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By: Domain Name Wire » News » In SnapNames Scandal, Conspiracy Theorists Were (Sort of) Right - The Domain Industry's News Source

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:01:32 +0000

[...] adept at online research. But a lot of times they cook up bogus conspiracy theories. Like the guy who swore NameJet was shill bidding, until I quickly pointed out that the person who kept beating him at [...]

By: Domain Name Wire » News » GoDaddy Gets Stolen Domain Name Back to Owner - The Domain Industry's News Source

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 20:53:37 +0000

[...] the first to write about GoDaddy when it does something “wrong”, but it’s often unfairly hung out to dry, [...]

By: Adam

Adam — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:36:38 +0000

In a business with multi-millions at stake it’s no surprise there are conspiracies. The unfortunate reality is that some are true and I’d imagine like the proverbial cockroach, when we see 1 there are a dozen more at in the background. I get many of these and I assume there are some roaches at work right now. Proving it is another matter. Godaddy and NSI might be the top 2 in terms of being on most peoples radar. It doesn’t help squelch any rumoring when employees bid on auctions or a company “front-runs” now does it?

By: Shuwix

Shuwix — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 21:27:44 +0000

Godaddy has it’s pluses and minuses.
If they don’t have those “spam report” kidnapped domains and senseless fee to give it back to owner, they would be fair company.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 14:08:52 +0000

The good news is GoDaddy's 60 day lock is inching toward having to be stopped. Inching. More

By: Stephen Douglas

Stephen Douglas — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 12:14:30 +0000

For Frank M:

You know it, my friend! I’ve been watching that practice by Godad for over a year, and I finally determined it was very suspicious at the least, especially when I sold a domain name and before I transferred it, I updated some whois info FOR THE BUYER… and then Godaddy locked it down. The buyer had to open a Godaddy account to get the domain.

It’s lowbrow “who cares if Dick Cheney started a war to make profits for the company he resigned as CEO to become VP of US?” Clear facts, definitive motives, but nobody has pulled him out of his bunker to oust him. Even Spiro Agnew was dumped for minor duplicity that today would be accepted.

Same with Godaddy. Biggest company, lots of customers, mostly domain noobies… they don’t realize what they’re locked into.

bah

By: David

David — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 14:23:09 +0000

What? No conspiracy theory that we’re conniving to prevent others from joining the party?