FINALLY
Friday: GoDaddy CEO donates $1,000,000 to Trump’s inauguration fund
Monday: Trump takes office
Tuesday: Senate confirms new FTC chair
Wednesday: FTC announces a settlement with GoDaddy where the FTC will withdraw the case and GoDaddy agrees to a $125,000 penalty paid over the next five years
I wish I lived in a world where this seemed absurd.
That’s very generous with the penalty. More likely to get off Scott free
More likely the US government will pay them $125k for their trouble in this “political witchhunt.”
Tangent to the original discussion, but Trump is currently suing the Justice Department for raiding Mar-a-lago (back when we actually had hope that this man would be held to account for his crimes). When he takes office, he could ostensibly direct the Justice Department to settle the case and pay him a settlement.
I guess they’re all paying Trump to make sure a Lina Khan will never get there …
$125k over five years is stupid. That’s $25k a year for five years.
GoDaddy made 4.481B last year.
For math nerds, that’s 179,240 times the penalty.
That’s the joke
This is the closest thing I’ve ever seen to suing someone for sucking. Which, for whatever reason, was a childhood trope in my family. I love the idea of that being an actual thing. Many companies would be open to lawsuits if you could sue them for sucking.
There are things they do that are beyond that, like if you look up a domain on their website to see if its available and it is, theyll essentially register it for cheap and then hold onto it so you can only buy it from them at an upcharged price, and even if you go to another registrar thats cheaper, you cant register it because they already own it
Can we set up a bot to look up billions of random character combinations and put them out of business when they buy them all and can’t sell them?
Because theyre a domain registrar, its not the same process for them. They can essentially pay pennies on the dollar to hold them for several months-a year. I’m not sure if they get it back like a deposit, but it costs them almost nothing. You can complain to WIPO but you might have difficulty getting anywhere without suing and showing something trademark infringement (with a registered trademark)
When they gonna go after businesses for this clandestine return to office bullshite
Definitely not in the next 4 years
For instance, in February 2023, the hosting giant disclosed that unknown attackers stole source code and installed malware on compromised servers after breaching its cPanel shared hosting environment in a multi-year breach.
I assumed their security for this was to keep shuffling around their web site to make that cPanel stuff impossible to find? It’s like a store that keeps rearranging their floor inventory. I dread having to do anything with cPanel. Kudos to the hackers who managed to work it out.
I feel like I must be the only person on Earth who has successfully used Godaddy for anything and not had a problem…
Did you try getting an SSL certificate on your website by chance? Without paying $400/yr…
Yes.
I just had to log in and check. We pay $49.99 per year for our SSL cert. (Edit: Certs. We actually have two domains.) Do they do surge pricing or something…?
I mean, SSL certs are free now:
Maybe not worth $50 a year to change your setup but there’s no reason to pay for them anymore.
Some verified certificates are not free. As far as I know, Let’s Encrypt does not offer any ev/ov certs. I’ve worked for e-commerce sites that could not use standard dv certs like you would get from Let’s Encrypt.
Granted this is still not a good reason to give money to GoDaddy.
The company pays for it. Not my dime. The expense doesn’t seem onerous and is just to name one example probably a small fraction of what we spend on pens in a year.
And we get everything of that ilk from one vendor with one bill. It’s all managed in one place. The renewals all happen at the same time. They like that.
Edit: It’s hilarious y’all are acting like you’re salty with me like this is my decision. I do what my boss tells me to do. Certainly there are better options for a lot of our business practices but at the end of the day if my recommendations are shot down it’s not my call. I hold the passwords and the keys, I do not hold the purse strings.
That’s not a good argument for GoDaddy. It just means that you and your company don’t care and are not qualified to make any claims about GoDaddy’s actual service.
Edit response:
Yes, I am salty with you like it is your decision… to provide shitty information about GoDaddy that is irrelevant to the conversation. Your company’s choice to make stupid decisions has nothing to do with how scummy GoDaddy is. But it was your decision to come here to talk about the subject and spout garbage.
The problem is they are screwing you over without you knowing about it. Just because you’re oblivious doesn’t mean it’s not happening. Yes, they make it easy to give them money, but the services they provide are horrendous when you know how they compare.
Of course, if you’re not qualified to determine how bad they are then you’re not going to see much of it. Just like if you don’t know anything about cars and your mechanic charges you way too much and for things that you don’t need, like “blinker fluid”, and you just think “oh this is fine”, that doesn’t mean that’s not an awful mechanic.
next you’re going to tell me ask Jeeves isn’t a good search engine
Frx has been pulling a lot of triggers recently. Hope they survive trump term
