I wouldn't take the risk of checking a domain name with any domain registrars, use ICANN WHOIS. I even made a simple automated domain/website checker that helped me find a great 3 letter .co domain, registered it with GoDaddy then transfered to Namecheap for the cheap/free SSL cert and better practices.
Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com
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Then why did you renew? Domain squatters suck.
If it's a good domain it would be snatched by someone who wants to make a profit flipping domains. The domain business is broken.
Domains that are blocked by people not using them for years are just as bad.
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#313And it's free for GoDaddy to do this: https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/epp-status-codes-2014-...
And during the free period they can do "domain tasting", see how many ads they can deliver on that domain and consider keeping it.
Re: Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com
#314Ted from Namecheap here. I cannot speak to GoDaddy's practices. However, I can say that for Namecheap, this is not something we would ever even consider doing. In my experience though, lookups are more complex than most think. We are querying so many different sources to give you availability status, some of which are less reliable than others. For example, with smaller TLDs like .ai or .is, lookups may be less relia…
Are you sure about that? I feel like I may have had an issue with this with Name Cheap in the past. At least, the 2 day window thing. And I'm pretty sure eNom did this and namecheap used to be an eNom reseller.
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I love http://domains.Google You get free email forwarding (even wildcard), free domain privacy, free website forwarding (with ssl), Google infrastructure behind all of that and the authoritative DNS they offer. Cloudflare also offers a registrar service and its good.
Interesting. I'd never considered Google for my domains. Any idea if the '£10/year' is every year? Or does it go up after the first year? Also, I found it weird that they promote a .app and .dev TLD as 'More Secure'.
They call them more secure because the whole TLD is on the HSTS preload list, so no downgrade attacks.
Re: Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com
#316Ted from Namecheap here. I cannot speak to GoDaddy's practices. However, I can say that for Namecheap, this is not something we would ever even consider doing. In my experience though, lookups are more complex than most think. We are querying so many different sources to give you availability status, some of which are less reliable than others. For example, with smaller TLDs like .ai or .is, lookups may be less relia…
I've loved Namecheap for as long as I've had it. I only switched to Google Domains because that gives me auto-verification in GCP.
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We do support .name now.
Really? Because when I try to transfer xxx.yyy.name, it says: "Uh-oh! Your domain yyy.name is not eligible for transfer to us." I don't own yyy.name. I own xxx.yyy.name. (Of course xxx and yyy are placeholders here.) Edit: xxx.yyy.name comes from the .name registry, just like xxx.co.uk comes from the .uk registry.
Only the owner of yyy.name can do those kind of transfers.
Your xxx.yyy.name is a subdomain of yyy.name and thus beholden to it. Unless it's something like a .co.uk domain, which with you mentioning .name isn't the case.
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Wait, do you mean something positive by this? Discord has always struck me as pretty horrible... I'm not even quite sure how to interpret what you've said in a positive way. Maybe implied popularity, but it's debatable whether popularity is in fact a positive even.
What about discord has been horrible for you?
No ability to use third-party clients without being banned.
Re: Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com
#319Earlier quoted context omitted.
We do support .name now.
Really? Because when I try to transfer xxx.yyy.name, it says: "Uh-oh! Your domain yyy.name is not eligible for transfer to us." I don't own yyy.name. I own xxx.yyy.name. (Of course xxx and yyy are placeholders here.) Edit: xxx.yyy.name comes from the .name registry, just like xxx.co.uk comes from the .uk registry.
I don't think you can transfer because the domain doesn't belong to you. yyy.name is the domain, you're "renting" from whoever owns that domain name.
Re: Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com
#320Earlier quoted context omitted.
Whenever I talk to startups, I check their domain. If they are on GoDaddy, it means that they are technically incompetent.
/r/gatekeeping is that way yes, a startup registered through Route 53 is a better sign of competency on staff or in their network but propping up domains wherever you want and changing the cname whenever you want doesn't tell you anything
And a lot of the time, the non-technical founder will have already registered the name and transferring can be a pain so it is sometimes delayed.