GoDaddy is imo the literal worst registrar. It's unfortunate how often they're a go-to name for people, but hopefully it won't last forever.
Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com
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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.
We use AWS Route 53 for domain registration. Works like a charm.
They use Gandi under the hood. Using Gandi directly is a much better experience
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#203After doing a lot of research, I would recommend Dynadot as the best domain registrar at the moment. My main criteria were: fair prices without any coupon codes, no-upselling, free whois privacy as standard, most ccTLDs supported, REST API for everything, and at least 15-20 years of history. I would normally prefer a European company, but Dynadot has been the registrar of wikileaks.org since 2006.
Thank You. Never heard of them until today.
I don’t think they advertise much, which I guess is a sign that they focus on trustworthiness and stability instead of growing too much, like Godaddy does.
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#204well all corporations rise and fall, guess the direction for godaddy - tbh I wonder how they managed for so many years ..
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#205Could you flood their logs with nonsense domain searches? Would be fun to do a coordinated effort around that.
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#206Fucking sexist elephant murderers.
GoDaddy's most infamous ads
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7yFCqOAb9Y
GoDaddy CEO Kills Elephant
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#207I 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…
Whenever I talk to startups, I check their domain. If they are on GoDaddy, it means that they are technically incompetent.
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#208Earlier 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.
CloudFlare (yes they are a registrar now) or Gandi are my go-tos! Never had an issue. GoDaddy are just bad in every conceivable way.
Wow, I didn't know CF did registrations (makes sense though). And looking at their rates shows they don't markup prices. For example, most places charge $12 for a .com address. CloudFlare charges $8.03, which is their cost, they add nothing.
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#209Is there a cost for them to do this? If so, perhaps they would like to own every available word in the dictionary with every TLD? Sounds like a script kiddie could add a couple million TLDs to their operating expenses for the year.
Re: Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com
#210I 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…
Godaddy spammed me so much and so often that I transferred my domain to porkbun.com. It's been so problem-free that I couldn't even remember the provider's name -- I had to WHOIS my domain to figure out who was hosting it.
I use a combo of porkbun, Namecheap, Google domains (primarily all the .dev stuff from that landrush), hover (some legacy stuff) and Isnic (the Icelandic registrar for .is domains).
I like Porkbun quite a bit but sometimes Namecheap is cheaper or it’s easier to just add to that account.
I think I can proudly say I’ve never used GoDaddy as a registrar, but I’ve been with some bad ones over the last 20 years so I can’t claim full moral high ground either.