Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com

Post by ornornor » Fri, Sep 18, 2020, 6:07 AM UTC

lordnacho wrote: post #267

ted0 wrote: post #226

Ted 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…

Namecheap is so much better than godaddy. Interface : just give me the records. I don't want to buy more stuff. Somehow namecheap lets me but the same extras like email, without badgering me. Godaddy is just ads ads ads and interfaces to sell stuff to people who aren't tech savvy. Squatting: this definitely happens with godaddy, like the OP says. Never use them, it's a disgusting practice. I use namecheap for dozens…

Post by krn » Fri, Sep 18, 2020, 6:10 AM UTC

shivekkhurana wrote: post #612

cloudwizard wrote: post #184

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Whenever I talk to startups, I check their domain. If they are on GoDaddy, it means that they are technically incompetent.

I don't see it mentioned anywhere, but Cloudflare has as domain registry service too. They claim to not charge any markup and you pay what they have to pay. They wrote a blog about their bad experiences with registrars in 2016 (I guess). Since then they have steadily worked to make it a reality. https://www.cloudflare.com/products/registrar/ When I checked last, it was not possible to buy a domain at Cloudflare, but…

Post by tazard » Fri, Sep 18, 2020, 6:21 AM UTC

cellularmitosis wrote: post #636

Cyphus wrote: post #439

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It would be worth avoiding at that initial stage, but would be less and less of a factor as the company grows and matures. I work for a startup with ~60 employees. The DNS was setup through GoDaddy by our CEO over 6 years ago when the company consisted of just founders. Employee #1 updated GoDaddy to point to AWS for nameservers. We've been managing DNS through Route53 ever since. It's tech debt, sure, but migrating…

> gives us almost no benefits. > until finance complains at me I'm not bothering to change it. > would pain me to find out that a candidate would red flag the company You have a good grasp on one perspective, what I would call the purely pragmatic business-owner perspective. There is another (perhaps flawed) perspective, let's call it the idealistic engineer's perspective. This perspective notices the vestigial godad…

Post by dogecoinbase » Fri, Sep 18, 2020, 6:29 AM UTC

Aeolun wrote: post #540

lopmotr wrote: post #375

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Isn't it the police's job to be seizing property from criminals to prevent crime? Not individual victims. If the police won't demand Namecheap remove it, then sorry? They don't have to. It's not like Namecheap committed the fraud any more than a carmaker robbed a bank because the robber drove away in their car.

If Tesla is aware that a certain car is stolen, and they have the ability to remotely disable it, should they? And if they’re aware that the car will be imminently used for a terrorist attack, does that change the equation?

Post by VladimirGolovin » Fri, Sep 18, 2020, 6:36 AM UTC