Didn't we learn to stay away from GoDaddy after their SOPA stance?
Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com
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Re: Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com
#282Seems like something someone could definitely abuse... it would cost Godaddy more to register a bunch of junk domains.
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#283Ted from Namecheap here. I cannot speak to GoDaddy's practices. However, I can say that for Namecheap, this is not something we would ever even consider doing. In my experience though, lookups are more complex than most think. We are querying so many different sources to give you availability status, some of which are less reliable than others. For example, with smaller TLDs like .ai or .is, lookups may be less relia…
jip. I can say the same. namecheap has been excellent for the past few years. even though I do not spend a lot with them, i’ve used their live customer support in a few cases and has helped me out where needed. Kudos to the team!
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Re: Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com
#285Some TLD registries have policies to prevent registrars from front-running their clients by squat-registering their domain searches. But, if you're working in a TLD where Freedom is more important than actual free markets, do your domain checks against the root servers yourself with dig +trace .
Be warned that a domain can be registered without appearing in the DNS.
In recent years IANA has run a whois server that provides referrals to the appropriate registry, so in most cases a whois client can start by querying whois.iana.org and follow whois: or refer: lines to the right whois server without leaking too much information. (whois is still cleartext and a very crappy poorly-defined protocol...)
FreeBSD's whois mostly works by following referrals with heuristics for filling in the ghen that doesn't work; Debian's whois mostly uses a built-in database of whois servers and heuristics for finding them.
Re: Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com
#286Earlier 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.
I love http://domains.Google You get free email forwarding (even wildcard), free domain privacy, free website forwarding (with ssl), Google infrastructure behind all of that and the authoritative DNS they offer. Cloudflare also offers a registrar service and its good.
Interesting. I'd never considered Google for my domains.
Any idea if the '£10/year' is every year? Or does it go up after the first year?
Also, I found it weird that they promote a .app and .dev TLD as 'More Secure'.
Re: Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com
#287I have very unique name for which no domains would exist until I searched on GoDaddy. After a few days it was taken. This happened in 2017 so this is definitely not new.
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#288networksolutions did this a long time ago too.
They stole a domain from me searching. So I testing it by searching for random name and 20 minutes later they registered it.
They got caught and said sorry. That was about it.
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#289Ted from Namecheap here. I cannot speak to GoDaddy's practices. However, I can say that for Namecheap, this is not something we would ever even consider doing. In my experience though, lookups are more complex than most think. We are querying so many different sources to give you availability status, some of which are less reliable than others. For example, with smaller TLDs like .ai or .is, lookups may be less relia…
But can you please start handling .name domains? I have one last domain I want to transfer from Gandi. Your support agent spent five minutes trying to convince me that I didn't own a domain in xxx.yyy.name format, and that the reason it wasn't transfering is because I should be using yyy.name, before talking to a supervisor and finding out that you don't handle them anyway.
Re: Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com
#290Ted from Namecheap here. I cannot speak to GoDaddy's practices. However, I can say that for Namecheap, this is not something we would ever even consider doing. In my experience though, lookups are more complex than most think. We are querying so many different sources to give you availability status, some of which are less reliable than others. For example, with smaller TLDs like .ai or .is, lookups may be less relia…
If a domain is unavailable, does the query on namecheap still go to third parties? Is it possible for third parties to snap up an available domain they know has just been queried?