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, 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/

What ever happens I cam sure it will be cool :)

On Jun 24, 2014 10:44 PM, "Michael Butash" <michael@butash.net> wrote:

http://domains.google.com/about/

Godaddy is about to have extreme competition, and they're worried. ;)

-mb
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