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