Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com

Post by whatch » Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 4:55 PM UTC

mark-r wrote: post #43

mdorazio wrote: post #33

I had this happen as well in the past when researching domain names for a new product. Pro Tip: Stay the hell away from GoDaddy for everything. I've had the unfortunate task of managing a server hosted with them and it's been consistently awful (ex. I literally cannot upgrade PHP because the VPS doesn't support it and there is no upgrade path without spinning up an entirely new VPS on a different, and of course more…

I have no choice, they bought out my hosting provider a year ago.

Post by pixl97 » Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 4:57 PM UTC

sosuke wrote: post #11

Is there a safe method to search for domains?

Post by Syzygies » Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 4:57 PM UTC

Post by luckylion » Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 4:58 PM UTC

bhartzer wrote: post #41

The registrar of that domain is GoDaddy, but that doesn't mean that the owner of the domain is GoDaddy. If you look at who.godaddy.com you'll see that it's not GoDaddy that owns the domain. In this case, I don't see any evidence of front-running. It's more likely that it's a coincidence that someone registered the domain name a day after you searched for it. In fact, I personally would consider that to be more of a '…

Post by m_km » Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 5:01 PM UTC

Marc_Bryan wrote: post #64

They are a bigtime scammers. Recently was assisting a friend to get access to a domain name which was registered in godaddy. They scammed him for a couple of hundred dollars for contacting the domain owner to get a deal on the domain and eventually nothing happened. Not even a mail was sent on behalf the scammed money as we found that the domain was owned by another friend and eventually got it transferred. He confir…