Questions tagged [godaddy]
Godaddy is a company operating in several countries offering domains names and hosting. It says it has registrations for more domain names than any other company.
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GoDaddy's 301 redirect/forwarding has some weird random middleman URL, kills link juice?
I'm trying to use GoDaddy's 301 redirect, which is named as domain forwarding. I set up forwarding DomainA.example to DomainB.example as 301 "type".
I noticed DomainA.example is still indexed in ...
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Why is godaddy HTTPS/SSL certification so much cheaper than digicert, thawte, and verisign?
I am a novice on HTTPS/SSL but GoDaddy charges $12.99 and Digicert, thawte, and Verisign charge $100-1000+ for SSL certificates.
I must be missing something on the quality of the encryption or ...
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Domain forwarding (GoDaddy) - Forward only / Forward with masking
I am trying to configure my domain to forward to my app engine application.
For the forwarding I can choose from "forward only" and "forward with masking". Assume my domain is called "myDomain.com" ...
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GoDaddy URL forwarding while keeping relative path
I'm hosting my website on Google App Engine and my domain name on GoDaddy.
Google App Engine does not allow you to have naked URLs. So it doesn't allow you to have example.com but does allow you to ...
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How to forward non-www to www. Using Godaddy DNS Manager
so I've set www.mydomain.com to point to ghs.google.com, which correctly loads my Google site, but if you go to mydomain.com, it doesn't redirect/forward to www.mydomain.com, it just hangs. is there a ...
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Registrar with good security, DNS hosting, and DNSSEC and IPv6 resolvers? [closed]
I'm looking to move my domains away from GoDaddy, but I'm having a tough time finding anyone with comparable features at a (even remotely) similar price.
I've looked at the usual suggestions (...
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Domain expired, GoDaddy holds it and is asking more money
After expiring my domain, GoDaddy is asking more money to renew. Why is GoDaddy holding my domain? If it expired it has to be open to buy right?
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Firebase hosting: www.example.com redirect to example.com says "domain not verified"
I have bought a domain from GoDaddy, and I want to host a static website using firebase hosting. When connected to firebase, example.com works. But when I want to redirect www.example.com to example....
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Can I enable GZIP on Godaddy?
One of my sites lives on GoDaddy's bottom-of-the-line cheap hosting, I have the correct code in my .htaccess file, but it's not compressing because mod_deflate is not loaded.
How do I enable that?
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How do I transfer an SSL certificate to a new server
I have a site running on GoDaddy shared hosting, which is going to be moved over to a VPS. The site has a SSL certificate from GoDaddy.
How can I move over the certificate in a seamless way, so that ...
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Why won't webmail receive emails from outside my domain?
I'm new to GoDaddy Linux cPanel web hosting.
I've created multiple email accounts @my-domain using cPanel. These addresses can send mail successfully to each other and also to any other email account ...
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Why my sub-domain redirect returns a blank page?
I have the domain http://dropbox.tombrito.com/ (on GoDaddy) forwarding with masking to www.dropbox.com/sh/k6ypvx4y4kf0gu6/rdjxQ1b1OL
It was working fine some time ago, but now the result is a blank ...
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Difference between forwarding and redirecting in GoDaddy?
I have a GoDaddy account with a domain and hosting, and I see that I can forward the subdomains in https://dcc.godaddy.com/ or redirect subdomains in Hosting->Settings->"URL Redirects".
What's the ...
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How to make so that a first domain name redirects to second one but the URL displays the first domain name?
I have first domain name registered with some domain name registrar, for which I don't have web hosting account, only dns hosting.
I have second domain name registered with godaddy, with web hosting ...
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301 Redirect vs. Domain Fowarding GoDaddy
I have a domain that is registered (but not hosted with GoDaddy). Previously, it used GoDaddy's domain forwarding to forward the domain to a google sites domain, but I would now like to use a 301 ...
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Hide from google while developing
I will be building a (wordpress) web site. While I am developing, other team members will be pushing content. I'd like to have it hidden from google while under development. It will be hosted on ...
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How does domain pre-registration work for the end-user?
I just pre-registered a .guru domain name through GoDaddy, and it just disappeared from the account panel. There are messages and receipts for my payments, but other than that, I have no clue ...
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HTTPS of my own website hijacked by someone else? [duplicate]
My site creativeblends(dot)tv as of right now has only a coming soon message, nothing more. The other day I sent someone the link with www in front and when opening (in Firefox) it opened ...
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301 redirect with masking on GoDaddy
We are using GoDaddy platform to put meta tags. We have 200 domains name some for the brand; some are related to our product. We want to redirect (301) all of 200 domain names to our main one with ...
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Setting a domain in Heroku and GoDaddy without www prefix
I just purchased a new domain in GoDaddy lets call it example.com. I want to connect this domain to my Heroku app, so I went to the settings in Heroku and under Domains section I added the followings ...
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How are GoDaddy DNS settings manually configured?
What are the mechanical or technical steps to use GoDaddy strictly for domain registration for a dormant domain?
At present, not looking for hosting. E-mail service is preferred, I'm currently using ...
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When I search for a 301 redirected domain Google shows a message from GoDaddy rather than following the 301 redirect
I have a domain name registered at Godaddy. I also have a website that I created at Google Sites. I forward the URL to go to the Google Site. I did this using the Godaddy Domain Manager Forwarding ...
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Is it possible to use godaddy only for domain registration or transfer?
In migrating a domain to godaddy from ionos, is it required to also create a web page?
I'm only interested in maintaining the registration and wouldn't even want an "under construction" ...
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301 redirect causing Bingbot to crash, redirection limit reached
Inside my .htaccess file, I have the following script:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
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Renewing a SSL certificate with GoDaddy [closed]
GoDaddy sells SSL certificates for $12 per year (the most basic one). I have bought one of those last year, and now is the time to renew. However they are now asking for $50 for the renewal (the $12 ...
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How do I decrease first byte time with GoDaddy and GitHub pages?
I've been trying to optimize my site as much as possible. One thing I can't figure out is reducing first byte time as WebPagetest gives me an "F". Does anyone have any tips for this? My site domain is ...
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