Go Daddy Files Patents for Enhanced Whois and DNS Records

http://domainnamewire.com/2009/09/25/go-daddy-files-patents-for-enhanced-whois-and-dns-records/

by buugs • 17 years ago

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jacquesm8• 17 years ago

They're asking for the wrath of St. Postel with this.

To co-opt a piece of a public internet standard that was arrived at through the work of lots of people is really beyond the pale.

Godaddy ought to be boycotted over this, simply take all of your business away from them referring to the filing of this patent as your reason for closing your account.

I'm pretty sure that if enough people do it they'll wonder if this is such a good idea.

This besides the obvious fact that they are even able to file this is utter nonsense, they ought to be rejected on the spot and fined for filing a ridiculous patent.

tumult• 17 years ago

Yep. I have a bunch of domains with Godaddy; what are the good alternatives? (This is the sort of thing that's really hard to google for)

buugs2• 17 years ago

Have had no problems with namecheap, dotdnr was good too but they upped their price by 5 bucks (not much but makes you wonder if they would do it again).

jacquesm8• 17 years ago

there was this thread a while ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=777298

terrellm• 17 years ago

A lot of the large domain owners use Moniker or Fabulous for their domains. They both have good prices and good support. Plus they don't lead you through a mine field of extras just to buy a domain.

I personally have had good luck with Moniker. They also have a great API.

bcl2• 17 years ago

I moved all 60+ of my domains over to namecheap.com after GoDaddy pulled the rug out from under Fydor. See http://www.nodaddy.com for the details and other alternate registrars.

simonsarris• 17 years ago

http://en.gandi.net/ is wonderful.

stanleydrew• 17 years ago

I've been using name.com for a little while and they are very good. Free private whois too.

cww2• 17 years ago

Really, I think the question is more like, "what are the good and cheap alternatives?" GoDaddy is inexpensive, but dealing with their constant up-sells and their various ploys to get more money can be frustrating and annoying.

I host my domains at GoDaddy because it's cheap. I preferred GANDI prior to that because their quality of service was high and their willingness to keep the crap to a minimum was one of their primary objectives. (I still use GANDI's VPS service.)

I would love to find a cheap, good alternative to GoDaddy, but every time I look for one, I come up dry.

indiejade• 17 years ago

About 1.5 years ago, I compiled something to answer this very question. It seems that now there's something new to add to the list for why GoDaddy should not be trusted.

http://domains.zentu.net

mariana• 17 years ago

gandi.net

conoryoung• 17 years ago

A boycott would only work if there were a concerted effort behind to spread the word as far as possible.

The recent Whole Foods boycott was a good example of how to do it - organizers used the forums section of the Whole Foods website to get the word out and Whole Foods didn't prevent it.

A couple of people changing hosts on HN is not going to amount to a hill of beans and would most likely just inconvenience those people since Godaddy is the cheapest option available (if you use their frequent coupon codes).

jacquesm8• 17 years ago

If the 'couple of people' on HN are anywhere near on average compared to the few that I know personally then it will have a huge effect.

cww2• 17 years ago

I can't take a web site seriously when they have locally-hosted animated GIF ads.

_ck_• 17 years ago

First, patents related to software must die, asap.

Second, there is so much prior art on this, if it gets approved we know the patent office is on the take.

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