I use GANDI and I've never had any problems like those. The fact that GoDaddy is permitted to register domains demonstrates that ICANN has failed.

You're completely right... ICANN is the true source of this problem. They have a responsibility which they ignore. Instead, they essentially print money by issuing new TLD's and handing out trials of domains for free. I hate ICANN so fucking much.

I've been saying that there should be some other DNS system that's decided on by users. That is, flip FireFox from "default DNS" to "newDNS" and now "googel.com" goes to "google.com", because that's what the majority of people have suggested it go to, not because Google had to register this to protect from typo squatters. It would never be the case that "googel.com" goes to some squattors "what you want when you want it" bullshit page, because users wouldn't stand for that. It would get voted off the DNS system.

This system would of course use the proper ICANN DNS to resolve the main sites like "Google.com." So, now we have the situation where if you want a domain, go ahead and register fajsdf90234890342.com with ICANN, then suggest to newDNS that "mydomain.com" goes to "fajsdf90234890342.com". As users see that it's legit, it gets set. If it's obvious parked domain BS, then you lose it.

Finally, this system could be implemented today, because it's backward compatible. Unless otherwise noted, a newDNS entry goes to whatever the ICANN entry is. If users flag it down, then it gets erased. If users flag their own redirection, it gets updated.

This would be beautiful.

It looks like OpenDNS.com does something very similar to this. You use them as your DNS gateway, and they claim to provide faster, safer, and (if requested) censored results.

It doesn't appear that they have a user generate database of domains, though.

We already have something like this --- Google Search. See http://www.google.com/search?q=googel etc.

Sounds like something easily gamed.

In that case, it'd be no worse than the current system.

That isn't a strong endorsement.

Yeah my experience with GoDaddy was terrible too. I switched to 1and1 about 4 years ago. I have been very happy with its domain handling. I don't always use them for hosting, but I haven't found anyone better for domains.

Compared to the others, my experience with GoDaddy has been good, but unfortunately that says more about the competition than them.

1and1 is great. I use them too.

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