Startups should not use GoDaddy. Ever • Hacker News Board

Re: Startups should not use GoDaddy. Ever

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Post by dhpye » Wed, Sep 07, 2011, 3:06 PM UTC

JoshTriplett wrote: post #10

rshigeta wrote: post #4

I've seen a lot of issues raised about godaddy recently, but any suggestions for domain registry that work better?

I use gandi.net, for both personal and business domains. They're awesome. Specifically: they have policies that strongly support the domain owner, they make a point of saying the domain owner owns the domain (not the registrar), they give back to many different Open Source projects, their management software works quite well, and they provide free email service for your domain so you don't have to run a mail server i…

gandi.net also provides a free ssl cert for registered domains. They're just awesome.

Re: Startups should not use GoDaddy. Ever

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Post by gst » Wed, Sep 07, 2011, 3:08 PM UTC

rshigeta wrote: post #4

I've seen a lot of issues raised about godaddy recently, but any suggestions for domain registry that work better?

I use domaindiscount24.de for all my domains. Despite the name that might imply a somewhat cheap quality they work really well and I never had any problem's so far.

I've only used GoDaddy once when someone transferred a domain to be and wanted to do this over GoDaddy's internal transfer feature. The first thing I did was transferring the domain to domaindiscount24.

Re: Startups should not use GoDaddy. Ever

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Post by aninteger » Wed, Sep 07, 2011, 3:11 PM UTC

pornel wrote: post #18

drivebyacct2 wrote: post #5

Why is this news?! I can't count the number of times this has come up on HN, let alone reddit, let alone random prominent blogs, let alone from other big names that have had problems with GoDaddy suspending service, locking them out of their control panels and/or siding with law enforcement and acting before asking. Stop using GoDaddy. It's trivial to find other registrars, and not hard to find better ones. (Examples…

> Why is this news?! I can't count the number of times this has come up And yet GoDaddy is still in business and doing great.

Maybe those superbowl commercials really do work.

Re: Startups should not use GoDaddy. Ever

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Post by leon_ » Wed, Sep 07, 2011, 3:13 PM UTC

When I was doing web stuff back in 2003 the common opinion on webmaster forums was that one should never ever use GoDaddy. (There were cases of stolen domains, etc.)

Maybe they changed now - maybe not. But I'm not going to find it out.

Re: Startups should not use GoDaddy. Ever

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Post by rumblestrut » Wed, Sep 07, 2011, 3:15 PM UTC

As of this post, it appears to be working.

And I have to say, it's impressive. Those are some good-looking bookmarks. That's probably the oddest maintenance I'd ever think to write, but in this case, it's true!

Re: Startups should not use GoDaddy. Ever

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Post by jackowayed » Wed, Sep 07, 2011, 3:15 PM UTC

mtogo wrote: post #14

rshigeta wrote: post #4

I've seen a lot of issues raised about godaddy recently, but any suggestions for domain registry that work better?

Here's the list that i post every time someone asks this. There are plenty of other ones, but these are the "tried and true" top list. * Gandi.net * Namecheap * Name.com (Some very sleazy practices, see child) * Moniker

Name.com is pretty evil too. They opt you in to a "service" that displays ads from your domain (where they keep the revenue, of course), and say that you are responsible for ensuring that the content is legal

See http://nathanhammond.com/namedotcom-another-unscrupulous-reg...

Re: Startups should not use GoDaddy. Ever

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Post by snorkel » Wed, Sep 07, 2011, 3:15 PM UTC

rshigeta wrote: post #4

I've seen a lot of issues raised about godaddy recently, but any suggestions for domain registry that work better?

I've been happy with dnsimple.com, not the cheapest but has a clean UI, intelligent features, and intelligent support the YC crowd here would appreciate.

Re: Startups should not use GoDaddy. Ever

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Post by pewpew » Wed, Sep 07, 2011, 3:16 PM UTC

Be incompetent, blame others, profit. Host your site on a shared hosting, with another 1000 users, blame godaddy when it goes down. Don't understand ssl, blame godaddy when you make mistakes.

GoDaddy are freaking excellent! for domains that is. All other services are crap, and if you bothered to actually check your facts, read some reviews, you would know that.

Re: Startups should not use GoDaddy. Ever

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Post by jbhelms » Wed, Sep 07, 2011, 3:18 PM UTC

pornel wrote: post #18

drivebyacct2 wrote: post #5

Why is this news?! I can't count the number of times this has come up on HN, let alone reddit, let alone random prominent blogs, let alone from other big names that have had problems with GoDaddy suspending service, locking them out of their control panels and/or siding with law enforcement and acting before asking. Stop using GoDaddy. It's trivial to find other registrars, and not hard to find better ones. (Examples…

> Why is this news?! I can't count the number of times this has come up And yet GoDaddy is still in business and doing great.

You can't get past the cheapness of some people. $5 a month for hosting is very attractive to someone looking to bootstrap off of savings.

Re: Startups should not use GoDaddy. Ever

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Post by Birejji » Wed, Sep 07, 2011, 3:19 PM UTC

Dynadot is the way to go