This always has been one of my concerns when checking for a domain with a registrar.
Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com
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#742Re: Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com
#743There's a detailed response here: https://www.godaddy.com/garage/godaddy-felons-io-unregistere...
currently discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24523901.
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#744Earlier quoted context omitted.
CloudFlare (yes they are a registrar now) or Gandi are my go-tos! Never had an issue. GoDaddy are just bad in every conceivable way.
Wow, I didn't know CF did registrations (makes sense though). And looking at their rates shows they don't markup prices. For example, most places charge $12 for a .com address. CloudFlare charges $8.03, which is their cost, they add nothing.
Yep, can't wait 'till they support .cc and whatnot.
Re: Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com
#745You can use a tool like this one to search for domain name securely. https://www.domainhamper.com/
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#746Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 http://instantdomainsearch.com/ (No affiliation, just a happy user)
I use this one too https://www.domainhamper.com/
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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.
I believe that requirement ended. I had to get a different DNS at one point for my .is (registered in 2009) and I still maintain that account with DNSMadeEasy out of laziness), but when I helped a friend register a .is and when I got some additional ones more recently, I didn’t have to do that anymore. I believe Namecheap offloads some of the info for .is back to ISNIC. The only reason I don’t do it under Namecheap i…
Thanks folks. I haven't had mine that long -- maybe since 2015 at the earliest. Must have changed shortly after I registered, since it seems that it changed some time ago. I'm certainly not an Isnic OG :)
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#748Earlier quoted context omitted.
Cloudflare Registrar offers domains at cost, which makes it the least expensive option for the TLDs it supports: https://www.cloudflare.com/tld-policies/ If you use Google Domains, you risk losing access to the domains if Google suspends or terminates your Google account for some reason unrelated to the domains.
You can add multiple Google accounts to admin a domain. Increases the survivability of access to them.
They better not be on the same G Suite account.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21826368
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24109809
Google Domains charges $12.00/year for .com renewals, compared to $8.56/year at Porkbun and $8.03/year at Cloudflare. With Google's reputation for poor support, most domain owners simply have no good reason to use Google Domains.
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#749Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
> This is a complete lie and total slander of GoDaddy
Respectfully, I stated an objective fact and nothing more, backed by an evidentiary link. As the other reply and yours seemed to have missed the context to which I was replying, "This is really bizarre behavior for HN" which was being contested by my reply - in hindsight I should have quoted it to be blatantly obvious to speed readers.
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#750I had this happen to me with instantdomainsearch.com, which is owned by GoDaddy, I believe.
Hi, I own/operate Instant Domain Search. We make plenty of money from GoDaddy and other partners by helping them find domain names. We show results quickly because we check if your search is in the zone file. We keep a copy of the zone file in memory, and check searches against that. Some names are "unconfigured" for a variety of reasons, and do not appear in the zone file. So this means we might show a name as avail…
Okay, I suppose that’s plausible. I just had a few questionable situations and it seemed fishy.