Do not use Godaddy for O365

[JimMcGowanInlet]

Just wanted to give everyone a heads up not to use Godaddy for O365. Godaddy has modified the Admin and User interfaces. As an Admin you cannot fully manage users from the Office 365 Admin interface. You have to log into Godaddy's home page to add/remove users first. Then you need to log into the Office 365 admin interface on Microsoft through Godaddy to get Admin rights but you still can't manage any users until you manually jump from that admin page to the Exchange Management Console.

 

 

Godaddy also doesn't support Azure for password sync so users have to manage two passwords.

 

 

Users are also limited. I haven't found all the limits on what users can't do yet but my biggest aggravation is users cannot change their own password. To change their own password they must logout and use the forgot password option and go through the password recovery process.

 

The other user problem I haven't tracked down yet is somehow some users were able to overcome the Password requirements. So I have users with passwords that do not contain numbers or symbols. I am not sure how this happened but I suspect Godaddy is at fault.

 

IMHO If you want O365 go to Microsoft direct.

[ZeroHour]

Based on what I know about GoDaddy I wouldnt really recommend anyone uses them for anything tbh.

 

Thanks for the heads up.

[Arthur]

Based on what I know about GoDaddy I wouldnt really recommend anyone uses them for anything tbh.

I agree. I actually boycotted GoDaddy way back in 2011 after some issue with domain names. Never used them since.

[Michael]

Just to clarify, if I go to MS direct and use Godaddy as my domain registrar, this works absolutely fine. I didn't realise you could go direct to Godaddy, but now I do.

[ZeroHour]

Just to clarify, if I go to MS direct and use Godaddy as my domain registrar, this works absolutely fine. I didn't realise you could go direct to Godaddy, but now I do.

 

Tbh I wouldnt use them to register domains with either, their techs have been social engineered into giving account info out as well as storing account passwords in clear text so they can conveniently read them out to you on the phone...

We use https://www.gandi.net/ and AWS to register domains now over 123-reg.

Edited January 31, 2017 by ZeroHour

[Michael]

I've never had to call their support to be fair, but it's definitely noted.

[Arthur]

We use https://www.gandi.net/ and AWS to register domains now over 123-reg.

Several of my domains are with Gandi. I haven't had any issues with them so far, although to be fair they have also fallen victim to social-engineering scam(s) too...

 

https://blog.fastmail.com/2014/04/10/when-two-factor-authentication-is-not-enough

 

I've never had to call their support to be fair, but it's definitely noted.

Something else to note is that GoDaddy have been found to be front running domain names. Not good!

 

• https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/2er8c4/domain_name_registered_on_godaddy_after_i_looked
  
• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2326790
  

[Michael]

Every registrar Front Run domains, as well as everyone else in the business. This isn't a unique practice to GoDaddy. There are people outside of the registrar providers who make a living from buying, selling and even leasing domain names to whoever wants them. It's very lucrative but very risky also.

 

I don't consider this a problem, however security obviously is an important issue.

[Zoom7000]

Thanks for the heads up. Who would you guys recommend for domain name registration?

[ZeroHour]

Thanks for the heads up. Who would you guys recommend for domain name registration?

 

I would probably still recommend Gandi tbh, they changed their processes after that incident and they are used by a lot of large companies as well.

[Arthur]

Every registrar Front Run domains, as well as everyone else in the business.

I've not experienced this myself with Gandi or NameCheap.