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GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down
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Re: GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down
#92If you are using GoDaddy for anything, you deserve what you get. If you are using GoDaddy for not just registration but also for DNS, I would just fix it as soon as possible and not tell anyone. Also, do backups, use good password practices, and everything else that everyone knows and the lazy will still fail to do. Oh, 20 seconds in and a downvote. I can take them, I didn't ignore the last 8 problems GoDaddy has bee…
"Oh, 20 seconds in and a downvote." I didn't downvote you. But you might have gotten downvoted because you said "If you are using GoDaddy for anything, you deserve what you get." w/o giving links or further information. The things you are thinking might not be obvious to everyone.
Except that everyone doesn't use HN. The people that registered their domains with GoDaddy generally don't frequent HN. Informative decisions about domain registration is basically preaching to the choir here on HN. OP's comment is perfect given the context. Had this been CNN or someother popular news outlet, then the OP would have been "snarky"
Re: GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down
#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
Millions of normal not-too-savvy folks use GoDaddy because to them it's synonymous with domain registration. They profoundly do not deserve their sites to be down for that. For shame.
What's shameful is that millions of not-too-savvy decided to make a serious decision without becoming savvy about domain registration. Profound? No, just pathetic.
How is registering for a $10 domain name a serious decision to make?
Re: GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down
#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you are only using them for DNS (and assuming their DNS works again) you can simply setup the new dns somewhere but not switch the DNS at your registrar. Until the dns is working at the new dns provider (and you would query it to find that out). Example: 1) setup amixdomain.com at, say, zoneedit.com (not recommending them just using as an example). 2) Wait a bit, say several hours then use a dns utility like the o…
FYI: dig is not an 'OSX tool' its part of bind from ISC, it's a standard UNIX tool for looking up DNS information. Just a pet peeve of mine.
In re-reading my comment I can see where someone would think I was implying that it was. Having worked with UNIX since V I am well aware of what you are saying. My mistake.
(What I was trying to say was "if you have a mac open a terminal session and use dig".)
Re: GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down
#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
Millions of normal not-too-savvy folks use GoDaddy because to them it's synonymous with domain registration. They profoundly do not deserve their sites to be down for that. For shame.
I'm not trying to be a jerk, but anyone would say the same thing if I complained about QoS on one of those hugely over-sold shared PHP hosting sites. Are there really a lot of "not-too-savvy" folks who understand that they need GoDaddy to provide them DNS servers but know better than to use someone else for DNS services and/or registration? Maybe I underestimate the size of that population. I should and do apologize.…
'you deserve what you get' didn't go over very well, but was all the snark I found that could be judged unreasonable.
Edit: also, there is a great deal of inertia to overcome for a registar change, so a bit of shove (instead of gentle encouragement) may be warranted.
Re: GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down
#96If you are using GoDaddy for anything, you deserve what you get. If you are using GoDaddy for not just registration but also for DNS, I would just fix it as soon as possible and not tell anyone. Also, do backups, use good password practices, and everything else that everyone knows and the lazy will still fail to do. Oh, 20 seconds in and a downvote. I can take them, I didn't ignore the last 8 problems GoDaddy has bee…
This is an example of comments that are hurting HN's quality. Absolutely nothing useful to add to the discussion, just snark. Yet for some reason its the highest voted comment.
This is why I don't understand why I can't downvote despite being a newer user.
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#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is an example of comments that are hurting HN's quality. Absolutely nothing useful to add to the discussion, just snark. Yet for some reason its the highest voted comment.
And yet every other month we have posts about password breaches with tons of HN users complaining about having to change their passwords. Or we have posts from people who didn't back up their data and their cloud provider lost it, or experienced hardware failure. Or we have technically savvy people who dismiss GoDaddy problems or have literally in the past said "It's good enough, we'll just stay because it's easy". S…
Your initial comments snarkyness to usefulness level was pretty low. It was a lot of "look how oppressed I am by being downvoted," and "you are so stupid for using godaddy."
You can communicate constructively and effectively without being so asinine. Here is an example of your initial comment with a bit kinder language:
Unfortunately, GoDaddy's services are often quite lackluster. I would urge current users to switch all their Godaddy-hosted services to other, more reliable providers.
Also, always remember to follow security best-practices such as using secure passwords, conducting regular backups, and the like.
There, was that really so hard?
Re: GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down
#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is an example of comments that are hurting HN's quality. Absolutely nothing useful to add to the discussion, just snark. Yet for some reason its the highest voted comment.
You are what is hurting HN's quality.
How come others get to downvote my comments but I don't like-wise? This is what's hurting HN. Black box phenomenon like this. No information about the commenting process. Maybe reddit is on to something after all. The designer of this site is one arrogant sob.
Re: GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down
#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
And yet every other month we have posts about password breaches with tons of HN users complaining about having to change their passwords. Or we have posts from people who didn't back up their data and their cloud provider lost it, or experienced hardware failure. Or we have technically savvy people who dismiss GoDaddy problems or have literally in the past said "It's good enough, we'll just stay because it's easy". S…
The reasons not to use GoDaddy in the past have been entirely moral/political, not technical. I've been using them for 10 years without a DNS issue like this, so it's not quite the same thing.
Moral/political reasons aside, have you ever seen their UI?
Try registering for a domain and get an idea of how aggressively and unabashedly they try to upsell you things you have zero need for, how difficult they make it to "transfer" domains. Generally, these practices are good signs of trouble, and a good hint that it's better to take business elsewhere. I should not have to spend hours upon hours wading through BS to do trivial tasks.
Re: GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down
#100Thread on Outages: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.operators.isotf.outages/... The GoDaddy status page proudly announces "No issues to report": http://support.godaddy.com/system-alerts/ During last week's GoDaddy mail outage, they had no status info posted, even hours after reports on NANOG/Outages: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.operators.isotf.outages/...
The status page is actually unreachable, as the domain name does not resolve :-).
I probably had the A record cached, after the mail outage ...