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Re: Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com

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Post by kevin_thibedeau »

timcederman wrote: post #252
ted0 wrote: post #226

Ted 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…

Hi Ted - can you speak to Namecheap's stance on bulk spam domain registrations and the fact that Namecheap does nothing to stop it? There has been (at least in the Bay Area) a large increase in text spam. They all have a very similar format, e.g. pretending you missed a delivery, and try to get you to click on a link, usually a .info domain. They are all hosted on Alibaba Cloud, but they are registered in bulk via Na…

I'm getting a lot of text spam from what look like hacked cell phones. Someone in the phone industry should get off their bottoms and do something about customers sending out unusual volumes of SMS.

Re: Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com

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Post by thefounder »

timcederman wrote: post #252
ted0 wrote: post #226

Ted 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…

Hi Ted - can you speak to Namecheap's stance on bulk spam domain registrations and the fact that Namecheap does nothing to stop it? There has been (at least in the Bay Area) a large increase in text spam. They all have a very similar format, e.g. pretending you missed a delivery, and try to get you to click on a link, usually a .info domain. They are all hosted on Alibaba Cloud, but they are registered in bulk via Na…

Yeah, let's make the domain registries another walled garden! Then start whining when they suspend your supid game or whatever they don't like about your website/business(i.e an abusive DMCA report)

Re: Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com

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Post by monkeydust »

narwally wrote: post #244
wenc wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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've been really happy with Gandi on this front. I just checked, and I haven't received an email from them since I had to confirm my email address two months ago.

Second gandi, not always cheapest but close enough. Good interface and support.

Re: Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com

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Post by ted0 »

danellis wrote: post #289
ted0 wrote: post #226

Ted 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.

We do support .name now.

Re: Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com

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Post by vmception »

cloudwizard wrote: post #184
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…

Whenever I talk to startups, I check their domain. If they are on GoDaddy, it means that they are technically incompetent.

/r/gatekeeping is that way

yes, a startup registered through Route 53 is a better sign of competency on staff or in their network

but propping up domains wherever you want and changing the cname whenever you want doesn't tell you anything

Re: Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com

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Post by karlshea »

aerovistae wrote: post #124
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…

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've been using Hover for years and like them.

Re: Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com

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Post by donohoe »

I had this happen a couple of years back too. At least I think this is exactly what happened. It was an obscure'ish name too, and it seemed like within 30 minutes it was gone and registered by GoDaddy.

I know this is statistically possible as just coincidence and bad luck, and I thought about it that time and concluded they must have just nabbed it (wrote an angry message to support that went nowhere).

Re: Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com

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Post by marcosdumay »

hangonhn wrote: post #255
cloudwizard wrote: post #184

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Whenever I talk to startups, I check their domain. If they are on GoDaddy, it means that they are technically incompetent.

I really dislike GoDaddy but this is not the best signal to use. A lot of startups are rather low in engineering talent early on when they're trying to find market fit and make a product. A lot of things about startups are just crap early on. People do things that they shouldn't or will have to pay for in the long run. Startups accumulate debt in many ways. Being on GoDaddy might be one of those. And if the DNS resol…

> A lot of startups are rather low in engineering talent early on when they're trying to find market fit and make a product.

I imagine that is the class of companies the GP is trying to avoid.

Re: Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com

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Post by mattl »

cloudwizard wrote: post #184
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…

Whenever I talk to startups, I check their domain. If they are on GoDaddy, it means that they are technically incompetent.

What if a non-technical co-founder bought the domain?
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