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Re: GoDaddy gave a domain to a stranger without any documentation

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Post by rrr_oh_man »

dawnerd wrote: post #227
SahAssar wrote: post #208

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Porkbun uses cloudflare as their DNS backend, and has accidentally issued certs for domains hosted on them ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40455508 was one instance). Since cloudflare is basically the only registrar that will not allow you to host nameservers anywhere else I'd be weary to use them (even indirectly).

Realistically you should never use the registrars dns to begin with. But you can set your own dns with porkbun, I have customs dns on all of my domains. I especially have been doing that since the Namecheap hsts issue. Can't trust any of them.

> Realistically you should never use the registrars dns to begin with

Could you elaborate why?

Re: GoDaddy gave a domain to a stranger without any documentation

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Post by Ancapistani »

theli0nheart wrote: post #82
tedggh wrote: post #52

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…

That doesn't make any sense. The entire reason it was undone is because the recipient told GoDaddy support that they transferred the wrong domain to her. So how could this have been an inside job?

GoDaddy support was not involved in the resolution; the recipient contacted the domain’s legitimate owner directly.

Re: GoDaddy gave a domain to a stranger without any documentation

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Post by Pine_Mushroom »

I had a very similar situation happen to me with a ~12 year old domain; michiganmushrooms.net. The particulars are slightly different than this case, but the totally unhelpful support team is exactly what I experienced too. Unfortunately I was never able to recover the domain and more or less had to shudder the business that was associated with it.

Re: GoDaddy gave a domain to a stranger without any documentation

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Post by rendaw »

rrr_oh_man wrote: post #31
trollbridge wrote: post #27

At the risk of sounding snarky; Last Saturday afternoon one of his client’s domains vanished from his GoDaddy account. Lee is one of the most competent IT guys I know. 'Competent' and 'client's domains [hosted on] GoDaddy' don't go together.

Where would you host domains?

Dnsimple, they seem reasonably competent and don't have a bottom of the barrel monetization scheme.

Re: GoDaddy gave a domain to a stranger without any documentation

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Post by ErroneousBosh »

Silhouette wrote: post #164
vetrom wrote: post #153

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Whatever was really happening in that incident it seems clear that it was not a simple matter of having registered some domains with Cloudflare and then getting a shakedown for $100k+ because of that. If anyone else chooses to read the post then I suggest skimming the comments (that are mostly hidden by default) as well.

> Whatever was really happening in that incident it seems clear that

... CF for all their faults probably weren't the bad guy, when they discovered a "customer" absolutely taking the piss with capacity and doing incredibly sketchy things with domains to get around regulatory issues.

I have a courtesy hire car from a breakdown service at the moment with "unlimited mileage". I suspect they mean "unlimited mileage doing the sort of thing you do normally", and that "Unlimited, cool, I'm driving this thing from Scotland to Dagestan" would be met with opposition and a large invoice.

Re: GoDaddy gave a domain to a stranger without any documentation

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Post by yieldcrv »

dqv wrote: post #180
yieldcrv wrote: post #54

Flagstream should still get lawyers involved

Their TOS has binding arbitration, so that sort of advice needs to be taken with a grain of salt, since, contractually, they are barred from using the traditional court system to litigate this issue. (Unless they opted out of arbitration when it was first added to the TOS, which most people don't.)

suggestion not advice, thought

Re: GoDaddy gave a domain to a stranger without any documentation

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Post by PunchyHamster »

crazygringo wrote: post #17
PunchyHamster wrote: post #2

I have no reason why would anyone use godaddy 10 years ago let alone today

It's literally the largest registrar in the world, by a large margin. When you're a business and want something reliable, picking the most popular provider is usually a strategy that works decently well. They're more likely to have established processes that work for all sorts of cases. That's what makes this particular story so egregious. Domains are a very funny business. I can't think of anything so crucial to bus…

> When you're a business and want something reliable, picking the most popular provider is usually a strategy that works decently well. They're more likely to have established processes that work for all sorts of cases.

But they proven over and over and over and over and over again that they are not a reliable business partner.

Re: GoDaddy gave a domain to a stranger without any documentation

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Post by sidewndr46 »

tedggh wrote: post #52

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…

How well connected are you that you can call a politician to followup on a billing dispute?
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