Grade F — Predatory terms (score 43/100)
GoDaddy's UTOS forces individual arbitration and class waiver, claims a perpetual irrevocable license to user content, allows unilateral termination without notice, imposes early cancellation fees, and lacks key data protections.
Forced arbitration, perpetual content license, multiple dark-pattern risks.
YOU AND GoDaddy ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT EACH PARTY TO THIS AGREEMENT MAY BRING DISPUTES AGAINST THE OTHER PARTY ONLY IN AN INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY, AND NOT AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER IN ANY PURPORTED CLASS OR REPRESENTATIVE LEGAL PROCEEDING.
Forced individual arbitration: you cannot join or lead a class action against GoDaddy.
YOU AND GoDaddy EACH WAIVE THE RIGHT TO A JURY TRIAL.
Explicit waiver of jury trials, layered on top of the arbitration clause.
The above licenses granted by you in your User Content are perpetual and irrevocable.
GoDaddy keeps an indefinite, irrevocable license to your content even after you remove or delete it.
You hereby grant GoDaddy a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable (through multiple tiers), and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, combine with other works, display, and perform your User Content in connection with this Site, the Services and GoDaddy's (and GoDaddy's affiliates') business(es), including without limitation for promoting…
GoDaddy can use your content to advertise and promote itself with no compensation or notice.
GoDaddy may, in its sole and absolute discretion, change or modify this Agreement, and any policies or agreements which are incorporated herein, at any time, and such changes or modifications shall be effective immediately upon posting to this Site. Your use of this Site or the Services after such changes or modifications have been made shall constitute your acceptance of this Agreement as last…
GoDaddy can change the terms at any time without guaranteed notice; continued use means acceptance.
GoDaddy may remove any item of User Content (whether posted to a website hosted by GoDaddy or User Content posted to this Site) and/or suspend or terminate a User's access to this Site or the Services for posting or publishing any Prohibited Content, or for otherwise violating this Agreement (as determined by GoDaddy in its sole and absolute discretion), at any time and without prior notice.
GoDaddy reserves the right to terminate accounts without prior notice.
For subscription bundles purchased through your Account, you agree to a 12-month commitment on your monthly subscription. Cancellations within the first 180 days of each 12-month commitment for your monthly subscription are subject to an early cancellation fee and you are responsible for the applicable early cancellation fee.
Subscribers face a financial penalty if they cancel within the first 180 days of a 12-month commitment.
IN NO EVENT SHALL GoDaddy's TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY EXCEED $10,000.00 U.S. DOLLARS.
GoDaddy's total liability is capped at $10,000 even if your actual damages are far higher.
You agree to protect, defend, indemnify and hold harmless GoDaddy and its officers, directors, employees, agents, and third party service providers from and against any and all third-party and first-party claims, demands, costs, expenses, losses, liabilities and damages of every kind and nature (including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys' fees).
Broad one-way indemnification: you cover GoDaddy's losses, including its legal fees.
Any action arising from a Dispute to which this Section 25 applies must... be filed in arbitration (or court, if permitted under this Agreement or explicitly permitted by any Services Agreement) within one year from the date of the event that resulted in the loss, injury, damage or liability... If not filed within the limitations period, such action will be permanently barred.
Statute of limitations contracted to one year for any dispute.
If the settlement offer is rejected, and an award is issued in the Opposing Party's favor and is less than the Offering Party's settlement offer or if the award is in the Offering Party's favor (in either case, a 'Qualifying Offer'), the Opposing Party must pay the Offering Party's costs incurred after the Qualifying Offer was made, including any attorney's fees.
Asymmetric fee-shifting: rejecting a settlement offer and then losing forces you to pay the other side's legal fees.
Any Dispute which, for whatever reason, is not required to be arbitrated or heard in small claims court shall be litigated exclusively in the Superior Court of Maricopa County, Arizona, or the United States District Court for the District of Arizona. Each party hereby irrevocably and unconditionally consents and submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of such courts for any such controversy, and…
All disputes must be resolved in Arizona regardless of where you live, and you waive inconvenient-forum defenses.
Last reviewed 2026-08-14 under rubric v3.5.