GoDaddy Rant • Hacker News Board

Re: GoDaddy Rant

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Post by sshine » Sat, Jan 07, 2023, 1:37 PM UTC

awkw wrote: post #15

Is HN a GoDaddy support forum now, as well as a Stripe support forum?

OP isn’t requesting support.

They’re warning against using GoDaddy.

You could ask if HN is a review site. I’d say it also is. Most people here know GoDaddy sucks, so this isn’t much of an urgent review.

Re: GoDaddy Rant

#32

Post by remorses » Sat, Jan 07, 2023, 1:44 PM UTC

I lately got a lot of YouTube ads for GoDaddy and it’s hilarious that their main proposition is to “Make your business look more professional with custom domain emails and website”

professional!? Your name is GoDaddy and you want to look professional?

Re: GoDaddy Rant

#33

Post by remorses » Sat, Jan 07, 2023, 1:45 PM UTC

Try GoMommy next time, surely they know what they are doing

Re: GoDaddy Rant

#34

Post by mkl95 » Sat, Jan 07, 2023, 1:45 PM UTC

GoDaddy is a bottom of the barrel company. I have been buying my domains on Namecheap and using Cloudflare's nameservers for a while, with no issues whatsoever. I have heard good things about Porkbun too.

Re: GoDaddy Rant

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Post by KomoD » Sat, Jan 07, 2023, 1:47 PM UTC

Just use another DNS service, like Cloudflare? No need to transfer your entire domain just because their DNS is bad.

Re: GoDaddy Rant

#36

Post by KomoD » Sat, Jan 07, 2023, 1:48 PM UTC

darreninthenet wrote: post #28

Spunkie wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google will nuke your entire domain at the registrar level and put it on a malware/phishing list just because one subdomain generates some traffic google does not understand. Don't trust google with your registrar needs.

Are Cloudflare generally considered ok...?

Cloudflare is fine, at least in my opinion.

Re: GoDaddy Rant

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Post by zinekeller » Sat, Jan 07, 2023, 1:52 PM UTC

r1ch wrote: post #5

I've never had a good experience using a registrar's DNS service for production. Point it at Cloudflare or HE or something.

At this point even the Windows DNS server service beats the complementary DNS of registrars.

Re: GoDaddy Rant

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Post by newbieuser » Sat, Jan 07, 2023, 1:52 PM UTC

godaddy and namecheap. If you are using these two sites in some way and paying money, what you need to do as soon as possible is to transfer all your domains to another site and delete your account. As long as you keep using these idiots they will continue to grow more.

Re: GoDaddy Rant

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Post by redorb » Sat, Jan 07, 2023, 2:00 PM UTC

mkl95 wrote: post #34

GoDaddy is a bottom of the barrel company. I have been buying my domains on Namecheap and using Cloudflare's nameservers for a while, with no issues whatsoever. I have heard good things about Porkbun too.

+1 for namecheap as a registrar replacement - their chat support is the only chat support I've ever had actually fix an issue.

Re: GoDaddy Rant

#40

Post by andyjohnson0 » Sat, Jan 07, 2023, 2:01 PM UTC

darreninthenet wrote: post #28

Spunkie wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google will nuke your entire domain at the registrar level and put it on a malware/phishing list just because one subdomain generates some traffic google does not understand. Don't trust google with your registrar needs.

Are Cloudflare generally considered ok...?

I've had no problems with cloudflare in the 3+ years I've been using them for DNS hosting and domain registration. And their web site is much easier to use than others I've experienced.