I prefer namecheap over godaddy. godaddy is a rip off and scammer
Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com
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Re: Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com
#322Earlier quoted context omitted.
Absolutely. You sound like someone that could really be of benefit to my latest startup. We're doing bigly things. If you're interested in finding out more drop me a line... gator3827@aol.com
Wow, samesies! brian1999@yahoo.com
> brian1999@yahoo.com
I'd be interested to know what percentage of 21 year olds know what yahoo is (they would have sold Tumblr right around them being 18 years old).
Re: Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com
#323Ted 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…
Thanks for the question. I can assure you that our legal and abuse team do their very best to address bad actors. In fact, they are one of the hardest working teams in the company. We put a lot of time and due diligence into each case and do not takedown domains without sufficient evidence. We believe that taking domains down without proper cause can be a slippery slope.
Re: Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com
#324Earlier quoted context omitted.
We do support .name now.
Really? Because when I try to transfer xxx.yyy.name, it says: "Uh-oh! Your domain yyy.name is not eligible for transfer to us." I don't own yyy.name. I own xxx.yyy.name. (Of course xxx and yyy are placeholders here.) Edit: xxx.yyy.name comes from the .name registry, just like xxx.co.uk comes from the .uk registry.
If ".name" works the typical TLD way, you don't own anything. You merely have a business relationship with the owner of "ellis.name". That owner could transfer "ellis.name", but you don't own anything transferable.
Of course, ".name" might not work in the expected way, but it seems a likely explanation for the issue you report.
Re: Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com
#325A very quick and safe way to check if a domain is in use is to query for NS records (e.g. $dig ycombinator.com NS). This will give some false positives though.
Re: Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com
#326Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
This is likely to happen, too. Parent comment is not being very wise here.
Re: Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com
#327Earlier 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.
Second this. Transferred 8 domains a months ago from GoDaddy to Google.
GD was good when I was brainstorming ideas and wanted to buy domains for peace of mind just for $1.99 or some other big promo discount. But is goes to $22+ the next year, while the normal price is $12. Google.Domains offers flat $12 + lots of value in email forwarding et al. I used to add domains as aliases to my old free GSuite subscription just for emails, which was highly inconvenient. Also redirects from e.g. .org/.info/.net to .com is small but handy thing.
Last time I registered 3 domains with GD 3 months ago there was no promo give-away prices for the first year. Registered with them by inertia. But without almost free prices to "reserve" a domain dealing with GD makes no more sense.
One good thing about GD is that domain transferring from them to Google takes couple of clicks and is pretty fast. I did not have to leave my PC during the process - couple of page refreshes.
Re: Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com
#328Don't even fill out a form -- I did that for a friend, decided not to press "click here to purchase".
Turns out they had keystroke-logged me as I filled out the form. They got name, address, credit-card #, domain name.
I was peppered with website "designer", "logo", "SEO" spam for years afterwards.
Re: Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com
#329Ted 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…
Namecheap is so much better than godaddy. Interface : just give me the records. I don't want to buy more stuff. Somehow namecheap lets me but the same extras like email, without badgering me. Godaddy is just ads ads ads and interfaces to sell stuff to people who aren't tech savvy. Squatting: this definitely happens with godaddy, like the OP says. Never use them, it's a disgusting practice. I use namecheap for dozens…
> I only used godaddy once because I couldn't get the tld on namecheap.
Interesting... I'd love to get a .as domain, but Namecheap don't offer that. Does GoDaddy have more TLDs or where would you suggest to look for obscure TLDs?
Re: Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com
#330Earlier quoted context omitted.
Really? Because when I try to transfer xxx.yyy.name, it says: "Uh-oh! Your domain yyy.name is not eligible for transfer to us." I don't own yyy.name. I own xxx.yyy.name. (Of course xxx and yyy are placeholders here.) Edit: xxx.yyy.name comes from the .name registry, just like xxx.co.uk comes from the .uk registry.
If ".name" works the typical TLD way, you don't own anything. You merely have a business relationship with the owner of "ellis.name". That owner could transfer "ellis.name", but you don't own anything transferable. Of course, ".name" might not work in the expected way, but it seems a likely explanation for the issue you report.
The owner of yyy.name is the .name registry. That's just how they work. The intention was that people register first.last.name, and that multiple people could register under the same last.name.