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GoDaddy a few years ago broke their domain forwarding, which prompted us to build our own forwarding service, NavHere, which we are shutting down and is also on the HN front page:
Shutting down NavHere https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24505232
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…
Recommendations for superior alternatives? I'm an indifferent GoDaddy user but would be happy to switch to something else since I've never liked them as a company.
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…
Recommendations for superior alternatives? I'm an indifferent GoDaddy user but would be happy to switch to something else since I've never liked them as a company.
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…
Recommendations for superior alternatives? I'm an indifferent GoDaddy user but would be happy to switch to something else since I've never liked them as a company.
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 '…
Do you happen to be Bill Hartzer, contributor for GoDaddy? You might want to disclose your affiliation on these kinds of topics, especially when you're arguing the company's side.
There are DNS related articles by "Bill Hartzer", but they seem more to be calling out places for doing shady crap. Including GoDaddy (for front running?). eg:
https://www.billhartzer.com/domain-names/godaddy-caught-regi...
That's just an initial impression anyway. ;)
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Recommendations for superior alternatives? I'm an indifferent GoDaddy user but would be happy to switch to something else since I've never liked them as a company.
NameCheap (which I use) and Gandi are common recommendations on HN AFAIK.
Yes. If you search it 2-3 times, they buy it in most cases.
I wonder if they have any logarithms that would attack this vulnerability? Someone could write a script to simply search several times for 1000's of names and bankrupt godaddy...
Now I only use the Internic DNS lookup when I want to search.
I would think that Attorney Generals love clear cut cases that affect a vocal and voting portion of their constituencies.
Second, what are the better alternatives? I use Namecheap and so far have been happy with them. Proud to say that a domain name I was researching months ago is still not registered.
More bad news: it's not just GoDaddy.
How's this not an FTC violation?