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I see SourceForge as being to code hosting platforms as GoDaddy is to domain registrars. They both started in the late 90s, exploded, and suffered from their su
by artursapek 11y ago
I see SourceForge as being to code hosting platforms as GoDaddy is to domain registrars. They both started in the late 90s, exploded, and suffered from their success. They became infested with bad management, became bloated and difficult to use, and employed skeezy money-making tactics. GoDaddy doesn't seem to be in trouble the way SourceForge is, though.
- thefreeman 11y agoHonestly, I don't see how they aren't in trouble yet. With how long GoDaddy has been around, and how dominant they are in terms of "casual" domain owners, it blew me away when I saw that they have yet to be profitable a single year.
- briandear 11y agoHowever Amazon isn't profitable either -- never has been.
- thefreeman 11y agoTrue, however Amazon has been constantly investing in new warehouses, infrastructure, adding new products, expanding their current offerings, etc. I can't think of a single unique or new thing GoDaddy has done in the past 10 years.
- jdiez17 11y agoThey do have lots of fancy ads.
- LMAlVvQjSGj 11y agoA lot of sexist ads as well.
- tertius 11y agoAsset increase yoy is pretty ridiculous.
- scott_karana 11y agoWho the hell cares? Instead of "posting profits", Amazon reinvests its massive EBITDA into itself, and has shown continuous growth because of it. Not focusing on shareholders sounds great to me.
- acchow 11y agoFalse. Amazon had positive net income in 2011 and 2013 of $631 and $274 million respectively.
- wtbob 11y agoAs a customer of both GoDaddy and Namecheap, I have to say that GoDaddy offers a much better, more full-featured DNS control panel. Frankly, I can't see staying with Namecheap. I really don't get the hate for GoDaddy. SourceForge, OTOH, are reprehensible.
- jbob2000 11y agoThe biggest issue with GoDaddy was their old dickhole CEO, Bob Parsons. What a piece of trash that guy was. Their new CEO, Blake Irving, is much more forward thinking.
- Osiris 11y agoYou can use the GoDaddy dns manager (dns.godaddy.com) without having your domain registered there. I use it because it's a much more robust DNS manager. You can manage your external domains with it.
- _JamesA_ 11y agoA free CloudFlare account allows unlimited domain DNS services and their 'control panel' is clean and straight forward. Unlike GoDaddy their only upsell is for their paid CDN services.
- coldpie 11y ago> I really don't get the hate for GoDaddy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GoDaddy#Controversies http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GoDaddy#Controversies
- graffitici 11y agoWhat are the specific concerns with GoDaddy? I've been using them only as a domain registrar, and, well, they do register my domains.. I didn't know there were issues of the same magnitude as with SourceForge. What registrar do you use?
- Osiris 11y agoI used to work there. People complain that they use deceptive practices, like a low intro rate and then very high cost automatic renewals. About 3-4 years ago they were bought by some private equity firms and they have been in the process of basically rewriting all their products. I was involved in a one year full rewrite which was later scrapped in favor of reselling Office 365 instead.
- graffitici 11y agoInteresting. As someone from the industry, which other companies would you recommend?
- cstrahan 11y agohttps://dnsimple.com/ https://dnsimple.com/ I'm a happy customer, and I also used to work with the founder, Anthony Eden. He's a great guy, and so is the product.
- johnkpush 11y agoDNSimple is amazing, and we do our reselling on SimplyBuilt.com through them.
- scott_karana 11y agoI regularly see Name.com, Namecheap, and Gandi as answers here.
- gnopgnip 11y agointernet.bs