GoDaddy sold

[keith smith]

I think Person's realized the domain was just the anchor - the real money was in supporting the domain with hosting and all the other stuff they sell.

Parson's - or should I say all the smart folks he surrounded himself with institutionalized the domain and hosting industry.

He is like the McDonald's of domains and hosting.

Now nothing I have said means I agree with how he runs his business nor do I agree with how he treats his people.

I just saying his business model is something to study and learn from.  

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Keith Smith

--- On Sun, 7/3/11, James Finstrom <jfinstrom at rhinoequipment.com> wrote:

From: James Finstrom <jfinstrom at rhinoequipment.com>
Subject: Re: GoDaddy sold
To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Date: Sunday, July 3, 2011, 7:18 PM

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  



On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Lisa Kachold <lisakachold at obnosis.com> wrote:


Steven,

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.





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