Godaddy appears to have suspended Backblaze's domain (opens in new tab)

(twitter.com)

74 pointsmattjaynes5y ago29 comments

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mattjaynesOP5y ago· 3 in thread

"Update: We have a human being from @Godaddy on the phone. We were sent to the wrong department, but hoping we get a quick-route to the right place."

https://twitter.com/backblaze/status/1360368102073004035

atYevP5y ago

Yev from Backblaze here - it's been that kind of day.

toomuchtodo5y ago

You might consider moving your domain to Cloudflare or Markmonitor.

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justinclift5y ago

EasyDNS, based in Canada, has a much better reputation for competence + not taking down domains willy nilly. ;)

chromatin5y ago· 2 in thread

It is scandalous that a service like BackBlaze, who purport to be ready to host production services (B2), use a budget registrar who are /known/ for shenanigans.

Glad it seems to be returning to normal.

tinus_hn5y ago

It’s scandalous you need to be a service like BackBlaze to get support at a registrar. A domain name is property and they are stealing it.

labawi5y ago

Note that neither backblaze nor godaddy own the domain.

BackBlaze has a tranferable lease with renewal rights and godaddy is a middleman.

What godaddy did is very wrong, but it's not stealing. More like breach of contract, failure to provide service or similar.

coldtea5y ago· 2 in thread

"@GoDaddy suspended your domain BECAUSE OF AN ABUSE REPORT?"

Well, when we stand and allow tech companies to shut down customer accounts because of accusations on the internet, that's what we end up with...

x0x05y ago

I'm sorry, but hosting a domain for a production site on godaddy is just... childish incompetence. If you have a real business, pay for a registrar who will call you. And keep calling until a human is reached.

I'm sure it's a holdover, and it sucks for the eng at backblaze scrambling to fix this. But still. As someone else is sure to point out, you use MarkMonitor or similar.

coldtea5y ago

>I'm sorry, but hosting a domain for a production site on godaddy is just... childish incompetence

That's neither here nor there. All big players, far beyond the registrar space, have done similar things: AWS, Cloudflare, Google, ...

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mijustin5y ago· 1 in thread

Hopefully it's back up now?

https://twitter.com/backblaze/status/1360386459597905921

futhey5y ago

Back up for me in multiple regions.

WolfRazu5y ago

It's already been mentioned on Twitter, but it really is quite a coincidence that Notion has also been down today from an abuse report against a domain. I think it's unlikely there's a connection though, just bad luck.

https://twitter.com/nicolas09F9/status/1360365745356607489?s...

atYevP5y ago

Yev from Backblaze here -> we're back up now, slowly propagating (as is the way with DNS) - but we're on the upswing now.

mrlonglong5y ago

Ditch GoDaddy. We did and we're much happier.

mikerg875y ago

Go Daddy exited the code signing certificate business and forgot to tell customers and it’s sales staff

Something is really wrong Go Daddy

simplecto5y ago

Wow. Maybe one idea to mitigate in the future is to be registered one multiple tlds and at multiple registrars. Have your client libraries round robin request to the .com .net .whatever. That way your existing customers still have service.

I’ve never done this, just spitballing ideas

sunstone5y ago

Would be a shame if something should happen to your nice little business here. We can help you avoid some of those risks for a modest monthly fee. And thanks again for hosting at our data center in Sicily.

ing33k5y ago

What are the security implications of it for their customers ?

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29 comments

19 comments · 11 top-level

mattjaynesOP5y ago· 3 in thread

"Update: We have a human being from @Godaddy on the phone. We were sent to the wrong department, but hoping we get a quick-route to the right place."

https://twitter.com/backblaze/status/1360368102073004035

atYevP5y ago

Yev from Backblaze here - it's been that kind of day.

toomuchtodo5y ago

You might consider moving your domain to Cloudflare or Markmonitor.

3 more replies

justinclift5y ago

EasyDNS, based in Canada, has a much better reputation for competence + not taking down domains willy nilly. ;)

chromatin5y ago· 2 in thread

It is scandalous that a service like BackBlaze, who purport to be ready to host production services (B2), use a budget registrar who are /known/ for shenanigans.

Glad it seems to be returning to normal.

tinus_hn5y ago

It’s scandalous you need to be a service like BackBlaze to get support at a registrar. A domain name is property and they are stealing it.

labawi5y ago

Note that neither backblaze nor godaddy own the domain.

BackBlaze has a tranferable lease with renewal rights and godaddy is a middleman.

What godaddy did is very wrong, but it's not stealing. More like breach of contract, failure to provide service or similar.

coldtea5y ago· 2 in thread

"@GoDaddy suspended your domain BECAUSE OF AN ABUSE REPORT?"

Well, when we stand and allow tech companies to shut down customer accounts because of accusations on the internet, that's what we end up with...

x0x05y ago

I'm sure it's a holdover, and it sucks for the eng at backblaze scrambling to fix this. But still. As someone else is sure to point out, you use MarkMonitor or similar.

coldtea5y ago

>I'm sorry, but hosting a domain for a production site on godaddy is just... childish incompetence

That's neither here nor there. All big players, far beyond the registrar space, have done similar things: AWS, Cloudflare, Google, ...

1 more reply

mijustin5y ago· 1 in thread

Hopefully it's back up now?

https://twitter.com/backblaze/status/1360386459597905921

futhey5y ago

Back up for me in multiple regions.

WolfRazu5y ago

https://twitter.com/nicolas09F9/status/1360365745356607489?s...

atYevP5y ago

Yev from Backblaze here -> we're back up now, slowly propagating (as is the way with DNS) - but we're on the upswing now.

mrlonglong5y ago

Ditch GoDaddy. We did and we're much happier.

mikerg875y ago

Go Daddy exited the code signing certificate business and forgot to tell customers and it’s sales staff

Something is really wrong Go Daddy

simplecto5y ago

I’ve never done this, just spitballing ideas

sunstone5y ago

ing33k5y ago

What are the security implications of it for their customers ?

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