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

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Post by jgowdy »

gravitas wrote: post #174
warent wrote: post #167

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Agreed. This is really bizarre behavior for HN. This thread reads like a paranoid Reddit post, and people who are requesting evidence are being downvoted into oblivion... Because it's more fashionable to jump on the "godaddy is a cartoon supervillain" bandwagon?

HN has been talking about GoDaddy front-running domains since 2012. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4362478

This is a complete lie and total slander of GoDaddy. https://domaininvesting.com/godaddy-still-not-frontrunning-d...

The whois information is masked, because that's what we do to protect customer privacy.

https://domaininvesting.com/godaddy-whois-records-no-more-co...

It's registered to someone in New York, not to GoDaddy.

Registrant Organization: Registrant State/Province: New York Registrant Country: US

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

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Post by jefftk »

IggleSniggle wrote: post #481
jefftk wrote: post #182

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That sounds really unpleasant! It's not clear to me, though, what you're saying GoDaddy did wrong?

> GoDaddy gave me no recourse to dispute. He had server access because I trusted him. He wasn't supposed to have access to my domain account, and I didn't share my credentials. Seems pretty clear that although they had server credentials, they were never given any account credentials, but they were able to get into the account and transfer ownership anyway.

"I had another friend on the account because I was paying for his domain and wanted to let him administer DNS. They conspired together..."

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

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Post by j2bax »

ted0 wrote: post #555
j2bax wrote: post #397

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Hey Ted! Been my favorite registrar for over a decade. Just registered a genius domain that I thought of the other night !:)

We need to introduce some sort of "lifer" discount code for these decade+ customers! Thank you for your business!

I support this idea!!!

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

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Post by MertsA »

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.

As a counterpoint to that a few weeks ago I reported a Bitcoin giveaway scam site to Namecheap and it was NXDOMAIN later that day.

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

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Post by jhoutromundo »

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…

Another customer extremelly satisfied with Namecheap. Your "beast mode" has saved me countless times.

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

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Post by bluedevil2k »

aprdm wrote: post #430
bluedevil2k wrote: post #354

I have a similar sorry about the scuzziness of GoDaddy. When Apple first announced the Swift programming language at their wWWDC i immediately went to GoDaddy to register every Swift related domain I could think of - learnswift.com, swift-tutorial.com type domains. I added several and in the process of checking out (which used to be like 7 steps as each step along they way they tried to trick you into buying somethin…

It is not like you're sitting on morale high ground by squatting domains

Who said I was squatting? You’re assuming I couldn’t put together a website with tutorials on Swift. It’s literally what I do all freakin day.

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

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Post by bluedevil2k »

pembrook wrote: post #640
bluedevil2k wrote: post #354

I have a similar sorry about the scuzziness of GoDaddy. When Apple first announced the Swift programming language at their wWWDC i immediately went to GoDaddy to register every Swift related domain I could think of - learnswift.com, swift-tutorial.com type domains. I added several and in the process of checking out (which used to be like 7 steps as each step along they way they tried to trick you into buying somethin…

Chances are they literally had the same idea as you and just beat you at your own game. It’s a certain kind of justice when a squatter gets squatted.

Who said I was squatting? You’re assuming I couldn’t put together a website with tutorials on Swift. It’s literally what I do all freakin day.

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

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Post by jamescampbell »

ted0 wrote: post #544
vincentmarle wrote: post #438

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I've actually always used Godaddy for searching and Namecheap for registering, simply because Godaddy's search interface is faster and more stable but Namecheap is great for not hassling you and way easier to configure. Fix the search Namecheap, and I will no longer use Godaddy again!

Try our new Beast Mode tool for searching: https://www.namecheap.com/domains/registration/results/?doma...

Beast mode has been great. I want a python cli for it and heaven.

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

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Post by dylz »

shadowprofile77 wrote: post #721
ted0 wrote: post #705

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Not our practice. Registry partners set our pricing and we try to give you the best price possible.

I still dislike the practice, but my apologies for the more curt earlier comment. My assumption was that the practice was indeed your own. I had maybe confounded registry with registrar. That said, in general terms, who would these registry partners be for unclaimed domains, who then set elevated "premium" prices?

The underlying TLD holder.

Usually all dictionary words, domains below 3chars, domains below 4chars, etc.

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