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> Lee is one of the most competent IT guys I know.

And yet he uses GoDaddy?

This comments reads sarcastic, but it makes a serious point. GoDaddy has an extremely poor reputation. At some point you must accept that choosing companies like that is your own mistake.

the thing is that it makes sense when you are small, and it's one of the hardest and riskiest things to change, so it's a decision that stays with you.

And to be completely honest, it isn't that bad, you get a phone you can call 24/7. Of course mistakes happen and staff can't always help, but it's more like a 99.9% vs 99.99% quality thing when comparing to other providers like AWS or CloudFlare.

Why does using GoDaddy as a registrar instead of one with a better reputation like Porkbun or Namecheap make sense when you're small?

Namecheap looks really bad if someone does some due diligence and the word 'cheap' comes out, it's unproffessional and signals cheapness of materials.

Porkbun I'm not familiar, but it for sure can be a better option, it's just that when people start out they look for a familiar name rather than the marginally best option.

I just said it makes sense, not that it's the best option. It's just fine if you are a small or even medium business.

Ahh, I understood "makes sense" as "is a good idea" rather than "is an understandable mistake".

Namecheap supports Palestinian genocide: https://neosmart.net/blog/namecheap-com-revokes-domain-hosti...

This is at the very least debatable. The site they took down contained multiple videos of animals being tortured and killed. Not all decisions are simple black and white.

Animals die too in a genocide. I don't understand your point here. Namecheap decided they should proactively police Namecheap customers for this, Namecheap should lose all its business as a result. Let Namecheap decide whether the income from Israel exceeds the income from all Namecheap customers.

Changing registrars is one of the easiest things there is to do. I require any clients I work with to do so.

It's much more difficult for some gTLDS.

Once you have a bunch of international domains, it's not even generally possible to have a single registrar who can support them all.

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