GoDaddy Up For Auction

Oh... by Hatta · 2010-09-11 02:25 · Score: -1, Troll

Pump and dump. Figures.

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Re:Oh... by bsDaemon · 2010-09-11 02:30 · Score: 4, Insightful

the company is 13 years old. this isn't exactly flipping a house after a few months and minor work. Not sure 'pump and dump' is really accurate.
Re:Oh... by DarkKnightRadick · 2010-09-11 03:43 · Score: 2, Informative

also it's privately held so there isn't anything to pump.

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Re:Oh... by Peach+Rings · 2010-09-11 04:00 · Score: 4, Informative

No, it's more like buying a shiny new house, smashing down walls for 13 years, and trying to foist it off onto a naive buyer.
GoDaddy is infamous. When someone posted MySpace passwords to a mailing list archived by seclists, MySpace complained and GoDaddy immediately shut down seclists.org with less than 1 minute's notice. They weren't even hosting the material, just the DNS record. GoDaddy's counsel said "I think the fact that we gave him notice at all was pretty generous."
As covered on slashdot they also have a habit of coming up with reasons to suspend customers' accounts and not just terminating service but refusing to release the domain to a different registrar unless you pay exorbitant fees.
Also GoDaddy shut down some guy's personal website because they sent him an email to update his invalid email address in the whois information and he didn't reply to it. They didn't just shut down the domain, they sold it.
What kind of joke of a service provider complies with random complaints from non-customers against customers without court order?
Re:Oh... by poetmatt · 2010-09-11 04:03 · Score: 2, Interesting

godaddy also has probably half of all the spam domains that exist - due to their lovely "auto-register a domain you searched for" shit.
Re:Oh... by derGoldstein · 2010-09-11 04:03 · Score: 2, Insightful

Strictly speaking, you're right -- the "pump" refers to inflating stock values. However metaphorically it could still work with privately held companies. Many startups are built (get their funding) on the basis that they'll make themselves an attractive buy for a larger company. Their goal isn't to prove a business model on their own, but to create a modular subsystem and then parade their tech in large company showrooms. It's kind of like the "Buy Now" button on E-Bay that ends the auction (potential IPO).

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Re:Oh... by dgatwood · 2010-09-11 05:36 · Score: 4, Informative
I briefly hosted a subdomain on GoDaddy.com. I dumped them because:
- Their servers were a train wreck, with 30 second maximum execution times for all processes. This meant that copying data to or from their servers required copying one file per connection, and if that RAW file was a little too slow, boom, you had to copy it a second time, or a third, or a fiftieth....
- Their servers, despite being faster than dialup on average, randomly wedged and failed to respond to requests for minutes at a time. Somebody was obviously blocking Apache with a long-running PHP script (I was serving static content, so I can safely say that, as the only other possibility is a network outage on their end). They refused to look into it despite me giving them detailed, down-to-the-second logs of when it happened, proof of barely 90% effective uptime, etc. and they refused to move me to a different server, so I demanded a refund.
- I applied for a 10-year SSL cert, which they sold me, then refused to issue claiming that their new policy was that they could only sell certs for a much lower number of years. I threatened to sue. They refunded my money, and it was shortly after that when I demanded the refund on the ISP service as well. I now have a free SSL cert that is just as good as theirs would have been (except for having to renew it once a year), and am happily serving my static images off of DreamHost.
If someone had told me how much of a disaster GoDaddy was beforehand, I wouldn't have believed it. I would have thought, "There's no way anybody could be THAT incompetent." Einstein put it best when he said, "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the universe."
Maybe I should start the bidding at a dollar.
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Re:Oh... by Anonymous Coward · 2010-09-11 05:36 · Score: 1, Interesting

Invalid email address in whois is grounds for forfeiture of the domain. Those are the ICANN rules. That is one thing that should happen a lot more often.
Re:Oh... by mjwalshe · 2010-09-11 05:50 · Score: 1

and why would they bail now? selling in a recesion is never a good idea and its a trade sale and not an issue.
Re:Oh... by WidgetGuy · 2010-09-11 06:02 · Score: 1

You are correct. In fact, this is probably the way most tech startups make their founders (and angel investors) rich. Not as rich as they would have been if they'd taken the company to a successful IPO, but still "millionaire rich" with 100 times less risk. The folks at Y Combinator (a Silicon Valley angel investing group) are fully aware of this reality and will not stop a company they've backed from selling privately.

The most successful (financially) startup I was a key participant in was sold directly to General Magic (mostly for a patent we held in the speech recognition field, but they also wanted -- and got -- "the software guy"). (I went along because I wanted to make sure the technology got incorporated into their products correctly. But, it was my last job as an employee! Almost 15 years ago now. Whew -- time flies.)

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Re:Oh... by ChipmunkDJE · 2010-09-11 06:08 · Score: 1

If we aren't to use GoDaddy.com, who do you suggest that we use? I was about to launch a new site and had hopes that GoDaddy.com would have sufficed. Where else can you find online hosting for really cheap ($20 or less/month)? Inquiring minds like mine want to know! =)
Re:Oh... by BangaIorean · 2010-09-11 06:27 · Score: 1

Also GoDaddy shut down [domainnamewire.com] some guy's personal website because they sent him an email to update his invalid email address in the whois information and he didn't reply to it. They didn't just shut down the domain, they sold it.
This, at least, isn't GoDaddy's fault. ICANN rules mandate that correct contact information must be provided in whois, failing which you lose your domain. There is an ongoing debate about whether demanding such information is fair, since the whois database can be accessed publicly, worldwide, free of charge. But till such time as the debate is ongoing, you've got to provide accurate info.
Re:Oh... by Peach+Rings · 2010-09-11 06:49 · Score: 1

Pretty much anywhere, GoDaddy doesn't have particularly great pricing. I use NearlyFreeSpeech.NET but that's a pre-paid service recommended for when you want to leave a little bit of content up for years at a time without much load. No reason to pay $20/mo if you're only hosting 20MB with a GB or so of transfer monthly.
Re:Oh... by Anonymous Coward · 2010-09-11 07:09 · Score: 0

GoDaddy is very cheap($5 month hosting).. thats why people flock to them. However you get what you pay for.
Re:Oh... by DarkKnightRadick · 2010-09-11 07:32 · Score: 2, Informative

I haven't used GoDaddy in almost 8 years. The stuff being talked about at nodaddy was enough to split my registrar and hosting up (I now use PairNIC, while more expensive has a better policy IMO, for my registrar). My web host is a free host (000webhost.com) so not much to brag on there (aside from a few neat features).

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Re:Oh... by Anonymous Coward · 2010-09-11 08:05 · Score: 0

Domains with invalid whois are taken back by the registry after multiple attempts to have it fixed. After this they are offered back to the public for purchase. This is all explained to you in the agreements you agree to when you register a domain with ANY registrar. What I fail to see is how everyone here is so clueless on the subject when they attempt to pass themselves off as experts
Re:Oh... by ion.simon.c · 2010-09-11 08:38 · Score: 1

Did your SSL cert come from StartCom?
Re:Oh... by Reaperducer · 2010-09-11 11:07 · Score: 1

If PairNIC is as good as Pair's hosting, then you've made a wise choice. If I didn't already have most of my domains locked up in DirectNIC, or EDIS.at, I'd be a PairNIC guy. Pair's customer support and service is among the best in the business.

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Re:Oh... by DarkKnightRadick · 2010-09-11 12:08 · Score: 1

I keep my hosting separate from my registrar, but it's nice to hear confirmation of what I've already discovered. (: That just reinforces my decision to stick with them.

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Re:Oh... by newDzerzhinsky · 2010-09-11 15:08 · Score: 0

Pump and dump. Figures.
I think you have confused GoDaddy.com and the "Go Daddy Girls" referred to in the summary....Some of them were certainly "pump and dump" candidates :D
Re:Oh... by Reziac · 2010-09-11 15:52 · Score: 1

Right, but I'm wondering if there's some exit strategy here beyond the obvious. Thoughts?

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Re:Oh... by dgatwood · 2010-09-11 17:41 · Score: 1

Yes.

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Re:Oh... by xtracto · 2010-09-12 23:39 · Score: 1

I currently have several web pages with ICDSoft... so far they have been really good. But you can see it for yourself doing a quick google search. In general, people are happy with them.
I bought my first hosting account with them about 3 years ago, and so far, so good.

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Re:Oh... by wwphx · 2010-09-16 14:19 · Score: 1

I've been happy with both Blue Host for ISP and NearlyFreeSpeech.net for domain registration. NFS has a "buy credits" model then charges you tiny amounts daily. They also have an anonymizer DNS service for additional amounts. They handle auto-renewal of domains smoothly if you so select it. NFS also has inexpensive hosting, but that depends on your needs.

I recommend both.

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Network Solutions redux by jewishbaconzombies · 2010-09-11 02:25 · Score: 1

I remember when Verisign paid wwwwaaaaayyyy too much or Network Solutions - on the order of 21 - freakin' billion dollars. Has anyone pegged a true value for companies like these?

On the bad news side, I guess that means imminent layoffs for more geeks in Arizona.

Re:Network Solutions redux by bsDaemon · 2010-09-11 02:28 · Score: 2, Informative

If all their customers renew their domain for just one more year, that's already almost $500,000,000 in revenue right there, just on repeat business, and that's nothing to say about SSL certificates, hosting, or any of their other products. $1,000,000,000 is a pretty good deal for a company that almost certainly makes at least that per year.
Re:Network Solutions redux by Anonymous Coward · 2010-09-11 02:33 · Score: 1, Insightful

> makes at least that per year
Revenue != profit
Re:Network Solutions redux by the+eric+conspiracy · 2010-09-11 03:00 · Score: 2, Informative

Yes, but a reasonable first approximation for the market value of a company is their annual revenue. After that other considerations may increase or reduce that value.
Re:Network Solutions redux by AHuxley · 2010-09-11 03:10 · Score: 1

In theory will someone come along with a much cheaper system?
With brand name 'buzz'? So in theory someone who is registered will on average renew their web product with the company they have been with.
What could change? Any massive drop in the core service price? Strange new site ID laws in the US?
So it seems safe but does it have any growth area?
A steady milking of users over years on a known product.

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Re:Network Solutions redux by Anonymous Coward · 2010-09-11 03:17 · Score: 0

Do you really think they have no costs? Your ignorance is astounding.
Re:Network Solutions redux by xous · 2010-09-11 03:42 · Score: 3, Insightful

Hi,
Anyone that uses gross revenue as the sole basis for valuating a company is an idiot. GoDaddy's profit margins on domains are next to insignificant as they are paying Versign $7.34 for every .COM registration. GoDaddy often sells domain registration at a loss to sell their extra services.
Re:Network Solutions redux by binarylarry · 2010-09-11 03:49 · Score: 1

Do you understand what revenue means?

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Re:Network Solutions redux by the+eric+conspiracy · 2010-09-11 04:09 · Score: 1

Read the fine posting. It said 'first approximation' denoting that it isn't unusual for a company to sell around its annual revenues. Some go for more, others less. Clearly other factors will be considered as people develop their specific bids.
Re:Network Solutions redux by xous · 2010-09-11 04:58 · Score: 1

I don't think I'd even use it for a rough approximation as it really does not describe the profitability of the company. It would be like looking for jobs and they each say: $1000, $100000, $1000000 without providing the period of time you earn it in. It could be a month, a year, or 100 years which changes things drastically and the numbers alone don't even hint at what is the better option.
Re:Network Solutions redux by Anonymous Coward · 2010-09-11 06:35 · Score: 0

Now that's a pointless analogy. Annual revenues have a time frame. So that number tells you something.
As you rudely pointed out, using that as a sole criteria when purchasing a company wouldn't be a good idea, but using it for a discussion on slashdot is just fine.
(niot the original poster)
Re:Network Solutions redux by Locutus · 2010-09-11 06:43 · Score: 2, Interesting

Interesting, so....

Maybe that 5 year deal with Microsoft for parking new websites on Windows IIS servers is ending so they don't know where to make profits this time. I would not leave out the option of Microsoft buying them just to keep Windows IIS marketshare numbers up and to possibly grow them.

If you don't know, Microsoft was paying GoDaddy to place parked web domains on Microsoft IIS based servers so that netcraft and other web server counting systems looked more favorable for Microsoft's web server( IIS ). Prior to that business deal, GoDaddy was parking domains on GNU/Linux apache based servers.

LoB

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Re:Network Solutions redux by zippthorne · 2010-09-11 06:48 · Score: 1

To be fair, you should've said "gross revenue." The way you wrote it has two interpretations, one of which makes you look stupid, therefore the AC chose to believe that's the one you meant.

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Re:Network Solutions redux by bsDaemon · 2010-09-11 14:50 · Score: 1

Of course they have costs, but that's not the point. Revenue is all the money they bring in, then profits are revenue - costs. If a company bringing in about a billion dollars a year in gross revenue isn't making any profit, then they're doing it wrong.
But the valuation of the company also has to include assets and liabilities. GoDadddy probably won't go for a $1bn, but I still think its not an unreasonable amount. That of course is given my complete lack of insider knowledge.
Re:Network Solutions redux by Anonymous Coward · 2010-09-11 21:24 · Score: 0

Keep in mind though, they don't really make any money on domain names themselves. They have to pay NetSol for the domain purchase. They basically break even on the domains to sell other services.
Re:Network Solutions redux by binarylarry · 2010-09-12 02:08 · Score: 0

What "other" kind of revenue would that be, o slashdot business guru?

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Re:Network Solutions redux by sp3d2orbit · 2010-09-12 05:00 · Score: 1

Nope this isn't how it works. GoDaddy pays ICANN a fee and the primary registrar for each domain. They used to sell NET/COM/ORG domains for $1.99 and pay $7.25, making up the difference on upsells. I don't know the fee now, but if they renew a domain for $10 they don't keep $10.
Re:Network Solutions redux by xous · 2010-09-12 06:06 · Score: 1

Lets make a better one then.
My brother works as a plumber and makes around $55k gross pay annually. I work as a technician consultant and make around 50k gross pay annually. Looking at these numbers alone would lead to the assumption that my brother's job is better than mine.
This is only true if do do not consider the expenses involved. I generally end up spending around $5k on technician toys, odd parts, lab supplies, office supplies, transportation, and other random expenses. My brother on the other hand spends between $400-500/mo just on fuel, 5k/yr on marketing, 200-400/mo on various tools, $400/mo on fast food, and generally spends around $600/yr keeping his van running.
When you add everything up it's not so clean and clear. I spent a lot more time on my ass screwing around still making money. (Retainer Fees). When he doesn't work he doesn't get paid. He also has to get up when there is all call because for some crazy reason he offers 24/7 services. When I get woken up I get paid double just for answering the phone.
Which is better? I really don't know. I likely get to keep more of the money I take home and I know I don't work as hard has he does. What it comes down to is that annual revenue is not a good measure of profitability. To me it seems akin to deciding which company is better based on what kind of car the CEO drives.
Re:Network Solutions redux by Kalriath · 2010-09-12 10:40 · Score: 1

Got any evidence that Microsoft was paying for it? Solid evidence?

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Re:Network Solutions redux by tehcyder · 2010-09-12 20:51 · Score: 1

Mod parent down, this is simply untrue. A company with annual turnover of one billion dollars, but annual losses of half a billion dollars for the foreseeable future has no value (unless there are some unique assets on the balance sheet, which is a separate issue).

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Re:Network Solutions redux by Anonymous Coward · 2010-09-13 18:14 · Score: 0

Do you understand what revenue means?
You said they make a billion dollars a year. So what I understand is that you are an idiot.

I need GoDaddy! by Anonymous Coward · 2010-09-11 02:26 · Score: 0

I bid one meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelion dollars!!! Muhahaha. C'est gagne, et la premier poste aussi!

This Is Why Privately-Owned Registrars Are Bad by the+roAm · 2010-09-11 02:26 · Score: 1, Interesting

Whoever buys it is able to do a rate hike and truly screw over pre-existing consumers, and that's just if they're feeling generous. There's far worse they could potentially do.

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Re:This Is Why Privately-Owned Registrars Are Bad by kestasjk · 2010-09-11 02:52 · Score: 1

Then again they do have advanced privacy protection for only $9.95 extra.

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Re:This Is Why Privately-Owned Registrars Are Bad by Anonymous Coward · 2010-09-11 02:53 · Score: 0

Then those customers can take their business elsewhere. At least there is competition in domain registrars these days. You must be an apple fan if you cannot see beyond the current supplier of a product.
Re:This Is Why Privately-Owned Registrars Are Bad by the+eric+conspiracy · 2010-09-11 03:05 · Score: 3, Insightful

If they do a big rate hike there will be a mass exodus.
It isn't like they have a massive customer goodwill or anything like that.
Re:This Is Why Privately-Owned Registrars Are Bad by AHuxley · 2010-09-11 03:13 · Score: 2, Informative

A rate hike for a product that is not unique? Thats hard. All you can do is keep most of the users happy long term and try and pull more in.
Good to hold long term but no instant bump of growth.

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Re:This Is Why Privately-Owned Registrars Are Bad by Anonymous Coward · 2010-09-11 03:22 · Score: 0

Well dammit! I just recently bought a domain there! MY domain! And now they're up for auction?
You mention "that's why privately owned registrars are bad". Can you give an example of a non-privately owned registrar? How can I actually OWN my own domain? Can I switch away from GoDaddy if they go berserk and still keep my own URL?
Re:This Is Why Privately-Owned Registrars Are Bad by Anonymous Coward · 2010-09-11 03:31 · Score: 0

Well, I'm good. I think within the past couple years, I renewed my domain until like 2018 at a very good discount. (I called them up and asked.)
Let's hope whoever buys them does the company good.
Re:This Is Why Privately-Owned Registrars Are Bad by Anonymous Coward · 2010-09-11 03:38 · Score: 0

How is that any different from any other type of business?
Re:This Is Why Privately-Owned Registrars Are Bad by DarkKnightRadick · 2010-09-11 03:46 · Score: 1

I didn't even notice the title.
Privately-owned registrars are GOOD. Shareholders care nothing for the customer, only their own pocket-books (though GoDaddy isn't known for their customer's goodwill).

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Re:This Is Why Privately-Owned Registrars Are Bad by Sudheer_BV · 2010-09-11 03:57 · Score: 2, Informative

Lot of companies offer domain transfer service. You transfer the domain to another registrar, pay for another year of renewal.

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Re:This Is Why Privately-Owned Registrars Are Bad by Anonymous Coward · 2010-09-11 16:29 · Score: 0

internet.bs has .com's for $7.49 with free whois protection per year... GoDaddy can't compete with that.
Re:This Is Why Privately-Owned Registrars Are Bad by Kalriath · 2010-09-12 11:04 · Score: 1

You can OWN your own domain by being ICANN. Otherwise, you can't.

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Ugly UI by Anonymous Coward · 2010-09-11 02:40 · Score: 3, Funny

Will bidders for GoDaddy have to use the same sort of hideous web interface that they make their users use? Shame that they will have to forgo that lovely experi- FOR EXTRA $5,000,000 YOU CAN HAVE 50% AOL STOCK IN OUR SuperStock Special Plus++ Plan!!!!! CLICK >HERE!

Re:Ugly UI by Anonymous Coward · 2010-09-11 03:11 · Score: 0

No, but if you place a bid with your real name and decide to not actually follow up on it... You'll find out that GoDaddy will "squat" your offer automatically for you.
Re:Ugly UI by Anonymous Coward · 2010-09-11 05:30 · Score: 0

Awesome. I actually stopped using them because of that shit.
Re:Ugly UI by nuclear305 · 2010-09-11 06:30 · Score: 1

Ugh. I used them for a year or two. Sure, it was easy signing up...but when I had multiple domains to renew every year I had to uncheck a dozen "option packages" on 4 different pages just to renew a domain. Transferring out to another registrar is even more of a pain. Despite following the exact steps required Godaddy still denied the transfer saying I had not responded.
I made sure to tell them the sole reason for my transferring my business to another registrar was solely based on their annoying website. I'd gladly pay their outrageous fees for things such as WHOIS privacy if only their website offered a basic, functional, non ad-ridden UI for managing my domains.
I sincerely hope one of two things happens: Either nobody buys them and they go out of business; or another decent company buys their assets and flushes the brand down the toilet. I know--I can dream.
Re:Ugly UI by xtracto · 2010-09-12 23:58 · Score: 1

Haha... tell me about.
Just some weeks ago I bought a domain main through Godaddy (the first ... and last time I made business with them) due to a brain-fart (as I have always had very good experience with other hosting company)
Their web interface to achieve the simplest domain name tasks is SO slow, horrible and stupid... I decided to transfer my domain to my usual host...

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Could we see a WikiLeaks dump by Compaqt · 2010-09-11 02:44 · Score: 3, Interesting

of GoDaddy's deep dark secrets?

Like the way they (supposedly) steal customer domain ideas after you whois a domain?

Somebody on the inside? How about it?

Also, does anybody have the link for that story from Slashdot a couple years ago, I can't find it.

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Re:Could we see a WikiLeaks dump by Anonymous Coward · 2010-09-11 03:07 · Score: 0

That was NetSol that was caught snapping up unregistered domains.
GoDaddy is shitty and horrible for many reasons, but that's not one.
Re:Could we see a WikiLeaks dump by RabidGoose · 2010-09-11 03:16 · Score: 1

Many different registrars have been accused or suspected of frontrunning. netsol got caught doing it. Others have probably done it. But for the most part accusations of registrars doing it are dubious at best. Not saying registrars are Snow White, and GD does have some deep dark secrets, but frontrunning is the least the lot of them has done.
Re:Could we see a WikiLeaks dump by Anonymous Coward · 2010-09-11 03:46 · Score: 0

If it does happen, it's almost surely very rare and only at the individual sales rep level, rather than some systemic corporate policy.
Re:Could we see a WikiLeaks dump by ILuvRamen · 2010-09-11 03:50 · Score: 1

I remember reading about that forward-registering scam from WHOIS searches but I'm pretty sure it wasn't godaddy. It was some foreign registrar. But I do hate Godaddy just because of their idiotic, low budget looking site and borderline spam signup process. Does anyone know a better alternative registrar?

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Re:Could we see a WikiLeaks dump by Anonymous Coward · 2010-09-11 04:10 · Score: 4, Informative

Domain tasting (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_tasting) essentially doesn't exist now. Back in Aug 2009 15 million domains were being tasted per month. Currently it is down to less than 60,000.
Icann adopted a 20 cent charge for each domain that was tasted. Beyond that, a number of TLDs upped the charge to several dollars.
It went from a totally free way for companies to check the value of domains to being a very expensive way.
Re:Could we see a WikiLeaks dump by theskipper · 2010-09-11 04:28 · Score: 3, Informative

I've used all the big names and Moniker.com or Namecheap.com come out on top imho.
The control panel UI is "better" at Namecheap but Moniker's is just fine too. Customer service is good at both. Namecheap has coupons to get the cost down to $9, Moniker is flat-out $9 for a .com.
Note that all registrars need to upsell (figure profit on a domain registration is only around $1). These two are comfortably subtle about it.
Neither do the scummy 60-day lock-in that Godaddy relies upon (i.e. no transfers for 60 days for any registration and/or whois changes).
Lots more detailed reasons but I'll stop there.
Bottom line is that there really is no reason to use Netsol or Godaddy.
Re:Could we see a WikiLeaks dump by asdf7890 · 2010-09-11 04:34 · Score: 1

Does anyone know a better alternative registrar?
Very much depends on what you want that would make one better over the others. I use NameCheap for most things these days, having used GoDaddy in the past. I took one domain with NC to take advantage of some special offer (I remember not what, it was some time ago) and found their interface to be a *lot* less spammy though that was not enough to make me want to bother switching my other existing domains. I came close to switching as the GoDaddy interface became progressively more irritating and finally switched over something small (again I remember not what, was it them who were allegedly paid to switch their domain holding servers to IIS to game the netcraft survey and similar stats? or it could just have been the increasingly immature impression the companies advertising gave off that I wanted to step away from).
Anyway. NC have done nothing to irritate me in the few years I've been using them, and the free SSL cert is sometimes worth having if they still have that offer on, but many registrars are pretty much the same where it really counts (you have a domain, your DNS reliably resolves) so shop around rather than taking my current preference as meaningful.
Re:Could we see a WikiLeaks dump by Anonymous Coward · 2010-09-11 04:44 · Score: 0

http://domainhelp.tucows.com/tucows-domain-promise/
If you have bunch of domains, just become a reseller and you have no shit interface. I plan to do just that with my GoDaddy domains soon.
Re:Could we see a WikiLeaks dump by Anonymous Coward · 2010-09-11 05:14 · Score: 0

Try internet.bs
Re:Could we see a WikiLeaks dump by HungryHobo · 2010-09-11 06:09 · Score: 2, Informative

accused?
you make it sound like there was some doubt that they did that.
When pricing a domain name for a friend I had to use a slightly altered domain name because after checking with the first registrar(godaddy in my first few tests) the domain would get locked in for (I think)72 hours so no other registrar could be used.
Essentially it locked people in to whatever service they checked the availability with first unless they were willing to arse around and wait for the registrars to unlock it.
It's shady as fuck and they seemed to have been forced to stop doing that since then.
Re:Could we see a WikiLeaks dump by Anonymous Coward · 2010-09-11 07:38 · Score: 0

Namecheap isn't great. Their URL redirect/page parking IP addresses have been blacklisted before, and when this happens they are unresponsive and may even go so far as to blame the customer for the problem, telling them to stop using the redirect service.
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=544386
http://www.wickedfire.com/shooting-shit/54698-namecheap-shutting-down-domains.html
http://www.dnforum.com/f34/blacklist-status-thread-97021.html
Re:Could we see a WikiLeaks dump by S.O.B. · 2010-09-11 11:32 · Score: 1

Does anyone know a better alternative registrar?
They're not the cheapest but I use Domains For You. They have a good selection of TLDs and they don't try to upsell you.

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Re:Could we see a WikiLeaks dump by BoberFett · 2010-09-11 12:45 · Score: 1

Are you sure? My wife started a business this year and when she searched GoDaddy.com to see if the domain was available prior to registering her business with the state. The domain (which was kind of a play on words, with a intentional misspelled version of a real word, so not something that would be randomly registered) was squatted on within a couple days. GoDaddy is shady and I'll never do business with them again. Even if they don't themselves register domains, the must sell the searches to 3rd parties, otherwise my wife wouldn't have had to choose a slightly worse domain that doesn't sync with her business name.
Re:Could we see a WikiLeaks dump by Reziac · 2010-09-11 15:06 · Score: 1

About a year ago I moved all my domains from GoDaddy, where they'd been since 1998, to 1&1, where I'd had web hosting since 2003 or so. GoDaddy was increasingly irritating (does their upselling never end??!); 1&1 was nice to start with and has done nothing but get better (got more for the same money as time went on, no marketing BS, and tech support always has Real Clues).
Having hosting and domains in the same place makes it real easy -- I use 1&1's control panel to point each domain at a subdirectory, and It Just Works. So far zero complaints from me.
Also, if a payment gets messed up (like from a dead credit card), they don't just nuke your account or freeze your domains; you get an inquiry from Billing, and a chance to fix it. They also make it easy to renew your expired domains, if you miss the date.
Shameless affiliate link:
http://www.1and1.com/?k_id=6761404

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Re:Could we see a WikiLeaks dump by X0563511 · 2010-09-12 00:44 · Score: 0

So... use your own nameservers and park it yourself. That service is a courtesy.

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Re:Could we see a WikiLeaks dump by Anonymous Coward · 2010-09-12 05:12 · Score: 0

I worked there, in my opinion the things I though were shady:
1) They have domain backordering for a certain price (like 19.99) that says you will get a domain once it is expired. The system was at one point designed to put it into the Domain Auctions first to see if they can get a higher price. Only then do they fulfill the domain backorder. I can't verify this still occurs.
2) If your credit card expires they will "guess" a new date until they find one.
I don't know why people complain about customer service. Internally the company is 98% customer service 2% engineering, which explains the technical problems. I've never seen a company do customer service better. But, Bob's not a nice person, his closest managers aren't very nice, and shit rolls down hill.
Re:Could we see a WikiLeaks dump by Kalriath · 2010-09-12 11:08 · Score: 1

1&1? The company that sends you to collections if you let your domain expire? Fuck that.

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Re:Could we see a WikiLeaks dump by Reziac · 2010-09-12 16:50 · Score: 1

I don't know about that story, but here's mine: A while back my domains-and-hosting bill, which should automatically go to my credit card, got rejected by said credit card (turns out the card was fubar'd after BofA ate MBNA). 1&1 could have simply cancelled my account, domains and all. Instead I got an email telling me about the problem. This was about a month after the bill originally fell due so apparently routine to do it on the next billing cycle. Anyway I redid the payment on a different card and life went on. No mention of any collection agency; the presumption evidently was that a good customer wishes to retain their account.
Before I moved my domains, I googled for complaints, under the theory that there was no use jumping from frypan to fire if there was something I didn't know (tho I already had a few domains at 1&1 without difficulty, and was already happier with them than I'd ever been with GoDaddy). I found very few for 1&1, and shitloads for GoDaddy. Something like 300 vs 30,000, if I recall right. Tho against the perspective of millions of customers, neither is a huge number.

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Let's buy it! by Anonymous Coward · 2010-09-11 02:45 · Score: 3, Interesting

I'm sure we could scrape together 1-2 measly billions. Who wants to setup the PayPal account for donations?

Re:Let's buy it! by Anonymous Coward · 2010-09-11 03:13 · Score: 0

I wadger 2billion quatloos!
Re:Let's buy it! by Anonymous Coward · 2010-09-11 03:36 · Score: 0

I'd love to set that PayPal account up for donations!
Just don't expect to get any of that money back if we don't raise enough...
Re:Let's buy it! by Anonymous Coward · 2010-09-11 03:40 · Score: 0

Put 2 billion dollars into a paypal account? Oh suuure, they just froze Notch's account with half a million euros in it and threatened to take it all for themselves. I'm sure they won't try anything if we stick nearly four times that amount into an account.
Re:Let's buy it! by formfeed · 2010-09-11 07:09 · Score: 2, Funny

That includes Danica Patrick?
Re:Let's buy it! by The+End+Of+Days · 2010-09-11 10:15 · Score: 2, Funny

With math skills like that, you are definitely not in charge of the money.
Re:Let's buy it! by whoop · 2010-09-11 16:08 · Score: 1

It's simple, just set it up like bittorents. Set up several thousand accounts, putting just a bit into each. Then when the time comes to make the deal, do a mass transfer of all them to GoDaddy's account, and voila.

Going... by shikaisi · 2010-09-11 03:02 · Score: 2, Funny

... going... Gone Daddy

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Re:Going... by tomhudson · 2010-09-11 03:55 · Score: 4, Funny

Already taken. gonedaddy.net is available, and so is gonedaddy.org

Domain Name: GONEDADDY.COM
Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, LLC.
Whois Server: whois.networksolutions.com
Referral URL: http://www.networksolutions.com/
Name Server: NS.ARTNET.NET
Name Server: NS2.ANET.NET
Status: clientTransferProhibited
Updated Date: 21-jun-2010
Creation Date: 23-jun-1999
Expiration Date: 23-jun-2011

goatdaddy.com is also taken (no, I am NOT going to click on the link and see where it leads), foedaddy.com, gomommy.com, nogodaddy.com, goaddy.com, g0daddy.com, but h0daddy.com is availabile, and so is goatdaddie.com. Knock yourselves out.
Re:Going... by SpzToid · 2010-09-11 05:20 · Score: 1

Yeah. Internet domain names are like most of the women out there. All the ones that I could probably have any serious, long-term interest in, worth committing to, well they were already spoken for and taken a long time ago.

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Re:Going... by tomhudson · 2010-09-11 05:54 · Score: 1

Yeah. Internet domain names are like most of the women out there. All the ones that I could probably have any serious, long-term interest in, worth committing to, well they were already spoken for and taken a long time ago.

And women say "All the good men are either married or have boyfriends." :-)
It's simply not true that all the good domain names are taken. Sure, I've seen people register longdomainnameatsoandsoplaceihavenoida.com because they have no imagination, but the supply of good short names is nowhere near depleted, even in the dot.com hierarchy. I picked up a nice 6-character one this year in the com, org, and net tlds. You just have to be a bit imaginative.
Re:Going... by Anonymous Coward · 2010-09-11 08:40 · Score: 0

But what about GONADDADDY.COM? Inquiring minds want to know...
Re:Going... by Anonymous Coward · 2010-09-11 09:59 · Score: 0

Already taken. gonedaddy.net is available, and so is gonedaddy.org
goatdaddy.com is also taken (no, I am NOT going to click on the link and see where it leads), foedaddy.com, gomommy.com, nogodaddy.com, goaddy.com, g0daddy.com, but h0daddy.com is availabile, and so is goatdaddie.com. Knock yourselves out.
I can't believe you haven't tried goatsedaddy.com (unless you just registered it yourself!).
Re:Going... by Anonymous Coward · 2010-09-11 10:21 · Score: 1, Insightful

Wrong. They exist, in fact they're downright common. But with that attitude you will never meet them.
Re:Going... by MyFirstNameIsPaul · 2010-09-11 11:21 · Score: 1

I just picked up an 8 letter and a 5 letter .com domain, both totally easy. As far as women, it could be that SpzToid lives in the Man Jose Area.

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Re:Going... by tomhudson · 2010-09-11 14:02 · Score: 1

A 5-letter. Sweet!
While I *did* come across a 5-letter, I settled for the 6-letter one instead because I just knew people were going to mis-type it (and the 6-letter was available for all 3 of the "good" TLDs, and had never been registered before, whereas the 5-letter was a lapsed registration).
I ignore anything that's not com|org|net; if I get the com, I don't really care about the other 2 - they're just a bonus, and if I can't get com, I won't bother with the other 2 anyway.
.aero, .biz, .coop (let's face it, the only good domain name in .coop is chicken.coop), info, .jobs (hey, Steve has his own TLD), .museum, .name, .travel - these are all garbage for registrars to make more money from businesses and individuals with no imagination. It must work, which is a sad commentary.
The country tlds? I think you'll agree that she sums it up.
Re:Going... by Reziac · 2010-09-11 15:38 · Score: 1

Amazingly, chicken.coop is actually a website about a chicken-processing co-op.
I can think of one other .coop worth having, but can't see why I'd want to spend the $8. :)

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Re:Going... by Anonymous Coward · 2010-09-11 19:41 · Score: 0

But you can still get a nice foreign one without paying too much.
Re:Going... by X0563511 · 2010-09-12 00:47 · Score: 1

... and nothing of value was lost.

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Re:Going... by tomhudson · 2010-09-12 05:21 · Score: 1

Someone actually wasted money on s.coop They're trying to palm it off as a url-shortening service (though it would have been cooler to be either an ice cream or news site).

I can think of one other .coop worth having, but can't see why I'd want to spend the $8. :)

It's more like $74.00, $120.00, or $90.00 a year. And in their stats section, you'll see that a state that has 14 coop domains registered lists the same domain a dozen times (Alabama - I picked the first state in the list). Talk about puffing up your numbers.
And the registrars are dropping support - the second one that I tried that's supposedly accredited (EuroDNS) has dropped it, as has nameisp. p.coop is dying. Oh wait, more like "dot coop? He's dead, Jim!"
Re:Going... by Reziac · 2010-09-12 06:11 · Score: 1

*cough*gasp*choke*
Okay, I can see spending the money for what chicken.coop is, because that one makes sense (good pun, appropriate content), but otherwise... this falls under More Money Than Brains.
But so do most of the alternative TLDs... or else under "What were they thinking??!"
So if you want to register flewthe.coop, feel free, cuz I ain't gonna do it ;)

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Re:Going... by tomhudson · 2010-09-12 06:49 · Score: 1

flewthe.coop - nice, but not $80 a year nice. Definitely in the More Money Than Brains department. Still, I remember when everyone had to go through netsol - back in the $100 per year per domain days.
When I let it lapse because I had no further use for that project, someone else bought it, let it lapse after they couldn't sell it, and now someone else has been trying to sell it for the last decade (which will be kind of hard - they don't even have the name resolving to a parked site, which tells you how low-traffic it is). Some people really need to learn about sunk costs.
Re:Going... by Reziac · 2010-09-12 07:46 · Score: 1

I picked up one of my .coms (that I actually use for regular stuff) after some squatter let it lapse, tho the .net is still squatted -- but apparently to no great success as like your example, it isn't even parked anywhere. I gather bulk domains can cost as little as a buck per year, but still, I'd think it hardly worthwhile to keep a stable of stuff that's not even worth a parking page, so it's not even advertising itself. I wonder if some such domains just get lost in the shuffle when a squatter has thousands of 'em, way too many to remember what they've got or even automate their management to best profit. (As you say, throwing good money after bad and all that.)
I picked up another after a company that had used it went out of business and let it lapse... I'd used the same business name years before they existed, tho it's not really doing anything useful at the moment.
I've got several 6-letter domains, but it never occurred to me to think in those terms -- more like "Is this a name I can use, or that represents *me*, or that I like simply for itself?" and the length is whatever it is.

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Re:Going... by tomhudson · 2010-09-12 09:08 · Score: 1

I only look for domains that I think I might have a use for at some future date, so my searches are pretty narrowly focused. Then, when I have some spare time, I'll get around to doing something with it. For example, it took me a year to get around to actually using alphagfx.com and I ended up using it for something different from what I originally intended. Funny how that works out.
Re:Going... by Reziac · 2010-09-12 09:20 · Score: 1

Yeah, I've had the same thing happen... no plan survives contact with the internet ;)
And I don't go grabbing a bunch just to have 'em; I've only got a dozen or so and at least have SOME notion what they're good for, or else they're a word or businessname that is already associated with me (like my longtime usernames). And a couple I manage for other folks.
If everyone did like us, there wouldn't be this squatter market in the first place. It occurs to me to wonder how much of GoDaddy's billion-dollar value is in squatted names, and what percentage are real sites (if I were bidding, I'd want to know this). And I'm also wondering if some squatted domains will fall out of the system and become available to the real world, when the company is sold.

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Re:Going... by tomhudson · 2010-09-12 09:43 · Score: 1

Just look at all the parked domains that are "monetized". Google has over 20 million domains under adsense for domains.
Throw in the others, and you've probably got 20% to 30% (there are private companies that also have millions of domains "under management") of the internet that's typo-squatting or otherwise "monetized." Often without the owners knowledge - they registered it, but never got around to using it, so instead of serving up a "not found", the registrar squats it.
Then add all the affiliate marketing scammers that do the same thing - and then add the meta-scammers, the SEO and SEM "experts", and the Internet is no better today than it was back in the days of CoolWebSearch - just that the big boys have made it legal, and for others to participate.
Re:Going... by Reziac · 2010-09-12 10:22 · Score: 1

I've run into a lot of those forgotten domains being "montetized" by the registrar... nothing but damned irritating, they are... all of mine are at least pointed at *some* real site.
I had fun with one SEO outfit that tried to sell me some keywords... while the Nice Young Salesman was giving me his spiel, I looked up their company's own website's traffic, and it was only about 10% of what I already get on my main site. (A datum which rather flummoxed said NYS.) And here's the big question: if my site is so hard to find, how did *they* find it?? ;)
I did recently hear from someone who wanted to buy one of my domains for his new business... no, sorry, I've used that business name since 1975, and you really should find a different one or *mine* will steal all *your* traffic.

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Re:Going... by vaniderstine · 2010-09-13 00:19 · Score: 1

goatdaddy.com is parked at godaddy.com.

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Go Daddy? by jmerlin · 2010-09-11 03:17 · Score: 0

Do not want.

Oh great... by kilodelta · 2010-09-11 03:20 · Score: 1

I've got about a half dozen domains registered with them. What the hell do I do now?

Re:Oh great... by Anonymous Coward · 2010-09-11 03:28 · Score: 0

Absolutely nothing, until you have a reason to.
Re:Oh great... by Anonymous Coward · 2010-09-11 03:31 · Score: 0

Why do you think you should do anything?
It's sad how many supposedly smart people on here don't even think about what's going on and just jump to retarded conclusions.
Learn to fucking read and figure what to do now for yourself.
Re:Oh great... by jeepien · 2010-09-11 04:09 · Score: 2, Funny

I've got about a half dozen domains registered with them. What the hell do I do now?
I dunno. What the hell have you been doing up till now?
Re:Oh great... by kilodelta · 2010-09-11 04:19 · Score: 1

Well they don't expire anywhere from 1 to 3 years. So I'm good.
Re:Oh great... by Anonymous Coward · 2010-09-11 06:46 · Score: 0

They might end up in the hands of the good guys, like say, Microsoft.
Re:Oh great... by Larryish · 2010-09-11 07:03 · Score: 1

Transfer them to Domainsite.com
Good price points, and customer support there rocks. The company owner has actually called me a few times when I had database trouble with their backend.
Re:Oh great... by Anonymous Coward · 2010-09-11 13:42 · Score: 0

Ha-ha! Idiot.

This Is Why Privately-Owned Companies Are Bad by Luke+has+no+name · 2010-09-11 03:26 · Score: 4, Funny

Whoever buys it is able to do a rate hike and truly screw over pre-existing consumers, and that's just if they're feeling generous. There's far worse they could potentially do.

Everything should be owned by the Government! That way no-one would ever be screwed over.

Re:This Is Why Privately-Owned Companies Are Bad by CaptainNerdCave · 2010-09-11 04:26 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Troll? Is Saturday the day when everyone's sarcasm detector is off? If I had mod points left, I would be giving this something positive.
Re:This Is Why Privately-Owned Companies Are Bad by Anonymous Coward · 2010-09-11 06:26 · Score: 0, Insightful

This was a good example of the manipulation I've witnessed here. There is a group with mod points here that is completely against any private industry and any religion. It started around November of 2008. I'm still trying to figure out if they still think they have any influence at all.
Re:This Is Why Privately-Owned Companies Are Bad by Anonymous Coward · 2010-09-11 07:01 · Score: 1, Funny

Whoever buys it is able to do a rate hike and truly screw over pre-existing consumers, and that's just if they're feeling generous. There's far worse they could potentially do.
Everything should be owned by the Government! That way no-one would ever be screwed over.
That could quite possibly be the dumbest thing I've ever read on /.
No one has EVER been screwed over by the government, right?
There's really no reply to this Idiot, and it is obvious he was taught in a government school...
Re:This Is Why Privately-Owned Companies Are Bad by ep32g79 · 2010-09-11 08:42 · Score: 2, Funny

Sarcasm meter broken today?
Re:This Is Why Privately-Owned Companies Are Bad by tehcyder · 2010-09-12 20:57 · Score: 1

I think the GP was so far over your head you wouldn't even hear the whoosh.

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Re:This Is Why Privately-Owned Companies Are Bad by tehcyder · 2010-09-12 21:01 · Score: 1

There is a group with mod points here that is completely against any private industry and any religion.

But being ruled by greed and fear is good, how can anyone even dare to question this?

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I think they overvalue themselves... by damn_registrars · 2010-09-11 03:42 · Score: 1, Interesting

I don't know that GoDaddy (or any internet registrar, for that matter) really needs to advertise at the superbowl - or any other mainstream television event. Every super bowl since they've started advertising, I've had to explain to at least one person what GoDaddy is and what they do; which generally leads to a rather long discussion of why it matters at all.

They should have been smart enough to realize that anyone who needs their services already knows who they are. I highly doubt there was a Joe Six-Pack watching the super bowl who arrived at the idea after seeing the ad to go look up what a GoDaddy is, and then buy a new domain name from them.

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Re:I think they overvalue themselves... by Anonymous Coward · 2010-09-11 04:09 · Score: 2, Interesting

Lots of contractors, realtors, etc. that watch the Superbowl have their own websites. Problem is, very nearly all of them pay someone else to create and/or manage it, which includes selecting the domain register. So I guess I agree with you, although the effects of advertising are never easy to estimate.
Re:I think they overvalue themselves... by Anonymous Coward · 2010-09-11 04:28 · Score: 0

I don't know that GoDaddy (or any internet registrar, for that matter) really needs to advertise at the superbowl - or any other mainstream television event. Every super bowl since they've started advertising, I've had to explain to at least one person what GoDaddy is and what they do; which generally leads to a rather long discussion of why it matters at all.
No. It builds the broader market of setting up an internet website to the unwashed masses.
Re:I think they overvalue themselves... by anomnomnomymous · 2010-09-11 04:29 · Score: 5, Insightful

They should have been smart enough to realize that anyone who needs their services already knows who they are.

So, you're saying that pretty much any big brand might as well stop advertising?
Everyone knows Coca Cola by now... They might as well stop advertising, because anyone feels like cola, they just buy Coca Cola!

And most commercials don't work directly: It's just for those moments when the consumer actually wants to buy a domain, the name will ring a bell. At such time, GoDaddy is more likely to be chosen by someone with not enough knowledge of what is important in a webhost; but they'll be remembered by those 'funny' commercials at the Superbowl.

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Re:I think they overvalue themselves... by billsayswow · 2010-09-11 04:30 · Score: 2, Interesting

My father never heard of the place, or thought about anything related to domain names, until he saw commercials for GoDaddy. Now he makes a decent sum of money on the side, simply by registering and selling domain names, speculating.
Re:I think they overvalue themselves... by Voyager529 · 2010-09-11 06:06 · Score: 1

Manual mod +1 insightful. GoDaddy's advertising isn't necessarily direct like soap and gatorade, but it does breed familiarity so when people go to make a website, "Godaddy" is the only name they've heard of.
Re:I think they overvalue themselves... by Anonymous Coward · 2010-09-11 06:09 · Score: 0

Your father is a horrible person. He contributes nothing, merely creates inefficiency to profit himself.
Re:I think they overvalue themselves... by damn_registrars · 2010-09-11 07:04 · Score: 1

They should have been smart enough to realize that anyone who needs their services already knows who they are.

So, you're saying that pretty much any big brand might as well stop advertising?

No, I'm saying GoDaddy's advertising is futile.

Everyone knows Coca Cola by now... They might as well stop advertising, because anyone feels like cola, they just buy Coca Cola!
That isn't even remotely a reasonable comparison. Most people who are alive today have had a soda of some sort, somewhere, or will before they die. It might not be coke or pepsi, but if you say soda (or pop, or coke, or whatever term is used in their part of the world) to them they will know what you mean. On the other hand, domain registrars have a very limited market. Even amongst the fraction of the world that uses the internet plenty of people have no idea what a domain registrar is or why they would ever want to use one. Even amongst the people who might decide they want a website this year, few of them will actually care what registrar they use - they will likely let whoever sets up and hosts their website pick a registrar for them. For that matter, many people don't even know the difference between web hosting and domain registration.

It's just for those moments when the consumer actually wants to buy a domain, the name will ring a bell.
You're making the assumption that the people who are likely to buy domains to start websites in the coming years will actually care who they buy that domain from. Being as many people who will be buying in the future will likely be less technically proficient than those who have purchased in the past, the likelihood of those consumers making the purchase decision on their own is not very high.

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Re:I think they overvalue themselves... by Anonymous Coward · 2010-09-11 07:17 · Score: 0

Yes, Coca-Cola should stop advertising. The inserts for the CD 'Dispepsi' by Negativland explain why both companies (Coke and Pepsi) should stop advertising, if they both did it the resulting change in sales patterns would be negligible and all that cash is freed up to do... well Negativland probably wanted it spent on orphans or something, I don't remember. But anything really.
Re:I think they overvalue themselves... by Anonymous Coward · 2010-09-11 09:34 · Score: 0

Go, Daddy!
Re:I think they overvalue themselves... by Anonymous Coward · 2010-09-11 09:35 · Score: 0

Wow, you're really not giving up on your moronic idea huh? Ok, so just out of curiosity which other tech companies are so big they no longer need to advertise? Seems like if you're right about it having no impact on sales those companies could save billions of dollars in advertising expenses every year. Maybe you could get rich as a consultant by selling them the idea! Has this idea actually worked at any of the companies you've done marketing consulting for, or are real world examples not required because it's just "common sense"?
Re:I think they overvalue themselves... by billsayswow · 2010-09-11 16:03 · Score: 1

Yes and no. Sure it creates a bit of inefficiency, sure he doesn't have much work to do beyond the speculation... but you say this as if almost all business in the world doesn't involve an endless series of middlemen.
Re:I think they overvalue themselves... by Kalriath · 2010-09-12 11:15 · Score: 1

Oh. So your father is one of those scumbags.

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Re:I think they overvalue themselves... by billsayswow · 2010-09-13 08:28 · Score: 1

Scumbag? Cute. It's not the most noble act in the world, yes, but it really isn't that much different than real estate speculation. Buy a tract of land you think will be desirable, and wait for someone to want it.

It's a rat's nest in there. by Anonymous Coward · 2010-09-11 03:56 · Score: 0

It's full of windows machines running customer websites. Who want's that kind of headache?

Advertisements by fermion · 2010-09-11 04:15 · Score: 3, Interesting

I don't normally complain about advertisements posing as articles, but as many of us know Godaddy is well known for board line ethics in the drive for profits and no regard for customers. There is nothing wrong with this, but I simply choose not to do business with them. All my domains have been resisted elsewhere for years. This sale, I suspect is the result of such shady er edgy, business practices.

What practices? The most telling is the holding of domain names hostage. Any expired domain is held hostage for an amount of time until someone pays the release fee, above and beyond the registration fee. Some business will fall for this tric, but I suspect it is mostly the small user that gets hurt, losing a domain because in the pressures of family and work a domain was not renewed prior to expiration. What same person would work with such a company? Is it any wonder they are selling?

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Re:Advertisements by Anonymous Coward · 2010-09-11 07:56 · Score: 0

You, sir, are an uneducated idiot. Please read up on what you are accusing someone of before you publicly ridicule yourself. Redemption fees are not charged by the registrar and are from the registry itself (google it, I am sure you are confused already)
Re:Advertisements by Anonymous Coward · 2010-09-11 12:08 · Score: 0

board line
WTF? I think you mean "borderline".
Re:Advertisements by ajhtiredwolf · 2010-09-13 04:57 · Score: 1

ok... hold on there. So your complaint is after a domain has "expired" they hold on to it a while and charge you extra to get it back. When I had a godaddy domain name they sent me a bajillion emails when the domain came up for renewal. If you don't renew the domain name then that is entirely your fault, you need to keep up with a domain name that is important to you. Now if instead of just releasing it back to the public they hold on to it for you and for a fee will give it back, that sounds pretty reasonable to be honest. The bottum line is, if it was important to you, they do everything on their end to remind you, and you should be doing everything on your end to make sure you keep that domain, ( you should probably have it on auto renew anyway) if it is a domain you dont care that much about then just wait till it expires and rebuy it from a different registrar. Also they give you i think 3 weeks after it has expired to recover it without a fee, really man, godaddy does some shady stuff, but this isnt one of them, this sounds like something you messed up on

edgy advertising? no. by Anonymous Coward · 2010-09-11 04:32 · Score: 2, Insightful

Their ads are not edgy, they're moronic. Slutty girls have been done before, oh like a trillion quintillion times. GoDaddy is a terrible registrar; their service stinks and they are spammer-friendly. If they are acquired, the purchaser is going to inherit a lot of problems.

Re:edgy advertising? no. by leonem · 2010-09-11 09:23 · Score: 1

Slutty girls have been done before, oh like a trillion quintillion times.
Well quite.
Re:edgy advertising? no. by Zorque · 2010-09-11 22:20 · Score: 1

The best part is that the ads aren't even titillating, and I can't think of a single person who would go watch their "UNRATED" stuff when there's probably nothing going on that can't be shown on TV (I don't know, I've never wasted my time checking). Whoever is in charge of the marketing is either a man who has a low opinion of other guys or a woman who doesn't really understand what we find erotic.

Worst Commercials ever..... by Brad1138 · 2010-09-11 04:41 · Score: 3, Interesting

I like scantily clad women as much as the next guy, but the Go Daddy commercials are the worst commercials I have ever seen, regardless of how many bimbos they put in them. I was very disappointed in Danica Patrick for selling out to them. She completely lost all respect she had earned as the best or most prominent female Indy/Nascar driver (for the most part, I don't watch Car racing). But more to the point, the commercials are so blatantly, "we must be great, we show bimbos on TV". Hopefully they will go way with new ownership.

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Re:Worst Commercials ever..... by Anonymous Coward · 2010-09-11 05:43 · Score: 0

Go Daddy is the Carl's Jr. of domain registrars.
Re:Worst Commercials ever..... by Anonymous Coward · 2010-09-11 06:00 · Score: 0

I, OTOH, didn't even know there was a hottie racing cars until she became all slo-moed & chesty to get my attention for them. I think, rather than have the world change for you, you simply need to limit your viewing habits.
Wonder if the marketing department is going to stay the same there...
Re:Worst Commercials ever..... by sirrunsalot · 2010-09-11 06:18 · Score: 1

SSSSEEEEEEEEXXXXXXXX!!!!!!!!! sells. I actually started a list of companies whose advertising/business practices disgust me. GoDaddy is on the list.
Re:Worst Commercials ever..... by zippthorne · 2010-09-11 06:57 · Score: 1

like scantily clad women as much as the next guy, but ...
I submit that you do not.

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Re:Worst Commercials ever..... by Brad1138 · 2010-09-11 07:12 · Score: 1

I submit that you do not.
Hey, I am married... so........, maybe you are right.... :)

It is about how the commercials are done, there is no tact what so ever, they just throw them up there for the sake of throwing them up there. If I want to look at nearly naked or naked women, I can do a lot better than their commercials or web site.

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Re:Worst Commercials ever..... by jewishbaconzombies · 2010-09-11 07:22 · Score: 1

I guess John C Dvorak's "Cranky Geeks" are going to have to get another sponser.
Re:Worst Commercials ever..... by omnichad · 2010-09-11 10:25 · Score: 1

Except that Godaddy doesn't even talk about the product in their commercials.
Re:Worst Commercials ever..... by salesgeek · 2010-09-11 13:38 · Score: 1

I was very disappointed in Danica Patrick for selling out to them. She completely lost all respect she had earned as the best or most prominent female Indy/Nascar driver (for the most part, I don't watch Car racing).
Turns out Danica was overrated. My daughters (who live in Indianapolis, and therefore are constantly exposed to motor sports) all seem to like Sarah Fisher more than Danica because Sarah just drives. And owns her own team.

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Re:Worst Commercials ever..... by Anonymous Coward · 2010-09-11 15:17 · Score: 0

Danica Patrick had respect as a racer? From what I saw she was a bimbo who conned people into giving her top notch support--the kind of support other drivers spends years working for--and producing mediocre results with it.
Re:Worst Commercials ever..... by Anonymous Coward · 2010-09-12 08:43 · Score: 0

I like scantily clad women as much as the next guy, but the Go Daddy commercials are the worst commercials I have ever seen, regardless of how many bimbos they put in them. I was very disappointed in Danica Patrick for selling out to them. She completely lost all respect she had earned as the best or most prominent female Indy/Nascar driver (for the most part, I don't watch Car racing). But more to the point, the commercials are so blatantly, "we must be great, we show bimbos on TV". Hopefully they will go way with new ownership.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danica_Patrick says 97 races and 1 win. Good thing you had all that respect for her...

In up to my pits.. by SuperCharlie · 2010-09-11 06:14 · Score: 3, Interesting

I have 20 or so domains registered there.. a lot for my personal biz stuff.. and any time you mess with the technical stack of bb's it makes ya nervous. Yes, their web interface is a gaudy heavy wtf nightmare, yes their hosting is hell in a handbasket, but I have never had a problem with their registrar services and once I set up or change a domain name it propogates usually in less than an hour and never has any problems afterwards and they have always always been one of the least expensive options for registering domains. It makes me terribly nervous to see this go up for sale.

Re:In up to my pits.. by HawaiianToast · 2010-09-11 08:31 · Score: 1

I can't even name another registrar off the top of my head I've been using godaddy so long. Their hosting is shit, no doubt about that, I made that mistake more than once, but I never had a problem with my domains. I wonder if this could spark a run? I had a momentary urge to move all my domains out of godaddy when I read this headline. I just wouldn't know where to go.
Re:In up to my pits.. by TheSpoom · 2010-09-11 09:43 · Score: 1

I'm of about the same opinion as yourself. Everyone here seems to be talking a lot of shit about GoDaddy but they've been cheap and they've worked for me for at least five years now. Their web interface isn't great, but it does the job. I've never needed to call them.

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Re:In up to my pits.. by Cluelessthanzero · 2010-09-11 09:53 · Score: 0

agree. They offer cheap registration, their DNS servers are reliable, the webgui to configure them is straight forward. I don't know about their hosting and I can imagine that it sux, but frankly, why would a /.er host on godaddy?
Re:In up to my pits.. by SuperCharlie · 2010-09-11 18:22 · Score: 1

I thought the same thing and started looking for registrars, then looked at the procedure to move and decided Id ride it out instead of risking down time.

everyone.. by PPNSteve · 2010-09-11 06:29 · Score: 1

EVERYONE, who is in a position to know, knows (No)GoDaddy sucks big time and would never use or recommend any of their services.

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Yuo F4il It by Anonymous Coward · 2010-09-11 06:30 · Score: -1, Flamebait

by BSDI who sell already aware, *bSD development. BSD Usenet pcosts.

Alternatives? by Camel+Pilot · 2010-09-11 07:45 · Score: 1

I despise Godaddy's upsell hell interface and their advertising is crude. Anyone here have recommendations or share experiences on alternatives?

Re:Alternatives? by Rei · 2010-09-11 08:48 · Score: 1

If you don't mind a german registrar, I use Joker.com. I used to have some problems with them, but for the last several years, it's been smooth sailing.

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Re:Alternatives? by annodomini · 2010-09-11 09:40 · Score: 1

gandi.net is a much better registrar, and DreamHost is a much better host (and registrar as well).
Dump GoDaddy, make the switch, you'll be happier.
Re:Alternatives? by PCM2 · 2010-09-11 10:12 · Score: 1

Joker.com isn't German, it's Swiss. (They do speak some German in Switzerland, though.)

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Re:Alternatives? by bill_mcgonigle · 2010-09-12 12:33 · Score: 1

I use DynDNS for nearly all my registrations (I have the one with my NS elsewhere, just to keep not all my eggs in one basket). Also send my clients there.
I know a few of the guys who work at the office, and they're all great upstanding folk, and their management has a stellar local reputation.
So they're $15 instead of $8. $7/year doesn't make any difference to me for anything that has value. If you're a domain squatter you should probably look elsewhere.

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The commercials suck by Anonymous Coward · 2010-09-11 07:50 · Score: 0

Good! I'm glad they may be bought out, maybe then we won't have to bear the commercials thought up by a dirty old man anymore.

Re:The commercials suck by Rei · 2010-09-11 08:53 · Score: 2, Insightful

It's actually a brilliant ad campaign. An offensive, brilliant campaign.
Domain registrars have the same problem re, advertising that the oil industry has: they're all selling almost the exact same stuff. There's little to distinguish one registrar from another, especially for your average person who doesn't know that much about DNS. There are vast numbers of registrars out there, all of who want you to buy the same thing from them. But if you make a really offensive ad campaign, everyone starts talking about you. All of the sudden, everyone knows *your* name, not anyone else's. Sure, a large chunk of them will be too offended to ever buy from you. But of the rest, those who are only mildly offended may still buy from you, and those who aren't offended or even like it will buy from you as well. You set yourself apart by creating a scandal over something that isn't in the slightest controversial (domain names).

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GoDaddy stories on Slashdot by Futurepower(R) · 2010-09-11 08:22 · Score: 3, Interesting

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.

No surprise here by grikdog · 2010-09-11 09:08 · Score: 2, Informative

Bob Parsons sold his previous company, Parsons Technology, purveyors of home accounting, home Bible concordance, home taxes, home legalese software, to Intuit (who sold it to Brøderbund) after Microsoft passed on the deal, so it's not surprising GoDaddy is on the block. He blazed a few new trails through the personal computing woods, I'll give him that, but he was more of a Davey Crockett than a Daniel Boone. Has a penchant for Alamos.

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Re:No surprise here by sp3d2orbit · 2010-09-12 05:17 · Score: 1

Bob Parsons was at the right place at the right time and sold a 2nd rate Tax Software package to Inuit who was afloat in internet bubble money. He took the 250 million or so, gave half to his ex-wife and burned through almost $125 million dollars before making GoDaddy.com profitable. He's not a Davey Crockett or a Daniel Boone -- he's bad business man who got lucky once and is still living off the fats of others' labors.
Re:No surprise here by grikdog · 2010-09-13 01:34 · Score: 1

Crockett, Alamo? You're right. Too subtle for the masses.

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Good time to sell... by ibsteve2u · 2010-09-11 09:12 · Score: 1

The GoDaddy folks may just be reading the tea leaves...when you have judges saying that merely being on the 'net strips you of privacy while simultaneously all kinds of money and power are being brought to bear to strip the 'net of its neutrality, the value of the 'net as a means of discourse and information exchange may be about to plummet.

How long is America going to want to pay the ever bigger bucks required for 'net access for the privilege of being legally spied upon and the ever increasing probability that they'll be preempted by "higher priority traffic" when all they'll get out of using the 'net is one never-ending stream of political propaganda and commercials?

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I find their SSL great, too. by MyFirstNameIsPaul · 2010-09-11 11:11 · Score: 1

I'm no security expert, but as far as I can tell GoDaddy SSL is as good as anyone's SSL, except it's way cheaper.

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Move your domains now! by GrantRobertson · 2010-09-11 11:48 · Score: 3, Interesting

What a lot of people don't seem to know about GoDaddy is that they don't actually register your domain in your name. They register the domain in their name and then "license" you to use it. At least this is the way they worked several years ago. I discovered this when I was helping a customer set up his web site hosting. He had gone online and registered the domain with GoDaddy - because they advertise a lot - but could not figure anything else out on his own. When I checked into things to help him get the rest set up, I discovered that he wasn't even listed as the owner of the domain. I called GoDaddy's "customer support" only to have them explain that this was for their customer's "protection." They said it was to prevent anyone from stealing someone else's domain but he couldn't explain how it was any different with GoDaddy owning the domain instead of the customer. Over and over again, the "customer service" person tried to hard sell me while ignoring my questions about how I could get my customer's domain actually put in his own name. After intense grilling, the representative admitted that GoDaddy policies do (did) allow for them to assert control of your domains for almost any reason at all, yet he assured me that they would never actually do that. ... Ha!

If they still have the same policy in place (and I will leave it up to others to check on that, as I am certainly not going to try hassling with them ever again) then this could be a disaster for anyone with a valuable domain name that is registered with GoDaddy. This "Sale" could amount to a cashing in on all those domain names they have collected. Domain names that they claim to own while only "licensing" them to the person who registered them. The new owner could easily claim they had bought all those domains and begin auctioning them off to the highest bidder. I'm not saying that they would, but it seems entirely possible and not worth the risk for anyone with a valuable domain name.

Therefore, if anyone has any domain names registered with GoDaddy, then I highly suggest you get them moved to a different registrar ASAP.

Re:Move your domains now! by nacturation · 2010-09-11 14:18 · Score: 2, Interesting

I manage dozens of domain names all with GoDaddy as the registrar. I have never seen this once. The only exception is if you choose their privacy service, in which case it uses a GoDaddy contact so as to hide your information... but that's not required and every registrar that offers whois privacy services does exactly the same thing.

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Re:Move your domains now! by Reziac · 2010-09-11 15:46 · Score: 1

Actually, the parent post is correct; that was why I chose NOT to use their privacy service even after it became free -- because when I read the fine print, I learned that GoDaddy became the OWNER of the domain, and held it for me as a sort of proxy. But I would no longer OWN it.
Conversely, when I asked 1&1 (my current registrar) about "private" domains, I was flatly informed that I would still own it, they just hide my contact info (it still goes to me, but via an email proxy).

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Re:Move your domains now! by GrantRobertson · 2010-09-11 17:11 · Score: 1

As I had said, it was several years ago when I discovered this. Perhaps, back then, all accounts automatically were "private." I don't know.

But I would certainly not want my domains to be registered with them now, regardless of what they say now. Anyone who would EVER even consider such a policy is not a place I would ever want to do business with.
Re:Move your domains now! by Reziac · 2010-09-11 17:43 · Score: 1

No, domains weren't automatically private, but they pushed the feature hard in their upsell crap. Originally because it was an extra charge, later I'd guess as a convenient form of "customer loyalty, like it or not". I don't know if it was ever the default for new registrations, but it wouldn't surprise me if it was for a while, and many people would simply not notice yet another tickbox among the clutter.
At any rate, what with their accumulation of bad policies, they've lost me for good; I spirited all my domains away to 1&1, who were already making me happy with good hosting. Life is much easier now, and feels less risky, too. :)

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GoDaddy on Slashdot since July of 2008: by Futurepower(R) · 2010-09-11 12:04 · Score: 1

Here are the stories about GoDaddy on Slashdot since July of 2008:

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."

GoDaddy Wants Your Root Password (2010-02-24, 236 comments)

Massive Number of GoDaddy WordPress Blogs Hacked (2010-04-26, 112 comments)

GoDaddy Up For Auction (2010-09-11, 122 comments)

What domain registrar do you recommend? by Futurepower(R) · 2010-09-11 12:27 · Score: 1

What domain registrar do you recommend?

Re:What domain registrar do you recommend? by Reziac · 2010-09-11 16:05 · Score: 1

I use 1&1 (see my other posts above) for both domains and hosting, and am totally happy with them. I know folks using Dreamhost and Lunarpages, likewise happy. And yes, I am a *former* GoDaddy customer (over 10 years), mainly because I got sick of being assaulted by their upselling shit, but partly increasing unease over some of their business practices.
I suspect one reason I had no trouble when I transferred my domains away from GoDaddy was that the first thing I said to their phone guy was something like "I understand some people have had trouble getting their domains transferred to another registrar" (IOW, put 'em on notice that I knew enough to complain to ICANN if necessary) which got me an immediate "no way, no trouble" reply, and other than some foot-dragging on the authorization codes, it did go smoothly.

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But they're better than netsol, and cheap by mattr · 2010-09-11 23:32 · Score: 1

After all the comments against GoDaddy, and I am sure a lot of them are based on fact, there is one thing I've got to say.
I moved my domains from Network Solutions to GoDaddy and have been extremely happy with GoDaddy, and very unhappy with netsol.
Network Solutions actually would lock you out from transferring "for your protection" and then force you to call on the phone, so that they could repeatedly try to sell you on staying with them. And they made it very hard. Twice I had to demand their superior just to get any action.
GoDaddy on the other hand is quite cheap and very easy to use. I switched a domain from from MelbourneIT to them and saved a lot of money.
Their UI is not perfect but you can do a lot of stuff with it, both newbies and pros.
The bit about them reselling your name is absolutely ridiculous. But otherwise they have given a lot of satisfaction and there are probably a lot of people who use them thinking it is a good deal, especially if you don't go in for anything else they offer. And Danica is hot. But that nothing to do with my decision, no sirree.
I get non-techie gossip from my Mom. Apparently the creator of GoDaddy is hailed as a hero and successful entrepreneur in the popular press. Whatever, if someone else provides a more trustworthy service with better price point they will probably gain a lot of customers since everyone is I think a bit squeamish about GoDaddy's ugly habits.
As for "licensing" versus "owning" domains, I didn't realize that. However I wonder if they would be able to operate a volume business with rapid changes, etc. otherwise. Does this allow them to auction your name off I wonder or is that a different story.

Total DNS by Anonymous Coward · 2010-09-12 05:43 · Score: 0

Despite all of the horror stories of Godaddy and all the other bad press regarding them, I still have my domains there for one reason: Total DNS.

Once you get used to the clunky UI, Total DNS is actually a pretty powerful DNS management tool.

Are there any other registrars that offer a similar tool?

Google TV Capable Recievers by Anonymous Coward · 2010-09-13 05:42 · Score: 0

Has any one heard of any of the receiver manufacturers developing a Google TV capable receiver? Just seems like a match made in heaven, receivers already have as much processing power as many desktops.

goooooo google? by hesaigo999ca · 2010-09-15 07:28 · Score: 1

It would be cool to incorporate google , gmail and this new domain service all together if google were to bid and buy up godaddy. I had a few problems but all in all ok for what i need, however, if google were to scoop them up i am sure they would turn it into a much more secure and efficient machine then it is now. Seriously, could any google employees or ceos reading this, might be able to bring the idea to the board?

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