GoDaddy needs money so much?

Hello,

That is why you do not purchase domains and hosting from godaddy.com. They get huge, they start doing things for money, and then google gets a domain cert. Are you seeing where this is going?
 
This is not the first time I've seen GoDaddy do something as silly as this. It claims their are only 2 reports at spamhaus.org, why not suspend only those 2 domains if they are true! They have a strange way of handling abuse, I wonder if they even contacted them first at all? ... Glad I moved away from GoDaddy a while ago... tho it was based on the 3 million pages of checkout ads :).
 
A couple of hours ago the problem was solved somehow, suspended domains operate OK now. No money was paid of course. In fact, there were some CIS governmental organizations' domain suspended, and some famous lawyers paid attention to the case offering to file a class action. Really I'd rather complain about GoDaddy gave up so fast :) It could be very inteersting action.
I wonder, such a weak-headed company this GoFraudyDaddy is! :)
 
Seems to me that they did the right thing, which is what they always to.
They were right to suspend domains based on spam reports and they were right to unsuspend them when evidence to the contrary was presented.

People love to bash the big players when 99.9% of the time it is just petty jelousy.
 
Blue said:
Seems to me that they did the right thing, which is what they always to.
They were right to suspend domains based on spam reports and they were right to unsuspend them when evidence to the contrary was presented.

People love to bash the big players when 99.9% of the time it is just petty jelousy.
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Huh? So far we really don't know what happened.

However as I mentioned, this is the second time I have heard of a case when GoDaddy suspends all accounts within a certain ip range and/or dns range. You think that makes sense to suspend accounts that had nothing to do with the issue? Personally, I wouldn't want my account suspended because I shared the same ip address or dns information as someone who either 1) commited spam, 2) account was hacked and spam resulted, 3) customer made an honest mistake.
 
GnomeyNewt said:
Huh? So far we really don't know what happened.

However as I mentioned, this is the second time I have heard of a case when GoDaddy suspends all accounts within a certain ip range and/or dns range. You think that makes sense to suspend accounts that had nothing to do with the issue? Personally, I wouldn't want my account suspended because I shared the same ip address or dns information as someone who either 1) commited spam, 2) account was hacked and spam resulted, 3) customer made an honest mistake.
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Blue,

I have to agree with GnonmeyNewt there. To suspend 1,200 domains because of two spammers is dumb and was not well handled. I doubt that lawyers and government agencies are spamming. I do agree that a class action lawsuit should put forth on Godaddy for their unreasonable actions.

When a domain or website account becomes suspend it costs money. There is a future client of ours who is looking at leaving hivelocity.com due to the fact that they suspend their account for spam. Well come to find out their was not spam and they lost a week of business. You cannot put a number on customer's not coming back because your site is down.

The customers should be contacted and given time to respond followed by suspension if no contact or justification is provided. That is one of the biggest things that are wrong with the hosting industry. Oh you have a cgi script lets suspend you or someone reported spam; but, has no prooft of it. But, we have temprarily suspend your account why we investiage the matter.

By the way, none of my servers have ever been taken offline by a vendor or a register. It comes purely from the hatred for stupid nonsense in the hosting industry by companies.
 
Other than a post on a blog I see no evidence of Godaddy being in the wrong.
Like I said, because Godaddy are the big player everyone is a little too quick to conclude that they are the bad guy.
Majordomo.ru is notorious for allowing spam if not initiating it. Until I see some real proof that Godaddy had no justification for suspending these domains I choose not to jump on the anti Godaddy bandwagon.
 
I prefer to trust godaddy rather than some spammers. I had been using their service for dedicated hosting and domain names ans they are very much reliable.

Even when I had a problem with server, they gave 2-3 notices. As already pointed out, big cos. get lots of bad press, probably out of jelousy :)
 
Blue said:
Until I see some real proof that Godaddy had no justification for suspending these domains I choose not to jump on the anti Godaddy bandwagon.
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Enabling these domains back without getting money is the proof, isn't it?
BTW, I don't understand what that money must be paid for. Imagine, your internet provider cancels the service for the whole city just because some other company informed him that there are a couple of spammers in the city. Well, ok. You call your provider to explain that you personally are not a spammer and ask him to restore a connection. What he answers is: pay me 199 dollars for it! And even more, when you tell him that it's not acceptable at all, he answers that you must pay 50 if you gonna change him for another provider! Kinda bull****, isn't it?
 
Blue said:
Proof of what?
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OK, I'm not an insider, so here's a thin ice for me. But let's look.. there could be several reasons:
1. they are sooo extremely kind they couldn't stand it no more causing any trouble and, tears in their eyes, they gave up.. hard to believe isn't it? I would believe it maybe, but they wanted money! That's why I can't.
2. OK, another option, let's try to believe the statement from their letter: "Go Daddy can also be blacklisted by Spamhaus as a result of your actions". I'm trying.. trying.. trying.. No, I can't! GoDaddy is an official ICANN registrar, and what the hell that Spamhaus is? Is it another name for UN or what?
And again, in this case, why did they want money? To pay it to Spamhaus?
I believe that there are spammers of course. And more, AFAIK, Majordomo ignored abuse letters too often. But I also know exactly that there are innocent domain owners that were banned. I respect spam fighters, but this Godaddy's way is wrong. It seems just like money racket, not spam fighting.
 
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