Track GoDaddy Terms of Service Changes at New Web Site
Friday, June 5th, 2009
New web site allows you to track changes in GoDaddy’s terms of service.
Electronic Frontier Foundation has launched TOSBack, a new service to track changes to company’s terms of service. It currently tracks a number of popular web sites, including Facebook, eBay, YouTube, and domain name registrar GoDaddy.com. It shows a side-by-side comparison with relevant changes highlighted. Most of these are minor or benevolent changes, but we all remember the uproar a couple month’s ago when Facebook radically changes its TOS.
Most people don’t realize that these sites change their terms on a regular basis. GoDaddy changed its Universal Terms of service in May and changed its Domain Name Registration Agreement twice in the past few weeks.
According to TOSback, on May 18 GoDaddy changed its Domain Name Registration Agreement by adding to the list of country code domain names that renew on the first day of the month prior to the domain expiring. These domains must also be renewed no later than the 20th day of the month prior to expiration if done manually.
On May 22, GoDaddy added a new term to its Domain Name Registration Agreement:
You acknowledge and agree a copy of the customer contact data You provide will be used as the initial domain contact data and made public in the WHOIS database.
On May 20, GoDaddy changed its Universal Terms Of Service to reference agreements related to new GoDaddy products.
Further Reading:
Track GoDaddy Terms of Service Changes at New Web Site – http://tinyurl.com/o49jdn
Keep up with TOS changes on GoDaddy, Facebook, YouTube & more. http://tr.im/nyq6
Great service from the EFF. I really do applaud them for all the fighting they do for our best interests.
Re: Go Daddy, Inc Loses Lawsuit by Louise Marketing
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Meyer Brooks, the president of Go Daddy, Inc., phoned the same week I notified Bob Parsons through his blog, and didn’t hear anything back. Meyer said I had the wrong Go Daddy. He wasn’t apologetic, just threatening and angry. I told him to notify the court, and “sorry if it is the wrong Go Daddy.” All night I searched the matter online – couldn’t sleep!
It happens some times. Lots of businesses have “Amazon” in its name. People might do the paperwork on the wrong one. Then it has to be rescinded without prejudice. Courts are used to that. However, what I discovered is: it is the right Go Daddy! There’s more, but I have to save it for court, in case Meyer Brooks actually makes good on his threat! We’ll see what happens. You can research and see what you find out.
Meyer said, “I offered to sell the name “Go Daddy, Inc.,” to Go Daddy, but they said, ‘no.’”
Does that ring true? Go Daddy goes after everyone who uses “Go Daddy” in a domain on the grounds of trademark! Go Daddy even registered godaddyinc.com as its own.
Here’s Mr Brooks’ stab at convincing me, after our conversation. Not surprisingly, it’s unofficial. No stamp or signature from the court:
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If anyone has anything to comment, it would be appreciated!
Thanx!
Louise Smiley