FTC really do be dropping all of the really hot lawsuits that should have happened years ago... all of 4 days before it won't matter anymore and the FTC will get dissolved lmfao what a virtue signaling shitfest
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Man, fuck off with that attitude. This isn't like Biden trying to score points on his way out or the Trump report getting released, the FTC did a ton of good shit the past few years and stuff takes time. They're rushing all this at the last minute because they have to.
The more they push through, the more time the next admin has to spend dealing with it. I'm sure they know a ton of it will get rolled back but...all of it? Maybe not. Inundating them is all they can do now.
I would have liked to see this sooner but most (all?) of the other issues they tackled were more important than this one
What did they actually accomplish? All the anti-trust stuff has just been tied up in courts for years and years. And they gave Apple a pass on their Epic lawsuit, which is a fucking travesty.
There's been a lot but I don't blame you for not following them. However, I'm surprised you haven't even heard about the "popular" ones like killing junk fees and one-click canceling of services.
Right? I just hope the news outlets just put out one giant list of all the lawsuits that the new FTC drops instead of having a million "Trump's FTC drops lawsuit against [company]
It's all part of the game. Same reason senators constantly introduce bills that they know won't get passed. So they can say "we tried but the other team refused to pass it".
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One party continually tries to pass legislation for safety nets and consolidated services and is blocked by the party that's controlled the show for almost 40 years
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That party goes for tax cuts and havens to keep it's rich donors happy while blocking anything that helps the other 99%
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You: "both sides. I'm smarter than all of you"
Really?
No. Not really. I never said anything that remotely resembled that.
They wouldn't introduce those bills if they thought they would actually pass.
True, but it makes headlines and looks good for the party and that's all that matters. Actual substance is so overrated.
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.
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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.
There are dozens of us; but I am scared to use go daddy now , not just for all the horror and cut back tech support, or for it’s shady business practices, or deceptive marketing.
But because I heard that they keep stealing valuable ip and domains
I've worked with tons of clients that have "successfully used GoDaddy for years" while they are paying far more for a domain that nearly any other registrar, they are forced to pay for a basic SSL certificate that is free anywhere else, they are tricked into buying services that that don't need and literally makes things worse and more difficult.
But ask someone who actually knows webdev and web hosting and you'll hear all about the issues that are there in plain sight.
GoDaddy very simply preys on people who don't know any better.
But because I heard that they keep stealing valuable ip and domains
they've always done this
I used GoDaddy when I got my first domain, and then I heard about drama and switched GUI namecheap for domains. That was 10 years ago and I've never once had issues.
I'm now with Cloudflare and pretty happy.
I have my domains at namecheap. No drama. Sometimes they live up to their name, would not use their hosting services.
When I use the domains elsewhere , I just enter the name server URL’s in their web gui from the 1990s.
Over the years I have heard bad stuff about them too
Same. I've gotten hosting at Digital Ocean and Vultr, and now I'm at Hetzner. I've always maintained that separating the registrar from hosting is a good idea.
Yes, not having all eggs in same basket is good
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