Apparently a tremendous number of times... even though HN both likes to upvote "GoDaddy ate my dog" posts and downvote "Yeah, and you're still surprised? How many times do you have to hear it" comments.

I'm always curious, are people who downvote this in denial? Somehow downvoting me will keep the bad things from coming true to your domains? Funny, most of these stories also start out "I'd always heard bad things about GoDaddy, but..."