The GoDaddy Saga Continues 203
First time accepted submitter wbr1 writes "Domain registrar Namecheap is accusing GoDaddy of violating ICANN rules and hindering domain owners from moving their domains to another registrar. They are allegedly doing this by submitting incomplete information to the new registrar, making it difficult to process the move."
Adds user bs0d3: "Godaddy has responded to these allegations today and insist that their practice of rate limiting Whois queries is standard practice to combat Whois abuse. Furthermore, they accuse Namecheap of playing foul because they released a statement before ever contacting godaddy directly to resolve these issues."
You don't get to be #1 (Score:4, Insightful)
by playing fair.
Let me put it straight: (Score:5, Insightful)
"Dear GoDaddy. You openly supported something that revokes our rights and would give you more power to abuse us with while others in your position openly opposed it. Fuck you. Die."
No tears from us. Go Namecheap!
Shooting yourself in the foot isn't good enough... (Score:5, Insightful)
So now they've broken out a bazooka.
Seriously, they piss their customers off with their handling of SOPA. After that, their plan is... technical incompetence? Mishandling of accounts? Their lousy customer service is now in the spotlight because of this, and it's going to make their problems even worse because people remember a reputation for bad service long after they've forgotten all about SOPA.
You can't fix that with more ads from a second rate race car driver.
Re:WhoreDaddy (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Namecheap is a good registrar (Score:5, Insightful)
Maybe it looks like a viral advertisement to you, but I think it's on the level for a couple of reasons. First, there are more testimonials below pitching Namecheap as a good registrar, and second (and more importantly), I've used Namecheap as a registrar myself for around six years for 18 domains related to free gaming sites I run. The OP is right, they have a great, simple interface and I've never had any trouble with them. They offer great service for a great price, and they Just Work.
If you like a different registrar better, then more power to you; I'm glad you've found someone you like and feel offers good service. But what exactly makes you think that the OP is an "obvious viral advertisement" but that your link isn't? Frankly, reading the content of your page, yours sounds more like an obvious viral advertisement (that is, the obvious attempt to grab attention using blatant profanity) than the OP simply listing a few reasons why he likes his registrar.
Re:Interesting (Score:5, Insightful)
I did some research and astroturfing seems unlikely in this individual situation.
First of all there's not dozens of "pro-namecheep" fanboy posts. There's like three. So I clicked on them to check out their posting history
InterestingFella (2537066) seems "real"
SJHillman (1966756) seems "real"
andydread (758754) seems "real"
It seems likely to me that namecheep does in fact rock.
Its kind of like whenever we talk about simple web hosting and ipv6, like fifty people come out of the woodwork to say he.net rocks. Or whenever we talk about colo virtual servers, again, like fifty people come out of the woodwork to say linode.com rocks. Based on personal experience as customer, its not a conspiracy or advertising, its simply that they're absolute best of breed and they do in fact rock. So I would be inclined to believe the /. groupthink and tend to think this namecheep place does in fact rock in the world of DNS service.
What I don't get, is that "gandi" or whatever place in like France or someplace used to get all the /. mindshare as being the "best". What happened to them? I recall it was "hard" to use if you lived in the USA, something about sending them money, but thats all I remember about ghandi or gandi or whatever they were.
Re:WhoreDaddy (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Not the first time (Score:5, Insightful)
I find PETA as annoying as the next guy, but killing an elephant is just disgusting to me on so many levels...
Yes, I know they trample crops. Don't give a shit, Bob Parsons obviously had the money to move the problem elephant. Besides, elephants migrate along the same paths year after year and have been since the dawn of fucking time. Trying to grow crops in the path of a bunch of migrating elephants is about as intelligent as trying to grow crops on train tracks.
Oh, but the people got to eat the elephant! So fucking what? Can I kill people if I promise to eat them afterwords? Besides, if they're starving, why didn't he leave the GoDaddy hats and shit at home (watch the video, every other person is wearing a brand new, bright orange GoDaddy hat) and bring them fucking food? Why didn't he spend his fortune building them walls and such around their crops?
We all know the real answers, and that is "Bob Parsons is wealthy. Bob Parsons wanted to murder a fucking elephant because he's a fucking psychopath and the thought of killing something gets him hard." Come up with every excuse in the world you want, the fact remains, he could have spent the same amount of money he used to bribe the people into allowing him to kill the elephant to do something positive for those people without killing an endangered species. He's not some poor African farmer trying to feed his family, he's just another entitled prick that views the world as his candy jar and any life that's not his own as less valuable. Fuck him and fuck GoDaddy.
Re:You don't get to be #1 (Score:2, Insightful)
How close to expiration were they when you tried to transfer them? There are rules in place to prevent some activity on an almost expired domain (whois updates, etc.).
Re:You don't get to be #1 (Score:3, Insightful)
Exactly. And we should know now from history what happens to corrupt cultures; look at Sodom and Gomorrah, Rome, etc. (Not saying that S&G was literally true, but if you read the Biblical account, they weren't destroyed because of homosexuality as the homophobes would have you believe, it was because the people in those cities were all a bunch of assholes. This should sound familiar to anyone living in America.)