With all the publicity GoDaddy has received over the last 10 years or so, I wonder why anybody reasonable would deal with them any more. Maybe the prices are irresistibly low, IDK.

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tedggh 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I was done with them the day I knew their founder and CEO bribed corrupt African governments to go kill elephants, pose for pictures and share them with family and friends. I hunt and fish, but there’s something particularly evil about spending a fortune to abuse broken systems in poor nations to go after one of the most social species on earth, which are also known for having a strong awareness of death.

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boscillator 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

They show up as the #2 ad spot when you search "register a domain" and most people don't know any better.

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0_-_0 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

they are not inexplicably low -- any rational person sees that any low prices are one year intro deals that revert to excessive after the first year.

We have always hated working with them, and have moved all clients to cloudflare.

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gzread 3 hours ago | parent [-]

You moved from the worst registrar to the second worst registrar. Cloudflare will call you up one day demanding an immediate payment of $150k and holding your domains hostage if you don't comply.

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JoBrad 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Cloudflare isn’t anywhere near being the second worst registrar. I’ve never had anything remotely similar to this occur, and I’ve had hundreds of domains with Cloudflare for years.

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Silhouette 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Cloudflare will call you up one day demanding an immediate payment of $150k and holding your domains hostage if you don't comply.

[citation very much needed]

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vetrom 3 hours ago | parent [-]

https://robindev.substack.com/p/cloudflare-took-down-our-web... - one of a number of citations. To find more insert the terms [Cloudflare, hostage] into your favorite search engine.

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jolux 19 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Cmon, this is the guy that was running a shady online casino which was tanking Cloudflare’s IP reputation, completely different.

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Silhouette 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Whatever was really happening in that incident it seems clear that it was not a simple matter of having registered some domains with Cloudflare and then getting a shakedown for $100k+ because of that.

If anyone else chooses to read the post then I suggest skimming the comments (that are mostly hidden by default) as well.

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vetrom 2 hours ago | parent [-]

The point isnt the apologists that pop up whereever CF gets mentioned, the point is that they more or less have a built reputation for deceptive loss leader marketing.

Maybe early/MVP product engineers should know better, but CFs own education materials do not teach you to expect that.

	▲	Silhouette 13 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I have no financial or professional connection to Cloudflare as far as I know and that's partly because I'm not sure I like the way they operate and the level of control over everyone's access to the Web they now have. But if we're going to criticise then I think it should be on a reasonable and preferably objective basis. The claim I challenged appears to be the complete opposite of that unfortunately.
	▲	otterley 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

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mixologic 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yeah, thats FUD. Cloudflare hasnt called anybody demanding huge sums of cash and holding your domains hostage. As a registrar they're fine, dont play scammy scum upsell games (because they have a real business model that isnt just registration skim).

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A_D_E_P_T 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

For me, it's Namecheap.

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kirubakaran 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

That's worrying. My search-fu is failing me. Link please.

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saddist0 an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

What are the good alternatives? In domain business, everyone like a service which has lived for decades. GoDaddy being the one helps a lot.

I love Cloudflare for my .com domains but they don’t support a lot of TLDs till date.

	▲	nine_k an hour ago \| parent [-]
		If you prefer to use a service that's been around for a really long time, Network Solutions will happily sell you a domain! (Maybe Tucows, too; their domain-registering arm is now called OpenSRS, it appears.)