Google Domains

[Bryan O'Neal]

I am going to just let this sit here
http://www.dailychanges.com/

:)

On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 9:59 AM,  <techlists at phpcoderusa.com> wrote:
> Godaddy does have it's dirty laundry.  And they are one of the best if not
> the best vhost provider.  GoDaddy was the first, as far as I know, and is
> the most egregious in breaking apart what used to be the total vhost
> package.
>
> I hosted my business website with them for years.  I really liked their
> webmail.  When I switched to a mail client I had to move to their top trier
> vhosting package to get imap.  What started out as $4/mo hosting ended up as
> $12/mo hosting once I added everything back in that I needed.  That is why I
> moved on.
>
>
>
> On 2014-06-25 11:48, Michael Butash wrote:
>>
>> On 06/25/2014 08:19 AM, Bryan O'Neal wrote:
>>
>>> Go Daddy's DNA service is one of the best in the world, their DNSSec
>>> is the best I have ever seen, and they offer a variety of niche
>>> items like vanity name servers. Plus they often sell domains at a
>>> loss and the next ten largest competitors for actively served
>>> authoritative zones don't add up to what they do. Now if Google
>>> really becomes a competitor I bet Go Daddy would do something to run
>>> the tides like start offering free premium service or increase thier
>>> infrastructure. All of which would be amazing.
>>
>>  Like with everything, "free" or "freemium" isn't always free. Godaddy
>> gets theirs, and that's with marketing. Stewarding some 55m domains
>> comes with the added benefit of you steer some part of 98% of the
>> worlds infrastructure through you at some time or another, whether
>> it's authoritative dns for the domain, root records, glue, or other.
>> That's analytics they sell to microsoft, google, about anyone else
>> they can sell it out to.
>>
>>  Parkweb that floats the domains when no site is there by default (and
>> serves, gee, ads go figure) for a large percent of those 55m domains
>> make for prime real estate for revenue generating trackers and other
>> things. So much so Microsoft paid them in partnerships to convert that
>> from apache to iis back in the day [4], making "iis the most popular
>>
>> server on the internet" at the time per microsoft marketing jargon
>> released the next day coincidentally.
>>
>>  Now Google wants to snatch the pebble from their hand, one dns to
>> rule/adword them all, and go to the source to bypass revenue to GD.
>> Most people already use their *gracious* offer of free dns already,
>> giving them the data now everything their pc connects a socket to and
>> does a name lookup on.
>>
>>  GD's infrastructure is actually pretty top notch already. You'd be
>> amazed the battering it takes in ddos daily and keeps on ticking. That
>> bit of DNS latency is infrastructure to keep it ticking...
>>
>>  In full disclosure, I used to work there (twice actually), and know
>> too much of the dirty laundry, as well as some pride in building that
>> infrastructure. :)
>>
>>  -mb
>>
>>> http://www.solvedns.com/dns-comparison/ [3]
>>>
>>>
>>> What ever happens I cam sure it will be cool :)
>>> On Jun 24, 2014 10:44 PM, "Michael Butash" <michael at butash.net>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> http://domains.google.com/about/ [1]
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Godaddy is about to have extreme competition, and they're
>>>> worried. ;)
>>>>
>>>> -mb
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>>
>> Links:
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>> [1] http://domains.google.com/about/
>> [2] http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
>> [3] http://www.solvedns.com/dns-comparison/
>> [4]
>>
>> http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2006/06/04/june_2006_web_server_survey.html
>>
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