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."

Gawker: valleywag, ratemycop.com

Go Daddy is fightin' mad

Is Go Daddy struggling with the First Amendment or bandwidth?