Well. You got me. I'm a big corporate shill for GoDaddy. I've been sent here to turn popular opinion back in their favour.
Good going, detective, now that you've outed me, I'll lose my job, and who will feed all of my 58 children?
Seriously, though, I have no connection with GoDaddy, I'm just very sceptical of the "GoDaddy will attempt to repair their reputation by actively making life harder for people who already don't like them" idea.
Sure, they may well be playing games to attempt to make it too hard for people to leave, but I think that it's much more likely that they have rate-limiters, and anti-spam/fraud protection working against mass migrations away from their service. If that's the case, I can't see them being in any particular hurry to fix the problem (or to even see it as a problem), but that's not the same thing as actively slowing down the process.
They have nothing really to gain by being malicious at this point, and plenty to lose (internet lynch mobs being easy to rile, as they are). Let's just put the pitchforks down for a little bit until we're certain that GoDaddy is really deliberately throwing spanners in the works.
Once you're certain of that, then by all means, go hog wild with your iNoose and your PitchFork 2.0. Until then, keep an eye on it, but let's not jump to stupid/hasty conclusions.
Their whole sales process is designed to make you buy more and spend more time looking at their products than you need to. Why is it hard to believe they wouldn't do the exact same thing to the leaving process? They've clearly mastered it.
I know you weren't sent by GoDaddy. Which makes your contribution to the discussion all the more baffling. You're advocating for them for free? I suppose every hot button issue has to have its apologists...
I'm not jumping to any conclusions. I could very easily see by way of whois lookups that 4/5 of my domains had their contact records REMOVED from the whois entry, and stuffed off in a supplemental url provided in the whois record, which required a captcha defeat in order to access. This simply doesn't follow the ICANN whois spec.
I'd say you're doing a lot more speculation than the people on this thread who have been impacted by GoDaddy's ongoing slimy behavior.
Good going, detective, now that you've outed me, I'll lose my job, and who will feed all of my 58 children?
Seriously, though, I have no connection with GoDaddy, I'm just very sceptical of the "GoDaddy will attempt to repair their reputation by actively making life harder for people who already don't like them" idea.
Sure, they may well be playing games to attempt to make it too hard for people to leave, but I think that it's much more likely that they have rate-limiters, and anti-spam/fraud protection working against mass migrations away from their service. If that's the case, I can't see them being in any particular hurry to fix the problem (or to even see it as a problem), but that's not the same thing as actively slowing down the process.
They have nothing really to gain by being malicious at this point, and plenty to lose (internet lynch mobs being easy to rile, as they are). Let's just put the pitchforks down for a little bit until we're certain that GoDaddy is really deliberately throwing spanners in the works.
Once you're certain of that, then by all means, go hog wild with your iNoose and your PitchFork 2.0. Until then, keep an eye on it, but let's not jump to stupid/hasty conclusions.