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what's horrible about GoDaddy? I used them for domain registration and DNS hosting, and everything went smoothly. The only annoying part, is how they try to sel
by xxqs 15y ago
what's horrible about GoDaddy? I used them for domain registration and DNS hosting, and everything went smoothly. The only annoying part, is how they try to sell additional goodies along the domain registration.
the front page ladies weren't too much of disturbance either :)
- switz 15y agoSeriously? Aside from all of the normal things that are wrong with GoDaddy, where have you been for the past few weeks?
- xxqs 15y agothe parent comment refers to them being horrible before SOPA. I was wondering what exactly was horrible. It was all plain and easy for me.
- whyleyc 15y agoI think he's referring to their recent support for SOPA: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3383564 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3383564
- xxqs 15y agothe parent comment refers to them being horrible before SOPA
- whyleyc 15y agoOk, maybe it's more to do with stuff like their CEO gunning down elephant's - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/31/bob-parsons-godaddy-ceo-elephant-hunt_n_843121.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/31/bob-parsons-godaddy...
- xxqs 15y agothat's quite bad for the company reputation, but I still don't see any argumentation for they were horrible before SOPA
- tnorthcutt 15y agoThey were. I've dealt with them on one occasion (had one client insist on using them as a host/registrar), and they are technically incompetent. We've had numerous outages with this client's site, and had one problem that their technical support staff were simply unable to solve after numerous phone calls (they ended up blaming it on the site, which was running on WordPress - hardly an oddity). It ended up being a very simple problem/solution, which I discovered after spending an hour or so researching it.
- whyleyc 15y agoThat's because you're probably looking at things purely from a technical/operational perspective (i.e. can they register my domain easily), whereas the parent commenter is taking into account more general reports about the way GoDaddy does business. Just because a company is technically competent doesn't mean people want to do business with them.
- latch 15y agoExactly..and the use of sex to sell.
- xxqs 15y agook, point taken, thanks :) any advice for an alternative registrar with free DNS hosting? Preferably one with native IPv6 reachable DNS servers (which is not the case at godaddy)
- lambda 15y agoGandi http://www.gandi.net/ http://www.gandi.net/ has a pretty good reputation, with free DNS hosting. No IPv6 reachable nameservers, however. If you want IPv6 reachable DNS servers, Hurricane Electric offers free DNS hosting https://dns.he.net/ https://dns.he.net/; they are a big supporter of IPv6 and so offer a variety of free services to help get it off the ground.
- jf 15y agoThis topic comes up every time I run this report. The reasons why people don't like GoDaddy are covered in both of the previous discussions on this report. Well worth reading! http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2080469 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2080469 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=746386 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=746386
- JoachimSchipper 15y agoSomeone posted MySpace passwords to Full-Disclosure, which therefore made it into several list archives. MySpace complained, and GoDaddy suspended the domain name of an extremely well-known archive, apparently without any investigation or contact: http://seclists.org/nmap-hackers/2007/0 http://seclists.org/nmap-hackers/2007/0. This was eventually cleared up, but WTF?
- maukdaddy 15y agothe front page ladies weren't too much of disturbance either :) If that's what makes you choose a registrar then you need to seriously grow up. Attitudes like this are why we have so many problems with sexism in the tech world.
- xxqs 15y agono, actually I've seen one of the ladies too many times during the crankygeeks.com shows, and that annoying advertising... probably it worked? :)