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It appears to be taboo to criticize any business in general terms within a capitalist society, but GD is a bad actor within the industry. You're attempting to marginalize GP's comment as "snark," but I'm not seeing it.
Here I'll help you find the snark: start by reading the first sentence.
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Since we're giving options... For DNS, I recommend dnsimple. They do DNS and domain registration for my three domains and their UI is amazing. Here's a referral link that, if used, gives both of us one month free DNS service (which is only $3 anyway). https://dnsimple.com/r/96a980397648e9
We recently evaluated DNS options for our ~800 domains we host DNS for and decided to go with DNSMadeEasy. We're not switched over yet but the deciding factor for me was they're an anycast network and can offer a lot of cool regional responding if we grow to that size. We want to use vanity domains, e.g. ns1,2.ourcompany.com so w/ DNSimple that's only two locations that need to be DDoSed or fail and our sites are dow…
Still, we're going to do our best to switch over to Anycast and continue building out our infrastructure as we have the capital to do so.
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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.
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
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This is why I don't understand why I can't downvote despite being a newer user.
I'm an older user and I can't down vote. Please for the love of Paul Graham, give us a little info on what to expect when participate on the HN forum.
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?
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While those things are certainly annoying, they take up about 10 minutes per year of my time. Yes, GoDaddy has lots of issues, but it's not like other registrars are any better. E.g. on the front page of NameCheap they advertise that .com domains are 3.99, but when you actually do a lookup they in fact cost $10.69.
It does not say .com names are $3.99 It is slightly misleading (since the default search box is for .com), but all it says is "DOMAINS FROM 3.99" which is absolutely true. Some .info domains go for as low as $3.99 That is nowhere near as bad as GoDaddy's upselling crap PLUS namecheap's configuration and control panels are really nice to use. Comparing GoDaddy to NameCheap is like comparing MySpace (before the last ma…
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There's a 'declaration of war' at least once a week with these guys. So who knows what they actually do, if anything.
And by "these guys," it's most commonly anyone with an internet connection and a bone to pick. Saw some ridiculous attempt the other day to brand an attack on 9GAG with the anon logo.
[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/4chan/comments/zacju/9gag_repost_mac...
ALL GoDaddy DNS monitor site: http://www.dnsgua.com/
