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You already shouldn't be using GoDaddy, so there's another reason
by pluc 4y ago
You already shouldn't be using GoDaddy, so there's another reason
- usrn 4y agoThey're a pretty terrible registrar/host but their marketing is fantastically good. Every non-tech business owner I've met uses them. It makes me kind of sad.
- pluc 4y agoI don't get disappointed at neophytes using GoDaddy. People who know better though should know better. Nobody on here should be using GoDaddy.
- dmje 4y agoLike most things it's not as simple as that. I'm a long-in-the-tooth web guy (30+ years doing this stuff) and for Legacy Reasons I use GD. I wish I didn't, but all my domains (and all my client domains) are with them. Yes I could unpick, but do I have time / inclination? No. Do I want multiple domain registrars? No. So - yeh, agree in principle, disagree in practice.
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- bigDinosaur 4y agoThat's fine, you just have to admit you're supporting an incredibly slimy business. That's okay, many of us do/have done that even when we don't want to, but at least you gotta tell others to offset your GoDaddy use. Two people swayed away from using it by your opinion should just about do it!
- wowokay 4y agoI think most business are slimy if you dig deep.
- windexh8er 4y agoI'm curious what the reasons are. I moved ~60 domains from Gandi to Namecheap and then back to Gandi over the span of 10 months. Namecheap was cheaper, but their support wasn't as good and their UI is a disaster (IMO). Both times I had all domains moved over in less than 24 hours.
- jrochkind1 4y agoCan you say more about how this works? I find it intimidating. And I don't understand how the cost works -- if I'm in the middle of my term with the first registrar, do I get a refund when I move it over? Like when you moved from Gandi to Namecheap and back in 10 months, does that mean you paid 3x registration, or did you get proportional refunds when transferring?
- universa1 4y agothis depends on the tld. for most tlds you buy another year of registration on transfer and thus extending the expiration. for example for .de domains though, the remaining time on your registration is dropped and you start fresh from the transferal day.
- psz 4y agoFor .pl the transfer is free, but it also does not extend expiration period (it stays the same).
- brightball 4y agoI used to have about 50 domains there and moving everything to Cloudflare was pretty simple. Just start using it as a DNS first, which I was doing anyway. Then the transfer process takes about 2 minutes per domain so the whole process was done in a little over an hour.
- dave4420 4y agoI thought Cloudflare had a deliberately manual (and therefore more secure but also more expensive and slower) process for registering domains. Has that changed?
- dknecht 4y agoWe offer a zero-markup registrar on self-service platform also - https://blog.cloudflare.com/registrar-for-everyone/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/registrar-for-everyone/
- dave4420 4y agoAh, cool :)
- dicknuckle 4y agoI didn't have much issue with the process, it seemed like any other. A local business is a friend of mine, they were paying too much for too little from their previous web host/dev so I transferred the domain name to CF and ran their WordPress "business card" type site through a static site generator, placed all the files in GitHub, and pointed CF Pages at the repo. Whenever they want to make changes, they spin up the current state of WordPress in LocalWP, make the changes, I run it through the static site generator and push the files to GitHub. Takes them a few hours of messing around to get their content right and takes me 5-15 minutes to jamstack it to GitHub. Free hosting and cheap/simple DNS.
- random_savv 4y agoThat sounds interesting. Which static site generator? (Currently happy with the bitnami wordpress image, but wouldn't mind going 100% static!)
- oarsinsync 4y agoI had this problem. Then I learned that Hover has a concierge transfer-in service. You give them your registrar creds, they do the work of transferring everything seamlessly for you. Sure, it’s Tucows, but it’s not GD.
- wowokay 4y agoI haven’t had a problem with them, I also know they have been around for awhile which is why I use godaddy.
- oriettaxx 4y agowhy? I'm just curious (I do not see any bad event in wikipedia: am I missing something?)
- Tostino 4y agoThat's because they maintain their corporate identity vigorous and do their best to wipe anything bad.
- addingnumbers 4y ago> I do not see any bad event in wikipedia There is a "Controversies" section of their Wikipedia article with 8 distinct sub-headings, and the section is prefixed with "For a more comprehensive list, see List of controversies involving GoDaddy" linking to another dedicated 15-section article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GoDaddy#Controversies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GoDaddy#Controversies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_controversies_involving_GoDaddy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_controversies_involvin...
- oriettaxx 4y agothanks, I did missed that (must say I do not see anything I consider that bad, imho)
- patrakov 4y agoReally bad security. They still enable broken ciphers like RC4 via ssh on their shared-hosting web servers. BTW - these servers use CPanel, which runs on CentOS 6 (or a derivative), which is EOL. If your company uses any security scanner, it will flag a lot on GoDaddy.
- spaceheater 4y agoAll the cool kids on HN hate GoDaddy. When prompted to elaborate the usual answer is "cuz they suck" or "I don't like their CEO". I first used GoDaddy about a decade ago, and thought nothing of it. I guess some people just like to hate. (or is it cancel nowadays?)
- LunarCamper 4y agoWhat's a better one? I've been using Google Domains, I don't really have a reason to complain about them, but I've always wondered whether parking everything with a big corporation like that will have its drawbacks one day.
- arkitaip 4y agoPorkbun is really good. Cloudflare also sells domains at registry prices, very convenient if you already use their services.
- NAHWheatCracker 4y agoI switched to NameCheap a couple years ago. I don't have anything to complain about.
- MrDunham 4y agoI, too, use namecheap. In fairness I’m not as sophisticated as at least 95% of people on hacker news but it has certainly met all of my needs for the half dozen sites and 2 dozen domains I own
- newbieuser 4y agonamecheap is fine as long as you don't have a problem. but if you have a problem you can be absolutely sure that they will never fix it.
- aliqot 4y agoIve had the COO call me personally on a sunday before to iron stuff out. That's not true.
- aaaaaaaaata 4y agoHow many domains do you have with them/what's your monthly spend? I suspect this varies wildly.
- dessant 4y agoI still remember how their jerk founder "saved" a village in Zimbabwe from a "problem elephant", and they have basically advertised their business using boobs for years. And that's besides all the scummy actions and questionable security practices of GoDaddy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Parsons#Controversies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Parsons#Controversies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_controversies_involving_GoDaddy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_controversies_involvin...
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- ginja 4y agoAlmost everyone on this earth likes boobs - those who have them and those who don't - so I reckon they (like me) just hate that the company uses sex and other scummy tactics to sell a crappy service to unsuspecting people, instead of making their service better.
- samatman 4y agoI wish that commenters on the Internet generally, and HN in particular, would lay off "murder and jaywalking" arguments. If Gandi advertised with lewds, well. People would complain and they would probably stop. The "scummy actions and questionable security practices" are both necessary and sufficient to persuade the informed reader not to patronize their services. Bringing in additional minor peccadillos weakens the argument by bringing out everyone who likes tits in ads. No one likes the kind of bad behavior GoDaddy is known for. This comment might seem a bit out-of-place if you don't happen to use showdead.
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