Dreamhost have a good blog for a large company. They just had a go at GoDaddy for being such shameless hucksters, but as a relatively informed customer, I take a different view. Companies like GoDaddy give huge discounts because they can make up the value of the discount - and more - by trying to sell you useless crap like .biz domains and podcast hosting and TrafficBlazer® and PrivacyWrangler® and MaximoCashShovellerPro®. But nobody is forcing you to buy any of those things. Once you’ve waded through the spam and said “no thanks” 95 times, you get to buy the domain for the low price. And here’s the tricky part: if it wasn’t for the naive and impressionable consumers who do fall for the offers, the battle-hardened wily consumers would have to pay more. I’m not sure precisely how I feel about literally profiting from the ignorance and stupidity of others, but I have to say all’s fair in love and DNS.