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GoDaddy's New "Selective DNS Blackouts" Policy

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

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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

That's what we've been doing.

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

#32

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.

There are multiple threads on HN already answering your question, you can find them via the search function. (This comment is not meant to cry "double post", just as a pointer for your to look for more information on GoDaddy alternatives).

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

#33

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 use dnsimple (http://dnsimple.com). It's not one of the cheaper ones (US$3/month for DNS hosting up to ten domains, US$14/registration), but it has a nice UI, JSON REST API and support that doesn't suck.

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

#35

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.

https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/

Pay for what you use from people with do right by their customers.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Godaddy SSL cert: $50 Namecheap SSL cert (RapidSSL): $10 StartCom SSL cert: $0 Gandi.net SSL cert: $0 with domain registration

Prices are not static things. Namecheap isn't always $10 and GoDaddy isn't always $50. In fact, GoDaddy charges $12 for SSL certs right now with a coupon you'll find on any coupon site.

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

#38

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 transferred from GoDaddy to name.com about a year ago by recommendation of a friend. It's nice to not be bombarded with GD babes and just enter my account to do what I need to do.

I agree with this. And sorry for the rant.

I keep getting emails about expiring domains and auto-renewals. I maintain a separate spread-sheet to keep track of these.

For some reason it not only annoys me but it always make my blood pressure shoot up. To turn these alerts off you have to disable auto-renew for the domain. This check box is not easy to find. They hide the auto-renew check box column very cleverly.

Now I get emails about expiring other services... I still haven't figured how to turn these off.

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

#39
post #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

Could you explain (how to) a bit more on this?

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

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I tallied up all the votes in a HN thread about registrars and settled on NearlyFreeSpeech.net. Their payment system is weird (you fund your pool of money from which charges are deducted), but otherwise it was quick, painless, and not full of creepy, sexualized imagery and cheesy, repetitive upselling techniques.

GoDaddy is a bit cheaper if you spend the time to scrounge up coupon codes, but wow, NearlyFreeSpeech was the first time my domain registrar's website didn't give me a headache.

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