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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 06/25/2014 08:19 AM, Bryan O'Neal
wrote:<br>
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<p dir="ltr">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. </p>
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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. <br>
<br>
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 <a
href="http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2006/06/04/june_2006_web_server_survey.html">back
in the day</a>, making "iis the most popular server on the
internet" at the time per microsoft marketing jargon released the
next day coincidentally.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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...<br>
<br>
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. :)<br>
<br>
-mb<br>
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<p dir="ltr"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.solvedns.com/dns-comparison/">http://www.solvedns.com/dns-comparison/</a></p>
<p dir="ltr">What ever happens I cam sure it will be cool :)</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jun 24, 2014 10:44 PM, "Michael
Butash" <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:michael@butash.net">michael@butash.net</a>>
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href="http://domains.google.com/about/" target="_blank">http://domains.google.com/about/</a><br>
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Godaddy is about to have extreme competition, and they're
worried. ;)<br>
<br>
-mb<br>
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