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GoDaddy is really a dishonest company. Please do yourself a favor and avoid them. Things I've personally experienced: * The purchase of webfaction w/ a promise
by TheP1000 4y ago
GoDaddy is really a dishonest company. Please do yourself a favor and avoid them. Things I've personally experienced:
* The purchase of webfaction w/ a promise to migrate sites to a new host. They promised for over a year to do this migration and then 30 days before shutdown told me they could not migrate and to figure it out.
* Domain name sniping. Never ever use godaddy to search to find a domain. They will just steal anything you search for if you don't immediately claim it.
- FrenchDevRemote 4y agocould we make them loose a lot of money by making bots to search for all kind of useless domains?
- shakna 4y agoNot really. They're a registrar, those domains do not cost them a lot to hold.
- bombcar 4y agoNot really, no, because IIRC registers can "return" a domain within a period of time for free or nearly no cost.
- morgosmaci 4y agoThey don't actually have to pay for it by using "domain tasting" which gives them the option to grab the domain for up to 5 days. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_name_front_running https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_name_front_running
- googlryas 4y agoSo just wait 5 days to register?
- ipaddr 4y agoThey re-register
- MerelyMortal 4y agoI use Dynadot, and they actually pass the "domain tasting" on to the customer: you have a couple of days to cancel your domain registration for a full refund. As a customer, I highly recommend Dynadot (low prices like NameCheap, but a nicer interface - I tried both registrars when I switched my domains away from DreamHost).
- cgb223 4y agoIs Namecheap better? My domains are currently split between the two Might as well move my stuff over if it means avoiding things like this
- koops 4y agoNamecheap is good. I've been using them for many years, no complaints.
- innocentoldguy 4y agoSame. I've been using Namecheap for around 10 years and have never had a bad experience.
- hoistbypetard 4y agoI've had much better experiences with namecheap.
- socks 4y agoI use porkbun.com myself, the process and prices are lovely.
- maxique 4y agoPorkbun is great - their live chat support in particular was really great to me recently when I was trying to recover a domain. They could've tried to upsell or pressure me in to paying the (extortionate) recovery fee but they didn't and instead advised me on the process/when I'd be able to register at normal price
- cyral 4y agoI've used them for almost a decade and never had an issue. Haven't used their support in years but they had live chat support that was actually helpful.
- lewantmontreal 4y agoNamecheap also goes through user searches to pick up domains for their premium offerings, at least 10 years ago. Not actually sure where it’s ”safe” to search for free domains when you are still undecided.
- streptomycin 4y agoThe Webfaction situation was so weird. You have a very customizable, powerful, idiosyncratic shared hosting service that's going to be basically impossible to migrate to any other hosting provider. And it gets bought by GoDaddy of all people? And the plan is to migrate users to normal GoDaddy shared hosting? I wonder if they gained even a single user from that purchase. For me, the idea of switching to GoDaddy was a complete non-starter.
- 542458 4y agoFor anybody not familiar, WebFaction was “shared hosting for nerds”. The control panel gave you a lot more power than most shared hosts did, you had SSH access, and you could spin up servers for pretty much every web programming environment going with a couple clicks. When Godaddy bought them they transferred everybody onto bog-standard and much less flexible Godaddy shared hosting, and everybody who was using a less-common web stack was dropped. I’m still cheesed about it, and more than a bit confused. Godaddy had and still doesn’t have any of the value prop that webfaction did. Godaddy didn’t integrate the WF technology or customer base in any meaningful way… so what was the point? Was it an aquihire?
- voakbasda 4y agoTo me, this kind of acquisition speaks of anti-competitive behavior. They didn’t want the product or people; they just didn’t want to compete with them.
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