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

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Post by Igelau » Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 11:33 PM UTC

Loughla wrote: post #393

munk-a wrote: post #345

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Back in the day it was trendy to affix the year you signed up for an account to your account name - rather than the birth year. It was interesting to see things like sandra96@yahoo.com still the primary email address when sending someone an email to catch up post uni.

God help me, I cannot stop myself from laughing every time I see a @yahoo or @aol e-mail address on job applications/resumes. Bonus laughter if it's something massively inappropriate. Some e-mail stems from the last position search (this is at a college, granted it is an entry level position, but it's still a college): cuntcrasher, c00rslight, bigswag420, trideltaFcups, and my personal favorite, milfhunter9inch. Thes…

Hey, maybe that's short for Bret Igswag (born April 20).

I used to work with a guy whose first + middle initials and last name resulted in an official corporate email of "xlwang", no lie.

Only you can save Corbin Untcrasher and Tyrone Ridel-Tafcups from crushing student loan debt.

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

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Post by systematical » Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 11:33 PM UTC

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…

Not affiliated with namecheap but I only use namecheap.

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

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Post by Jetroid » Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 11:34 PM UTC

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 used namecheap as my first and only registrar since I made my first website in 2013. Those free .me domains in the GitHub student pack paid off for you guys in my case.

Always had great service, including quick resolution when I tried to register .id shortly after they allowed international registration (and encountered a few speedbumps).

Thanks for the good work!

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

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Post by anonymfus » Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 11:35 PM UTC

If that is true, does that mean that we/somebody can make them spend significant amount of money by searching for random domains?

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

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Post by mesozoic » Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 11:36 PM UTC

Have some fun and search for millions of domains per day!

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

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Post by adam1210 » Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 11:37 PM UTC

ted0 wrote: post #332

sloshnmosh wrote: post #309

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Hello Ted. A bit off-topic but I was wondering if you were aware of the massive amount of malicious sites that use NameCheap? And do you have a better way of going about flagging these sites other than the “abuse” email that shows when doing a WhoIs lookup?

Abuse@namecheap.com is indeed the best channel. Our Twitter reps are quite responsive too. The abuse team reviews every case. In some cases, it can also be effective to reach out to the "host" too.

Does the abuse team always reply to abuse reports? I've had one open since the 5th with no activity and I'm unsure if it is just being ignored.

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

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Post by platesacrossusa » Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 11:39 PM UTC

GoDaddy has always been doing this. They used to do it by forwarding the search to a company that was just a cloaked subsidiary who would buy it and offer to resell it to you. I guess now this sort of unethical practice can be out in the open for all. Once upon a time you would have to be ashamed of this sort of business practice.

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

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Post by xnyan » Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 11:40 PM UTC

joe33433 wrote: post #417

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…

If my domains primary users are from USA, i would definitely register at Namecheap, but my primary users are from india. My understanding is that its better to register with local registrar(not godadday ofcourse) to avoid DNS latency, To my knowledge Namecheap does not have servers in india. I am new to domain registering and would appreciate your take on this issue. Thanks

This is a common misconception but not correct. Namecheap offers free DNS services with your registration and there’s nothing wrong with them, but due to my individual requirements, cost and perf considerations I have my domains registered with namecheap but the nameservers are hosted on cloudflare. It’s really easy to separate the two.

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

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Post by bredren » Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 11:43 PM UTC

edoceo wrote: post #249

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.

There is another option here. I'm technically competent but have one domain on GoDaddy for a startup I'm handling. See, the domain we wanted was after market, and the purchase deal was done through a service that requires GD as the registrar. So, after $12000 for the domain, we have to wait before we can transfer into our AWS.

If you can afford $12k for a domain hopefully you’re not worried about the registrar signaling to an investor.

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

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Post by social_quotient » Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 11:48 PM UTC

Freaken wrote: post #476

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…

Hey Ted, Is there a way to migrate a bunch of domain names from Godaddy to Namecheap ? We own about 200 domain names and I would like nothing more than to drop Godaddy for Namecheap, but I cannot justify the manpower (basically just me) required to migrate domains one by one. Thanks.

subscribed - Same issue here.