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GoDaddy Advises Against Buying a Domain Name from a Disappearing Island

Owen Thomas — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:12:40 EDT

If you want to buy a .tv domain name, Bob Parsons's GoDaddy registrar will sell it to you. But not without a tsk-tsk lecture about how the island of Tuvalu, which owns .tv, is sinking.

Boing Boing noticed the warning (and groused that CNN had registered boingboing.tv a couple of years ago). But it turns out that the loudmouthed Parsons (full disclosure: I'm a weekly guest on his GoDaddy Radio show) is not the first to beat this Tuvalu-is-sinking drum. USA Today writer Kevin Maney looked into the issue some years ago: If the Pacific island sinks beneath the waves due to global warming, your .tv domains will still be safe. And knowing Parsons, he'll still be complaining about it.

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Go Daddy is fightin' mad

Evelyn Nussenbaum — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 20:20:00 EDT

GoDaddy writes in on our report of a customer fighting with the domain-name and Web-hosting service

he situation was absolutely NOT about censorship in ANY way... Go Daddy's concerns were about how the RateMyCop site was far exceeding the amount of server usage for which it had contracted.

The letter from GoDaddy continues:

This customer paid for a shared server plan. The connections to his site were six times more than an entire 'shared server' accommodates. While he was paying for a service that cost $14.99 a month, his site actually required a much more extensive set-up.
Basically, he was paying for compact car, when he really needed a semi-truck. The customer was not willing to work with our staff to resolve the issue.

While the "censorship" allegations certainly make for an edgy "story," they simply had nothing to do with this situation.

Best,
Elizabeth L. Driscoll
Vice President, Public Relations
The Go Daddy Group, Inc.

Is Go Daddy struggling with the First Amendment or bandwidth?

Evelyn Nussenbaum — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:12:25 EDT

While everyone agrees that GoDaddy.com shut down a police-rating site, the hosting service and the owner of RateMyCop.com can't agree on why. PR folk at Go Daddy say the site was a bandwidth hog, while the RateMyCoppers say they were shut down for "suspicious activity" — i.e. offending the police. In any case, RateMyCop is now moving to Rackspace.com and will live to rate another day. Back to those controversial posts, like the one calling Officer Michael Mannino of Phoenix, AZ "kind, caring and courteous."

Go Daddy defrauds customer, Google defrauds Go Daddy

Nicholas Carlson — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:40:47 EST

After domain-name registrar Go Daddy charged him for an account he never opened, MessageCast CTO Dave Hodson looked into how it happened. He discovered Go Daddy doesn't ask customers for the three-digit code that appears on the back of their credit cards during the purchase process — a measure meant to assure customers has the original cards in their possession. So Hodson blogged about it to warn others that "Go Daddy is a fraudster's paradise." Really, Go Daddy security czar Neil Warner should stop futzing around with time zones and get his employer to add card-code verification. But that's not the best part of the story.

That would be Google's karmic role. Hodson's blog carries ads from Google. And where better for a Go Daddy ad to appear than next to a blog post which concludes, "GoDaddy — you suck"?

Remainders: Win Maker Faire tickets from a squid

ndouglas — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 21:08:43 EDT

Are you going to eat all that? No? GoDaddy will take it, thanks. [Monkey Bites]
Bridge-selling for dummies, round one— [Newswire Today]
And round two. [Inc.]
Yahoo to go: Soon you can use Yahoo Instant Messenger anywhere — and message your three buddies who refuse to use AIM. [TechCrunch]
The Onion on iTunes: How is this even fiction? [Onion]
The Onion on MySpace: Too. Fucking. Funny. [Onion]
Local event lister Laughing Squid is giving away tickets to this weekend's DYI tech event, the Maker Faire. [Laughing Squid]