Godaddy does have it's dirty laundry. And they are one of the best if
not the best vhost provider. GoDaddy was the first, as far as I know,
and is the most egregious in breaking apart what used to be the total
vhost package.
I hosted my business website with them for years. I really liked their
webmail. When I switched to a mail client I had to move to their top
trier vhosting package to get imap. What started out as $4/mo hosting
ended up as $12/mo hosting once I added everything back in that I
needed. That is why I moved on.
On 2014-06-25 11:48, Michael Butash wrote:
On 06/25/2014 08:19 AM, Bryan O'Neal wrote:
Go Daddy's DNA service is one of the best in the world, their DNSSec
is the best I have ever seen, and they offer a variety of niche
items like vanity name servers. Plus they often sell domains at a
loss and the next ten largest competitors for actively served
authoritative zones don't add up to what they do. Now if Google
really becomes a competitor I bet Go Daddy would do something to run
the tides like start offering free premium service or increase thier
infrastructure. All of which would be amazing.
Like with everything, "free" or "freemium" isn't always free. Godaddy
gets theirs, and that's with marketing. Stewarding some 55m domains
comes with the added benefit of you steer some part of 98% of the
worlds infrastructure through you at some time or another, whether
it's authoritative dns for the domain, root records, glue, or other.
That's analytics they sell to microsoft, google, about anyone else
they can sell it out to.
Parkweb that floats the domains when no site is there by default (and
serves, gee, ads go figure) for a large percent of those 55m domains
make for prime real estate for revenue generating trackers and other
things. So much so Microsoft paid them in partnerships to convert that
from apache to iis back in the day [4], making "iis the most popular
server on the internet" at the time per microsoft marketing jargon
released the next day coincidentally.
Now Google wants to snatch the pebble from their hand, one dns to
rule/adword them all, and go to the source to bypass revenue to GD.
Most people already use their *gracious* offer of free dns already,
giving them the data now everything their pc connects a socket to and
does a name lookup on.
GD's infrastructure is actually pretty top notch already. You'd be
amazed the battering it takes in ddos daily and keeps on ticking. That
bit of DNS latency is infrastructure to keep it ticking...
In full disclosure, I used to work there (twice actually), and know
too much of the dirty laundry, as well as some pride in building that
infrastructure. :)
-mb
http://www.solvedns.com/dns-comparison/ [3]
What ever happens I cam sure it will be cool :)
On Jun 24, 2014 10:44 PM, "Michael Butash" <[email protected]>
wrote:
http://domains.google.com/about/ [1]
Godaddy is about to have extreme competition, and they're
worried. ;)
-mb
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