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Re: GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down

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Post by [deleted] »

qeorge wrote: post #56
drivebyacct2 wrote: post #5

If 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.

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Re: GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down

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Post by ApsoFacto »

I'm one of those people you call "stupid", who "deserves what I get". This is my first time posting here. I've used GD for years. Sure, they try to upsell me, but being in sales, I don't have a problem with giving them a firm "no thanks". If you do, that's your problem, not theirs. They're a business, for goodness sake. Realize that.

And not only my sites are now down, but all the sites I maintain for clients. If some individual (or group) has done this intentionally, then these people are responsible for taking hundreds, maybe thousands of small businesses off line today. They're cutting into their sales, hurting their bottom lines, and if it continues for too long, will probably lead to people being laid off.

So you can sit on your techie high horses and think you're oh so smart, but the fact is, these are real business people doing real business and criminals are hurting them. So you come down on the honest people for signing contracts and paying their bills on time?

Seriously?

Re: GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down

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Post by domainguy »

I had domains with them marked "auto renew" that mysteriously had that status changed. Since all my domains were "auto renew" I wasn't monitoring my renewal notices. Suddenly I discovered that several domains had expired and had been purchased by others. Now that sucks and is a good reason for me to find another registrar, in addition to the moral misgivings I already had about them!

Re: GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down

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Post by wethesheeple »

Why is GoDaddy excluded from the requirement to provide port 43 whois service? Are they special? To my knowledge you can only get whois information on GoDaddy domain names from their website. Why only HTTP whois? Are they front-running?

Re: GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down

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Post by ApsoFacto »

billirvine wrote: post #133
drivebyacct2 wrote: post #5

If 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…

Thousands of mid-sized to small business, run by people too busy to read hacker news or other sources of geekery, have no idea why they should consider not using GoDaddy. A response like this is part of the problem, and not even close to being a solution or advice.

Spot on, Bill. My experiences with GD have been nothing but stellar... for the last ten years!

Re: GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down

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Post by ominds »

I don't much care for blame as much as I care for alternatives. Who do some of the largest sites register their domains with? And I mean reliable and fast. For example, a whois showed me ycombinator.com is with EASYDNS TECHNOLOGIES. Google is with MARKMONITOR INC, which is totally overkill I bet. Suggestions? Recommendations?

Re: GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down

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Post by chintan »

qeorge wrote: post #56
drivebyacct2 wrote: post #5

If 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 an example of comments that are hurting HN's quality."

A potential solution to get this fixed:

1. SNRKY_COMMENTS = {MODs manually tag comments such as OP}

2. SNRKY_UPVOTERS = {Users who upvote SNRKY_COMMENTS}

3. Vote = Vote * 0.5 , if user(Vote) ∈ SNRKY_UPVOTERS

Re: GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down

#189

Post by brokndodge »

ApsoFacto wrote: post #182

I'm one of those people you call "stupid", who "deserves what I get". This is my first time posting here. I've used GD for years. Sure, they try to upsell me, but being in sales, I don't have a problem with giving them a firm "no thanks". If you do, that's your problem, not theirs. They're a business, for goodness sake. Realize that. And not only my sites are now down, but all the sites I maintain for clients. If som…

Agreed. I've been out of work more than 6 months. Right as my family was packing to move to the closest bridge, I got a call from a company to setup their servers and finish their web app. With so much on my plate and no time to do it, I picked the easy and fast route. Use GoDaddy for cheap fast DNS and deal with it later. I brought our servers online this morning. Database and all. I was getting congrats and thank yours from the whole office. Now I might lose the job I just got. Thanks guys. Perhaps you can tell my kids.
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