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- FarcicalFart, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I was seriously thinking about using them for hosting. Guess not.
- starmanjones, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3i have all my domains with godaddy. have for a long time. none are parked. but i won't trust my domains to windows. thats... gooFy daddy
- silhouette88, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"GoDaddy.com, known for its competitively priced, service-packed product offerings and high levels of customer service, is the world's No. 1 domain name registrar."
There are so many things wrong with this statement. I won't argue that they are one of the lowest priced registrars out there. For com and net domains, registrars pay the registry (Verisign) $6 per domain. They *have* to be the largest (in volume) registrar in order to sustain themselves with such low profit margins. With margins that low, something has to give. Guess what that is? Ever try to get human support from GoDaddy? Ever try calling their toll free number? (Oh wait, they don't have one). Support is outsourced to call centers manned by people that don't know the difference between a registrar, registrant or registry. They're buying million dollar Superbowl ads and moving from cost effective open source to proprietary platforms. Sooner or later their shareholders are going to realize that this is a *horrible* business plan. - mixx941, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2What possible advantage do they have to move from a free and open source operating system to Windows (other than to get friendly with Microsoft)? Certainly not an increase in performance, stability, or cost effectiveness.
I have all my domains through them and thought they were a decent company...but this move is just a stupid decision. - madcat87, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I`ll never register domain there.I don`t trust anybody who use MS :)
- nograz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It could be that old "cost too much to manage" justification.
People with MCSE are a dime a dozen it seems. People with *nix knowledge are far and fewer inbetween.
I would use GoDaddy.com to register a domain, but not host it. I am use to the linux enviroment, I follow the development of the software that is used (Apache, PHP, MySQL) etc... I trust the software on linux more than Windows since it is being devloped for linux and then ported over to Windows, which in my opinion, means more stability, better performance and better security. The Apache group do not even support it on Windows, saying that they claim no responsibility. I can say it works fine, but I think that goes a long way with their comment. - Julikaefer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The advantage is simple: They get paid for this by Microsoft. It does not really matter to them or anyone which OS they use for PARKED domains but this gives microsoft a boost for Netcraft's web server survey since it's a really huge amount of domains.
- Inhibit, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Hosting companies tend to either have a spot on "with it" managment team or be completely clueless as to how to run a hosting business. I'm guessing these folks are the later.
Now, not to say that they didn't have a competent team at the outset, but replacing Linux with Windows servers for parked domains just seems like a money sink. Domain servers sitting there responding with a single HTML page don't exactly take a whole lot of configuring... if your guys can't configure that on *any* platform, you've got worse trouble than which OS to use for the server. - wilsonics, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Damn. I thought i was starting to win the battle against the penis enlargment pill ads that i get in my inbox every 30 seconds. I guess not anymore. :(
- markselby, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Poor, desperate me me me O$. "We mustn't let the blinkered ones see how vulnerable we are. Quick, blow some more smoke."
- blognc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0That's ridiculous. I've used them as my registrar for two years, and I've called their toll free support line. The guy was American, knowledgeable, and was able to describe all the different options and help me figure out which deal would get me the most for the least. They do an excellent job.
- dukeinlondon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1dugg, just that they get a chance to see the reactions to the move.
- jonnyeh, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Why? Is it because you think that their servers will crash? That's a little silly. If they think it's worth their money to blow on an OS, when Linux works just fine, then it's their decision.
I wouldn't consider this a 'blow' to Linux, lighten up!
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