Post #1644679
2026-04-24 20:38 UTC
Replies (40)
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@lor@goingdark.social 2026-04-25 01:57
@ocean@raru.re they have been doing this for years!
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@kaia@pleroma.soykaf.com 2026-04-25 05:07
@ocean@raru.re making a script that checks godaddylicksass dot com godaddyisbad dot com godaddycanfckthemselves dot com
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@flaky@app.wafrn.net 2026-04-24 20:55
@ocean@raru.re +1 for Porkbun, as a first-time buyer. I have had no issues with them and they've been communicative on major updates (which is why I bought more years on my domain to get that price locked in.)
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@GreaseMonkey@misskey.resonite.love 2026-04-24 21:35
@ocean@raru.re The worst thing is that this is old news, GoDaddy has been known to do that shit for years
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@Baa@mk.absturztau.be 2026-04-24 21:46
@ocean@raru.re Gonna make are script that replicates considering buying domains constantly to auto buy millions of domains bankrupting GoDaddy in minutes
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@lumin@capivarinha.club 2026-04-24 22:20
@ocean@raru.re I think that looking through domain name availability with the command line is a safer way of checking, right?
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@maddiefuzz@masto.hackers.town 2026-04-24 23:02
@ocean namecheap did it to me
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@datakrash@cyber.ms 2026-04-24 23:03
@ocean Namecheap does that as well, by the way.
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@autisticplushy@lgbtqia.space 2026-04-24 23:06
@ocean Can you make them register all the domains you check availability, like doing it in mass?
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@thisismissem@hachyderm.io 2026-04-24 23:46
@ocean @Viss alternatively: bankrupt godaddy by tricking them into registering millions of useless domains
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@nothacking@infosec.exchange 2026-04-24 23:48
@ocean@raru.re As a general rule, registrars who's main businesses is domains are a bad choice, especially the ones that do promotions like ".com for 1$". They are resellers, and must pay nearly the whole 10$/year to the registry (a different company), leading to very small margins. Any extra money to run ads or promotions must come from either: 1. charging you extra money 2. ... or screwing customers. If you see an ad for your registrar, find another one ASAP. Even if you don't get screwed, it's just a bad deal: I pay $10.50 for a .com domain (just pennies over registry cost), but godaddy will happy charge you $23. The similarly shitty namecheap charges $15.
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@leadegroot@bne.social 2026-04-24 23:51
@ocean this has been a known risk for decades :( i only ever check domain name availability at the command line, and recommend the same to everyone $ whois something.com
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@DeltaWye@tiggi.es 2026-04-24 23:53
@ocean I cannot recommend hosts that are part of NewFold Digital - formerly Endurance International.
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@sb@metroholografix.ca 2026-04-25 00:03
@ocean Can attest to Porkbun - uncluttered ui, proper API access, decent prices, no BS (yet). Only downside is that it's based in nazi occupied america. Otherwise, they're probably one of the best out there.
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@chuff@bark.wolp.chat 2026-04-25 00:06
@ocean@raru.re Porkbun seconded
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@epsi@akko.wtf 2026-04-25 00:07
@ocean been hearing about this for years I use namecheap but I really should swap to porkbun
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@vextaur@blog.taursnd.haus 2026-04-25 00:14
@ocean Porkbun for the win
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@damagecontrolblog@mastodon.social 2026-04-25 00:40
@ocean Porkbun is nice!
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@vex@kolektiva.social 2026-04-25 00:55
@ocean https://porkbun.com/transfer has guides on how to move over from the big players.
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@soundstruck@m.ai6yr.org 2026-04-25 01:24
@ocean +1 for Porkbun. Been using them for years. Love them.
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@chrisp@cyberplace.social 2026-04-25 01:26
@ocean Pro tip: Make a query on godaddy for 20 digit random domains that you have no intention of buying to make them spend needlessly (Although it probably only costs them a dollar or two a year for each domain, but it could add up).
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@BalooUriza@social.tulsa.ok.us 2026-04-25 01:28
@ocean But also, who the fuck is searching domains on a registrar website in 2026 instead of just using whois on the command line? Like, this was a known problem with GoDaddy in 2006... I get that the Reddit community is completely not self-aware, but usually there's a self-consciousness to "forgetting shit that's happened within reddit's lifetime" that isn't on display here.
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@log@mastodon.sdf.org 2026-04-25 02:10
@ocean I can +1 the recommends for Porkbun.
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@elithebearded@fed.qaz.red 2026-04-25 03:01
@ocean If they are doing that, seems like a good attack vector would be everyone search for a domain they don't want, and make Godaddy shell out for it. I just looked for and hit the heart button on several variations of "dougbizcuts" in dot-com and dot-dog
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@iDGS@mas.to 2026-04-25 03:14
.@ocean Agreed: GoDaddy is trash. THE worst. I migrated to Hover.com years ago, and I can’t say enough good things about them. No B.S. None. I believe they’re Canadian. Right, @hover ?
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@mikelovesbikes@hear-me.social 2026-04-25 03:44
@ocean My girlfriend also recommends Porkbun
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@hallunke23@troet.cafe 2026-04-25 03:48
Same issue with EuroDNS. EuroDNS offers whois and domain availability search. One of those functions *sometimes* registered a domain that I wanted to have. Result of this was that I could still “register” it through EuroDNS for the “regular” price but that price was way too expensive so I tried a different registrar. And that registrar then reported the domain as taken. I was able to reproduce the problem with 2-3 other domains that ended up being snachted by EuroDNS. @ocean
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@dianea@lgbtqia.space 2026-04-25 04:39
@ocean GoDaddy enshitified decades ago. They have the moral compass of a meat grinder.
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@shadowdancer@mstdn.social 2026-04-25 05:10
@ocean whois. Because sometimes the old tools work best. One should note however that whois has been deprecated by ICANN since 2025-01-28 in favor of RDAP [1]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHOIS
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@nakal@mastodon.social 2026-04-25 05:29
@ocean Never! Never use any website to check domain availability. They will make a reservation for a long time. It is common, well known and it is nothing to complain about. Use the command line utility whois on Unix/Linux systems. It's the easiest thing on earth. Just type `whois example.com` and hit return.
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@number6@fosstodon.org 2026-04-25 05:42
@ocean I registered and signed up for a site for a family member as a birthday present. Fortunately I used a unique address. A decade later, I get the worst kind of fraudulent spam on that address. Either GoDaddy sold the address to criminals, or their disgruntled employees did.
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@mian@mstdn.social 2026-04-25 05:45
@ocean You can check availability on ICANN.org ¿why do anything else?
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@BillySmith@social.coop 2026-04-25 05:54
@ocean Don't search for a Domain Name unless you are ready to buy it there and then. While you are looking at it, a lock is put in place on the domain, but as soon as you cancel the transaction, that domain gets added to the public list of searched-for-domain-names that are still available. There have been bots harvesting domain names from those lists since at least 1999. I lost two interesting band-names due to this... :(
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@Fonant@social.vivaldi.net 2026-04-25 10:48
@ocean Can recommend @beasts in the UK for domain registration. They know what they're doing 👍
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@aaronhall@hachyderm.io 2026-04-25 15:40
@ocean Namecheap did that to both me and my wife in separate incidents years ago. We use Porkbun now. Porkbun has been fantastic.
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@hallunke23@troet.cafe 2026-04-25 16:13
This isn't the only instance of GoDaddy doing shit. I used to be a GoDaddy customer and I had issues with CNAME records. When I tried to change those, GoDaddy sometimes performed my update. Sometimes not. Customer service wasn't helpful. This was the point when I moved my DNS elsewhere. And later, I also moved my domains. @ocean
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@6@possum.city 2026-04-26 07:50
@ocean@raru.re wait what AGAIN??? they like literally got sued for that exact thing in the past, iirc i see daddy still goes abusive route
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@idiot300@mastodon.sdf.org 2026-04-27 14:46
@ocean the solution is to spam random sites on godaddy
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@gordoooo_z@hachyderm.io 2026-05-03 05:09
@ocean They've been doing this for years. Super shit registrar. I also wholly recommend Porkbun. Over all, a great user experience. Upsells are minimal, and mostly during checkout where they belong, and unlike GoDaddy, you can easily set multiple forwarding emails because they're not constantly trying to sell you a 365 subscription. I've got at least 20 domains with them spanning several years. I believe they were acquired at some point in that time, but it hasn't had any appreciable impact on my experience, except that they began offering .ca domains in the last couple years.
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@liilliil@mastodon.online 2026-05-03 09:24
@ocean@raru.re yes, they’re stealing domains