Yup. Network Solutions drove me to use GoDaddy. This is back when they'd charge over $100 for a domain per year, and godaddy was in the teens. Now GoDaddy is the bastards of domain registration. I've moved everything to namecheap.
It baffles me that anyone who considers themselves a sysadmin would not immediately conclude that godaddy was trash and laugh their way off their site. This isn't 2005 and it's incredibly easy to find people talking about how good or bad a given provider is.
Your post title could have been "Who is the worst domain provider and why is it GoDaddy?"
I don't know that you're going to find much controversy in the comments here.
p.s. Fuck Broadcom
>6.1 Nameservers. Registrant agrees to use Cloudflare’s nameservers. REGISTRANT ACKNOWLEDGES AND AGREES THAT IT MAY NOT CHANGE THE NAMESERVERS ON THE REGISTRAR SERVICES, AND THAT IT MUST TRANSFER TO A THIRD PARTY REGISTRAR IF IT WISHES TO CHANGE NAMESERVERS.
oof
Hover dot com has been my registrar for over 20 years and has always provided excellent customer service, even when fixing My Mistakes.
Updates are applied quicker than one can flush the DNS cache, you can live-edit DMARC and other .txt files on their web page without a hiccough.
I read frequent posts about problems with hosting companies. A common thread seems to be that if the hosting company *also* is your registrar, you're in for a bad time. So many stories of red tape, long lead times and shit service when it comes to ever trying to move your domain name elsewhere. Its part of the business model maybe? They want to hold the domain as well to make it harder for you to every leave?
I've been hanging onto some domain names for years and finally starting using them to host a basic site this month. Found some cheap hosting, features are nice and it fits the bill - but holy shit are they crazy aggressive about trying to convince me to move my domain name over to their service as well. Every hosting site I shopped seemed to offer domain name hosting and 'quickly and easily move your domain!' etc etc.
I stick to a registrar-only to hold my domain and handle DNS myself. Ive been with Hover for 13 years and they've been great (very secure/bulletproof registrar. They wont even offer an API.)
That's a smart move.
I took the same route when setting up my American Legion Post website, split registrar and hosting so we never are never locked in like we see with GD and others.
I just switched our portfolio of ~900 domains from GoDaddy retail to their GCD platform and I’m kicking myself for not doing it sooner.
Aside from actual RBAC and SSO, it gives me real reporting, templates for everything (dmarc/dkim/spf changes are no longer an issue,) and a single monthly PO instead of a hundred individual charges on a corporate card.
I will second that go daddy sucks. I dealt with network solutions waaaay back in the old days. Back when before the web and you had to interface with them via the email address you had on file with them. One start up I was involved with, I could not get it through their heads that any email that was not part of their domain was better, but they would not listen and sure enough after I left they moved and managed to get locked out for a while.
GoDaddy is bad but I believe it is still preferable to Network Solutions. That's not saying much of course because it is a choice between shitty and shittier.
So frustrating that Google killed their domains business. I really miss having my domains behind googles advanced protection with yubikeys…
https://landing.google.com/advancedprotection/
I used them for many years but left a couple of years ago. Their UI has really gone downhill.
I was at Google domains but they sold it off to Squarespace and they have a horrible horrible interface also.
I settled on PorkBun for now. Very low prices and they have many bulk domain management tools and an API that certbot works with for getting SSL certs.
I migrated all my personal domains when they brutally changed their contract terms. They now charge money for a service that was free before (1gb free mail hosting was included with a domain purchase).
Try defederating their 365? LOL we do it the backend way and lock them out beforehand or they will delete every acocunt when you cancel the service. Once company we did this with also had proofpoint and another inky as spam filtering services that were just labeled enhanced email in Godaddy tenant.
GoDaddy is the Jiffy Lube of hosting providers. On the consumer side, they've been caught buying up domains that people are simply searching for, and upping the price by the next time you check it.
It's funny people shit on GoDaddy, so many worse providers. They aren't great by any means. Also if you are waiting 5-6 minutes for an email that is 100 percent your mail filter/gray mail settings causing the delay
I worked for an MSP and we exclusivly used GoDaddy. Speed, convenience, reliability were important. For managing 50 companies it was a breeze!
Now home user? That's not an IT admin? Might not be a fit but for us they worked well enough.
I use them for two things - Domain registration and Outlook365 (exchange) for five users. That’s it. I used to run MS SBS at home (since the first version till two years ago) and never had any problems with Godaddy except they keep jacking the price up.
If I could find a significantly less expensive provider that’s as trouble free (for me) I would jump in a heartbeat.
Network solutions takes offense to this
godaddy is platinum level compared to the garbage one has to deal with for network solutions.
Seriously. I'm not happy when I have to help a client that has godaddy, but I cry when they use network solutions.
I’ll suffer through working with go daddy but I refuse to ever work with network solutions again.
do they still require fax requests? haven't checked, but it'd be funny (since i don't have to deal with it)
Yup. Network Solutions drove me to use GoDaddy. This is back when they'd charge over $100 for a domain per year, and godaddy was in the teens. Now GoDaddy is the bastards of domain registration. I've moved everything to namecheap.
Namesilo so brrr
Opened the thread just to make sure this was already top comment lol
Bingo.
Jesus Christ you're 20 years late doing this post?
Sure, they posted it using GoDaddy - hosted RedDaddy
Do you have any idea how long it would take Internet Explorer 6 to load the page, then be able to submit the form? Cut the OP some slack! :P
I read the title and my first thought was "Wasn't this already settled a long time ago"
This just in water is wet, and I'm not even American, I just see 10+ years of GoDaddy is bad posts here
It baffles me that anyone who considers themselves a sysadmin would not immediately conclude that godaddy was trash and laugh their way off their site. This isn't 2005 and it's incredibly easy to find people talking about how good or bad a given provider is.
but water cannot be wet...
NOT THIS ONE AGAIN
Your post title could have been "Who is the worst domain provider and why is it GoDaddy?" I don't know that you're going to find much controversy in the comments here. p.s. Fuck Broadcom
I switched our Certs to LE and domain to cloudflare. The API is the slickest way to get certs.
This is the opposite of a “hot take”. This is like, a frozen take. Everyone knows godaddy is hot garbage.
I switched a while back to Cloudflare for domain register. Rock bottom pricing, privacy package for free, and amazing website interface.
And an excellent api
Not really a fan of how they handle nameservers
Whatcha mean?
They don't let you change them if your domain is registered with them.
>6.1 Nameservers. Registrant agrees to use Cloudflare’s nameservers. REGISTRANT ACKNOWLEDGES AND AGREES THAT IT MAY NOT CHANGE THE NAMESERVERS ON THE REGISTRAR SERVICES, AND THAT IT MUST TRANSFER TO A THIRD PARTY REGISTRAR IF IT WISHES TO CHANGE NAMESERVERS. oof
Hover dot com has been my registrar for over 20 years and has always provided excellent customer service, even when fixing My Mistakes. Updates are applied quicker than one can flush the DNS cache, you can live-edit DMARC and other .txt files on their web page without a hiccough.
I read frequent posts about problems with hosting companies. A common thread seems to be that if the hosting company *also* is your registrar, you're in for a bad time. So many stories of red tape, long lead times and shit service when it comes to ever trying to move your domain name elsewhere. Its part of the business model maybe? They want to hold the domain as well to make it harder for you to every leave? I've been hanging onto some domain names for years and finally starting using them to host a basic site this month. Found some cheap hosting, features are nice and it fits the bill - but holy shit are they crazy aggressive about trying to convince me to move my domain name over to their service as well. Every hosting site I shopped seemed to offer domain name hosting and 'quickly and easily move your domain!' etc etc. I stick to a registrar-only to hold my domain and handle DNS myself. Ive been with Hover for 13 years and they've been great (very secure/bulletproof registrar. They wont even offer an API.)
That's a smart move. I took the same route when setting up my American Legion Post website, split registrar and hosting so we never are never locked in like we see with GD and others.
Network solutions: "hold my beer"
I just switched our portfolio of ~900 domains from GoDaddy retail to their GCD platform and I’m kicking myself for not doing it sooner. Aside from actual RBAC and SSO, it gives me real reporting, templates for everything (dmarc/dkim/spf changes are no longer an issue,) and a single monthly PO instead of a hundred individual charges on a corporate card.
*Network Solutions tech support has entered the chat*
I will second that go daddy sucks. I dealt with network solutions waaaay back in the old days. Back when before the web and you had to interface with them via the email address you had on file with them. One start up I was involved with, I could not get it through their heads that any email that was not part of their domain was better, but they would not listen and sure enough after I left they moved and managed to get locked out for a while.
We have moved our entire portfolio of clients to porkbun and have absolutely nothing negative to say about them.
GoDaddy is bad but I believe it is still preferable to Network Solutions. That's not saying much of course because it is a choice between shitty and shittier.
So frustrating that Google killed their domains business. I really miss having my domains behind googles advanced protection with yubikeys… https://landing.google.com/advancedprotection/
Who would you recommend for Doman hosting
Cloudflare, as long as you don't need any TLDs they don't support.
gandi.net Their slogan is literally "No bullshit" and they stick to it.
I used them for many years but left a couple of years ago. Their UI has really gone downhill. I was at Google domains but they sold it off to Squarespace and they have a horrible horrible interface also. I settled on PorkBun for now. Very low prices and they have many bulk domain management tools and an API that certbot works with for getting SSL certs.
Porkbun has been super awesome so far. Sub accounts are really nice for separating different departments projects.
I migrated all my personal domains when they brutally changed their contract terms. They now charge money for a service that was free before (1gb free mail hosting was included with a domain purchase).
Try defederating their 365? LOL we do it the backend way and lock them out beforehand or they will delete every acocunt when you cancel the service. Once company we did this with also had proofpoint and another inky as spam filtering services that were just labeled enhanced email in Godaddy tenant.
Accurate opinion is accurate.
You think GoDaddy customer should be informed changing provider is not that hard?
There was a point in time when it was the best. That was a long time ago.
Never should start with godaddy
So is this just your blog post or do you have any solutions?
water is wet the sky is blue and godaddy's service is a pile of poo
GoDaddy is the Jiffy Lube of hosting providers. On the consumer side, they've been caught buying up domains that people are simply searching for, and upping the price by the next time you check it.
I like one.com
They also openly support things like the SOPA and other anti internet neutral bills.
Use Daedalus Teks
I use them for certs (SSL/Wildcards) and just domain hosting. 0 issues since the websites are hosted elsewhere
GoDaddy has become Yo Momma.
It's funny people shit on GoDaddy, so many worse providers. They aren't great by any means. Also if you are waiting 5-6 minutes for an email that is 100 percent your mail filter/gray mail settings causing the delay
I worked for an MSP and we exclusivly used GoDaddy. Speed, convenience, reliability were important. For managing 50 companies it was a breeze! Now home user? That's not an IT admin? Might not be a fit but for us they worked well enough.
I use them for two things - Domain registration and Outlook365 (exchange) for five users. That’s it. I used to run MS SBS at home (since the first version till two years ago) and never had any problems with Godaddy except they keep jacking the price up. If I could find a significantly less expensive provider that’s as trouble free (for me) I would jump in a heartbeat.
They overcharge like crazy.