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namecheap does, it is well known that GoDaddy needs nothing but an email from a semi-serious domain with bogus claims to shut down your business.

This was even a reason people were advocating against GoDaddy before the whole SOPA story.

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We need a list of startups using GoDaddy, with alternatives, so we can be aware and not use these services for storing anything important.

I no longer want to take this risk blindly.

https://github.com/astronoob/NoDaddy Here is a chrome extension that notifies you if the domain you're on is registered through GoDaddy. Looks like it does an XHR request to who.is and then matches on: new RegExp("/(registrar\.godaddy\.com|whois\.godaddy.com)/")

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