Go Daddy Files Patents for Enhanced Whois and DNS Records
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To co-opt a piece of a public internet standard that was arrived at through the work of lots of people is really beyond the pale.
Godaddy ought to be boycotted over this, simply take all of your business away from them referring to the filing of this patent as your reason for closing your account.
I'm pretty sure that if enough people do it they'll wonder if this is such a good idea.
This besides the obvious fact that they are even able to file this is utter nonsense, they ought to be rejected on the spot and fined for filing a ridiculous patent.
I personally have had good luck with Moniker. They also have a great API.
As long as Monte is in the drivers seat there I'm pretty sure things will be working fine. His attention to detail and the fantastic customer service there are the reason why moniker became that big so fast.
Makes network solutions look like a professional outfit.
I host my domains at GoDaddy because it's cheap. I preferred GANDI prior to that because their quality of service was high and their willingness to keep the crap to a minimum was one of their primary objectives. (I still use GANDI's VPS service.)
I would love to find a cheap, good alternative to GoDaddy, but every time I look for one, I come up dry.
The recent Whole Foods boycott was a good example of how to do it - organizers used the forums section of the Whole Foods website to get the word out and Whole Foods didn't prevent it.
A couple of people changing hosts on HN is not going to amount to a hill of beans and would most likely just inconvenience those people since Godaddy is the cheapest option available (if you use their frequent coupon codes).
Most other registrars that do larger volumes will sell you at about $1 over their cost.
After some review, it seems namecheap will be an acceptable route. One concern is the recent lawsuit lost by namecheap for private whois info. I hope this doesn't make them legally gun shy. Although the lawsuit results should effect all U.S. based registrars equally. Anyone have recent opinions on namecheap or any others?
Second, there is so much prior art on this, if it gets approved we know the patent office is on the take.