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List of YC companies that use GoDaddy
- throwaway88 15y agoThis is getting ridiculous. What next? List of users of companies that use GoDaddy? Shall we hassle those people as well? If only people put a little more thought into their internet mob protests.
- aroberge 15y agoDo you have millions to spend lobbying Congress? If not, you can do the next best thing: protest in any way that can hurt financially (even in a tiny way - it all adds up) companies that CAN and DO lobby Congress.
- dedicated 15y agoWow, nice work. I wonder how difficult it would be for Dropbox to switch out their SSL certs and reinstall on their servers. One problem I ran into was having Go Daddy when I registered my domain via Google Apps. Even though I unlocked the domain and got the auth code, because the way Google uses privacy, the transfer was rejected. Any advice there would be much appreciated.
- presidentx 15y agoI moved my GoDaddy domains to namespro.ca who have excellent support. The transfer went smooth as butter.
- tlrobinson 15y agoI think his point was that the Dropbox software installed on users' machines contains SSL certs, which may make it hard for them to switch.
- marquis 15y agoYes, that would a huge pain to require all Dropbox users to force-update to get new root certs. It will probably take a while until they are due to expire.
- togasystems 15y agoPlus 1 for namespro. I have about 30 domains with them and everything has ran smoothly.
- nodesocket 15y agoWhy any startup would use GoDaddy for DNS is baffling. Route 53 is amazing. However, must confess we currently use GoDaddy for domains (switching) and SSL certificates. Can anybody recommend some good alternatives for SSL certs that are about the same cost as GoDaddy?
- jf 15y agoLooks like the YC startups that aren't using GoDaddy are using GeoTrust or DigiCert: http://jpf.github.com/domain-profiler/ycombinator.html http://jpf.github.com/domain-profiler/ycombinator.html
- nodesocket 15y agoThanks. Though GoDaddy SSL certs were purchased for $12.99 (coupon), competition seems to be over $100.
- jf 15y agoUnderstood. You do seem to get what you pay for though. If I remember correctly: GoDaddy's root certificate isn't as widely distributed as their competitors are, also their certs are chained certs.
- saurik 15y agoGet SSL certificates from Servertastic. They are a RapidSSL reseller, whom in turn sell rebranded GeoTrust certificates. The result is that you get "the same thing" (by the end of the payment process you are filling out forms being served by GeoTrust's servers) for $13.95/yr.
- dangrossman 15y agoI buy mine through SoftLayer for $35 per 2 years. http://www.softlayer.com/services/securitylayer/ http://www.softlayer.com/services/securitylayer/ I get my servers through them already so it's convenient, and I don't have to hunt down coupons to get a decent price.
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- plasma 15y agoI hope moving away from GoDaddy, rather than stopping SOPA/etc, does not become the focus.
- redguava 15y agoAgreed. Whilst I agree with making a stand against GoDaddy, all of the effort going into the Anti-GoDaddy campaign could probably be better spent directly at SOPA.
- danssig 15y agoI strongly disagree. Anyone and everyone is already spending lots of effort opposing SOPA. If a company that supports SOPA would suddenly go out of business (one can dream) that would send a vastly bigger message than a bunch of useless online polls and blog posts.
- redguava 15y agoI hope you are right. It just seems like the focus is too far shifted to GoDaddy currently.
- shoeless 15y agoI believe the goal is not to see GoDaddy go out of business, but instead reverse it's stance on SOPA. And quickly.
- drivingmenuts 15y agoProbably won't happen. The head guy at GoDaddy is right-wing and is outspoken enough not to work against what he sees as his own interests. At best, it will probably turn out like the issue at Whole Foods, formerly as seen as a very left-wing-friendly food store. The CEO gave a right-wing statement on some social policy legislation and got excoriated for his view. Eventually, after enough flaming, he backed down on the statement, but his views didn't change, just the official company line. Call it cynicism or whatever, but I don't think Bob Parsons is capable of a real change of heart on this matter unless it seriously affects his pocketbook, and even then, he would be a wolf in sheep's clothing.
- grigy 15y agoWhat are some similar services to move to from GoDaddy?
- PStamatiou 15y agoAs soon as I arrive home for the holidays tomorrow, I will have two tabs open. GoDaddy and Namecheap...
- jf 15y agoLooking forward to getting a pull request from you!
- paul9290 15y agoHas one of it's competitors whipped up and a SOPA easy/quick transfer service? Seems like a great opportunity for one of it's competitors to jump on! On a different note I have everything on GoDaddy; all my domains and hosting. In the past 4 months my sites have been hacked and I've been thinking about moving away from them. Yet I have so much there, SO PLEASE TO ANY of it's competitors whip up a SOPA easy/painless transfer your Web businesses to us page.
- tnorthcutt 15y agoWhat do you mean by "a SOPA easy/painless transfer your Web business to us page"? There isn't something a competitor could do to make the transfer process any different than it normally is - you just have to do it.
- antimatter15 15y agoThey could make a browser extension that did it.
- _pius 15y agoHover has a valet transfer service.
- billpatrianakos 15y agoLet's not get hung up on who uses GoDaddy now. These companies have actual work to do rather than play around with making smooth transitions between registrars. If some of them don't move let's not piss our pants over it. I think this list being on the front page says we all just lost our focus. So what happens if they don't switch registrars and how long is our arbitrary deadline for it? This seems like some attempt to make these companies look bad rather than do something helpful.
- richardburton 15y agoExactly. Their use of GoDaddy is not tacit support for SOPA. It is just a bad coincidence. My good friend Josh at MinoMonsters has a lot on his plate.
- marquis 15y agoI see this list being more of a point of interest, not a topic of opinion. It shows how entrenched GoDaddy is, even among us who think we should 'know' better. While I'm content to pay a few dollars more for a registrar I trust it's understandable why cash-strapped startups don't. Is it also possible that many of these domains were purchase via the Google Apps process, or other referral deals?
- showdog 15y agoThing is, these companies quietly watched by the sidelines during the other GoDaddy debacles of the past few years. What makes you all think they won't do the same this time too? I'll bet many of these companies will sit back, do nothing, and wait for the storm to pass.
- jqueryin 15y agoIn the case of SSL, I had believed it also implied GoDaddy was their registrar as GoDaddy forcibly required me to use a purchased SSL cert against a domain already in my account. Boy was that a bad experience when I found out post-purchase. How are the top few companies getting around this?
- bradleyland 15y agoTherein lies a great example of GoDaddy's shady sales tactics. Purchasing a domain from them is an exercise in dodging their high-pressure checkout sales tactics. It's page after page of "Would you like to add thiiiiiis lovely service to your domain purchase wink, wink <HUGE GRIN>?" None of the additional services are required. You do not have to buy your SSL through GoDaddy if you are registered with them. You don't have to buy anything other than the domain through them, but they go out of their way to make it feel otherwise.
- meterplech 15y agoNot to personally attack at all. Honestly. But, JF- your profile says you are a developer evangelist for Microsoft. Which is one of the biggest supporters of SOPA. Do you think it's a little unfair to provide an opportunity to pressure YC companies that use GoDaddy for their domains because of their SOPA stance while evangelizing for a company that has the same stance?
- icey 15y agoYou sure about that? http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-57330078-281/surprise-microsoft-quietly-opposes-sopa-copyright-bill/ http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-57330078-281/surprise-micr...
- meterplech 15y agoI was basing my comment on this earlier comment from HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3245520 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3245520
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- davidhansen 15y ago...you are a developer evangelist... ...while evangelizing for a company... It should be noted that developer evangelist is a position that evangelizes on behalf of the developers, not the company. The role is generally one of ensuring that the non-developer parts of the business remain respectful of the unique needs of programmers, test engineers, and tech project managers. So unless MSFT handed him a meaningless title, he likely does NOT evangelize for the company, and in fact is likely the strongest voice inside the company against SOPA( e.g. extolling the developers' position to the SOPA supporters in the piracy-prevention-related divisions, etc ).
- nestlequ1k 15y agoMicrosoft has got all kinds of issues, but I haven't seen them push SOPA at all. They could be more vocal against it, but so could every tech company.
- nhangen 15y agoI honestly cannot understand why, in this day and age, smart people still buy domains via GoDaddy. There are so many options, all of which are more simplistic and just as inexpensive.
- rglover 15y agoThis is a borderline witch hunt.
- drivingmenuts 15y agoBob Parsons turned me into a newt once ... Sorry. Couldn't resist.
- martingordon 15y agoMy neighbor uses GoDaddy for his domain registrations. Should I move? It's one thing when Ben Huh moves 1000 domains off of GoDaddy in protest. It's another thing if you're going to avoid doing business with a company that does $10-$100/year worth of business with a company that supports SOPA. Here are a two things that should be higher on the list: * Call your congressperson. It's a lot easier for a lot of us to push a few buttons on a web page than it is to pick up the phone and talk with someone. * Avoid dealing directly with companies that support SOPA. How many of us are reading this list from a Comcast IP? Those of us that do are giving Comcast 10-100x more money than these YC companies. I'm going to be looking into switching to FiOS after the holidays (unfortunately, I know many don't have that option, but you should at least take a look). For what it's worth, I moved all my domains to Namecheap after the elephant incident earlier this year.
- maeon3 15y agoBut in this analogy, the witch is guilty of pouring her toxic brew in the water supply poisoning the commons. And instead of hanging the witch, we simply stop buying her services. Bad anology fails on all counts. Its more like a really really watered down catholic banishment via money deprivation.
- AdamN 15y agoThese companies should NOT switch from GoDaddy. Let's just make sure that everybody starts using Namecheap or Gandi (or something else) and if they have the resources available do the move only then.
- ivankirigin 15y agoI'm honestly not interested in spending hundreds on moving domains. I stopped using godaddy for registration after that big game hunter bs a while back. Comcast supports SOPA right? Is there a place to find alternative phone landline and Internet providers?
- sim0n 15y agoOur DNS is in the process of being moved to Route53 (as it has been for a short while) and we're planning to move our domains to Namecheap or another reputable registrar shortly (which we have actually also been thinking of doing for a short while as well).
- preinheimer 15y agoI'm not sure that people just with SSL certificates should be the easiest to move. Depending on what type of SSL you've got, it could be a huge pain, or just a lot of money. We've got an EV SSL Certificate, moving that would take some money, a big chunk of time, and more money to pay our lawyer to write the fancy letters they require. The process is several days long (likely longer now, our lawyer is on a beach somewhere I'm sure), and will require us to restart all our webservers.
- hack_edu 15y agoNow imagine how much time and grief you'd lose down the road if you were hit with a massive SOPA compliance problem that you can't even contest...
- robterrell 15y agoI don't have any domains at GoDaddy, but this has been a reminder that US-based registrars can be forced to pull domains by the DOJ (http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2011/November/11-ag-1540.html http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2011/November/11-ag-1540.html) -- and the potential for that only gets worse under SOPA. So I was thinking of switching all of my domains to a non-US registrar. I see lots of recommendations for NameCheap, but they appear to be US-based. Any recommendations for registrar (+ DNS) that aren't under the jurisdiction of the US DOJ?
- molo_ 15y agoGandi.net. Some people say their support is mediocre, but I haven't had to use it. Good luck. -molo
- warp 15y agoI have contacted gandi.net support several times. I usually receive a response within a day, and always had my issue resolved.
- deanpcmad 15y agoNameCheap are a UK company as well. They have 24/7 support :)
- cschmidt 15y agoeasyDNS is Canadian. EDIT: they have an interesting blog post on SOPA: http://blog.easydns.org/2011/12/22/how-sopa-will-destroy-the-internet/ http://blog.easydns.org/2011/12/22/how-sopa-will-destroy-the...
- pg 15y agoWe use easyDNS and they're great.
- guan 15y agoMany of the important registries (particularly .com) are also based in the US, so presumably they can also be forced to do the same, even if the registrar is Canadian. I have long wondered how far this jurisdiction goes. The DoJ could presumably not do much if they want to pull a domain name under a non-US ccTLD because in most cases neither the registry nor the registrar are US-based. But the root zone itself is based in the US, in the sense that US persons manage and control it. Just as they could pull bar.com if foo.bar.com hosts something they don't like, could they pull .uk or another ccTLD if they are targeting bar.co.uk?
- pingswept 15y agoThe change history for this list will appear here: https://github.com/jpf/domain-profiler/commits/master/ycombinator-companies-using-godaddy https://github.com/jpf/domain-profiler/commits/master/ycombi...
- arthurgibson 15y agoHa this is great, over at Embedly we plan to move away from Godaddy, our domains are not on godaddy, just the ssl cert (for the short term). I started moving some one-off domains we own last night to namecheap, http://twitter.com/#!/artgibby/status/149995036677910528 http://twitter.com/#!/artgibby/status/149995036677910528
- eriongaetus 15y agoI want to particularly draw attention to hellochair.com, just sitting there soaking up the fat of the godaddy land, while the world burns in SOPA's furnace. Hope these guys get the message.
- andrewhillman 15y agoSeems like the focus is shifting in the wrong direction. Hackers, put your energy into SOPA not Godaddy. This kind of "link bait" or "HN point bait" is not helping the situation.
- maeon3 15y agoFox news just did a piece outlining Godaddy's support of sopa in glowing terms through all this boycott uproar. Today I am enjoying the delicious proof that fox news is a state run brainwashing machine. We need link bait to get the word out on internet censorship and net nutrality.
- eriongaetus 15y agoJust to let everyone know: obscureunknownstartup.ly DOES NOT USE godaddy. thanks.
- aestetix_ 15y agoTo be fair, there are a bunch of people who have been considering migrating from Godaddy for any number of reasons anyways. The SOPA stuff is just the icing on the cake that's pushed them over the edge. This migration has been coming for a long time.
- yurisagalov 15y agoWe started our migration process for AeroFS yesterday (I actually looked through email chats with Weihan, my co-founder, and every few months we've been talking about moving away from GoDaddy; yesterday was the final straw) Still, I'm wary of moving the domains until we're all back at the office (many of us are taking time off for holidays for the next few days).
- vertr 15y agoThis post is really starting to make anti-SOPA look like a witch hunt. Why point the finger at startups who use Godaddy's services? Godaddy itself is just one company on a long list. This attack against Godaddy is nothing but a big distraction from the real issue: fighting SOPA.
- soult 15y agoIsn't that kind of what we want? We want companies to know it is not OK to support SOPA either directly (like Godaddy) or indirectly (like buying domains from GoDaddy), and we want them to know that we will boycott them and actively tell others to boycott them as well.
- superchink 15y agoI don't claim to speak for the OP, but I don't think the point of this list isn't to point the finger at the GoDaddy customers. Instead, it's a helpful reminder to those companies on the list that they still have some services being provided by GoDaddy, so that they can participate in the boycott of a company supporting SOPA. Agreed on your second point. Raising awareness is a great step toward the ultimate goal of fighting SOPA. A mass exodus from a hugely successful supporter of SOPA seems like a good start to me.