GoDaddy sold

Bryan O'Neal Bryan.ONeal at TheONealAndAssociates.com
Sun Jul 3 19:20:11 MST 2011


My guess is he is no longer the head of security and they can afford
more A talent then they could several years ago.

On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 7:18 PM, James Finstrom
<jfinstrom at rhinoequipment.com> wrote:
> um smoke crack much....
> In the end Godaddy is the wal-mart of registrars. You don't go there because
> they are the best at what they do, you go because they are the cheapest at
> what they do. I am not aware of any other registrar that will sell you a $1
> domain name. If someone else does let me know and I will be happy to use em.
> I don't use any of their up-sells but I usually buy my domains there because
> they are dirt cheap.
> As far as the old "antidote"  When their head security cant secure his own
> crap legal or not then I would suspect he can't secure others. If he is in
> the driver seat of the team I would assume he is what they consider their
> "smartest choice"
> As we have seen lately script kiddies are taking down big
> multinational corporations so all around I would say the state of security
> over all is crap.
> --James
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> On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Lisa Kachold <lisakachold at obnosis.com>
> wrote:
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>> Steven,
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>> Everyone "projects" onto others what they feel themselves at first onion
>> layer.  Some of us can identify our feelings (jealousy, or another of the 7
>> deadlies) and extract gossip from fact to understanding of process and
>> duties in technical professions and shops.
>>
>> At GoDaddy.com ticket hockey is a large part of most of the jobs,
>> requiring a specific type of conformist.
>>
>> Their top linux people and developers are deeply involved; they allow
>> little creative thought or engineering direction from the mass of employees.
>>
>> It's their culture.  Unfortunately GoDaddy.com has dropped in the hosting
>> rankings over the last few years, perhaps due to inability to innovate, poor
>> support for common users, and management shakeups.
>>
>> On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 5:10 PM, Steven Stremciuc <steven at stremciuc.net>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> James, that's a strange conclusion to draw from one (years old) anecdote.
>>>
>>> On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 9:28 AM, James Finstrom
>>> <jfinstrom at rhinoequipment.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Years ago one of their head security guys got busted for kiddy porn.
>>>> This told me their security folks aren't that bright
>>>>
>>>> On Jul 3, 2011 6:18 AM, "Lisa Kachold" <lisakachold at obnosis.com> wrote:
>>>> > Ed,
>>>> >
>>>> > On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 12:20 AM, Ed <plug at 0x1b.com> wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> >> GoDaddy sold for $2.25B to KKR etc
>>>> >>
>>>> >
>>>> > Hopefully, this might give them some new management. It's like a
>>>> > Chinese
>>>> > firedrill every six months over there?
>>>> >
>>>> > The ONLY department that is well managed is their Security Services
>>>> > team.
>>>> >
>>>> > http://mashable.com/2011/07/02/godaddy-sold/
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