How GoDaddy Acquired and Dismantled a Successful Startup

Re:How GoDaddy Acquired and Dismantled a Successful Startup by nugget on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @01:53PM (#9219838)

Not directly related but one of the happiest days of my life was the day I transferred my last domain away from GoDaddy.

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Re:How GoDaddy Acquired and Dismantled a Successful Startup by justboxing on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @02:20PM (#9220081)

Who did you transfer out to? When SOPA was the rage, I looked into transferring my domains out from Godaddy, but was unable to find a better domain registrar.

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Re:How GoDaddy Acquired and Dismantled a Successful Startup by nugget on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @02:34PM (#9220205)

Namecheap. No frills, simple interface. No upsells. Customer service has been excellent so far.

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Re:How GoDaddy Acquired and Dismantled a Successful Startup by bovermyer on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @02:42PM (#9220268)

Far and away Namecheap. They've been fantastic to work with.

Dynadot was also pretty good, though it doesn't have the community goodwill that Namecheap has been actively cultivating.

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Re:How GoDaddy Acquired and Dismantled a Successful Startup by matheweis on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @03:27PM (#9220609)

Another vote from a happy customer of Namecheap.

I wish they supported DNSSEC, but it's not that big of a deal. I've been super happy with all of the rest of their services.

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Re:How GoDaddy Acquired and Dismantled a Successful Startup by driverdan on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @02:45PM (#9220283)

GoDaddy is one of the worst. My current go to is Namecheap but I've also recently used MyDomain and Hover, all are much better.

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Re:How GoDaddy Acquired and Dismantled a Successful Startup by chrisbennet on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @03:23PM (#9220577)

I've been happy with EasyDNS for domain registration and I use a couple of other places for my hosting.

I believe the general view is that better to have your domain registrar separate from your hosting provider. Perhaps someone more knowledgeable than myself can speak to that.

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Re:How GoDaddy Acquired and Dismantled a Successful Startup by soperj on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @02:30PM (#9220174)

Really? Nearly everyone I've dealt with has been better. Name.com is my go to right now.

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Re:How GoDaddy Acquired and Dismantled a Successful Startup by nucleardog on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @02:57PM (#9220371)

Name.com's nameservers had a huge outage that lasted about an hour a few months back now.

That's not the bad part.

The nameservers didn't just go down, they were misconfigured and were serving the incorrect records for all of our ~140 domains. They were resolving to some totally unrelated address we'd never seen before. And not with a 0 TTL.

Before emailing to ask about an issue they already knew about, I looked for their service status dashboard... They don't have one. I checked their Twitter and other social media... No mention of the issue.

To date they haven't released any information on what happened that I'm aware of. When I contacted them directly and asked them what had happened and asked if there was to be a post-mortem released, their response was simply that it was a "configuration error" and they couldn't give me any details about what had happened or what they're doing to mitigate it, but I had their word that it would never happen again.

As a registrar they've been decent (lots of issues trying to get some registrant info updated on our .CA domains...).

I would absolutely recommend someone more transparent for nameserver hosting however.

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