I was talking about web development with some normies and we got on the topic of registering domains. I mentioned some registrars such as Namecheap and GoDaddy. Two of them laughed when I said GoDaddy. They thought I was making a weird joke. They had a hard time understanding that it was the name of a registrar.
Is this a problem with non-technical luddites, or is GoDaddy just a terrible name for a domain registrar?
In May of this year GoDaddy shut down "altright.com" for "hate speech" because The Lawyers’ Committee For Civil Rights Under Law demanded them to (archive.is/gLJA6), in August 2017, GoDaddy went after the Daily Stormer (archive.is/qydfs)... let's take a step back. In December 2011, GoDaddy dropped SOPA support and made a public statement explaining that: "Go Daddy will support [SOPA] when and if the Internet community supports it" (in clear language: our customers didn't like it, so we backed off archive.is/JN0DN), and added "Go Daddy is rooted in the idea of First Amendment Rights" (archive.is/nkqJC). In March 2010, they stopped selling Chinese domains for fear they'd have to comply with censorship demands from Chinese authorities (archive.is/yDsAw).
The truth is, they don't give a shit about their customers, they will sell out to anyone pushing them around hard enough, regardless of their motivations (archive.is/GxxN5). They are whores.
Hunter Campbell
They get hacked every couple months.
I remember hearing a story by some guys that claimed to have gotten root on their server and defaced ~2300 websites by changing the apache config.
Even if you like GoDaddy for how cheap they are, they hire pajeets.
Hunter Sanders
What would be the right way of fixing these broken permissions? t. am pajeet.
set /proc/sys/fs/protected_hardlinks to 1 (at least on Debian, I'm sure there's some way to do it on any major distribution)
If you google "Linux filesystem hardening" it should be in any guide worth it's salt.
Sebastian Ramirez
Interesting. Gentoo has that set to 1 by default.
Jack Jackson
Can confirm.
Ian Evans
A technical person would have been at least at likely to laugh at GoDaddy and think you were making a joke. They advertise on TV ffs, with that slut racecar driver. They're the favorite registrar of pajeets, boomers, and middle-aged stay-at-home moms who want to start the world's billionth housekeeping tip blog.
Adam Hall
I use name.com because they sell .moe domains. I don't use them for anything else. GoDaddy is shit in all respects but one: they work with WordPress via their own plugin for it, and have a pretty good performance analyzer for WordPress. I assume this is the work of a single FUCKING WHITE MALE who has since left the company, but it's good work.
Eli Ramirez
hexonet.net Have couple moe domains registered there.
- novelty domains - free dns servers (at least for low traffic) - api - no extra junk services
In the US we have the Kent State shootings, where our National Guard fired on a crowd of protesters at Kent State University and killed four of them. There are songs about it. One of the pictures of a girl wailing over a corpse is 'iconic' to that generation. I learned about that as a child and thought it was an obviously bad thing for most of my life. In the last year or two, my position changed to why can't the National Guard just Kent State these motherfuckers? China might use unlibertarian means but at least they have adults at the helm thanks to Mao finally fucking dying. That's who you should be embarrassed about. JFC just assassinate the next idiot the first time he fucks up that badly.
Adam Ross
now.top/ seems to have been the Daily Stormer's registrar for a long time, after a bunch of registrars punted. ... and, coincidentally(?), they seem to be Chinese. Maybe Chinese registrars really are the answer
Carter Collins
namespro was good to me and their web UI is mostly sane
John Bell
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