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From the looks of it the new Azure Websites Feature still does not support hosting them under a naked domain such as example.com instead of www.example.com. Am I missing something?
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You can delegate your domain to Azure DNS by creating a DNS zone in Azure DNS and adding it's NS records to GoDaddy, where you own the domain. This will allow you to host a DNS zone and manage the DNS records for your domain in Azure.
You can use Azure DNS to host your DNS domain and manage your DNS records. By hosting your domains in Azure, you can manage your DNS records by using the same credentials, APIs, tools, and billing as your other Azure services.
Azure DNS doesn't currently support the option to buy domain names. To buy domains, you must use a third-party domain name registrar. Azure DNS allows you to host a DNS zone and manage the DNS records for a domain in Azure.
Azure Websites have now released support for naked domains. Websites that are run on Shared or Reserved instances does support naked domains through an A record. Domain management is available through the Azure management portal.
Update 2012-10-21:
I previously stated that free instances could rely on CNAME to redirect a subdomain to their free Azure-website, but this appear to be incorrect, at least at the moment. Doing a CNAME to your Azure-website will result in an HTTP 404, as reported by MemeDeveloper in his comment.
However, if you run your website on a Free instance, you are still limited to CNAME, so for those websites naked domains are not possible.
Update:
As MemeDeveloper suggest in his comment, there are web services you can use that will take your naked-domain example.com and redirect it to www.example.com for you. For your www subdomain you could then have a CNAME to your Azure-URL.
Not as clean as a simple A record that is available for your paid websites, but a workaround for your free sites.
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