Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com

Post by cairoshikobon » Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 8:22 PM UTC

lucasmullens wrote: post #129

Is there a way for us to waste GoDaddy's money by searching for domain names that we don't actually want? If they waste enough, they'll have to stop this practice. They're probably not buying every domain that's searched, but if you appear likely to buy the domain by having an existing account, only searching for a single domain that's based on an english word, and getting most of the way through the checkout flow, t…

Post by icelancer » Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 8:24 PM UTC

ddingus wrote: post #340

danellis wrote: post #289

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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.

Why are people moving from Gandi? Just wondering if I should be aware of something... If I do move, Namecheap it will be, given this discussion.

Post by lopmotr » Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 8:25 PM UTC

vorpalhex wrote: post #331

ted0 wrote: post #323

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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.

I reported a spam domain to namecheap, including a police case file, full emails, and basically everything except a bank statement after my elderly parent was taken for a (several thousand dollar) scam. Namecheap never resolved it or even responded back beyond the precanned message.

Post by colejohnson66 » Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 8:28 PM UTC

ascorbic wrote: post #315

ourcat wrote: post #286

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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'.

They call them more secure because the whole TLD is on the HSTS preload list, so no downgrade attacks.

Post by colejohnson66 » Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 8:29 PM UTC

Lammy wrote: post #212

aerovistae wrote: post #124

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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.

Big fan of NearlyFreeSpeech.net and use them for any TLD they support, unfortunately not including some of the newer more esoteric ones like ".cool", but I'm sure that's probably in the works. I moved over from GoDaddy after GoDaddy pulled down seclists.org for Myspace with no due process: https://mashable.com/2007/01/25/myspace-godaddy/ Versus: https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/help/abuse