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" >> wrote: >> >>> http://domains.google.com/about/ [1] >>> >>> Godaddy is about to have extreme competition, and they're >>> worried. ;) >>> >>> -mb >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss [2] >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss [2] > > > > Links: > ------ > [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 > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss