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GoDaddy locks out derivatives of Chrome

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Re: GoDaddy locks out derivatives of Chrome

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Post by mkl95 »

oriettaxx wrote: post #59
mkl95 wrote: post #18

GoDaddy is a well-documented garbage fire. I used them once, then switched to Namecheap and I've never looked back.

> is a well-documented garbage fire as I asked above, can you elaborate this? I am not aware at all

A particularly egregious example is "Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24506303

Re: GoDaddy locks out derivatives of Chrome

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Post by universa1 »

jrochkind1 wrote: post #48
windexh8er wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm curious what the reasons are. I moved ~60 domains from Gandi to Namecheap and then back to Gandi over the span of 10 months. Namecheap was cheaper, but their support wasn't as good and their UI is a disaster (IMO). Both times I had all domains moved over in less than 24 hours.

Can you say more about how this works? I find it intimidating. And I don't understand how the cost works -- if I'm in the middle of my term with the first registrar, do I get a refund when I move it over? Like when you moved from Gandi to Namecheap and back in 10 months, does that mean you paid 3x registration, or did you get proportional refunds when transferring?

this depends on the tld. for most tlds you buy another year of registration on transfer and thus extending the expiration.

for example for .de domains though, the remaining time on your registration is dropped and you start fresh from the transferal day.

Re: GoDaddy locks out derivatives of Chrome

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Post by Tostino »

oriettaxx wrote: post #57
pluc wrote: post #14

You already shouldn't be using GoDaddy, so there's another reason

why? I'm just curious (I do not see any bad event in wikipedia: am I missing something?)

That's because they maintain their corporate identity vigorous and do their best to wipe anything bad.

Re: GoDaddy locks out derivatives of Chrome

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Post by Neil44 »

_notathrowaway wrote: post #53

Speaking of registars, what does HN recommend? I was a happy namecheap user until they decided to go all political against Russian citizens. I am unsure as to what service I should migrate to.

Google Domains is pretty no-frills. My only worry is if they randomly decide to nuke my Google account, as they are want to do to people sometimes, what happens to my domains.

Re: GoDaddy locks out derivatives of Chrome

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Post by oriettaxx »

mkl95 wrote: post #61
oriettaxx wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> is a well-documented garbage fire as I asked above, can you elaborate this? I am not aware at all

A particularly egregious example is "Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24506303

uh, but I see there is a clear response cited there, too https://www.godaddy.com/garage/godaddy-felons-io-unregistere...

anything else?

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Post by dicknuckle »

dave4420 wrote: post #52
brightball wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I used to have about 50 domains there and moving everything to Cloudflare was pretty simple. Just start using it as a DNS first, which I was doing anyway. Then the transfer process takes about 2 minutes per domain so the whole process was done in a little over an hour.

I thought Cloudflare had a deliberately manual (and therefore more secure but also more expensive and slower) process for registering domains. Has that changed?

I didn't have much issue with the process, it seemed like any other. A local business is a friend of mine, they were paying too much for too little from their previous web host/dev so I transferred the domain name to CF and ran their WordPress "business card" type site through a static site generator, placed all the files in GitHub, and pointed CF Pages at the repo. Whenever they want to make changes, they spin up the current state of WordPress in LocalWP, make the changes, I run it through the static site generator and push the files to GitHub. Takes them a few hours of messing around to get their content right and takes me 5-15 minutes to jamstack it to GitHub. Free hosting and cheap/simple DNS.

Re: GoDaddy locks out derivatives of Chrome

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Post by sofixa »

_notathrowaway wrote: post #53

Speaking of registars, what does HN recommend? I was a happy namecheap user until they decided to go all political against Russian citizens. I am unsure as to what service I should migrate to.

> I was a happy namecheap user until they decided to go all political against Russian citizens

You should be unhappy with the Russian government who are the ones enacting a genocide, not companies that either due to conscience, internal or external pressure, or sanctions, decide to boycott the whole of Russia. Being against war crimes is not a political stance.

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