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GoDaddy's New "Selective DNS Blackouts" Policy

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

#11
lots of words, not a lot of evidence.

I know quite a few ops and abuse folks at godaddy who have root or enable, but this doesn't seem substantiated enough for me to even waste their time with.

The title is linkbait. There is no such official policy that we know of or that this bloggers knows of. This person is making a supposition, at best.

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

#12
post #6

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.

A further note: Also if you use an external monitoring service(e.g. Pingdom, Wormly, Exactstate) that performs DNS traversals for each check instead of relying on a recursive server, this likely explains any increase in false alarms.

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

#13
post #11

lots of words, not a lot of evidence. I know quite a few ops and abuse folks at godaddy who have root or enable, but this doesn't seem substantiated enough for me to even waste their time with. The title is linkbait. There is no such official policy that we know of or that this bloggers knows of. This person is making a supposition, at best.

I added a link in another comment to the response he received from Godaddy. Sorry it has fallen through the depths here.

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

#14
post #8

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?

It shouldn't be confusing. It's the price.

Domains are a commodity, and $7.69 for a domain (after applying one of the widely-available coupons) is the lowest price in the industry. If someone registers many domains, this adds up quickly.

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

#15
post #6

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.

If you are using their DNS service.

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

#16

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.

use them to hold your registration, then set your DNS up with cloudflare.com

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

#17

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.

I've used 1and1.com for years and they are almost always cheaper than godaddy.

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

#18

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.

Namecheap. Their own coupon site is at http://www.namecheapcoupons.com/

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

#19
post #8

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?

It shouldn't be confusing. It's the price. Domains are a commodity, and $7.69 for a domain (after applying one of the widely-available coupons) is the lowest price in the industry. If someone registers many domains, this adds up quickly.

Netsol, register, etc all charge $6.99 if you ask.

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

#20
No major DNS provider would engage in a "Selective DNS Blackout" because of resource constraints - DNS is one of those protocols that is both embarrassingly parallel, as well as super efficient to serve. It's not unreasonable to see a well tuned, inexpensive (This article doesn't pass the common sense test. Not to say that GoDaddy isn't engaging in this selective DNS blackout policy, just that it's not because of a underinvestment in their infrastructure.
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