Goddady Promo
 

I just bought (leased is probably a better term) 5 domains at godaddy. Total price 50 bucks and some change. After applying promo code, $38 and change. I used promo code ZINE3

I hope you, the GG and Jim entrepreneurial participants, in this great and auspicious forum might find that bit of information useful. I would have found it useful a few domains ago.

Happy pornographing to the lot of you and especially you great and wonderful wizards of the internet that send me traffic. I'd suck your cocks, but you'll need to send a lot more traffic first. |jester|

You may notice that I dont provide a link with a bunch of squiggly shit at the end saying click here and use this promo. That's because I'm not after your money... yet. LOL. If you are too dumb to find godaddy without a link, youre fucked. I'm not telling you what the domain name is.

That is a good price. They are now roughly competitive with Moniker.com's regular pricing.

No offense, but I use a ton of registrars - enom reseller, namecheap.com, monkier.com, dotster and godaddy (for push transfers only). Given my wonderful experience with lawyers and go daddy in the early days - yeah, I know they cleaned most of the problems up - I will gladly pay the regular price at moniker.com which is pennies more than godaddy's promotional price for .com's and less for most other tld's.

Bought myself a $2,19 domain at godaddy yesterday with a promocode :D

you just gave me a reason to focus on your stuf

|2up GoDaddy



we now return you to your regularly scheduled topic

count me in that camp as well.

I wouldn't register a domain for my x-mother-in-law at godaddy and I dont' give a shit on the cost.

Godaddy will cause you grief, eventually.

here is one for net domains gdbb776
used yesterday, net renewal cost me 7.70

Speaking of greif...
 

Speaking of greif... I needed one more domain so I thought I give monkers.com a try. It took almost 12 hours for them to relinquish authority so I could use my own nameservers.

Never again.

You think a 12 hour wait is comparable? Wow.

Thinking of buying a domain?

Moniker = good business decision.

Well I've used godaddy for over 10 yrs, and counting clients that is over 1k domains

Total problems I have had in 10 yrs = 0

I know there is a lot of hate against godaddy in the adult webmaster world, but 99% of any problems I have ever seen that anyone has had with them has been all the webmasters fault. (not locking domains on their own before it was default with godaddy, intentional violations of the TOS, domain scams that webmasters got caught doing, etc.)

Sure the ownership is a little shady, but I have seen that with others including directnic...

Maybe I have been lucky, maybe it's just a disaster waiting to happen...but again in 10 yrs and all told over 1k domains I have never had a problem with godaddy (or even seen one posted by others that wasn't in someway directly related to mistakes by the webmasters)

Yes. When I rent a domain, I want authority handed over to my nameservers immediately, and I want my names to resolve to the new address in about 10 minutes for anyone that doesn't have a crappy dns server. Using godaddy and freedns, my sites begin resolving (for me) about 10 minutes after I buy them.

Also, godaddy gives you a free smtp/pop3 address on your domain for free, the other place doesnt.

Huh? Not sure what you meant by that.

That happens at all registrars from time to time - even godaddy. FWIW, my moniker.com domains resolve almost instantly. Delays in relinquishing authority for most large registrars are mostly situationally specific occurences. Certainly, if your nameservers are registered at the same registrar as the domain your are pointing at them, most of those situations go away because that is where the hang up normally is. One of my companies has registered over 500 domains (I do dropped domain and registered domain acquisition for a several etailers periodically) in the past year for clients, and it happens from time to time with all of them.

I only used to use enom and bulkregister (enom as well) because of that issue - everyone else back in the old days (particularly godaddy and netsol) took 24 hours or more. But, today, there is no difference in that regard with the top registrars.

Real grief is spending money on lawyers for a year. I won, but it was expensive.

One last side note of irony is I just bought a domain/website from another webmaster (transaction was conducted on another board openly). The domain was pushed to me at godaddy.com 3 hours ago and, because the webmaster I bought from gzipped the site to me and I had already laoded the site at the ip, I changed the dns immediately. I am still wating for it to resolve. That does not bother me, but, like I said, nameserver resolutions are situational.

To post an additional update to this. godaddy.com reported my change in registration almost instantly.

It is now almost 9 hours later and the nameserver resolution has not taken place.

This is but another legal issue that godaddy's screwed up processing could create. I am reported as the domain owner, but, even looking at whois, the nameserver resolution has not happened. There are definite things about this site with which I am not comfortable, including the abscence of 2257 information. I am responsible for the new domain yet unable to change anything under it.

Why should I be burdened with godaddy's inconsistent treatement of whois and nameserver resolutions? This is simply another example of why adult webmasters should be wary of using this service. Contrary to your assertion, godaddy has been one of the slowest to resolve nameservers historically (from their inception), and, given that I only use them for the rare pushed domain and it is happening again, it appears that has not changed .

To be fair, the last three or four domains I processed there resolved instantly, but their occurence rate of delayed resolution remains at the rate of netsol rather than enom or moniker - and I have hundreds of data points.

BTW, moniker.com and enom have interfaces that can be activated to prevent the reporting of whois before nameserver resolution for those transfering or "receiving pushed" domains. They also only charge a nominal fee for private whois, which is another protection against that result for transfered domains. What does godaddy charge? 8.99 per domain? Really, if you are in the adult business seriously, stay away from that service. I hate when I have to receive a domain pushed there and will openly offer less for the website that the domain is registered there.

In the abscence of protections against whois being reported before the nameservers resolved, affordable private whois is an absolute necessity for the transfer. I risked not paying their exhorbitant price in this case, but will not again because of their obviously slow response in releasing authority.

All registrars screw up, but godaddy's reputation as one that screws up a higher percentage of the time is more than well deserved. combine that with their obvious hobbyist pricing schemes, and they simply are not a registrar for the web professional.

New domains seem to resolve in about 10 minutes for me (after I point the names at a an IP address). Names with IP addresses usually take longer because they have to propogate and get flushed from the cache of users's DNS servers. I use a local linux caching nameserver that looks to 6 outside dns servers for info. Most people arent so lucky, they are stuck with the shitty DNS their ISP gives them (although that can be overridden if the user is savy).

Your 2257 concern is interesting, but I don't think you would have trouble as you have no control over the content of the site. You only control the name, not the server, and I think they would have to show you were in control of both to dick with you.

Yeah...doesn't really bother me, but as you can tell I have a thing with godaddy and tend to sound argumentative when their name comes up.

Anyway, everyone chooses their own suppliers, and I apologize if I became argumentative after my point was already made.

Cheers!

I thought you sounded dialectical. That's an admirable trait.