GoDaddy's New "Selective DNS Blackouts" Policy

#1

Post by rednaught » Tue, Sep 06, 2011, 4:12 AM UTC

And a response from GoDaddy:

http://rscott.org/dns/GoDaddy_Selective_DNS_Blackouts_Update.htm

GoDaddy's New "Selective DNS Blackouts" Policy
rscott.org

Re: GoDaddy's New "Selective DNS Blackouts" Policy

#2

Post by rednaught » Tue, Sep 06, 2011, 4:13 AM UTC

And Godaddy's response:

http://rscott.org/dns/GoDaddy_Selective_DNS_Blackouts_Update...

Re: GoDaddy's New "Selective DNS Blackouts" Policy

#3

Post by politician » Tue, Sep 06, 2011, 4:41 AM UTC

tldr: The new owners of GoDaddy have decided to block DNS traffic rather then invest in their infrastructure to handle the additional load. See also: bridges, roads, wireless carriers.

Re: GoDaddy's New "Selective DNS Blackouts" Policy

#4

Post by kennywinker » Tue, Sep 06, 2011, 4:49 AM UTC

Can someone explain the implications of this a little clearer? It sounds bad, but I don't understand why.

Re: GoDaddy's New "Selective DNS Blackouts" Policy

#5

Post by rkalla » Tue, Sep 06, 2011, 4:49 AM UTC

politician wrote: post #3

tldr: The new owners of GoDaddy have decided to block DNS traffic rather then invest in their infrastructure to handle the additional load. See also: bridges, roads, wireless carriers.

tldr addendum: because they want to push back some of the 99% of registered sites that use the free DNS service yet drive huge amounts of traffic and want them to upgrade to DNS Premium support.

Re: GoDaddy's New "Selective DNS Blackouts" Policy

#6

Post by lisper » Tue, Sep 06, 2011, 4:50 AM UTC

kennywinker wrote: post #4

Can someone explain the implications of this a little clearer? It sounds bad, but I don't understand why.

If you use GoDaddy your sites may not work because GoDaddy is too cheap to provision enough servers to handle the load. So don't use GoDaddy.

Re: GoDaddy's New "Selective DNS Blackouts" Policy

#7

Post by veyron » Tue, Sep 06, 2011, 4:56 AM UTC

Is there a market nowadays for a new low-cost registrar / hosting provider?

Re: GoDaddy's New "Selective DNS Blackouts" Policy

#8

Post by imrehg » Tue, Sep 06, 2011, 4:56 AM UTC

I'm still confused why would anyone want to by their domain name from GoDaddy, after all this press they get. It looks like a horrible company in general (not just this story) and everyone giving them money just helps them suck more. If I could see they are improving, then a current suckiness can be forgiven, but when actually getting worse?

Re: GoDaddy's New "Selective DNS Blackouts" Policy

#9

Post by amirrustam » Tue, Sep 06, 2011, 4:59 AM UTC

What do you guys use instead of GoDaddy? Just interested to see what others prefer out there. I was gonna do a domain transfer to GoDaddy, but after reading this I won't be considering them.

Re: GoDaddy's New "Selective DNS Blackouts" Policy

#10

Post by pplante » Tue, Sep 06, 2011, 5:00 AM UTC

lisper wrote: post #6

kennywinker wrote: post #4

Can someone explain the implications of this a little clearer? It sounds bad, but I don't understand why.

If you use GoDaddy your sites may not work because GoDaddy is too cheap to provision enough servers to handle the load. So don't use GoDaddy.

Lets not over-sensationalize this, buy domains from GoDaddy, just skip the other services. Their domains and SSL certs are still some of the cheapest.