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Likely an inside job. I had a similar experience with AWS where my account was compromised despite the fact that I had all the proper security features enabled. It was later discovered internal contractors were responsible. But up to that point AWS blamed the issue on me with no proof. A call to the AG office in my state got the ball rolling and initiated an investigation that finally got a manager to take the case s…
Relevant (for some reason though it shouldn’t be; GoDaddy’s track record is that bad.) Jan 2017: [Godaddy has issued at least 8850 SSL certificates without validating anything]( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47911780 ) Jan 2019: [GoDaddy injecting JavaScript into websites and how to stop it]( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18894792 ) Aug 2022: [Tell HN: Godaddy canceled my domain, gave me 2h to respond,…
Just search for GoDaddy stories on old Slashdot. I've known since I had my own computer that GoDaddy=NoDaddy. It's funny, the only time I can recall a programmer describing something as sexist (towards women) in the early/mid 2000's was somebody describing GoDaddy's booth at a convention. That really stuck with me for some reason, lol.
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With all the publicity GoDaddy has received over the last 10 years or so, I wonder why anybody reasonable would deal with them any more. Maybe the prices are irresistibly low, IDK.
What are the good alternatives? In domain business, everyone like a service which has lived for decades. GoDaddy being the one helps a lot. I love Cloudflare for my .com domains but they don’t support a lot of TLDs till date.
Register your domain as a trademark. It costs a few hundred dollars, and can be done online. This gives you stronger rights with ICANN, against anybody who illicitly acquired the domain, against typosquatters, the registrar, and the courts. You can send intimidating lawyer letters, and quickly escalate from the registrar's support department to lawyer-to-lawyer phone calls. ANIMATS®
I’d love to be able to register an trademark online.
Well, I don't understand why he did not complain to ICANN? This would be the second step after customer support failed. Last step is a lawsuit. GoDaddy is opening itself up there to liability big time. [Assuming that the poster gives true statements, but I have no reason do doubt this]
It’s slow. At ICANN, IMO, registries > registrars > registrants.
Probably ten years ago with name.com I had a .at domain expire. I caught it like a day or two later, and successfully renewed it through their site but it did not take. There was somehow already someone up squatting my domain. I contacted support and they told me there's apparently no renewal window for .at but they could recover it for $140 - oof .. sure. It was nothing super important but would be annoying to lose.…
That sounds like name.com was squatting on your expired domain and extorted $140 from you to get it back.
Relevant (for some reason though it shouldn’t be; GoDaddy’s track record is that bad.) Jan 2017: [Godaddy has issued at least 8850 SSL certificates without validating anything]( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47911780 ) Jan 2019: [GoDaddy injecting JavaScript into websites and how to stop it]( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18894792 ) Aug 2022: [Tell HN: Godaddy canceled my domain, gave me 2h to respond,…
https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/npair/godaddy_h...
GoDaddy always struck me as a company ran by a "jock" (think Revenge of the Nerds) and all the technical people there are just there to collect a paycheck and don't care about the customers or going above and beyond, and it shows.
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Cloudflare will call you up one day demanding an immediate payment of $150k and holding your domains hostage if you don't comply. [citation very much needed]
https://robindev.substack.com/p/cloudflare-took-down-our-web... - one of a number of citations. To find more insert the terms [Cloudflare, hostage] into your favorite search engine.