Comments on: GoDaddy Selected as Top Domain Name Registrar

By: dug

dug — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 08:12:57 +0000

Whois reports my DNS updates as pointing to my server, they have been for 24 hours… but guess what? I am still seeing the GoDaddy parking page. Therefore I too must dispute your GoDaddy “instant update” claim. None of the other registrars I have used have pulled a stunt like that.

By: Jack

Jack — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:52:16 +0000

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By: Editor

Editor — Fri, 25 May 2007 14:20:17 +0000

Chris, it is true that I have affiliate links here. I use a program to turn any company that has an affiliate program into a link. There\’s no \”tainting\” of the survey. A lot of companies don\’t have affiliate programs.

Why are NameCheap and DomainSite not included in the results? If you recall when taking the survey they were not options, because they aren\’t within the biggest 10 registrars. I didn\’t list every registrar. But I listed the top 10 even if they don\’t have affiliate programs.

Stop the conspiracy theories and quit whining.

By: Chris Nielsen

Chris Nielsen — Fri, 25 May 2007 01:52:45 +0000

I read past this page and looked at a few others and then noticed something. It seems like all the links in these survey results are AFFILIATE LINKS!

For me, that seriously TAINTS the validity of this “survey”. I was wondering why there wasn’t more data from the survey, since you would expect that there would be a lot of oddball responses. And I was really surprised that neither Namecheap.com or Domainsite.com that I use were listed. Of course, they don’t have any affiliate programs….

By: Chris Nielsen

Chris Nielsen — Fri, 25 May 2007 01:45:29 +0000

I also think that men who “where” earings are pathetic, but if they “wear” them, well it’s not for me to judge one way or another…

I don’t like Godaddy for a number of reasons and some were mentioned above, but others are more subjective in nature and don’t bother me other others. If Godaddy was really bad, THEY WOULD NOT BE SO BIG, now would they? From buying used domains I have a few there and they will all be transfered away when they are due to be renewed. Well, all but one. I have a .ws domain that it seems you can’t transfer for some reason… Oh well.

And I did get nailed with that 60 day transfer hold after I put in a transfer and then changed the registrant from the previous owner to myself. Gotcha! I had to renew it at Godaddy so I would not lose it. I can take some small satisfaction that you can search Google for “godaddy coupons” and find sites that have codes that can get you a discount and not have to pay the full price.

Interesting thread, just remember the #1 rule of forums and blogs: “Please don’t feed the trolls!”.

By: tomas

tomas — Thu, 10 May 2007 17:09:35 +0000

Lance,

I am a godaddy customer, and your email just reeks of personal incompentence. I just dropped free hosting for my son’s website last night. The change took 2 minutes to go through godaddy’s system. I then forwarded his domain. 3 days? No. By the time I woke up this morning, traffic was going to the redirect.

Also, after a domain expires, the registry charges a fee to get it back. Yes, right away. And no, godaddy is not a registry. Blame verisign for that, not godaddy. if you have a registrar who will eat that fee for you, feel free to use them to cover your own negligence, but they’ll go out of business because i think that it is a pretty hefty fee (40 dollars?) imposed by verisign, so if they pay that for you, they just lost money on your domain big time.

it is icann policy, not godaddy policy, that domains with false whois information can be challenged and revoked. and no, godaddy is not icann either. blame icann if you want, but if you were a big registrar, i hope you might think twice before violating icann policy.

just my 0.02.

By: uzma

uzma — Thu, 03 May 2007 08:13:18 +0000

The story at tinyurl.com was interesting but some aspects were rather curious. First, the culprit was tracked to Iran? These days Iran is a new baddie and how convenient that all criminals should originate from there. I recall sometime ago dnjournal had some hacking problem as well and the hacker announced in his broken english (another proof he was Iranian) that he was from Iran. 20 years ago I think he would have been from russia. Anyway, my point is, despite my inadequate, mostly based on guess-work, knowledge of scams and IT based tricks, even i know it can be next to impossible to track down the true origins of a talented hacker. I have read of cases where whole governements took years to track down someone, and those cases where they failed probably never made to press. Your names can be stolen by anyone (even by your very close friend) and then make to appear as if stolen by someone in north korea. I reckon one can also arrange to have his own names stolen to get the names lots of pulicity. So much is happening out there, such organised, calculated conspiracies are going on, an average guy has snowball’s chance in hell of making it big. Only the select few “insiders” are making multimillion dollar fortunes and they very reluctant, understandably, to let others share in the pie. I own a few hundered names which are slowly becoming very valuable despite what others may try to make me believe. And i know ppl out there want them and will try to get them without buying if they can. Now I am probably a sitting duck with my normal pc with norton anitvirus and all that crap which any reasonable hacker must find amusing. Still I keep making all those naive efforts to protect my names. I know this pc is 100% hacked. It can’t cannot be. Every email, every password is known to outsiders. So I use another computer to log into my gd a/c which is probably hacked too. So i just have to keep making efforts to protect my names. There is no guarantee even with all the efforts I can ever be safe. And if something does happen will I have resources to fight legal battles? Due to all these considerations I have concluded serious domaining is best left to those who have the serious resources. Sure one can register few and make a few hundered through sales, ppc etc or even few thosands but anything above that is a big ask. Still…I continue in this arena with my foolish dreams. humans are not 100% rational. But i know one thing if ever i have a problem its origins will not be in iran or north korea but a lot closer.