Posted on 11/23/2018 3:55:13 PM PST by Silly
When I learned GAB's domain registration for its website GAB.ai, the free speech alternative to Twitter, was being shut down weeks ago, with only a day's warning, I was outraged.
I was very saddened to hear that GoDaddy was the culprit and caving in to anti-freedom forces. I have been a customer since at least 2002, probably long before.
Free speech is extremely important to me, and if Gab can get shut down, so can I. So I have begun moving all of my domain registratations to Epik.com, which I have found is not only cheaper, but does NOT charge an extra $9.99 per year to have a private registration.
Tonight I have initiated the transfer of two more domains. These are more complicated, because I actually use the domains to point to my free Blogger sites (masked) and I receive email in the domain accounts as well.
When I called Epik's support line tonight (their service is exceptional), I was pleased that owner Rob Monster actually picked up the phone. We had a nice chat, and he was helpful in letting me know how to instruct them (what to ask for). Epik handles everything -- all you have to do is unlock your domain if it is locked, request an Authorization Code from GoDaddy and email it to Epik, and complete one more confirmation at GoDaddy's site that you do, in fact, want to transfer away.
I would appreciate your thoughts, advice, and any expertise you can share on this thread.
Thank you.
IN RE free speech, I am...
Not being,
I have used POWWEB for two decades. It has changed owners a couple times, but I have never had any problems and I manage many sites. GoDaddy sucks! I tried them a while ago and was not happy.
Good!
Interesting, I had not heard of POWWEB before. I just visited their website and checked it out.
I must say I am extremely happy with Epik. It is scary to let websites out of your control, even for a day or two. Even as I write this, the two domains I transferred tonight do not yet point to my Blogger sites. I know Epik will change the DNS info to make that happen.
However, now I also need to think about hosting, because Blogger is part of Google, and my sites and my speech is simply not safe with Google.
Epik owner Rob Monster tonight posted to me on Gab that what starts as a trickle can become a flood. I do think everyone needs to jump off GoDaddy now en masse, and use other registrars and hosting services.
If any of you have knowledge of other registrars that are also committed to free speech and won’t cave to media pressure, please let us know what they are.
Time for someone to create a non-censored domain name server.
It’s a good idea to keep a list of ip addresses of favored right-leaning sites.
Be a great idea to create a P2P system to uncensor people banned by twitter. All it would be is simple text parsing and some networking code. Put it in a browser plug-in. Go to a user address on twitter that is non-functional and be presented with an alternative P2P served site where the person could still be preachin his heart out :-) Twitter would go insane....
Thanks for the post
Good on you.
I was under the impression that the head of Go-Daddy was Conservative / libertarian.
Perhaps I was misinformed.
Ping
Well, crap.
I’ve been using godaddy.com for email for about twenty years, having had so many email addys in that time plus 10 yrs or so (first ‘puter in 1986, an XT with 640k RAM, 5 MB hard drive) I finaly decided to buy a domain with my name in it. It and a another , plus ones for my wife and kids I’ve paid into, dutifully, for far too long.
I’d read about the GAB.ai hosting issue and was wondering what I’d do next.
Now I know.
Solution looks Epik.
NB
I used Powweb before for many years. Quit eventually because at the time I found their web control / billing page confusing. I have been using Lunar Pages for several years.
https://www.lunarpages.com
Really? I LOVE their Control Panel. It is one of the features that makes POWWEB so appealing for me.
I use google for my email, AWS for business servers, personal stuff on Siteground and Bluehost. Personal stuff easy to re-stand up if it were to ever be shut down; just keep good backup.
Cloudsouth was good servers for business, need to be careful about IP addresses and what others are doing as sometimes blocks of addresses get flagged. We ended up reserving blocks to prevent problems. Very dependable overall.
bkmk
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