1) The issues with GoDaddy are FAR more then a few disgruntled customers...
2) We don't buy or maintain street addresses from a for profit company, why should domain name be any different? Domain name registration should be a free government/ ma'bell function. > Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 19:02:11 -0800 > From: do...@dougbarton.us > To: bind-users@lists.isc.org > Subject: Re: Registrar that supports self-run domains and provides DNSSEC > support > > I started to prepend my statement with "Some people don't like GoDaddy, > but ..." and then decided I would hope that it wouldn't be necessary at > this point. Since this is unarguably off-topic, I will try to be brief. > > First, a certain percentage of all customer service interactions with > every company are going to be bad. Since GoDaddy is the largest > registrar, numerically there are going to be more people who have had > bad experiences with them. Second, they are unashamedly capitalist. They > do offer many upsells, _just like every other registrar_. (Note, I used > to be in that business, we did the same thing at Yahoo!) You can argue > that their interface is more misleading/aggressive than others, but what > they do is not only not unique, it's the common case. > > Third, I've done business with them for over 10 years, I have > transferred at least dozens (probably more, but I'm not going to take > the time to count) of domains in and out of GoDaddy for clients, family > members, and myself. My experience has been uniformly positive. Finally, > while Bob is no longer running GoDaddy day to day, he was an early > supporter both of ICANN generally, and of cleaning up the registrar > business specifically (which for those of you who weren't on line around > the turn of the century, was an even dodgier, shadier place than it is now). > > Finally, GoDaddy was also an early supporter of things like IPv6 and > DNSSEC. My domains are all registered there, and the ones that aren't > just redirects all have IPv6 glue and DS records. > > A little more below ... > > On 02/19/2013 04:30 PM, Vernon Schryver wrote: > >>> I wrote: > >>> GoDaddy supports everything you're looking for. > > > > Those issues seem at most secondary to the objections some people have > > to how GoDaddy has dealt with the Internet and GoDaddy customers. > > https://www.google.com/search?q=nodaddy.com > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/07/12/godaddy_shuts_down_nodaddy/ > > While I don't think anyone in the registrar business is blameless, it's > worth looking at the source of a lot of those complaints, with an eye > toward how many of them are generated by GoDaddy's competition. Not to > mention the use of sensational-sounding accusations (Bob Parsons is an > elephant killer!) which when examined more closely turn out to be > completely without merit: > > "Parsons has said he participated in the hunt because the elephants were > a nuisance destroying crops the local population depended upon for > sustenance and even threatening the lives of villagers. > > Therefore, his hunt solved two problems, he suggested. > > 'First they have their crops,' he told ABC News Radio, 'and they get to > eat the elephant.'" > > http://abcnews.go.com/Business/daddy-ceo-bob-parsons-africa-elephant-hunt-video/story?id=13279206 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe > from this list > > bind-users mailing list > bind-users@lists.isc.org > https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
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