I use them - for domains they are fine. Don't let them talk you into using their hosting service. In general when you buy from them they try a fairly hard sell to get you to buy other services; ignore this and they are great for domains as far as I'm concerned.

I'm not the only one. I think several people on this board uses go-daddy. But you might also check your hosting service. A lot of hosting services offer domains at competitive prices.

I agree with Typo. I also use them for domains and domains only and have been happy with them in that aspect. But I would not use them for hosting.

go-daddy are fine. I use dotster who are also good.

I used to use network solutions and I remember them making it very very VERY difficult for me to leave them. This was 5 years ago; hopefully things are different now.

/usr/local/bin/links -dump "http://somewebpage.com"

Anything in /usr/local is something that has been installed locally on that system. It's not something that comes with Mac OS X.

You can get it here: [link]

Why not use GoDaddy for hosting? I ask because I am, and have had no problem with them, but I'm wondering now if I should be braced for something.

I don't mess around with shell stuff too much in OS X, but I found something interesting that lets you grab web stuff using the command line. You'd call it like:

/usr/local/bin/links -dump "http://somewebpage.com"

What is this 'links' thing? I don't have that file (at least at that location).

links is a text based web browser, handy if you need to browse in a SSH shell or something.

wget is also a handy utility to grab files from the web.

wget [link to file on the web]

wget might be a default utility, it is in most all Linux and FreeBSD distributions, but I don't know about OS/X

"curl" is the default program that comes with OS X.

Thanks Gud and Tom. My google-fu failed me, due to 'links' getting mostly matches that have nothing to do with the program of that name.

"curl" is the default program that comes with OS X.

I think of them as quite different - cURL is the automated file-transfer tool that does way more than I ever actually use it for; links is truly a browser -- it started as a free analog of lynx years before lynx was GPL'ed, although the features have diverged a fair bit.

(I mean, if you really want to get into the semantics, then yes, a browser transfers files. But that's not what I mean.)

(edit: oops. I somehow missed the post where curl ~= wget, not curl ~= links. Functional comparison is still true.)

I used GoDaddy for domains until I finally got fed up with the usability issues of their account management site and transferred everything over to Dreamhost (who I also use for hosting). It's a little more expensive, but the value of actually being able to navigate the control panel is worth it to me.