GoDaddy Sells To Investor Group 96
wiredmikey writes "Domain name registrar and Web hosting provider GoDaddy, announced it has agreed to receive a strategic investment from private equity firms KKR, Silver Lake and Technology Crossover Ventures. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed, but the Wall Street Journal reported people familiar with the deal saying it could be worth approximately $2.25 billion. The Scottsdale, Arizona based company which has built its marketing around scantly-clad women, manages more than 48 million domain names."
Godaddy Alternatives (Score:5, Informative)
Namecheap has the best interface I've encountered.
Moniker is so-so. The interface is somewhat clunky, and it doesn't register domains as fast as Namecheap. For multiple domains, it puts them into a batch job that starts executing a few minutes later.
Any other good ones?
Re:I have a domain at GoDaddy (Score:4, Informative)
There are several, many, other registrars. Namecheap is what I now use. So far, so good. I liked GoDaddy for a long time having been an early customer with them but their sales tactics are very heavy handed and their web site hard to use.
Re:Always respected GD because... (Score:2, Informative)
To my knowledge they were one of the very few SSL providers which immediately revoked (and redistributed) every SSL certificate made with openssl when the Debian SSL disaster struck in 2008.
That is utterly WRONG and FALSE!
I was one of the people that was affected by Debian OpenSSL screwup. I had an SSL certificate with GoDaddy. I had revoked the certificate and asked if I could reissue another, for the duration of the original at least. I was flatly told NO by GoDaddy support.
So, it is utterly INCORRECT that GoDaddy reissued every certificate for people affected by Debian OpenSSL security issue.