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Re: GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down

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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 B…

It's actually not that bad and is only getting better since they've taken on investors. Even when it was bad, it was only bad on the first few visits, once you learned your way around the clutter, I never spent any more time on the GD site than I did on any other registrar or hosting provider site. For instance, just going to dcc.godaddy.com to go right into my domain manager when needing to update a domain.

Re: GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down

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post #84

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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.

Godaddy tries to upsell their "premium" DNS service by blocking high-frequency DNS requests on their non-premium authoritive servers.[1][2]

I would call that a technical issue, even though it probably only affects web crawlers.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2964084 2: http://rscott.org/dns/GoDaddy_Selective_DNS_Blackouts.htm

Re: GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down

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post #25

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I use namecheap[1] for everything domain related and never had a problem. There's a no downtime migration guide here [3]. [1] (Affiliate) http://www.namecheap.com?aff=37912 [2] (Non-Affiliate) http://www.namecheap.com [3] http://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx/...

These are instructions on how to move your domain, not migrate to different DNS servers. Moving away from GoDaddy in general might be a good idea, but if you're just looking to migrate to another DNS service like Route53, this isn't what your looking for.

Migrating DNS is easy:

1) Get a new DNS server. I use http://dnspark.net/ and even though their website is very ugly and there's no API, they're tremendous value at $10 - $14 per year

2) In your registrar's page (godaddy) change your DNS servers for your domain to whatever your new ones are.

Re: GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down

#149
post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 B…

Their UI is AWFUL. But you know what...it's intentional. All of the upselling. The current hiding exactly where the "My Account" stuff resides. It all feels very intentional as to mislead people into buying unwanted services.

Their UI is there to provide one purpose, confuse user's into buying stuff. It seems to have worked for the most part.

I think we just need to remember that most people reading HN is not the target audience GoDaddy is looking for (IMO).

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