Okay, I use godaddy for domains and DNS. Never had a problem with them. But these 'godaddy sucks' posts and the godaddy buyout are starting to worry me. Who would you recommend as a replacement for registration and DNS?
namecheap.com
GoDaddy SSL Cert Scam
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Re: GoDaddy SSL Cert Scam
#62The $12.99 price is a special price and always has been. You can still find discount codes and apply it to them when you renew to get it at the same price.
Godaddy can be insanely cheap if you never auto renew and always manually renew with discount codes.
Though yes you need to get off Godaddy. As do I. Just waiting for a little more revenue from my site to move to Rackspace Cloud :)
Re: GoDaddy SSL Cert Scam
#63The $12.99 price is a special price and always has been. You can still find discount codes and apply it to them when you renew to get it at the same price. Godaddy can be insanely cheap if you never auto renew and always manually renew with discount codes. Though yes you need to get off Godaddy. As do I. Just waiting for a little more revenue from my site to move to Rackspace Cloud :)
You can also buy a RapidSSL cert from namecheap for $11 every year, no coupon codes.
Re: GoDaddy SSL Cert Scam
#64Okay, I use godaddy for domains and DNS. Never had a problem with them. But these 'godaddy sucks' posts and the godaddy buyout are starting to worry me. Who would you recommend as a replacement for registration and DNS?
The usual suspects are (in no particular order):
Namecheap
Name.com
Moniker
DNSimple
Gandi
Re: GoDaddy SSL Cert Scam
#65For anyone who needs SSL certificate without perks, consider free one from http://www.startssl.com/ It do not offer strong encryption and do not do personal identification (obviously - it is free), but it is very cost-effective solution to have https:// on your website to prevent eyes droppers sniff traffic. (not sure if it is enough for e-commerce, like google checkout tho) Now you have no excuse to not have https:/…
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Re: GoDaddy SSL Cert Scam
#66This isn't really a scam. I have dozens of domains with GoDaddy, as well as some of their other services. "How can I get the cheapest price" is a game we all play with them. Revision3 has a handy page with GD discount codes, and I've been referring to that page for years. I am helping keep Digg in business from the affiliate fees. Can we agree the "auto-renew" was not scammy? They didn't rip you off a year. Just remi…
It's unethical to charge someone one price for a recurring service and then more than triple the price, in an opt-out fashion. If you raise prices, you need to do your due diligence to make sure your customers are aware they're paying more. This kind of a price increase should really be opt-in rather than opt-out.
I totally agree with you. The same thing happened to me with another registrar/hosting company (ipage). Hosting for a year went from around $50 to over $100 with auto-renew. I did receive an email notifying me of the upcoming renewal but no price was included in the email.
When I confronted them after the fact they told me that the information was on their home page where it says something to the effect of "Hosting only $50/year" and then right underneath in small print "(save 50%)".
Maybe I should have assumed that saving 50% now meant I would be charged twice as much the next time but I guess I'm not that bright.
Also, when asked for an explicit price list in a chat session, they gave me a link to a page buried in the FAQ to which, they acknowledged, you couldn't get directly in any easy way.
I guess they're all the same.
Re: GoDaddy SSL Cert Scam
#67The $12.99 price is a special price and always has been. You can still find discount codes and apply it to them when you renew to get it at the same price. Godaddy can be insanely cheap if you never auto renew and always manually renew with discount codes. Though yes you need to get off Godaddy. As do I. Just waiting for a little more revenue from my site to move to Rackspace Cloud :)
Sale prices that are always in effect are not "special" prices.
Re: GoDaddy SSL Cert Scam
#68This isn't really a scam. I have dozens of domains with GoDaddy, as well as some of their other services. "How can I get the cheapest price" is a game we all play with them. Revision3 has a handy page with GD discount codes, and I've been referring to that page for years. I am helping keep Digg in business from the affiliate fees. Can we agree the "auto-renew" was not scammy? They didn't rip you off a year. Just remi…
It's ethical to auto-renew. It's ethical to raise prices. It is not ethical to auto-renew a raised price. Just because the pieces are OK doesn't mean the whole is.
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#69Any recommendations on where to buy a good ssl certificate?
I work at a data center/hosting company and I can give you an AlphaSSL cert for $12.99 here just use the promo code "HACKERNEWS":
Re: GoDaddy SSL Cert Scam
#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can't recommend DNSimple enough ( http://dnsimple.com ). Pretty straight forward pricing, nice one-click integration with stuff like Google Apps and they'll even give you a discount if you transfer domains off GoDaddy.
Looks nice, but it seems to have a significant price premium over GoDaddy (seems to be $14/domain/year + $120/year for DNS). Is the benefit worth the premium?
You can use something like Amazon Route53 for your name servers at much lower than that. It's $1/mo per domain + a small cost per unit of traffic