This topic comes up every time I run this report.

The reasons why people don't like GoDaddy are covered in both of the previous discussions on this report. Well worth reading!

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2080469 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=746386

The older reports are broken, for me at least. They show the same stats as this year's report.

Older reports are in the git commit history on the GitHub project for domain-profiler.

Thanks.

Someone posted MySpace passwords to Full-Disclosure, which therefore made it into several list archives. MySpace complained, and GoDaddy suspended the domain name of an extremely well-known archive, apparently without any investigation or contact: http://seclists.org/nmap-hackers/2007/0. This was eventually cleared up, but WTF?

  the front page ladies weren't too much of disturbance either :)

If that's what makes you choose a registrar then you need to seriously grow up. Attitudes like this are why we have so many problems with sexism in the tech world.

I think he's referring to their recent support for SOPA: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3383564

the parent comment refers to them being horrible before SOPA

Ok, maybe it's more to do with stuff like their CEO gunning down elephant's - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/31/bob-parsons-godaddy...

that's quite bad for the company reputation, but I still don't see any argumentation for they were horrible before SOPA

That's because you're probably looking at things purely from a technical/operational perspective (i.e. can they register my domain easily), whereas the parent commenter is taking into account more general reports about the way GoDaddy does business.

Just because a company is technically competent doesn't mean people want to do business with them.

ok, point taken, thanks :)

any advice for an alternative registrar with free DNS hosting? Preferably one with native IPv6 reachable DNS servers (which is not the case at godaddy)

Gandi http://www.gandi.net/ has a pretty good reputation, with free DNS hosting. No IPv6 reachable nameservers, however. If you want IPv6 reachable DNS servers, Hurricane Electric offers free DNS hosting https://dns.he.net/; they are a big supporter of IPv6 and so offer a variety of free services to help get it off the ground.

thanks, I'll give Gandi a try with my next domain. I am using some free services from Hurricane Electric, particularly an IPv6 tunnel and also a dynamic DNS after dyndns.com pissed me off.

for production domains, I would still prefer a DNS hosting that is somehow paid for (with godaddy it was included in the registration price).

Exactly..and the use of sex to sell.

They were. I've dealt with them on one occasion (had one client insist on using them as a host/registrar), and they are technically incompetent. We've had numerous outages with this client's site, and had one problem that their technical support staff were simply unable to solve after numerous phone calls (they ended up blaming it on the site, which was running on WordPress - hardly an oddity). It ended up being a very simple problem/solution, which I discovered after spending an hour or so researching it.

Stories like the following were more common than they should have been:

http://david.weebly.com/1/post/2011/12/godaddy-a-glimpse-of-...

Seriously? Aside from all of the normal things that are wrong with GoDaddy, where have you been for the past few weeks?

the parent comment refers to them being horrible before SOPA. I was wondering what exactly was horrible. It was all plain and easy for me.