What’s your beef? The name? Because I’ve been super happy with porkbun but damn,...

d3Xt3r · 2026-07-13T21:04:46

Not the person you replied to, but GoDaddy are (or at least, were) pretty infamous for their sleazy and sexist ads, eg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mi0AqS4e6NI

So I can't imagine any serious organisation wanting to do business with them, unless they're a sleazy organisation themselves.

Also see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversies_surrounding_GoDa...

cubefox · 2026-07-13T21:37:42

The ad is not sexist, it's sexy/sexualized and humourous, which is something else. And of course it is from 2010, just before the great ... cultural shift.

qurren · 2026-07-13T21:02:38

It just doesn't sound professional, and I wouldn't want some "daddy" in a garage in charge of my domain name.

Dylan16807 · 2026-07-14T01:01:43

Daddy implies garage? I'm not familiar with that stereotype.

yreg · 2026-07-13T22:06:36

Also namecheap sounds shit, but afaik they have good reputation.

mfkp · 2026-07-13T23:29:52

They used to, before they got bought out by private equity and started jacking up the rates. Moved all my domains to porkbun since then.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45243123

inigyou · 2026-07-13T23:23:07

Not so much any more but I don't remember why. At least they started raising prices. Porkbun is the new Namecheap.

If you are set on Namecheap anyway, Spaceship is a suggested replacement. It's run by Namecheap but with a new codebase.

bawolff · 2026-07-13T20:50:39

I mean, there was that whole elephant hunting thing...