a Saturday, and the whole transfer process was complete within 30 minutes to an hour! For $8.99/year per domain including Icann fees, you can even get **private registration** included *free* *(GoDaddy charges an addition $7.99/year for that "privilege" alone)*, and you don’t have to ever deal with searching for a coupon again when it comes time to renew! 

Any extra months left on your domains are also transferred over *(though you must wait at least 45 days before transferring **if your recently extended your domain expiration date** with your current registrar)*.

So far, we couldn’t be happier, and if you too are tired of searching for coupons and clicking through 20 screens of in-your-face ads trying to get you to “BUY MORE SH!T” before hitting the GoDaddy checkout page, you’ll definitely want to check out NameSilo.com.

To summarize, NameSilo.com offers:

* Domains are $8.99 or less (registrations, transfers or renewals)
* Free private registrations
* No annoying upsells or shady marketing
* Slick and easy to use domain manager with DNS as well
* Multiple security features including 2FA and Authentication
* <a href="https://www.namesilo.com/domain_parking.php">Earn money from Domain Parking your unused domains</a>
* <a href="https://www.namesilo.com/Marketplace">Easily Buy or Sell your domains on the NameSilo Marketplace</a>
* <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/wayne-pacelle/godaddycom-ceo-under-fire_b_843661.html">Founder/CEO does not Trophy Hunt elephants or support SOPA</a>
* <a href="https://www.namesilo.com/transfer_compare.php">NameSilo Transfer Comparison (nearly 176,000 domains have transferred over from GoDaddy so far!)</a>

Finally, while you don’t generally need coupons with <a href="https://namesilo.com">NameSilo.com</a>, you can use the coupon code " **GOSILO** " to receive $1 off your *first registration or transfer* to compensate you for your time spent trudging through this post *(and for taking on the transfer "challenge")*.  So, just follow the directions on the <a href="https://www.namesilo.com/Support/Domain-Transfer-Checklist-and-Process">NameSilo Transfer Guide</a>, and you’ll soon be rearing to go, with a much better "domain management" experience, and a good bit of extra change in your pocket to boot!

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