GoDaddy Gives Downed Websites A Free Month Of Hosting (techcrunch.com)

I hate mail containing links to a page where you're supposed to enter login credentials.

While I'm pretty sure the email I got wasn't a phishing attempt, it's not worth a few bucks worth of hosting to find out.

and what about those who just have DNS with godaddy?

Yep, that definitely makes up for the downtime.