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You want hover, best of both worlds. Amazing search experience, no misogynistic customer-hostile company (GoDaddy, not namecheap) behind it.
Misogynistic? How so?
I guess you never saw the superbowl ads of years past.
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#672Re: Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com
#673Ted 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 think it was within the last 2 years when I searched for domains on Namecheap. They were shown as registered and I was offered to buy them for a premium price. When I searched on another other provider, it was shown as available and I bought it there. Will never use Namecheap again.
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Hey Ted, I currently use google domains and while I'm pretty happy with that one service I would like to switch away from Google entirely and that is one of the last services of theirs I use. What case can you make for why I should switch to namecheap?
I guess my main point here is: if shit hits the fan and you lose access to your DNS, your domain is hijacked, or there is some other urgent catastrophic event, who would be easier to reach to remedy your issue? I'm a senior executive posting here offering up my email and as an industry veteran, I frankly do not even know who runs Google Domains. We're a bootstrapped founder-run company with a 20-year track record and…
Every time I had to get in touch with support person at Namecheap I've had very good experience. No matter if I had a presales question or was asking for technical advice, there was a real person to talk to, via live chat or email.
I'm a very satisfied Namecheap customer :-)
Re: Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com
#675GD is just overpriced. Since then I move away all my domains to local registrar. thanks.
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#676Literally stunned that no one has mentioned Namesilo in this thread. Simple, cheap, been using them for years without any issues.
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Recommendations for superior alternatives? I'm an indifferent GoDaddy user but would be happy to switch to something else since I've never liked them as a company.
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.
Cloudflare Registrar offers domains at cost, which makes it the least expensive option for the TLDs it supports:
https://www.cloudflare.com/tld-policies/
If you use Google Domains, you risk losing access to the domains if Google suspends or terminates your Google account for some reason unrelated to the domains.
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Hi Ted, a query, I see godaddy registered domains being available on my O365's outlook custom domains for email, is it possible that namecheap would do something like that as well?
Not sure I fully understand. Can you elaborate? We don't currently sell O365.
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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.
Cloudflare Registrar offers domains at cost, which makes it the least expensive option for the TLDs it supports: https://www.cloudflare.com/tld-policies/ If you use Google Domains, you risk losing access to the domains if Google suspends or terminates your Google account for some reason unrelated to the domains.
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Re: Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com
#680How the fuck is this bullshit fake news still here.
It's just not true and is also pretty close to liable.
It's understandable OP mightn't understand domain front running and how Go Daddy will NOT be doing that.
But Go Daddy has addressed front running before and also this specific incident [π]
Is everyone here mentally ill?
No one able to even talk about how this might have come from a side channel so we all actually learn something rather than whatever this is?
[edit] And wow, the account claiming this, was created to post this. No other comments. Not even on this thread. We don't even know if they are 12 and also searched for the domain on another site but forgot. This is what we are basing this liable on?
[π] https://domaininvesting.com/godaddy-still-not-frontrunning-d... https://twitter.com/GoDaddy/status/1306731693710204928