> Lee is one of the most competent IT guys I know.

And yet he uses GoDaddy?

This comments reads sarcastic, but it makes a serious point. GoDaddy has an extremely poor reputation. At some point you must accept that choosing companies like that is your own mistake.

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TZubiri 5 hours ago | parent [-]

the thing is that it makes sense when you are small, and it's one of the hardest and riskiest things to change, so it's a decision that stays with you.

And to be completely honest, it isn't that bad, you get a phone you can call 24/7. Of course mistakes happen and staff can't always help, but it's more like a 99.9% vs 99.99% quality thing when comparing to other providers like AWS or CloudFlare.

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Zak 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Why does using GoDaddy as a registrar instead of one with a better reputation like Porkbun or Namecheap make sense when you're small?

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HotGarbage 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Namecheap supports Palestinian genocide: https://neosmart.net/blog/namecheap-com-revokes-domain-hosti...

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LeoPanthera 3 hours ago | parent [-]

This is at the very least debatable. The site they took down contained multiple videos of animals being tortured and killed. Not all decisions are simple black and white.

	▲	gzread 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Animals die too in a genocide. I don't understand your point here. Namecheap decided they should proactively police Namecheap customers for this, Namecheap should lose all its business as a result. Let Namecheap decide whether the income from Israel exceeds the income from all Namecheap customers.

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trollbridge 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Changing registrars is one of the easiest things there is to do. I require any clients I work with to do so.

	▲	oasisbob an hour ago \| parent [-]
		It's much more difficult for some gTLDS. Once you have a bunch of international domains, it's not even generally possible to have a single registrar who can support them all.