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GoDaddy is a well-documented garbage fire. I used them once, then switched to Namecheap and I've never looked back.
Perhaps they aren’t as terrible in their non-free offerings, but I doubt it.
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None of that should matter if the services are only available to validated, logged in paying customers. And then you decide on the basis of the customer whether to block, not the browser.
But it turns out a bot can look very much like a logged in paying customer, just they're paying with a stolen credit card and you'll only learn that in 2 months when the chargeback arrives...
At any rate, based on what I've read this is a false alarm anyways, it's annoying and stupid but UA banning is not browser detection. This is more ass-covering - another commenter mentioned too many layers of abstraction which is probably closer to the mark - something broke somewhere and a customer complained, they don't have the time nor inclination, or perhaps even ability, to fix their issue, so they do the 'we don't know what's wrong, halp' thing, versus making a more robust site.
Which fits my impression of their site, shoddy service with mediocre hosting services. Superbowl/pornstar marketing though, so everyone has heard of them, in comparison to aws (you have heard you can host godaddy even if you think Amazon is just a place to buy shoes, and Amazon is both bigger and better)
Vivaldi stopped exposing itself via User Agent, they're just telling they're Chrome. A lot of issues are magically gone.
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.
You can’t get any better than Cloudflare, they sell domains at cost and have really good DNS tools.
However one downside with choosing them is, you're effectively locked into their DNS, since they don't seem to expose the ability to set your own Nameservers, which is ok if you planned to use them for Authoritative DNS anyway.
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This is an infuriatingly poor error message if the problem is disabled JavaScript. Surely they can detect that and show a proper error instead of trying to be cute with this "Your browser is a bit unusual" junk?
The error message linked from the post says "Try disabling ad blockers, enabling JavaScript or using a different web browser".
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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?
For the transfer it’s just like anywhere else. Initiate the transfer, get the code from the other registrar and wait for it to go through.
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why? I'm just curious (I do not see any bad event in wikipedia: am I missing something?)
All the cool kids on HN hate GoDaddy. When prompted to elaborate the usual answer is "cuz they suck" or "I don't like their CEO". I first used GoDaddy about a decade ago, and thought nothing of it. I guess some people just like to hate. (or is it cancel nowadays?)
The point is, I used the same 2FA key to log into my account, so I know it works.
As a result I was compelled to do the intended actions through the phone by calling their support.
Has anybody got the same problem? Are they trying to prevent people from freely modifying their settings, or is it that somehow they want to "fire me as a customer"?
You already shouldn't be using GoDaddy, so there's another reason