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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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Post by bwblabs »

ghshephard wrote: post #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…

Some proof would be nice here. I almost thought having some proof after using Watchmouse DNS Analysis on a Godaddy DNS hosted domain: http://www.watchmouse.com/en/dnstool.php?varghost=cheapdomai... , and hit some 'No response' from multiple locations. But some Watchmouse test locations always reply with 'No response' (Amsterdam3-Netherlands; Belgrade-Serbia; Budapest-Hungary; Frankfurt-Germany; Lille-France; Madrid-Spain; Novosibirsk-Russia; San Francisco-U.S.A.; Sofia-Bulgaria).

Any other good DNS tool that queries from multiple GEO locations?

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

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Post by ez77 »

ars wrote: post #44
ez77 wrote: post #41

I like how he uses mostly POSH [1] for his markup. Too bad he must appeal to something like the H4 element in order to include the author's name and the publication date. It is difficult to understand that an academic such as Berners-Lee came up with prominently article-oriented HTML and did not include an AUTHOR tag or DATE tag. [1] http://microformats.org/wiki/posh

Um, what does this have to do with the article?

It is a technical point, in a technical forum. It is fairly common for HNers to comment, say, on the CSS technology used in an article about the US deficit, and they are generally not downvoted or scolded. Similarly, my comment is that the author essentially appeals to no CSS at all.

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

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Post by lamnk »

rednaught wrote: post #12
lisper wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Yeah, after I read your comment I recheck my Pingdom's logs, those weird timeout errors since one year ago are now gone (I've switched to CloudFlare). Back then I was scratching my head wondering why Pingdom generated so much errors from random different locations while people reported that they were able to access my sites jut fine. Thanks!

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

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Post by terrapinbear »

lazyjeff wrote: post #14
imrehg wrote: 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.

networksolutions has sales occasionally. I just registered a domain name for two years for $13.00.

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Post by orenmazor »

imrehg wrote: 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?

because if you google "godaddy promo", you're likely to buy the .com/.net/.in/.whatever for $1-5 at any given time.

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

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Post by sp332 »

freddealmeida wrote: post #27

I moved away from GoDaddy years ago. They have proven themselves to be irrationally self-interested. This is just one more reason no one should use them. While the domain cost is low, ancillary costs are high: not to mention moral cost for using a company that kills Elephants for sport.

The elephant was attacking a town, right? It was going to be killed in defense anyway. The town managed to sell "kill rights" to a rich idiot, good for them.

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

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Post by seabee »

georgieporgie wrote: post #40

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…

NFS was a GoDaddy reseller, last time I checked.

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

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Post by elliottcarlson »

RexRollman wrote: post #55
amirrustam wrote: post #9

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 been using Gandi for years now and I really like them. But since I've never never had a problem, I really can't comment on their customer service.

I second Gandi - I transferred to them from Dotster for many reasons and the service is excellent - not to mention the free SSL certificates with your domain purchase, which has come in handy a few times.

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

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Post by drzaiusapelord »

ghshephard wrote: post #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…

The company that uses bikini-clad women gyrating on the screen as advertising may not be very professional with their IT infrastructure? Who knew!

Seriously, time to migrate to namecheap.com or other. Its sad this kind of advertising even works.

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