Registrar that supports self-run domains and provides DNSSEC support

[Shawn Bakhtiar]

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: dougb at dougbarton.us
> To: bind-users at 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
> 
> 
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