Resolved SERVER OUTAGE - Godaddy Strikes Again

[exCanuck]

Hmmm. I think I have a few domains parked at godaddy. Does anyone have a registrar they can recommend?

They are okay as a registrar, not hosting though

 

[Eduardo K]

The company I used to work for used GoDaddy for web registration. Worked good. But I knew when to renew everything and built the records myself. So I could fix things in minutes.

My team of 3 all desperately wanted to leave Network Solutions. Changes there were difficult and took way to long to do. They were a pain to deal with.
But GoDaddy is known as click hell since everything requires 3 or more clicks. But it works.

If you have an account, you should document all your DNS records. If not, then your web site host should do this. Things can be fixed in minutes if the person with the account knows what to enter or reenter or made a backup. It takes about 5 minutes for most changes to happen, expect email stuff.

When i say parked, that’s what I mean. Of all of the domains I own, I think I only have a single MX and A record I’m resolving for. In fact, those records are on an actual name server I used to own. Go daddy is just pointing to that ip as the authoritative name server. I think I got that right, it’s been decades.
I’m not worried about what go daddy will do with my resolution, I just don’t want them selling my domains.

Anyway, you’re right, always plan for failure and do as much as you can to protect yourself from the incompetence of others.

 

[Eduardo K]

They are okay as a registrar, not hosting though.

That’s good to know, thanks.