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Comment by larrys | Hacker News Reader

"Oh, 20 seconds in and a downvote."

I didn't downvote you.

But you might have gotten downvoted because you said "If you are using GoDaddy for anything, you deserve what you get." w/o giving links or further information. The things you are thinking might not be obvious to everyone.

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Anyone this far into the chain might be interested in the following links:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/31/bob-parsons-godaddy...

http://gizmodo.com/5870559/as-if-you-needed-another-reason-t...

http://www.salmanahsan.com/godaddy-sucks/

http://www.oooff.com/blacklist/why-godaddy-sucks.php

http://www.simpleproductivityblog.com/why-i-left-godaddy/

From what I gather you should take your money elsewhere because: (1) they love SOPA (even though they redacted their support) (2) they have awful customer service and seedy sell tactics (3) have ads which are sexist and (4) have a CEO who likes hunting elephants.

If those don't bother you then you can now add have DNS servers go down for significant portions of time.

Even wikipedia ditched GoDaddy several months ago.

And none of those are service problems. They don't support the initial post.

GoDaddy might not have been in the news for a few months, but their issues are well documented. If I had been the one to post I would have added links like you suggested, but when choosing someone to do business with it's prudent to find out if they're a shady company. A Google search will present their issues right up front.

Citing sources for your opinion is good practice, I agree, but so is independent due diligence.

Except that everyone doesn't use HN. The people that registered their domains with GoDaddy generally don't frequent HN. Informative decisions about domain registration is basically preaching to the choir here on HN. OP's comment is perfect given the context. Had this been CNN or someother popular news outlet, then the OP would have been "snarky"

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