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The GoDaddy Saga Continues
First time accepted submitter wbr1 writes "Domain registrar Namecheap is accusing GoDaddy of violating ICANN rules and hindering domain owners from moving their domains to another registrar. They are allegedly doing this by submitting incomplete information to the new registrar, making it difficult to process the move."
Adds user bs0d3: "Godaddy has responded to these allegations today and insist that their practice of rate limiting Whois queries is standard practice to combat Whois abuse. Furthermore, they accuse Namecheap of playing foul because they released a statement before ever contacting godaddy directly to resolve these issues."
If they create artificial means so that their customers would have trouble moving away from them, that would mean more customers, more publicity, a more tech-savvy image, robustness and.. Oh wait...
Please, don't compare GoDaddy to prostitutes. At least the services prostitutes offer are honest.
People left after the CEO posted a video of him killing an elephant maybe a year or so back, not sure if that's what you're talking about.
Here's the video: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/31/bob-parsons-godaddy-ceo-elephant-hunt_n_843121.html
Please, don't compare GoDaddy to prostitutes. At least the services prostitutes offer are honest.
I am not sure all prostitutes offer honest service, but I have yet to meet one who prevented you from pulling out when you wanted!
Silence is a state of mime.
But just like prostitutes, if you aren't careful and just go with the cheapest, most-used offering (GoDaddy), you might end up with more than you bargained for.
Maybe it looks like a viral advertisement to you, but I think it's on the level for a couple of reasons. First, there are more testimonials below pitching Namecheap as a good registrar, and second (and more importantly), I've used Namecheap as a registrar myself for around six years for 18 domains related to free gaming sites I run. The OP is right, they have a great, simple interface and I've never had any trouble with them. They offer great service for a great price, and they Just Work.
If you like a different registrar better, then more power to you; I'm glad you've found someone you like and feel offers good service. But what exactly makes you think that the OP is an "obvious viral advertisement" but that your link isn't? Frankly, reading the content of your page, yours sounds more like an obvious viral advertisement (that is, the obvious attempt to grab attention using blatant profanity) than the OP simply listing a few reasons why he likes his registrar.
I did some research and astroturfing seems unlikely in this individual situation.
First of all there's not dozens of "pro-namecheep" fanboy posts. There's like three. So I clicked on them to check out their posting history
InterestingFella (2537066) seems "real"
SJHillman (1966756) seems "real"
andydread (758754) seems "real"
It seems likely to me that namecheep does in fact rock.
Its kind of like whenever we talk about simple web hosting and ipv6, like fifty people come out of the woodwork to say he.net rocks. Or whenever we talk about colo virtual servers, again, like fifty people come out of the woodwork to say linode.com rocks. Based on personal experience as customer, its not a conspiracy or advertising, its simply that they're absolute best of breed and they do in fact rock. So I would be inclined to believe the /. groupthink and tend to think this namecheep place does in fact rock in the world of DNS service.
What I don't get, is that "gandi" or whatever place in like France or someplace used to get all the /. mindshare as being the "best". What happened to them? I recall it was "hard" to use if you lived in the USA, something about sending them money, but thats all I remember about ghandi or gandi or whatever they were.
"Science flies us to the moon. Religion flies us into buildings." - Victor Stenger
I moved to Namecheap a few months ago after becoming sick and tired of GoDaddy's shitty business practices. I decided to move to Namecheap shortly before my registrations with GoDaddy expired.
Before allowing me to transfer my domains, I was informed that I had to update my Whois info to make sure that it was accurate. There was no way to *not* do this. I could not begin the transfer process until this was done. I had done it a few months prior when ICANN requires yearly updates. This was something new.
Upon being forced to update my information (none of which was actually changed), my domains were forced into "locked" status, and thus prevented from being transferred for *two* months. Despite the fact that ICANN has released numerous statements saying that this behavior is not allowed, GoDaddy enforced this policy, despite me calling and talking to ten or fifteen different individuals.
I eventually had to renew each domain with GoDaddy, wait the two months, and then attempt the transfer to Namecheap again.
GoDaddy is a shit company, and I sincerely hope that an elephant tramples Bob Parsons.
I used them too, and was very happy right up to when I tried to move the domains off. Why the move? Consolidation, but mainly because the foreign domain proxy office service could not be removed when we finally opened and office in that country. (Kinda expensive for some countries...) Then I found the problems. The are not actually the registrar for many of the foreign country domains, and they have some real problems moving your domains away. In some cases, I had to renew for another year, with another full year of the proxy office which I no longer needed, just to get my domain back. I got to know all the techs, since they only have a handful. Nice guys, but powerless in this case. Much more pleased with SafeNames. More expensive, but for a reason.
That is the point... Once there is a problem, they will not care. You only find the quality of a company when things go wrong.
I find PETA as annoying as the next guy, but killing an elephant is just disgusting to me on so many levels...
Yes, I know they trample crops. Don't give a shit, Bob Parsons obviously had the money to move the problem elephant. Besides, elephants migrate along the same paths year after year and have been since the dawn of fucking time. Trying to grow crops in the path of a bunch of migrating elephants is about as intelligent as trying to grow crops on train tracks.
Oh, but the people got to eat the elephant! So fucking what? Can I kill people if I promise to eat them afterwords? Besides, if they're starving, why didn't he leave the GoDaddy hats and shit at home (watch the video, every other person is wearing a brand new, bright orange GoDaddy hat) and bring them fucking food? Why didn't he spend his fortune building them walls and such around their crops?
We all know the real answers, and that is "Bob Parsons is wealthy. Bob Parsons wanted to murder a fucking elephant because he's a fucking psychopath and the thought of killing something gets him hard." Come up with every excuse in the world you want, the fact remains, he could have spent the same amount of money he used to bribe the people into allowing him to kill the elephant to do something positive for those people without killing an endangered species. He's not some poor African farmer trying to feed his family, he's just another entitled prick that views the world as his candy jar and any life that's not his own as less valuable. Fuck him and fuck GoDaddy.