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Go Daddy Usurps Network Solutions
miller60 writes "Go Daddy has passed Network Solutions as the top domain registrar, and now manages more than 6.8 million domains. This marks the first time that any registrar other than Network Solutions has held the top spot. The change is no surprise, given the growth trends and pricing for the two providers ($8.95 for Go Daddy, $34.99 for Network Solutions), but its controversial Super Bowl ads no doubt helped put Go Daddy over the top."
but first, like any good Slashdotter, I must pick nits and point out that waaaaay back in the last century, SRI held the top spot too.
The ad is here. Be gentle.
"I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismometer." -Ken Kesey
I think that advertisement agencies should not use controversy to promote their sales. The commercials do make me remember GoDaddy, but not in a positive way. And if this worked in general, you would think that SCO's sales would go up among the geek community. But, we know what's really happened, don't we?
I find that there is a trade rag website called Domain Works far more interesting news. What happens in the exciting world of URL names?
Someone you trust is one of us.
Any registrar that would sells names to the tons of porn sites is destined to be number 1. (Warning: This post is probably incorrect.)
Help a poor college student. Send a couple cents via paypal to chucks86@gmail.com
plain and simple
competition is good.
-d
"Here Lies Philip J. Fry, named for his uncle, to carry on his spirit"
An ugly chick and dude who seems to join her in the club for people with shit for brains... I guess it's all just about the name recognition.
I bought a domain from GoDaddy a few years ago, and then have been determined to transfer it elsewhere since I saw those ads, as it made me see the company as rather pathetic.
You have to surf through 240 pages of adverts when all you really want to do is click "checkout".
In this service economy, consumers have chosen to vote with their wallet. No surprise there. Way back when in internet years, Joker.com was only ten euro's per year, which was about $6 US and they were the best. Joker didn't have the marketing clout that Godaddy had. Now GoDaddy has usurped the top spot.
Offtopic: Is it just me or when you click on that superbowl ad link in firefox, firefox doesn't actually go to that page and just displays a blank white page? It happens to me with other links too. Usually when this happens, if i restart firefox, I can visit that link properly. Has anyone else experienced this? Is this some reported bug (with a solution) that I'm not aware of?
Personally I'd much rather see GoDaddy surpass NetSol in profit than number of domains. It's not difficult to sell products cheaper than anyone else - remember all the free stuff during the
6.8 million domains times $8.95 - do the math - this is hardly a lot of annual revenue. GoDaddy is a privately held company, so no details on their financial standing are available. Their infrastructure and staff expenses have to be pretty significant (just the DNS infrastructure and not to mention the SB ads), and it's very difficult for me to see how you can do this for $8.95/year, even if it's multiplied by 7 mil. Either they have an alternative source of revenue, or (most likely) you'll see them being bough out by the likes of NetSol (which will promptly jack the prices up on all the customers) and that's their whole "business plan".
is what put GoDaddy over the top. If you want to be dishonest and register a name without giving up any information -- like name and address -- GoDaddy is for you.
Plus, the price difference isn't as much as advertised here: the domain registration price is if you host the URL with GoDaddy. Domain transfers cost you money with GoDaddy (and try getting them to give it up even with the proper documentation -- it's a huge pain), while they're free with Network Solutions.
I have my internet domains with register.com for the simple reason that they provide DNS for me. Can anyone tell me how Go Daddy compares in this area? I'd sure like to pay $8/year insteal of $35.
The difference between Canada and the USA is that in Canada healthcare is a right and gun ownership is a privilege.
netsol have been riding us for years. now that we have some competition the market should "improve".
Anyone who has seen the commercial knows it hasn't anything controversial... what made it "controversial" was the overreaction by the Victorian-Americans (have I just invented that?) and their two sets of moral values (see Iraq media coverage)
I got on-board with GoDaddy before the SuperBowl ad. I had simply heard through the grapevine that they were cheap and offered good service. While I agree that all the hoops and stuff you have to dodge and click "NO" to to just checkout is a tad annoying, the price and service can't be beat. I've been very happy with them and have transferred all my domains there at this point.
Their other services such as webhosting don't offer anything special, but as a domain-name registrar I think they're great.
It's good to see Godaddy doing so well, I just hope they don't forget where they came from. One issue being the ease of which they take domains if you get spam complaints, I've known people who have lost hundreds from suspended domains when a business rival reported them to godaddy
If they got a bulletproof way of dealing with issues like this, I would definetley consider transferring a lot more of my domains to be managed with them. Congratulations Godaddy.
Business Voyeur
What does this whirlwind prove anyway? I mean, if there were a fan plugged in somewhere, THAT would be cool.
We all dance, we all sing.
-The Streets
If GoDaddy usurped NS, they'd control it. They merely surpassed the number of registered domains. Still an accomplishment, but not a usurpment.
The thing is, though, that I liked the ad. As long as people who agree with me outnumber the people who share your opinion, then they're on the right track.
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
Personally I prefer the "be your own registrar" approach (ala Tucows) and have no problem paying a little extra for the resulting freedom.
At the end of the day, I'm just glad to see Netsol suffering, they deserve any pain the world can inflict upon them.
...Over a simple wardrobe malfunction.
"All great wisdom is contained in .signature files"
My native tongue is Russian, but even I know that Usurps is not the correct verb to use in that sentence. According to m-w.com, to usurp is "to take possession of without legal claim" - not the same as to surpass a competitor in one away or another.
Learn your language!
Paul.
I gave GoDaddy a try after reading some slashdot posters sing the praises. Since my own domain name was going to expire in a month anyway, I thought I'd look into them.
For $9, I'm pretty damn impressed. Network Solutions gave me eternal run around when there was problems. When I moved and tried to change my DNS information a few years back, it was this horrific experience that gave me a bad taste in my mouth. Dealing with them on other issues such as when a former employer of mine bought a domain name from another party was just a nightmare.
Godaddy doesn't have the prettiest interface, but damn if it doesn't work. I signed in, it told me what I needed to give them, kept me updated on the progress transferring from Network Solutions, and when it was over someone gave me a phone call. The last time I tried to call Network Solutions for anything I felt like taking a bath afterwards. Sure, the guy wanted to ask me about hosting, but he basically said "Mr. Hummel, everything's done, need anything else? Great, call if you need something." Not pushy at all.
I have another domain name, and I know I'm going to use Godaddy. The price is nice, and I may even give their hosting services a try based on how well this experience has gone so far.
Now - one note on the ads. Stop it. I hate them, and almost didn't sign up just because the ad made me feel dumber after seeing them. Hell, change the name - Godaddy sounds more like a porn service than a domain name system.
Service: good. Support: Excellent. Name and marketing: Butt ugly awful.
Of course, that's just my opinion. I could be wrong.
52 Weeks, 52 Religions with John Hummel
...once you get past their toilet of a user interface and crappy DNS management screen. And $9/year for WHOIS privacy is a little silly when other registrars offer it for a couple bucks.
Check out this disclaimer on TiVo's page. I can't believe we've come to this. Litigious bastards.
his release contains certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements relate to, among other things, TiVo's business, services, business development, strategy, customers or other factors that may affect future earnings or financial results. Forward-looking statements generally can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as, "believe," "expect," "may," "will," "intend," "estimate," "continue," or similar expressions or the negative of those terms or expressions. Such statements involve risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to vary materially from those expressed in or indicated by the forward-looking statements. Factors that may cause actual results to differ materially include delays in development, competitive service offerings and lack of market acceptance, as well as the "Factors That May Affect Future Operating Results." More information on potential factors that could affect the Company's financial results is included from time to time in the Company's public reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2004, and the Quarterly Reports on Form 10Q for the period(s) ended April 30, 2004, July 31, 2004, October 31, 2004, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. We caution you not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements, which reflect an analysis only and speak only as of the date hereof. TiVo disclaims any obligation to update these forward-looking statements.
Who's your daddy??
I just registered a new domain there this morning... Maybe I helped push them over the top. I've been using GoDaddy for several years now. Yes the advertisments while trying to check out are annoying, but their management interface is nice and I can always get someone on the phone there pretty quickly, and that is what matters to me.
How does Powweb compare for hosting?
GoDaddy is extremely aggressive about pushing things people don't need, in my opinion. The company seems to me to take advantage of people with less technical understanding by exploiting their doubt. For example, there are sometimes as many as 30 ads on a GoDaddy screen at one time, so many it is difficult to navigate.
GoDaddy offers DNS, but it has a horrible management interface that you have to dig for. Namecheap.com offers the same, has a nicer interface, easier to get to DNS management screen, and offers WHOIS privacy for $2.88/year instead of GoDaddy's $9/year (which adds up if you have several domains).
we've got women read slashdot too!
The magic date was 4/17.
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http://www.registrarstats.com/Default.asp#GraphAn
Netcraft confirms it!
in terms of being sleazy and disreputable enough to garner more business.
Dotster is THE registrar of choice if you ask me, and they use a lot of open source software for their system. We routinely have huge problems wrestling domains from Godaddy or diagnosing problems with their system and management. Dotster has proven to be more reliable and more ethical in their operation. I've been with them for probably five years at least and am very happy. I have tons of horror stories about Godaddy. They totally suck, but this goes to show that people still seem to think you can get more than you pay for.
...more ads like that in next year's Super Bowl.
Let's go Hurricanes!!! 2006 Stanley Cup Champions!!!
Ok...I'll bite at an offtopic. That is almost word-for-word boilerplate that is required on any statement from any publicly held company when it could affect the price of stock through speculation. I think that wording has been around since the late '30s. To not have it would violate SEC rules and federal law.
[RIAA] says its concern is artists. That's true, in just the sense that a cattle rancher is concerned about its cattle.
You can watch Godaddy's Super Bowl Spot here along with all the other superbowl spots on my site which strives to shamelessly rip-off what AdCritic was before they started charging.
Go ahead and slashdot it. I've got like 100 gigs of bandwidth to use before the end of the month.
Right now I use Dotster for my domain, it's around twice what GoDaddy charges, but other than price, why should I switch?
If you can't see the value in jet powered ants you should turn in your nerd card. - Dunbal (464142)
but its controversial Super Bowl ads no doubt helped put Go Daddy over the top.
Reply to this thread if you picked your registrar on the basis of a Super Bowl ad. I want to know who you are so I can avoid your car on the motorway.
I use GoDaddy for domain and email hosting. I have to say, their service is great and the price is just right.
MOD PARENT UP. Moderators, how can you call it a troll? It's someone's opinion, including mine.
Paul, you forgot to take your medicine again, didn't you?
When it comes down to it, all humor is codified ridicule. The reason the commercial is funny is not because they had a proto-Hooters girl gyrating around (though it was fun to laugh at the apparent airhead too), but you got to laugh at the reactions of the old men on the "committee," not one of whom looked to be under 100, and one of whom was so shocked -- Shocked! -- that he needed an oxygen mask.
The commercial was not simply a jab at the "wardrobe malfunction as art," but also a not-so-subtle poke at the people who made it such a big deal of them.
For that reason alone, I'm thinking GoDaddy should get more of my business. The commercial stood well on its own, not necessarily for the product but as an attention-getter. The viral marketing campaign around it was just gilding.
You cannot truly appreciate Dilbert until you read it in the original Klingon.
use zoneedit for all of your (free) dns needs. Then find free webhosting from a place like funpic (no ads and only limit is ind. file size = 1MB) and you've got a hosted website for $8.95/yr.
Power to the Peaceful
I used GoDaddy to host a domain name a while back before they got too big, from word of mouth.
However, I realized that I liked the features and price of someone else better. So, I tried to transfer my name from GD.
Worst transfer experience ever - and I've done many.
Took multiple phone calls, reattempts, emails, etc just to get the name released. One time, the rep didn't even realize one could transfer out or why one would want to.
Sometimes I wonder what the mods are up to when I see that. And... uh... to be on topic -- I liked the ad.
MetalliQaZ was right: competition is good. I mean, if Network Solutions is this universally despised today, imagine how much we all liked them years ago when they were the only game in town.
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
They said "Shit" more than 100 times on Southpark last night. It didn't offend me, but I'm sure that had to offend more people than the GoDaddy.com ad!
add rating and browse-by-top-rated and I'm all over your site.
1. Breasts in Super Bowl ad.
2. ???
3. Profit!
Usurpe? Isn't that the flavored ice thing you get at the 7-11?
Why would anyone pay over $30 for a domain? What does Network Solutions do to justify the price?
i disagree that it was the super bowl ads that put godaddy over the top. i think the price difference was the greatest reason. sure, the super bowl ads may have brought people to the site to see the ad again but it was the price difference that kept them there and then, ultimately, register a domain.
It's not the super bowl ads. It's the price, and the service. You can call them and get someone on the line in minutes... even at 4am. They are helpful and know what they are talking about. My friend just bought a .com with a year of web hosting (which includes email) and private registration, and it cost him $51. That's a pretty good deal.
Can we please banish the phrase "vote with your wallet" to the pits of hell? There is no such thing. Buying is not voting. Consumerism is not democracy. The thing that is most profitable is not necessarily that which does the greatest good or serves the largest number of people--witness the profitability of Viagra vs. vaccines. In a democracy, the person who rides the bus to work gets as many votes as the person who owns the company that builds the buses. In a consumerocracy, the latter rules everything. Another word for consumerocracy is PLUTOCRACY. Don't vote with your wallet, vote with your vote! Buying is not voting, buying is not voting, buying is not voting.
Sorry to be shrill... I just really hate that phrase.
The only thing GoDaddy offers is price. They are dishonest, and jerk you around when you try to transfer a domain from them to someone with good service. What it comes down to is wether good service is worth an extra $5-10 a year to you.
Is it just me, or was the internet a better place when it took smarts, and (a little bit more) money to register a domain. When I registered my first domain many years ago (10+), it wasn't too expensive, but you had to find someone who would add you to 2 dns servers. And then you had to know what to do with it.
I was special. I had my own domain. I knew how it worked.
Now who doesn't have a handful of them. Don't get me wrong, I like (and use) godaddy nowadays...just thinking back...guess I'm just an elitist snob. Damn AOL...why did you have to open the internet to all those people.
Am I reading their Economny Web Hosting Plan correctly - that I get 100 email accounts with 10 MB of space each, in addition to the 500 MB of disk space I get for the web site, for a total of $3.16/mo if I buy 12 Months? That's not right, is it? What am I missing?
And why do I get only 50 forwarding email accounts? Seems odd that I can forward fewer email addresses than they'll host. Am I just reading this whole thing wrong?
Is the second year more expensive, or is that the price?
And finally a question that really proves how much of an idiot I am... I want to make web pages and images that are username/password protected. I'd like to have about 50 users have access to my website - friends of mine. Is there a simple way to do something like that for an entire website?
Education is the silver bullet.
After seeing you they lose interest in all men.
(From a woman)
NetSol will price match on request. It's not something they advertise, but they'll do it. I found this out when transferring my domains away.
FYI.
-- build a man a fire and he'll be warm all day. set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
to go daddy last month without a problem. I had to turn off their anti-hijacking feature in three places but thats it. Plus, I was sick of paying $35/yr per domain. Go daddy is a little harder to use (trying to figure out how to use their DNS servers could have been a little easier). I signed up with netsol back in the day because they had coupons and deals, 50%, etc, which made it $17.50/yr, but I havent seen any deals in the past 18 months so I decided to switch to go daddy and go with the cheaper domain registrar.
The Doormat
If you're not outraged, then you're not paying attention.
I did the exact same thing last month. I moved my two domain names from register to go daddy.
GoDaddy has DNS, you have to use their parked servers, and then edit the domain and go to the "Total DNS Control" applet.
Make sure at register you turn off anti-hijacking features for all of your domains, and additionally, each individual domain.
It should take about a week to transfer the names over (5 business days).
The Doormat
If you're not outraged, then you're not paying attention.
Much like all the great ads, they take a commonly held belief and associate it with their product, ad is as follows:
Boobies = Good
Boobies, boobies, boobies, Go Daddy, boobies, old guy, boobies
Go Daddy = Boobies = Good
Possibly old guy = good too, not sure about that?
-Matt
--- Need web hosting?
I've never liked GoDaddy's control panel, too cumbersome, but GKG's is nice and easy to use.
According to their site, they've been in business 13 years. Oh and it looks like they just added .us domains too! Cool!!! Time to transfer my final .us domains from GoDaddy to GKG.
The day Microsoft creates a product that doesn't suck, it will be known as the Microsoft Vaccuum Cleaner!
enom.com is better. They have DDNS.
Huh? How does it speak more than my response? Becuase I actually am a writer and publisher and know a thing or two about proper usage? Becuase it doesn't agree with the dissent?
I used to be a go daddy customer but quit for some good reasons. The problems I had were the following:
it fails to forward it!!!!!
1) incorrect forwarding of subdirectory links:
example: if you set up a name forwarding of say
mydomainname.com --> myhostname.com
then if you try to access any sub_directory
mydomainname.com/CGI/somthing.jsp
That's right! you CANNOT access any subdirectory whatsoever. the only file you can access is index.html in the top level.
Here's what those dumbshits did. when you set up name forwarding they register your name with a go-daddy IP
mydomainname.com --> go-daddy_server.com/mydomainname
then when you try to access the your URL with a subdirectory rather than parsing the request it tries to go to the subdirectory on the go_daddy_server which of course does not exist and the user gets a 404 from go-daddy_server.
What idiots. I now use Name_zero.com as my registrar which correctly forwards.
2) to manipulate your account you have to use a web browser and their admin portal. Yet their portal does not render correctly in all browsers making it impossible to use most browasers on a macintosh.
3) their tech support is unresponsive. they take days to respond, they respond with boiler plate answers that make no sense and cant deal with real issues like #1 because they are just an answering machine not actual adminsitrators or deisgners.
BAsically go daddy sucks unless all you want is your name registers to your own host and not say name forwarding.
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
If they'd set up their paypal payment system so you don't have to have credit cards on file.
In case you didn't get the drift by reading the definitions, they all imply wrongdoing.
Surpassing one in standings is definitely not a place you'd correctly use this word.
usurp (y-sûrp, -zûrp)
v. usurped, usurping, usurps
v. tr.
1. To seize and hold (the power or rights of another, for example) by force and without legal authority. See Synonyms at appropriate.
2. To take over or occupy without right: usurp a neighbor's land.
v. intr.
To seize another's place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
I think many people take liberal advantage of English's flexibility and really bend the language to make use of words that don't really fit.
Usurp doesn't really work in this sentence, as has been pointed out by numerous people. Had the word fit perfectly, nobody would have mentioned anything about it.
It doesn't work. Only those who believe that they can use artistic liberty to butcher the language believe that this fits.
I'm just glad I'm not the only reasonable person who has pointed this out.
The company-turned-spammers I worked for last year would happily plop down $$ to register 1500 domains at a time.
"Who has registered the most domains" is a completely worthless statistic especially considering how easy it is to do. It's a tax write-off for spammers.
Ah, a random spam references "indilatory.com" "provengoods.net" and "epispastic.com" - all domains registered for the sole purpose of spamming & "CAN-SPAM" compliance.
That's why I think it's a pretty useless figure.
Having a couple of names registered with register.com, I decided to try GoDaddy.
They where cheap enough.
They dont mention that you dont get DNS with their service. So I try to configure my domain and guess what?, it's all screwed up. Oh it worked for a couple of days, then stopped dead. Wierd since I changed nothing.
So after sending them support emails, and calling customer support, and getting NOT A SINGLE REPLY in over a week, I decided, 'screw you', and transfered it to register.com. Only then did they answer me, and only to ask why I transfered away.
BTW in 5 minutes afte the transer was complete I had the domain configured with register, and 24 hours later after the DNS ripple, it all worked fine first time.
I will never use GoDaddy again. The differenrtce is only $25, which is about 1/2 hour of my time.
Register.com may not be the cheapest, but their stuff always works.
GoDaddy gets your $$$ then forgets about you. Unless they can get more $$$ out of you.
I will never use them again.
#1- Put down the pipe
#2- there's no secret message.
#3- you're not even responding to the right thread. This is about GoDaddy.
Well, I have a domain (say xyz.com) that I registered thru godaddy.com, and I want to throw it away. I thought at that time, I'll just let the domain expire, instead of cancelling the domain right away.
Last year in August suddenly I found a charge in my credit card that I rarely use. The charge was from godaddy.com to renew this domain.
So I called godaddy.com to dispute this charge, and I complained because:
1. I never consent to auto-renew this domain. The fact of the matter, I already had this domain before godaddy implemented their auto-renew program.
2. Since the expiration date of the credit card that godaddy charged was already expired (in their records, since I never updated that information), I argued that they just can't charge my credit card like that, because that constitutes fraud.
So, the lady that answered my call, asked me "so what is right expiration date of the credit card that we charged?" I said same month but next year. And I found a few minutes later the thing that she did was to update their record of my CC with the expiration date that I said.
Well, even though the charge that godaddy made to my credit card was relatively small, but I'm just upset with the way of their customer service that tricked the customer into giving the right information to avoid being chargeback by me.
Ever since this incident, I have moved all of my domain names that I had before thru godaddy.com to gkg.net, and for all of my new domain name needs, I don't use anything but gkg.net. I found gkg.net is much more trusthworthy compared to godaddy.com.
Agreed. As for price, you can get the same great features as eNom with a lower price by going to one of their resellers, like RegisterFly.com, Namecheap.com, Active-Domain.com, etc.
Seems like a funny name for an domain registration company unless I'm missing a pun somewhere?
Jonathan
http://www.wychwood.co.uk/
I don't know about the forwarding service, but I have to say that the tech support so far has actually been very responsive for me.
Emails have taken less than an hour for responses for me, and if you call their phone support, the wait time has always been less than 10 minutes.
I also like how they say how long the phone wait will be on their website.
Based on their entire ad campaign, which is "promenently displayed" on their website and their ads, I'd say that breasts are entirely ON-topic.
A poor-taste, stereotypical ad, no doubt, but look at their target market. Gen-X, mostly male, web-savvy enough to have their own domain, etc. How do you sell to this segment? Sex, of course.
They ain't going after retirees with this one.
JP
Stiny! Get me a danish!
Q. A man has to choose between two domain registries. One has low prices, the other has great customer service. Which one does he choose?
A. The one with the biggest tits.
I ended up writing a nasty letter to the cut-rate joint and CCing the Icann accreditation board. The cut-rate guys (to their credit) gave me a refund and I've been a loyal Network Solutions customer since then.
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
Yepp.... so ridiculously priced, that they'll probably go out of business laughing all the way .
Yes, yes, yes, I know, I know, they constantly have their share of customers that spam, provide spam support, etc. The fact is though, that GoDaddy, despite *few* problems--in my opinion has been exceptional about terminating their spamming parasites. Especially considering the vast number of domains they provide registration support for.
:D
GoDaddy also has a REALLY good repoitiore with their customers, of which I'm happy to have been one in the past (although I use OpenSRS now. [actually I originally registered my domain in 1988 via NIC.DDN.MIL, but that's another subject]).
I hope GoDaddy wins over all the rest of Notworking Solutions' customers.
It's true no man is an island, but if you take a bunch of dead guys and tie 'em together, they make a good raft.
The Go Daddy spokesbabe's name is Candice Michelle. She looks even better naked. Schwing! Just do a google image search (safe search off) and you'll find her. They should be called SpankDaddy.com.
Of course, I've made no such request and will never use or recommend them for anything after this little episode!
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
Phase 2. Fake Tits
Phase 3. Profit!!!
Sometimes at night I imagine the darkness is filled with horrible things with too many teeth, like Julia Roberts.
For those so inclined. Found these as I went searching for the commercial.
http://pictureshq.net/candice_michelle
This was linked from here:
http://wizbangblog.com/archives/005007.php
Oh my goodness! GoDaddy has forcably taken control of Network Solutions without legal authority? This is big news!! I can't remember another instance in history of a large corporation doing such a thing.
Has the FBI been alerted? Or maybe the Department or Homeland Security?
Oh wait... so now you're saying they didn't usurp them? They only passed them in sales?
Never mind.
I have to agree with the grand-parent, the forwarding does not work correctly and although the help desk at godaddy is fine, they can't (or won't) fix this issue. I've asked. But, they are cheap and they have a great ad ;-)
has in fact been in nudie films! oh the horror! http://www.fleshbot.com/sex/straight/photo/more-ca ndice-michelle-032570.php
http://www.rayn.net . Funny. Stuff.
It is great to see Slashdot readers accepting GoDaddy the way you are (reading your posts).
;-)
Noting that GoDaddy run their web site on Windows, and most new stuff coming out seems to be running on ASP.NET; it is really good that Slashdot readers are big enough to just go ahead and use their service anyway.
Disclaimer: I do work for a GoDaddy competitor that uses lots of Linux and Java, so my views might be biased
I have had similar problems with GoDaddy hosting. As far as a registrar, they seem to be fine in my experience. However, they somehow seem to mess up their hosting sever configurations, and when you bring it to their attention, instead of fixing it, they write it off as an "unsupported" feature.
.php extension. (You can go to a php extension but not from) When I contacted tech support, they claim that "we do not support mod_rewrite with php files."
Take, for example, using mod_rewrite. I discovered that on their servers you cannot rewrite anything with a
This also screws up 404 pages. If you request a non-existant php file, instead of the 404 page you should get, you recieve a nice "No input file specified" error. This comes from the php parser when you execute it without a filename. After bringing that to their attention, they came back with "It's not our problem, fix your script so it doesn't reference a non-existant file" However, my scripts are fine, and that is completely missing the point. If someone bookmarks a file and later you move it. The user should be able to hit that bookmark and get a 404 page for your site, redirecting them. Of course after responding with that, they ignored my message and I have not gotten a reply.
Anyway, stay away from godaddy unless you want to just serve static html files. I wish they would spend less time writing blogs producing "radio shows" and just focus on getting their core business to work properly. I recently just switched to 1and1.com and they seem to be much better so far. After using 1and1's admin interface, it completely blows away the meager interface godaddy has.
Yorkspace
I've been to GoDaddy, and I refuse to do business with someone who will pimp my eyespace out like that. Instead, I did a little looking and I found DomainSite. Check it out, it's $6.99 for the first year, and $7.99 after that. Fully featured, price beats GoDaddy, does fast domain propegation, really simple control panel.. And check this out.. I had a problem, called them, and I got a real human being! He was even helpful!
The job description says "customer service" or "Technical support" but its entirely to upsell, upsell, sell, and badger the customers until they buy something they may not need.
Now of course as a long time user of Godaddy I am happy with the service they provide. You just gotta get past the advertisements and upselling you get bombarded with in the process. I am sure glad I diddnt end up working with them; I'd feel really evil.
I've gotten quick response from their tech support every time.
:)
Of course, every single response has been, "we don't support that"
(usually assorted mod_rewrite features and php functions).
hawk
** Sorry replying to myself to fix bad formatting (first time ever I choose not to click preview *sigh*) ***
Actually there is quite a bit of publicly available information about GoDaddy's financial position. Various snippets from their blog:
- Go Daddy has been cash flow positive and profitable since October 2001.
- Go Daddy has no debt and no equipment leases. Except for the monthly rent we pay for our buildings (which we made the decision to lease), the company has no debt service or lease payments
- Our sales this year were over $100 million. If we do nothing different (other than continue to promote our business the way we have been) our sales for 2005 should be about $170 million
- All of the products we sell are developed by us. We currently employ over 30 development teams, and spend well over $3 million a month in new product development
- we sell a new domain name at the rate of one every 7 seconds More here: http://www.bobparsons.com/index3.html
True, their domain sales are a major part of their service however their value added services - as pushed (far too much so in my opinion) at the checkout are another stream.
GoDaddy is not sending you spam. They are simply following the rules for domain name transfers. See http://www.icann.org/transfers/ for details.
The word you tried to spell is "fraudulent", meaning deceitful. The email did not deceive you; someone really was trying to take your domain name.
Go now and tell your registrar to lock your domain names to prevent transfers. If your registrar makes that difficult, maybe you should switch to GoDaddy.
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