The online realm can be scary, especially when it comes to building and maintaining websites. Luckily one of the world’s largest website hosting providers, GoDaddy, has just launched in South Africa. And they’re on a mission to get small South African businesses online.
GoDaddy’s South African service offers .co.za domain registrations at a low initial cost (think of it as a launch special), that will go up after a domain has been around for a year. They also offer a host of new domain extensions like .rocks and .space and .club. You know, if .com is too boring for your tastes. It also conveniently offers products and services in rand and includes 24/7 customer care locally.
Run with GoDaddy
GoDaddy’s service includes an easy website builder that was developed to be as user- and mobile-friendly as possible. This will allow users to update and make changes to their website using a smartphone.
Certain domain names sold on GoDaddy, including its .co.za offerings, are priced from R10/year (notice the sneaky ‘from’), for the first year. Pricing depends on your domain name choice, and the extension (.com, .info, .net etc.). After that, it’ll revert to normal pricing, which also varies. But in the below example, it’ll revert from R10 to R290 per year.
That said, if you’re with an existing hosting provider and happy or you have domains elsewhere, we don’t see any compelling reason to Gaan Papa.