🚀 go-pugleaf

Cydrome Leader <presence@mungepanix.com> wrote:

> gogaddy is obnoxious, but cheap, has never fucked me over and it's not 
> some foreign bullshit front corporation on some tax haven island like 
> gandi or any of those other sketchy as fuck places. If I can't walk 
> through the front door of your office, I'm not doing business with you.

Yeah that is one major consideration CL is making.

If you ever have to deal with a domain being hijacked, or one that "expired"
by accident, dealing with the offshore ones are a nightmare, generally
you'll lose the domain or have to pay 1000's to recover it.

Big plus for both godaddy or networksolutions is, if you suspect wrong
doing, a call to the FBI really stirs up the shit and gets results.

I hate godaddy myself, six pages of bullshit "why not add..." just to do a
domain renewal, but as I long as I see they are still in Arizona, they'll
get my business.

Their stance on SOPA was outright stupid but this boycott is almost as
stupid. They host/registered something like 32,000,000 domains and a couple
hundred thousand moving away isn't exactly going to put much of a dent in
their operations.

Use the non-u.s. based ones if you want, but I'm telling you, if you hit a
bump in the road, better kiss your domain goodbye and look for a
replacement.

-bruce
bje@ripco.com