GoDaddy status: hosting issues and outage reports

Problems in the last 24 hours

The graph below depicts the number of GoDaddy reports received over the last 24 hours by time of day. When the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line, an outage is determined.

Most Reported Problems

The following are the most recent problems reported by GoDaddy users through our website.

• E-mail (40%)
• Hosting (33%)
• Domains (20%)
• Cloud Services (7%)

Live Outage Map

The most recent GoDaddy outage reports came from the following cities:

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Quito	E-mail	6 days ago
Long Branch	Domains	7 days ago
Township of Evan	Hosting	8 days ago
Glen Burnie	E-mail	11 days ago
Logroño	Domains	21 days ago
Manassas	Hosting	25 days ago

Full Outage Map

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GoDaddy Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Atomic Man Productions (@AtomicErectus) reported 12 minutes ago

  @GCanada3146 No problem, and good luck! I know that feeling, @GoDaddy is a dogshit company that basically laughed me off when my late best friend’s memorial website got hacked. Just an awful brand all around.

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  Eli Yumn (@EliYumnik) reported 14 minutes ago

  X doesn't need them. Why would X need to acq a middleman to pay AWS for serverless hosting? X is completely vertically integrated and can host both serverless and dedicated VM websites/apps. Vercel and Goddaddy would be acquired at roughly ~$13b. Acquiring Hostinger or Godaddy means you control 5 or 9% of the entire world's live web real estate for the same price. You roll out payment processing through X money, help business owners get a start with AI development with X sites and Grok Build baked in. You have a far better play by focusing on commerce and adoption rather than Next.js deployments, an SDk and a small AI gateway business. Vercel isn't worth ~$13b to X.

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  Chris (@m0unds) reported 14 minutes ago

  @GoDaddyHelp hey, I sent a DM about an issue with a Godaddy-provisioned M365 tenant. Pulling what little hair I have left out of my head.

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  Mlungisi Dube (@OkaPhusisa) reported 17 minutes ago

  @WillarShoko I think text messages is failure on our local network providers. I have experienced that with Godaddy and Microsoft on OTPs. Recently even Zimra system that uses +26377 number was failing to send OTPs

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  Ted (@TedPillows) reported 18 minutes ago

  It was a hack, and the team did not issue a new token. The hacker took control of the GoDaddy account. I already suspected something was wrong because launching something like that simply didn’t make sense.

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  FRESH CULTURE (@FRESHCULTUREIAM) reported 18 minutes ago

  BREAKING: GoDaddy Airo AI Accused of Systematically Misleading Users - $100 Million Lawsuit Allegedly Being Prepared August 30, 2026 , Breaking News A growing controversy is emerging around GoDaddy Airo AI, with allegations that the company's AI-powered website-building platform may be deliberately designed in ways that mislead, frustrate, or take advantage of customers. Three GoDaddy employees have allegedly come forward with information raising serious questions about how Airo was designed, how it responds to customers, and whether certain behaviors are the result of technical failures or intentional programming decisions. According to the allegations, Airo can repeatedly provide users with inaccurate information, claim that functions have been completed when they have not, make promises about capabilities that the platform cannot actually deliver, and continue directing users through processes that ultimately fail to produce the results promised. $100 MILLION LAWSUIT ALLEGEDLY BEING PREPARED The controversy is now escalating beyond customer complaints. A $100 million lawsuit is allegedly being prepared against GoDaddy, with the proposed action seeking compensation for customers who claim they were financially harmed, misled, or otherwise damaged while using Airo services. The proposed lawsuit would seek to recover losses and damages for affected customers and could potentially include claims related to deceptive representations, failure to deliver advertised services, consumer harm, and other allegations that may emerge as evidence is reviewed. The stated objective is to repay customers who allegedly paid for services they say were not delivered as represented. “THIS ISN'T JUST BROKEN AI” The most serious allegation is that these problems may not simply be the result of an unreliable artificial-intelligence system. Sources claiming knowledge of the situation allege that certain behaviors are specifically programmed into the platform, raising the possibility that users are being systematically misled rather than merely encountering ordinary AI errors. If proven, this would represent a dramatically different situation from an AI product that is simply buggy or unreliable. It would raise fundamental questions about consumer protection, transparency, corporate responsibility, and how AI companies are permitted to interact with customers. THREE EMPLOYEES ALLEGEDLY SPEAK OUT The involvement of three alleged GoDaddy employees makes the accusations particularly significant. If the employees can substantiate their claims with internal communications, development documentation, source-code evidence, product specifications, recordings, or other documentation, the allegations could warrant substantially greater scrutiny. WHAT HAPPENS NEXT? The central question is simple: Is GoDaddy Airo simply a badly designed AI product or was it intentionally designed to behave in ways that cause customers to believe something has been accomplished when it has not? And now, with a potential $100 million legal action reportedly being prepared, the financial consequences could be substantial if the allegations are ultimately substantiated. If a lawsuit is formally filed, it could force the company to address questions about Airo's development, internal safeguards, customer representations, refund practices, and the alleged involvement of employees who claim to have knowledge of the system. THE STORY IS DEVELOPING GoDaddy should be given an opportunity to explain how Airo is designed, what safeguards exist to prevent misleading AI-generated representations, how customer complaints are handled, and whether any Airo behaviors are intentionally programmed to influence or retain customers. This is a developing story.

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  Mikron (@IMikron) reported 21 minutes ago

  @GoDaddyHelp @GoDaddy Hi, my domain was auto-renewed by mistake and live chat on the website is currently unavailable. I need urgent help with cancellation . Please send me a DM. Customer Number: 600427042

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  NanoCheeZe MEQUAVIS (@mequavis) reported 25 minutes ago

  @GoDaddy except your support sux, and they'll ban the serer admins ip and never help you lol

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  Nametra (@NametraDotCom) reported 25 minutes ago

  After about 27 years as a @GoDaddy customer and domain investor, I lost two potentially profitable domains because of what I consider GoDaddy’s negligence in communicating a major change to its closeout process. A closeout domain is no longer reserved when added to your shopping cart. Multiple buyers can check out simultaneously, and the first transaction to process wins. Yesterday, I placed two domains in my cart and proceeded through checkout, but received no confirmation or order record. A GoDaddy Premier Services representative later told me someone else had beaten me to both domains by seconds. The explanation: customers had been holding domains in their carts for up to two hours. I agree that was excessive—but why not shorten the reservation period to five or ten minutes? Instead, GoDaddy eliminated it entirely, turning checkout into a Wild West race. I received no email, call or clear warning about this consequential change. Had I known, I would have adjusted my purchasing process and checked out each domain immediately. Instead, I handled the transaction under the rules I reasonably believed were still in effect—and lost two potentially profitable investments. I should not have had to discover this policy by losing domains during checkout. Has anyone else lost a @GoDaddy closeout domain this way—or received advance notice that the policy had changed?

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  Mohammed Mateen (@mdmateen865) reported 28 minutes ago

  @GoDaddy @GoDaddyHelp What type of service your giving to the client I bought a domine still it’s not activated i have drop an email also no one response. It’s an emergency to activate the domine.

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  Eupeptic Joe (@jmotivator) reported 28 minutes ago

  Hey @GoDaddy you AI website assistant is a disaster and your website navigation is awful. The AI tells me to click things that don't exist, you publish pages and can't provide analytics, your third part instructions for analytics is broken, and once things are broken, good luck, because your AI doesn't even seem to really understand what it is doing and makes changes I don't ask for that break the site and then can't remember what it did to break it.

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  Hedera (@hedera) reported 30 minutes ago

  Starting soon: can a registry prove it never rewrote its own history? GoDaddy and Hashgraph Online explain how, then Ty Smith breaks down Hedera's two key types and EVM compatibility.

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  bbsz (@blackbigswan) reported 32 minutes ago

  @eastsidemccarty @GoDaddy Yes. Not the first choice though. Some might be just ATO'd boxes, other bought through re-sellers. I don't want to dig too much, but we even had UNC1069 on GoDaddy as a one-off-> zoom.usweb0l[.]us Infra is never a solid indicator with DPRK tbh.

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  ︎ ︎ (@Sutchiun) reported 33 minutes ago

  @catears124 NEVER BUY A DOMAIN FROM GODADDY

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  Tin Runje (@tin_runje) reported 35 minutes ago

  I bought a domain on @GoDaddy yesterday, and now suddenly someone else has bought it... After reaching out to their support 3 times, I was told I have to wait 24 hours, and now after 24 hours, the domain has "failed verification". This is the story how I lost my domain after buying it...↓ P.S. please engage with this so @GoDaddy sees it🙏

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  C.W. Harris (@cwharris773) reported 39 minutes ago

  @Tofali @PeoplesGasCHI I think they tell them to answer most questions from ChatGPT, then call another level of service/technical for help when that doesnt work. I had that happen with GoDaddy a month ago. I told the rep, "Man, I know your product better than you do."

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  B. Williams (@BodineWilliams) reported 40 minutes ago

  @GoDaddyHelp I do not want a GoDaddy "credit" as all my accounts are paid up for the next 2 years. I was promised the credit/refund back to the original Citibank MasterCard payment. Please so so asap or I will dispute the entire charge citing GoDaddy is acting in bad faith.

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  Jaybethomas (@Jaybe31261133) reported 44 minutes ago

  @GoDaddyHelp Thieves!! Stole my money and for a product they don’t service and I can’t make changes. DO NOT USE THIS COMPANY. Plenty of other platforms.

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  Jaybethomas (@Jaybe31261133) reported 46 minutes ago

  @GoDaddyHelp Thieves!! Stole my money and for a product they don’t service and I can’t make changes. DO NOT USE THIS COMPANY. Plenty of other platforms.

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  Sohrab (@Sohrab) reported 49 minutes ago

  cringe warning: I changed the price back to the original $1m few reasons: 1. people are in my email offering amounts dangerously close to the amount its publicly listed for. offers for $50k(euro), $150k, and $250k, with no way to know if they were real, although some felt really real. i guess on the website i never mention where to buy it and its not on godaddy so people just don't realize its there for the taking. $300k is truly not that much money to some people, even if it is a decent amount to me. i ultimately want this to get into the right hands. 2. $1m is a story. $300k is not a story. i didn't go semi-viral for nothing. we gotta land this damn plane! a night of sleeping on it made me realize this is a better story for xAI anyway. 3. $1m is life changing and would make a massive difference in the overall financial security i would have in my life. could even retire at a reasonable age. there are other reasons but these are the thoughts that have been swirling around. i know its kinda insane to be changing the price and obviously i wish i never have but this is a real and unfolding thing that's happening. and i'm really about to head out the door to go on this silent meditation retreat for the whole weekend so decision had to be made now. xAI, elon, whoever, if you're reading this and don't feel like paying the full mil, email me. but i'll be truly OOO until later sunday ET. i think you should do it tho.

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  kabz (@djkabzx) reported 49 minutes ago

  @NametraDotCom @GoDaddy I never knew that Adding a name to a cart automatically used to reserve that name. If I am buying closeout, I do all my research, and once I hit that name into the cart, I checkout right there

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  SI Munna (@MunnaDomainer) reported 49 minutes ago

  Are GoDaddy or @afternic currently experiencing domain search issues?

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  fly (@ima_fly_tok) reported 55 minutes ago

  @HederaCommunity GoDaddy running Agent Name Service in production since November. That's the internet noticing.

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  365krypto.x (@365krypto) reported 56 minutes ago

  @agent144x Daaaaannng I'm late to the party. I should of known when they did a survey, it was real godaddy focused. I've been 365krypto.x for so long do I hang it up? The quiet transition, on how they did it, hurts the most to us day 1s. Now they are web2, I use namecheap

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  Mitch (@donttreadbub) reported 56 minutes ago

  Next morning rolls around, the "right" domain is too long according to him, so he switches it on me, and I have to return the other domain, cancel workspace, and set everything up for a 2nd time. Re-do all authenticating, communicating with GoDaddy for a refund, etc.

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  Mike Hoerger, PhD MSCR MBA (@michael_hoerger) reported 59 minutes ago

  @drseanmullen Wow. I have used godaddy for hosting for 25 years. I dont get issues like that. Expensive but consider it or another host

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  HOURLY LIFE of Fred Campos (@FredsDaily) reported 1 hour ago

  9:30a Back at my desk. Working on updating slides for my internal company meeting at 12p. Now hopping on a GoDaddy domain support for 2022-Client-586.

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  Mendel Cohen (@mendelcohen__) reported 1 hour ago

  Been trying to get a refund for a mistakenly billed IT subscription from @BaskTechnology owned by @GoDaddy First, godaddy tells me, sorry there's nothing they can do you have to go to bask I get a number I call it just to be on hold for 30 minutes Finally, an automated message says I can request a call back I do I never get the call back It's been a full week of back and forth to try and get a refund @GoDaddyHelp please help

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  john puppyfan (@john_islesfan) reported 1 hour ago

  @GoDaddyHelp When I spoke with support they said that godaddy still owned the domain, maybe they were misspeaking?

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  Mr B Sickbeard. Bob to his mates (@b_sickbeard) reported 1 hour ago

  Is it just me or is @GoDaddy ****? Just trying to ask their AI chat a simple question that it cannot answer or send me to someone who can. Poor show