Fri 26 Jan 2007
from CNET News.com
MySpace demanded that GoDaddy pull the plug on Seclists.org, which hosts some 250,000 pages of mailing list archives and other resources, because a list of thousands of MySpace usernames and passwords was archived on the site. GoDaddy claims its customers own about 18 million domains.
GoDaddy complied. In a move that Seclists.org owner Fyodor Vaskovich said happened with no prior notice, the company deleted his domain name–causing his site to be effectively unreachable for about seven hours on Wednesday until he found out what was happening and removed the password list.
“They didn’t tell me why they removed the site,” Vaskovich, creator of the popular Nmap security auditing utility, said in a phone interview. “At a very minimum, we should get warning.”
Vaskovich said he spent “hours and hours” on the phone with GoDaddy on Wednesday before he finally got through to someone who was willing to listen. As a result of this experience, he said in an e-mail announcement, “I’m in the market for a new registrar. One who doesn’t immediately bend over for any large corporation who asks.”
I have a lot of domains registered with Godaddy. I am interested in finding another registrar, if you know of a good one, please leave it in the comments!
5 Responses to “GoDaddy SUCKS.”
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January 26th, 2007 at 8:04 pm
I like them, I dont like this incident, but isnt worth moving my domains and hosting!
Anyway, I have heard nothing better from other hosts, as far as monitoring stuff………BTW the site did have passwords that shouldnt have been open to public domain…..
January 26th, 2007 at 10:07 pm
Thats not the point. Your REGISTRAR should not have ANYTHING to do with your content. If someone has an issue with what you post, it should be between them and you (or your ISP).
In fact, just by GoDaddy doing this, they volate the terms of being ICANN Accredited.
January 26th, 2007 at 10:19 pm
yea godaddy is gay, they locked down my domain for about 4 months for no reason.
stay away from godaddy, their shared hosting sucks
January 27th, 2007 at 7:42 am
Maybe I am missing something, but is there a good reason to not use Network Solutions these days? I have had no issues with them and have used them since the InterNIC days. I also use 1and1.com and have one domain on GoDaddy which I will be moving to 1and1. I dislike GoDaddy because of the fact that 3/4ths of their landing page is absolute garbage. Overall the design is unfriendly and annoys me. The “real” issue is having so many registrars out there, and it being so wildly unrelgulated.
January 28th, 2007 at 4:43 pm
I always use dietzel1.com for my domain ;), and never have liked GoDaddy anyhow.