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GoDaddy.com Dumps Linux for Microsoft

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the say-it-aint-so dept.

RobertB-DC writes "Bargain-basement registrar GoDaddy.com has decided to move all its parked domains to Microsoft servers, saying that they'll provide 'a technology platform that is security-enhanced, highly scalable and easy to manage.' This is a shift away from Linux, a decision met with derision by other registrars such as Gandi.net, which greeted the news with the headline 'Go Daddy and never come back'. Late last year, GoDaddy.com had some 'issues', shall we say, with non-Microsoft browsers."

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  1. Who cares? by CRCulver · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Since most of these parked domain names are just misspellings of respectable sites or total nonsense, full of links to casinos and places to get prescription drugs, which no one would ever actually register and use for hosting, does it really matter what OS the server is running?

    1. Re:Who cares? by biocute · · Score: 5, Insightful

      It does, as bragging rights for Microsoft to show that its server solution is hosting xx% of the internet.

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