How to damage your brand in one smooth shot - Way to GoDaddy

Re:How to damage your brand in one smooth shot - Way to GoDaddy by shakedown on Thursday March 31, 2011 @01:45PM (#2392665)

This is terrible. Anyone have any suggestions for a registrar to switch to from GoDaddy?

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Re:How to damage your brand in one smooth shot - Way to GoDaddy by danieldk on Thursday March 31, 2011 @01:58PM (#2392762)

I have been with Gandi for years. They are a bit more expensive than some other other registrars, but offer good service, and donate proceeds to non-profit projects:

http://en.gandi.net/supports/

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Re:How to damage your brand in one smooth shot - Way to GoDaddy by elliottcarlson on Thursday March 31, 2011 @02:22PM (#2392898)

Not to mention they have excellent support for domains with different tld's and offer an SSL certificate free for one year with each domain.

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Re:How to damage your brand in one smooth shot - Way to GoDaddy by dchest on Thursday March 31, 2011 @01:53PM (#2392716)

See:

- Namecheap promotion [HN discussion] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2390764

- Ask YC: Who's your favorite domain registrar and why? [2008] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=150561

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Re:How to damage your brand in one smooth shot - Way to GoDaddy by X-Istence on Thursday March 31, 2011 @02:01PM (#2392777)

I recently moved to name.com. I absolutely love their minimalistic interface, and I like supporting local business (Denver)...

So far no issues what so ever other than with GoDaddy and moving domains over because of issues with whois, but once there everything is fast, and simple. Unlike GoDaddy's interface.

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Re:How to damage your brand in one smooth shot - Way to GoDaddy by hayley on Thursday March 31, 2011 @03:21PM (#2393170)

I'm a former customer of name.com.

I'm not sure if they're still doing it, but the thing that drove me away was their spammy DNS.

Example: I had valid DNS records for mydomain.com and www.mydomain.com but they were forwarding ANYTHING.mydomain.com to one of their ad-ridden pages.

I can kind of see an argument for having that when a domain has just been purchased and there is no valid content yet. But doing that to an established site makes ME look like a spammer.

tl;dr - if you're using name.com's DNS, you might want to see if they're hosting spam pages on whatever.yourdomain.com

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Re:How to damage your brand in one smooth shot - Way to GoDaddy by calloc on Friday April 01, 2011 @02:43PM (#2397461)

I do my own DNS hosting, I've never used a registrars DNS services, I've never found them to be reliable enough, nor do they meet my needs in terms of being able to update records quickly or in programmatic way (such as hosting my own DynDNS like service, keeping a record updated for my home IP address).

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Re:How to damage your brand in one smooth shot - Way to GoDaddy by eli on Thursday March 31, 2011 @01:48PM (#2392692)

I've been happy with Namecheap and I believe they're running a promotion specifically for people switching from godaddy.

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Re:How to damage your brand in one smooth shot - Way to GoDaddy by acangiano on Thursday March 31, 2011 @01:55PM (#2392730)

NameCheap.

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Re:How to damage your brand in one smooth shot - Way to GoDaddy by dreww on Thursday March 31, 2011 @02:39PM (#2392991)

DNSimple (dnsimple.com) is great, also offering a promotion and 'escape hatch' from godaddy.

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