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.
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.
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.
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.
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Glad it seems to be returning to normal.
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.
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...
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.
That's neither here nor there. All big players, far beyond the registrar space, have done similar things: AWS, Cloudflare, Google, ...
https://twitter.com/backblaze/status/1360368102073004035
https://twitter.com/nicolas09F9/status/1360365745356607489?s...
Something is really wrong Go Daddy
I’ve never done this, just spitballing ideas