Am I the only one that's slightly annoyed about the picture of Danica Patrick, racing star, being depicted on everything that has to do with GoDaddy?
I am not just slightly annoyed. This is precisely the reason I avoid companies like Godaddy as a customer.
I am a customer with them because I need certain services, and no matter if they supported God, Tom Hanks, Paul McCartney, Lady Gaga, Bieber or whoever, it would not make a difference for me.
It makes a hugh difference to me. Celebrity endorsements are very expensive. The money has to come from somewhere either higher prices or poor service or both. In this case it looks like both. There are many far better alternatives for domain registration and DNS hosting.
So I'm thinking, is people really this stupid? They see some good looking lady associated with a company, and they go all drooling over each other to become a customer, or they would say: "Yeah, I'm a customer of Godaddy, same hosting company as Danica Patrick uses.
Yes a lot of people are very stupid. That is why companies like Godaddy spend billions of USD a year on celebrity endorsements and lavish marketing campaigns. In this case one can choose between redundant DNS and better uptime or a celebrity endorsement. The redundant DNS does not cost more, in fact in some cases it may actually cost less. It just means that your site stays up.
I always wondered why famous people often 'prostitutes' themself in TV-commercials, often they're promoting outright fraudulent products as well (not that I say GoDaddy is a fraud). I guess many people think that the words coming from the mouth of a celeb holds higher value ? Beats me!
For the money. For many sports celebrities this is their major source of income. I do not blame the celebrities for earning a living, I just choose not to pay them by purchasing overpriced and / or substandard products or services.
