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

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Post by coredog64 »

whyaduck wrote: post #378
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…

The spirit of GoDaddy's founder soldiers on in it's current policies and behaviors. Disappointing but unsurprising.

It’s a dysfunctional sweatshop. I’ve seen high level execs leave in groups, colonize another company, and bring their dysfunction to the new org.

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

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Post by rconti »

filmgirlcw wrote: post #210
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 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…

I found it interesting that Ted mentions Namecheap searching .is. I have a .is domain through Isnic (actually just renewed yesterday), and I'm using 1984 for DNS because Isnic requires a domestic NS provider.

But Ted's comment implies you can register .is through Namecheap. I wonder how/if they get around the Icelandic NS host problem.

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

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Post by zizee »

swalsh wrote: post #369
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…

It's funny, I don't even remember why I moved to Namecheap, but I remember years ago getting angry at Godaddy, and then transferring everything. You guys have a great service. No regrets since the move.

I switched from GoDaddy to namecheap because GoDaddy was supporting SOPA (stop online privacy act)

https://www.zdnet.com/article/wikipedia-is-leaving-go-daddy-...

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

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Post by abc-xyz »

webbrahmin wrote: post #236
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…

A happy namecheap customer here. Moved from Godaddy to namecheap because they revealed me as the owner of a domain I was using for activism. Caused me a lot of harassment.

Here’s a HNer claiming Namecheap dumped his personal info without even informing him of having done so: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18063667

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

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Post by hangonhn »

Cyphus wrote: post #439
marcosdumay wrote: post #299

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> 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.

It would be worth avoiding at that initial stage, but would be less and less of a factor as the company grows and matures. I work for a startup with ~60 employees. The DNS was setup through GoDaddy by our CEO over 6 years ago when the company consisted of just founders. Employee #1 updated GoDaddy to point to AWS for nameservers. We've been managing DNS through Route53 ever since. It's tech debt, sure, but migrating…

Wow. That's funny because that's the exact evolution that happened at my current company (GoDaddy points to AWS and AWS does the rest) and we're now a unicorn. Being a unicorn is not a reflection of engineering quality though. That said, the earlier engineers were pretty bad (So bad that someone at one point terminated every line in Python with a semicolon. Those engineers are nearly all gone now) and I like to think that the current groups are decent engineers. But I don't see us ever going back and transferring the domain somewhere else.

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

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Post by behnamoh »

mattl wrote: post #300
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.

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

Then it probably means the technical people didn't have much say in this.

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

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Post by tfsh »

nonbirithm wrote: post #318
rytill wrote: post #268

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What about discord has been horrible for you?

No ability to use third-party clients without being banned.

Sure, it's against the TOS, but I've been using an external client for probably 2 years and haven't been banned or warned. If Discord are aware then they've explicitly chosen to do nothing.

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

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Post by softwarerero »

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…

I have only one domain on namecheap, but since a few month I cannot access it any more. There is a captcha service (hcaptcha) before it which totally locks me out.
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