GoDaddy's PR problems

January 31, 2007

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For a variety of reasons, I've been registering all my domain names at Domain Name Wire, the suspension resulted from the discover that

...everyone has this latest password list now, and it was even posted (several times) to the thousands of members of the fulldisclosure mailing list more than a week ago. So it was archived by all the sites which archive full-disclosure, including SecLists.Org. Instead of simply writing me (or abuse_at_seclists.org) asking to have the password list removed, MySpace decided to contact (only) GoDaddy and try to have the whole site of 250,000 pages removed because they don't like one of them. And GoDaddy cowardly and lazily decided to simply shut down the site rather than actually investigating or giving me a chance to contest or comply with the complaint.

mainstream media coverage. I doubt they'd shut one of my domains down for no reason, but I'm not certain of that in light of this ill-advised statement. I don't think my blogs or sites will ever deliberately violate any rules, but who knows what comment might be offensive enough to qualify under the "any reason whatsoever" rule? I plan to take my registration business elsewhere. I'm also pretty sure I'll also turn down GoDaddy offers to sponsor my content.