While we have GoDaddy's attention
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While we have GoDaddy's attention
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Re: While we have GoDaddy's attention
#2...we've lost our focus on the real problem.
This isn't internic. It's just a company in a commodity market whose service and policies people seem to dislike, but are about as far from a monopoly as you can get. They are relevant because we keep talking about them.
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#4Assuming the author submitted this, the sentence starting with "On what planet is a customer" appears to be a fragment.
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#5Assuming the author submitted this, the sentence starting with "On what planet is a customer" appears to be a fragment.
Might not be the best contructed sentence, but it's a complete one. "On what planet is a customer, expressing a very clear wish, asking you to do something for them."
Re: While we have GoDaddy's attention
#6...we've lost our focus on the real problem. This isn't internic. It's just a company in a commodity market whose service and policies people seem to dislike, but are about as far from a monopoly as you can get. They are relevant because we keep talking about them.
GoDaddy, like a bunch of other giant non-monopoly companies such as banks, cable co's, phone companies, etc. steal from their customers with fraudulent nickle and dime charges. Happens all the time and it collectively costs consumers billions of dollars a year. I'm confused by what your objection is with a prominent blogger pointing this out. Should people just keep quiet and let other customers be defrauded?
Re: While we have GoDaddy's attention
#7...we've lost our focus on the real problem. This isn't internic. It's just a company in a commodity market whose service and policies people seem to dislike, but are about as far from a monopoly as you can get. They are relevant because we keep talking about them.
GoDaddy, like a bunch of other giant non-monopoly companies such as banks, cable co's, phone companies, etc. steal from their customers with fraudulent nickle and dime charges. Happens all the time and it collectively costs consumers billions of dollars a year. I'm confused by what your objection is with a prominent blogger pointing this out. Should people just keep quiet and let other customers be defrauded?
What the GP means is that the domain registrar business is what Scott Adams calls a "confusopoly". Just like banks and telco companies, registrars know that they can't compete on price alone, so instead they convolute their products and offerings as much as possible just to make it look as differentiation, but the main purpose is to make sure that the customer has no way to objectively compare two companies.
As much as people are talking about GoDaddy and namecheap lately, no one managed to find a cheap registrar. Consumer opinion will always mention quality of support or the political stance of one company or another, but not one single soul managed to show me one registrar that has low prices for domain registration and renewal and SSL certificates. It's always one or the other.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
GoDaddy, like a bunch of other giant non-monopoly companies such as banks, cable co's, phone companies, etc. steal from their customers with fraudulent nickle and dime charges. Happens all the time and it collectively costs consumers billions of dollars a year. I'm confused by what your objection is with a prominent blogger pointing this out. Should people just keep quiet and let other customers be defrauded?
What the GP means is that the domain registrar business is what Scott Adams calls a "confusopoly". Just like banks and telco companies, registrars know that they can't compete on price alone, so instead they convolute their products and offerings as much as possible just to make it look as differentiation, but the main purpose is to make sure that the customer has no way to objectively compare two companies. As much…
Namecheap's $10 for a domain, $10 for a renewal, and has single-domain Comodo certs for $8.95 (wildcard certs for $89, which isn't the cheapest but is below average).
I'm pretty sure that's a "cheap registrar".
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#9(Sorry -- a little bit of crankiness ahead. I'll try to moderate my tone accordingly.)
OK, I've flagged this. Not only are the GoDaddy articles on the front page here getting out of hand, but this article adds literally nothing to any discussion anywhere. I'm sure the author is a wonderful and intelligent person, but this particular article is completely useless.
In particular, I am completely underwhelmed by anybody that says they're writing a blog post about a company "as a warning to others", or that "there ought to be a consumer reports for ______". Here's the thing: there are already a bajillion boo-hoo stories out there about GoDaddy. They have a terrible track record. (If someone is actively doing any business at all with GoDaddy, I immediately have a clue about how long they've been in the industry, and how deeply, and their level of expertise.)
But nobody bothers to do background research on companies like this! When this guy went and decided to do business with GoDaddy, he obviously didn't bother to read any of the other stuff online about them first. What good would a Consumer Reports have done him? He'd've ignored it too! The people registering 35,000 domains on GoDaddy tomorrow also won't read his post, nor will they likely read any of the other stuff out there about GoDaddy.
Instead, they'll think they've got an idea for something, say to themselves, "I need to register a domain!", wonder how to go about that, Google it, and -- "Oh yeah, GoDaddy! They say they have great support! They say they're cheap! And oh look, boobs! I've heard of them..."
I'm sorry you got ripped off by a company that ripped off thousands of other people before you. Let this be a $5 lesson to do your homework next time. :-)
Re: While we have GoDaddy's attention
#10(Sorry -- a little bit of crankiness ahead. I'll try to moderate my tone accordingly.) OK, I've flagged this. Not only are the GoDaddy articles on the front page here getting out of hand, but this article adds literally nothing to any discussion anywhere. I'm sure the author is a wonderful and intelligent person, but this particular article is completely useless. In particular, I am completely underwhelmed by anybody…
I don't understand this defeatist attitude, just because other people have complained and nothing has changed doesn't mean that people shouldn't continue complaining, especially a prominent blogger like Dave Wiener. If people keep shouting into the interwebs maybe something will happen, maybe the next registrar searcher will find this article in google or maybe enough people pull out the pitchforks that it forces GoDaddy to at least pretends it's changing. We don't have to live in the crappy world that we do, we can change it.