Comments on: GoDaddy Faces PR Nightmare Over Domain Suspension

By: jeff

jeff — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 05:45:38 +0000

I actually had an account with go daddy. I used their domain name backorder service and paid for it for yeears. When my domain originaly was available a reseller bought it and put spam ads on the site. After the traffic wore down to nothing they let the renewal go. So i thought that woudl be my chance to finally get the name i wanted. Go daddy sends me an email saying they are in teh process of securing my name for me. They did secure it however for themselves. Then they sent me an email stating it was going to be placed in go daddy auctions and I had to bid for it. So not only did i pay for domain backordering and monitoring, now I have to pay an additional auction fee to join auctions, bid on my domain and then still pay the freaking domain registration fee on top of that. I cant believe how bad go daddy has screwed me on this. Why pay for backordering if they make your domain available to anyone at an auction?? I am so disgusted with the way they have handled this domain for me.

By: Domain Offerings

Domain Offerings — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 00:17:55 +0000

I have had my domains with a GoDaddy reseller and I have to say that GoDaddy is absolutely great in the services they provide. The world is not black and white and sometimes people have to make difficult decisions to protect the innocent. I can see why they may have felt compelled to find a reason to stop the less than honorable practice until the law can catch up with handling the issue. My opinions only.

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By: jt

jt — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 23:35:57 +0000

yes I agree go daddy has always been very good about handling spam. good point, don’t try to do anything illegal and things like this won’t happen.

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 01 May 2007 14:30:05 +0000

Great job Godaddy. I have had my domains registered with them since 2001 and have never had any problems. Why? Because I dont try to do things that are illegal or against their TOS. If it had been the username/password for your hosting account or email account then I am pretty sure you wouldnt want them to wait for a response from the site owner to pull it down. You would want it done then and now.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 16:27:25 +0000

Judging by the types of comments I have read I wonder if people even know how the internet works. Some hosting companies are responsible for the content they host. But what about the people running their own servers. How is that controlled? The only groups that can fully monitor illegal or obscene content is the domain registrars. I for one would much rather see a site be shut down immediately than leave it up for 24 or 48 hours while waiting for a response from the owner of the site. If the data is illegal or obscene it should be removed immediately without prejudice.
I commend GoDaddy for shutting the site down. I would hate to think what kind of content would still be up if registrars like GoDaddy didn’t shut down sites immediately.

By: Renzo

Renzo — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 01:39:57 +0000

GoDaddy by their action have lost many potential customers.
I have personally translated the article to 3 other languages and posted it in the forums that I participate in.
Most people, especially those whom have their sites in a language other than English would like some re-assurance.
With such action and Policy, I truly doubt that anyone would want to buy a domain with them.

I personally am thankful that Fyodor decided to go public with this. Because I have an account with GoDaddy due to renewal, and like hell I would ever consider them ever again.