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Here are more reasons. These are stories about GoDaddy on Slashdot, in order by date, to 2010-09-11:

Go Daddy Usurps Network Solutions (2005-05-04)

GoDaddy Serves Blank Pages to Safari & Opera (2005-12-08)

GoDaddy.com Dumps Linux for Microsoft (2006-03-23)

GoDaddy Holds Domains Hostage (2006-06-17)

GoDaddy Caves To Irish Legal Threat (2006-09-16)

MySpace and GoDaddy Shut Down Security Site (2007-01-26) That incident prompted this web site:
Exposing the Many Reasons Not to Trust GoDaddy with Your Domain Names.

Alternative Registrars to GoDaddy? (2007-02-03)

GoDaddy Bobbles DST Changeover? (2007-03-11)

850K RegisterFly Domains Moved To GoDaddy (2007-05-29)

According to this March 11, 2008 story in Wired, GoDaddy shut down an entire web site of 250,000 pages because of one archived mailing list comment: GoDaddy Silences Police-Watchdog Site RateMyCop.com. See below for Slashdot's story about RateMyCop.com.

GoDaddy Silences RateMyCop.com (2008-03-12)

ICANN Moves Against GoDaddy Domain Lockdowns (2008-04-08)

GoDaddy VP Caught Bidding Against Customers (2008-06-29)

KnujOn Updates Top 10 Spam-Friendly Registrars List (2009-02-06, 80 comments) GoDaddy is on the list.

R.I.P. FTP (2009-07-13, 359 comments) The GoDaddy web site is extremely complicated. Quote: "In that case, why don't more people switch to administering their sites via SFTP instead of FTP? Here are the steps it took me to enable SFTP on my GoDaddy hosting account. Feel free to use this as a reference, but the obvious point is that as long as this many steps are required, it's safe to say that most users won't be switching: 1) Go to the 'Hosting' menu and pick 'My Hosting Account.' 2) Next to the name of your website, pick 'Manage Account.' This will open the Hosting Control Center. 3) In Hosting Control Center, click to expand the 'Settings' options. 4) In the 'Settings' control panel, click the 'SSH' icon. 5) You will see a page saying 'SSH is not set up', and prompting you to enter a phone number so that their automated service can call you with a PIN number. After you enter your phone number, the phone rings a second later, and you enter the PIN in a form on the GoDaddy website. 6 ) You will then see a page which says: Current Hosting Account Status: Pending Account Change -- Your request to enable SSH is being processed. This upgrade may take up to 24 hours." [Punctuation and emphasis changed for clarity.]

Registrars Still Ignoring ICANN Rules (2009-07-22, 122 comments) Quote: "GoDaddy (and their reseller arm, Wild West Domains) have a different problem: They still block transfers for 60 days after a registrant's contact update, even after the ICANN update specifically prohibited doing so. They freely admit it, too."

Here are stories about GoDaddy on Slashdot, in order by date, to 2010-09-11:

Go Daddy Usurps Network Solutions (2005-05-04)

GoDaddy Serves Blank Pages to Safari & Opera (2005-12-08)

GoDaddy.com Dumps Linux for Microsoft (2006-03-23)

GoDaddy Holds Domains Hostage (2006-06-17)

GoDaddy Caves To Irish Legal Threat (2006-09-16)

MySpace and GoDaddy Shut Down Security Site (2007-01-26) That incident prompted this web site:
Exposing the Many Reasons Not to Trust GoDaddy with Your Domain Names.

Alternative Registrars to GoDaddy? (2007-02-03)

GoDaddy Bobbles DST Changeover? (2007-03-11)

850K RegisterFly Domains Moved To GoDaddy (2007-05-29)

According to this March 11, 2008 story in Wired, GoDaddy shut down an entire web site of 250,000 pages because of one archived mailing list comment: GoDaddy Silences Police-Watchdog Site RateMyCop.com. See below for Slashdot's story about RateMyCop.com.

GoDaddy Silences RateMyCop.com (2008-03-12)

ICANN Moves Against GoDaddy Domain Lockdowns (2008-04-08)

GoDaddy VP Caught Bidding Against Customers (2008-06-29)

KnujOn Updates Top 10 Spam-Friendly Registrars List (2009-02-06, 80 comments) GoDaddy is on the list.

R.I.P. FTP (2009-07-13, 359 comments) The GoDaddy web site is extremely complicated. Quote: "In that case, why don't more people switch to administering their sites via SFTP instead of FTP? Here are the steps it took me to enable SFTP on my GoDaddy hosting account. Feel free to use this as a reference, but the obvious point is that as long as this many steps are required, it's safe to say that most users won't be switching: 1) Go to the 'Hosting' menu and pick 'My Hosting Account.' 2) Next to the name of your website, pick 'Manage Account.' This will open the Hosting Control Center. 3) In Hosting Control Center, click to expand the 'Settings' options. 4) In the 'Settings' control panel, click the 'SSH' icon. 5) You will see a page saying 'SSH is not set up', and prompting you to enter a phone number so that their automated service can call you with a PIN number. After you enter your phone number, the phone rings a second later, and you enter the PIN in a form on the GoDaddy website. 6 ) You will then see a page which says: Current Hosting Account Status: Pending Account Change -- Your request to enable SSH is being processed. This upgrade may take up to 24 hours." [Punctuation and emphasis changed for clarity.]

Registrars Still Ignoring ICANN Rules (2009-07-22, 122 comments) Quote: "GoDaddy (and their reseller arm, Wild West Domains) have a different problem: They still block transfers for 60 days after a registrant's contact update, even after the ICANN update specifically prohibited doing so. They freely admit it, too."

Here are some stories about GoDaddy on Slashdot, in order by date:
Go Daddy Usurps Network Solutions (2005-05-04)
GoDaddy Serves Blank Pages to Safari & Opera (2005-12-08)
GoDaddy.com Dumps Linux for Microsoft (2006-03-23)
GoDaddy Holds Domains Hostage (2006-06-17)
GoDaddy Caves To Irish Legal Threat (2006-09-16)
MySpace and GoDaddy Shut Down Security Site (2007-01-26) That incident prompted this web site:
Exposing the Many Reasons Not to Trust GoDaddy with Your Domain Names.
Alternative Registrars to GoDaddy? (2007-02-03)
GoDaddy Bobbles DST Changeover? (2007-03-11)
850K RegisterFly Domains Moved To GoDaddy (2007-05-29)
According to this March 11, 2008 story in Wired, GoDaddy shut down an entire web site of 250,000 pages because of one archived mailing list comment: GoDaddy Silences Police-Watchdog Site RateMyCop.com. See below for Slashdot's story about RateMyCop.com.
GoDaddy Silences RateMyCop.com (2008-03-12)
ICANN Moves Against GoDaddy Domain Lockdowns (2008-04-08)
GoDaddy VP Caught Bidding Against Customers (2008-06-29)

Those are just the stories until July of 2008.

Some stories about GoDaddy on Slashdot, in order by date:
Go Daddy Usurps Network Solutions (2005-05-04)
GoDaddy Serves Blank Pages to Safari & Opera (2005-12-08)
GoDaddy.com Dumps Linux for Microsoft (2006-03-23)
GoDaddy Holds Domains Hostage (2006-06-17)
GoDaddy Caves To Irish Legal Threat (2006-09-16)
MySpace and GoDaddy Shut Down Security Site (2007-01-26) That incident prompted this web site:
Exposing the Many Reasons Not to Trust GoDaddy with Your Domain Names.
Alternative Registrars to GoDaddy? (2007-02-03)
GoDaddy Bobbles DST Changeover? (2007-03-11)
850K RegisterFly Domains Moved To GoDaddy (2007-05-29)
According to this March 11, 2008 story in Wired, GoDaddy shut down an entire web site of 250,000 pages because of one archived mailing list comment: GoDaddy Silences Police-Watchdog Site RateMyCop.com. See below for Slashdot's story about RateMyCop.com.
GoDaddy Silences RateMyCop.com (2008-03-12)
ICANN Moves Against GoDaddy Domain Lockdowns (2008-04-08)
GoDaddy VP Caught Bidding Against Customers (2008-06-29)

Those are just the stories until July of 2008.

Are you talking about issues like these? http://nodaddy.com/

Yeah, in the initial story I included a link to no daddy. I just couldn't understand how GoDaddy could possibly be doing something non-evil. There's gotta be an angle.

That's not the question. The question is if GoDaddy is trustworthy.

Judge for yourself. Here are some stories about GoDaddy on Slashdot, in order by date:
Go Daddy Usurps Network Solutions (2005-05-04)
GoDaddy Serves Blank Pages to Safari & Opera (2005-12-08)
GoDaddy.com Dumps Linux for Microsoft (2006-03-23)
GoDaddy Holds Domains Hostage (2006-06-17)
GoDaddy Caves To Irish Legal Threat (2006-09-16)
MySpace and GoDaddy Shut Down Security Site (2007-01-26) That incident prompted this web site:
Exposing the Many Reasons Not to Trust GoDaddy with Your Domain Names.
Alternative Registrars to GoDaddy? (2007-02-03)
GoDaddy Bobbles DST Changeover? (2007-03-11)
850K RegisterFly Domains Moved To GoDaddy (2007-05-29)
According to this March 11, 2008 story in Wired, GoDaddy shut down an entire web site of 250,000 pages because of one archived mailing list comment: GoDaddy Silences Police-Watchdog Site RateMyCop.com. See below for Slashdot's story about RateMyCop.com.
GoDaddy Silences RateMyCop.com (2008-03-12)
ICANN Moves Against GoDaddy Domain Lockdowns (2008-04-08)
GoDaddy VP Caught Bidding Against Customers (2008-06-29)

Those are just the stories until July of 2008.

GoDaddy's reputation is not just one of extremely negative stories. In my opinion, GoDaddy tries to confuse non-technical people by offering services they don't need and presenting them as valuable.

Here are some of the opinions of Bob Parsons, the owner of GoDaddy. He is pro-violence: Close Gitmo? No way!!

He uses women's bodies to advertise: Bob Parson's Video Blog.

Nodaddy

Problems - Well the author of nmap did, i'd rather steer clean of Parsons and his 'friend' Adam Dicker

Plenty of people seem to have issues with godaddy and Robert Soloway a spammer used there servers too, I'm not one of those with problems and i use a different registrar, and i would not recommend godaddy just in case problems did happen.

http://forums.nodaddy.com/ says much

Go Daddy will take down your domain if they hear a peep about it, and cause all sorts of trouble. http://nodaddy.com/ I'd just run NSD and serve them from in-house (maybe get an external VPS as a slave).

well if enough people feel so strongly against that you could do a google bomb pointing to the no daddy domain a la......
godaddy
in blogs, web sites etc
that way it would get more prominence on google, its already on the first page (around no 7) but the higher it gets the more people will hear about it.

http://forums.nodaddy.com/index.php?topic=272.msg1163

This solitary post on a "nodaddy.com" forum ( sense a bias perhaps? ) is considered adequate source material for such accusations?

http://nodaddy.com/ has plenty of GoDaddy horror stories, along with recommendations and experiences for alternative companies. I say that we should all boycott GoDaddy.

ICANN is a TERRIBLY badly managed organization, in my opinion.

I'm keeping a list of stories about GoDaddy on Slashdot, in order by date:
Go Daddy Usurps Network Solutions (2005-05-04)
GoDaddy Serves Blank Pages to Safari & Opera (2005-12-08)
GoDaddy.com Dumps Linux for Microsoft (2006-03-23)
GoDaddy Holds Domains Hostage (2006-06-17)
GoDaddy Caves To Irish Legal Threat (2006-09-16)
MySpace and GoDaddy Shut Down Security Site (2007-01-26)
That incident prompted this web site:
Exposing the Many Reasons Not to Trust GoDaddy with Your Domain Names. According to this March 11, 2008 story in Wired, GoDaddy shut down an entire web site of 250,000 pages because of one archived mailing list comment: GoDaddy Silences Police-Watchdog Site RateMyCop.com. See below for Slashdot's story about RateMyCop.com.
Alternative Registrars to GoDaddy? (2007-02-03)
GoDaddy Bobbles DST Changeover? (2007-03-11)
850K RegisterFly Domains Moved To GoDaddy (2007-05-29)
GoDaddy Silences RateMyCop.com (2008-03-12)
ICANN Moves Against GoDaddy Domain Lockdowns (2008-04-08)
GoDaddy VP Caught Bidding Against Customers (2008-06-29)

Any error or stories not included?

GoDaddy's reputation is not just one of a negative stories. In my opinion, GoDaddy tries to confuse non-technical people by offering services they don't need that are presented as valuable.

Here are some of the opinions of Bob Parsons, the owner of GoDaddy. He is pro-violence: Close Gitmo? No way!!

There are more to evilness of Godaddy than just Domain locking !! Must Read !!

You be the judge !!!

http://baddaddy.angelfire.com/index.html

&

http://www.nodaddy.com/

or dup

http://www.angelfire.com/baddaddy/

NoDaddy is a consumer activist site about GoDaddy. It has a list of alternative registrars:

http://forums.nodaddy.com/index.php?board=3.0

NOT NameCheap. You can only leave a message when you call them, and they NEVER called me back. They didn't answer ANY of my many support tickets, except with irrelevant replies. They are an eNom reseller, and eNom seems to me to have become abusive. Absolutely the worst I've seen, for many other reasons, too. For example, their system refused to allow me to renew my domains with them. NameCheap.com is an eNom.com reseller, and in my opinion eNom.com has become abusive.

I too want to find a good domain name registrar. I have had very bad experiences with GoDaddy.com, NameCheap.com, and DomainSite.com.

A big problem with trying a new registrar is that they hide how they do business until you have a domain with them. For example, DomainSite.com email forwarding uses an "aggressive" block list that cannot be disabled. DomainSite.com also throws away all Catchall email.

ICANN is a TERRIBLY badly managed organization, in my opinion.

I'm keeping a list of stories about GoDaddy on Slashdot, in order by date:
Go Daddy Usurps Network Solutions (2005-05-04)
GoDaddy Serves Blank Pages to Safari & Opera (2005-12-08)
GoDaddy.com Dumps Linux for Microsoft (2006-03-23)
GoDaddy Holds Domains Hostage (2006-06-17)
GoDaddy Caves To Irish Legal Threat (2006-09-16)
MySpace and GoDaddy Shut Down Security Site (2007-01-26)
That incident prompted this web site:
Exposing the Many Reasons Not to Trust GoDaddy with Your Domain Names. According to this March 11, 2008 story in Wired, GoDaddy shut down an entire web site of 250,000 pages because of one archived mailing list comment: GoDaddy Silences Police-Watchdog Site RateMyCop.com. See below for Slashdot's story about RateMyCop.com.
Alternative Registrars to GoDaddy? (2007-02-03)
GoDaddy Bobbles DST Changeover? (2007-03-11)
850K RegisterFly Domains Moved To GoDaddy (2007-05-29)
GoDaddy Silences RateMyCop.com (2008-03-12)
ICANN Moves Against GoDaddy Domain Lockdowns (2008-04-08)

Any error or stories not included?

GoDaddy's reputation is not just one of a negative stories. In my opinion, GoDaddy tries to confuse non-technical people by offering services they don't need that are presented as valuable.

Here are some of the opinions of Bob Parsons, the owner of GoDaddy. He is pro-violence: Close Gitmo? No way!!

insecure.org put up a nice list at nodaddy.com when their domain was yanked. It looks like it is still there.
http://nodaddy.com/#alternatives

GoDaddy is one of the many horrible registrars. Things are not right when you have to be careful picking a registrar. http://nodaddy.com/ is a great site about the woes GoDaddy.

I'm keeping a list of stories about GoDaddy on Slashdot, in order by date:
Go Daddy Usurps Network Solutions (2005-05-04)
GoDaddy Serves Blank Pages to Safari & Opera (2005-12-08)
GoDaddy.com Dumps Linux for Microsoft (2006-03-23)
GoDaddy Holds Domains Hostage (2006-06-17)
GoDaddy Caves To Irish Legal Threat (2006-09-16)
MySpace and GoDaddy Shut Down Security Site (2007-01-26)
That incident prompted this web site:
Exposing the Many Reasons Not to Trust GoDaddy with Your Domain Names.
Alternative Registrars to GoDaddy? (2007-02-03)
GoDaddy Bobbles DST Changeover? (2007-03-11)
850K RegisterFly Domains Moved To GoDaddy (2007-05-29)
GoDaddy Silences RateMyCop.com (2008-03-12)

Any error or stories not included?

http://forums.nodaddy.com/index.php?board=3.0

They've all got those escape clauses somewhere. Every single alternative someone points out has at least one person popping up and posting a horror story. There are no real alternatives.

NoDaddy was founded after the seclists debacle. It has a listing of good and bad registrars with comments by satisfied and unsatisfied customers: http://forums.nodaddy.com/index.php?board=3.0

Something to be aware of: Many registrars have fronts and resellers so you might think you're buying from someone different, but you're not. You *must* read the terms and conditions before choosing one. Be careful of registrars (like eNom) that reserve the right to cancel your domain without reason. For example, some will accept anonymous reports on their webform that you are spamming and lock down you domain and charge you an "unlocking fee" to cover their "investigation". Make sure you choose a registrar that will only shut you down with a court order. Wikileaks was particularly bad because the US judge who ordered them shut down completely stuffed up on freedom of speech: Do you reckon he would have shut down a newspaper over a controversial article? You really need to do your research before picking a registrar. Finding out too late is too late!

Lots of sharks. Be careful out there.

"What we need is a list of known good registrars..."

Any recommendations?

eNom.com is the real provider for many domain name resellers. For example, NameCheap is one of many who buy from eNom.com.

eNom.com has been competing with its re-sellers with eNomCentral.com. Note that eNom.com is now apparently doing what GoDaddy does. In my opinion, GoDaddy.com tries to get more money by confusing people who have little technical knowledge.

Some of the negative stories about GoDaddy on Slashdot:

GoDaddy Holds Domains Hostage
GoDaddy Caves To Irish Legal Threat
MySpace and GoDaddy Shut Down Security Site
GoDaddy Serves Blank Pages to Safari & Opera
GoDaddy Bobbles DST Changeover?
GoDaddy.com Dumps Linux for Microsoft
Go Daddy Usurps Network Solutions
Alternative Registrars to GoDaddy?

Other reasons not to buy from GoDaddy: NoDaddy.

I suggest that everyone check to see from whom your domain name provider buys your domains. eNom.com is the real provider for NameCheap, one of many who buy from eNom.com.

eNom has been competing with its re-sellers with eNomCentral.com. Note that eNom is doing what GoDaddy does. In my opinion, GoDaddy tries to get more money by confusing people who have little technical knowledge.

I moved all my domains away from GoDaddy for many reasons, not just those reasons given in a Slashdot story, to NameCheap.

I don't know any domain name reseller that is inexpensive, reliable, and honest.

Exposing the Many Reasons Not to Trust GoDaddy with Your Domain Names

check out http://nodaddy.com/ for a few horror stories, Admittedly every business that gets past a certain size will have 'hate' sites against it, but yanking a domain name from Fyoder was a pretty bad idea :P

A GoDaddy registration places an upper limit on the registrant's technical knowledge. See No Daddy.

This is good, but if they really want to make it safe for users they should:

• host it over HTTPS to avoid the possibility of third-party snooping on what people are uploading and downloading;
• make absolutely sure their hosting server isn't retaining logs of IP addresses and timestamps;
• and for reliability, have some sort of back-up hosting ready to go if they get shut down where it's now hosted (Sweden), and maybe even a few extra domain names on standby if their registrar decides to bow to pressure to get it cut off like GoDaddy does.

Otherwise this is, as numerous people have pointed out, going to get shut down shortly after people start screaming "kiddie porn!".

The one which locks out domains on any unsubstantiated claim of abuse? That GoDaddy?

Fuck them, better the domains went back to NetSol. At least they aren't complete assholes.

The real point here is: Never register a domain with godaddy.

http://nodaddy.com/

Might be able to find help @ nodaddy...

> I don't have the link

Your wish is my karma whoring opportunity: http://www.nodaddy.com/

Read: http://nodaddy.com/

In short: Some guy was hosting automated archives of mailing lists. Someone sent a list of MySpace usernames and passwords through the list, which were automatically archived. MySpace threw a hissy fit. Instead of filing any legal paperwork, or even bothering to contact the owner, they went straight to GoDaddy and said "This site is hosting illegal content. Pull it down." GoDaddy complied, no questions asked. GoDaddy didn't contact the owner, either.

Note: the site wasn't even hosted with GoDaddy. GoDaddy was merely the registrar.

Just a few days ago, I launched a noncommercial site dedicated to this exact purpose -- encouraging and helping people move away from GoDaddy. The site is at NoDaddy.Com (I'm sure Bob Parsons loves the domain name ;).

I launched the site after GoDaddy shut down my domain SecLists.Org, as noted in this /. article summary. The site includes a list of alternative registrars that readers have recommended. It is rather sparse on details right now, but I'm working on that. I'll go through all your comments in this article tomorrow to fish out good ideas for the registrar section of the site. I'm trying to fill up the site as much as possible before GoDaddy's big SuperBowl ads air on Sunday. We are currently seeking a volunteer to set up and run the NoDaddy forums -- write me if you're interested. We're also looking for "NoDaddy girl" models, but perhaps Slashdot isn't the best place to recruit for that :).

Just today, CNET News.Com posted an article where they interviewed many registrars about there takedown policies. Unfortunately, many registrars refused or didn't bother to respond. Of those who did, the authors "found that the French registrar Gandi.net and New Orleans-based DirectNIC offered the most extensive guarantees against unnecessary domain name suspension."

-Fyodor
Insecure.Org