Godaddy shuts down site for password file

[softball]

Originally Posted by gonzo

How come we dont see everyone on Godaddys nuts?

On the morning of Jan. 24, Fyodor Vaskovich awoke to discover that his Web site, SecLists.org, had been transformed into a giant error message. The message said his domain couldn't be resolved. This troubled him greatly: SecLists is an archive of several computer security-related mailing lists that contains more than 50,000 pages of technical information. It has thousands of visitors per day and nets Vaskovich a fair amount of income from Google ads. Where had the site gone? He checked with the registrar that sold him his site, GoDaddy, and discovered the megacorporation had changed the site's name servers -- addresses that tell your browser how to find the place where a Web site is hosted. Instead of his Web host's name servers, he found this name server: ns1.suspended-for.spam-and-abuse.com

What the hell? Vaskovich checked his answering machine and found a message from somebody in the abuse department at GoDaddy telling him they were going to pull the plug on his domain. Based on his logs, it appeared that his name servers had been changed less than a minute after the call was made. Essentially, he'd been given a few seconds' notice before a major Internet resource (and source of revenue) was shut down.

For the rest of the day Vaskovich was on the phone with GoDaddy trying to untangle what had happened. Luckily, he kept careful records, which he later showed to reporters at CNet and Wired News. These records corroborated his story that he'd been given less than a minute's notice and that GoDaddy repeatedly refused to give him customer service for several hours. At last he learned that SecLists had been yanked offline because MySpace contacted GoDaddy and requested it. One of the 50,000 pages on SecLists contained an e-mail in which somebody had listed the names and passwords of several MySpace users. Instead of asking Vaskovich to take down the page with passwords -- which is standard industry practice -- MySpace asked GoDaddy to squash the whole site. GoDaddy didn't have to do it, however. They could have contacted Vaskovich first, and they could have asked for a legal takedown notice from MySpace. Essentially, they could have provided minimal customer service and oversight. But they didn't.

What makes GoDaddy's actions even more disgusting is that the passwords in question had been leaked about 10 days before GoDaddy took SecLists down. They appeared on dozens of other security-related and hacker Web sites. Security expert Bruce Schneier had even written a column in which he analyzed the quality of about 30,000 of the leaked passwords. (Among the top 10 popular passwords was "fuckyou," which completely mirrors my feelings for MySpace.) So the point is the cat was out of the bag. The passwords were circulating, and MySpace needed to tell its customers to change their passwords. Squelching SecLists wasn't going to help protect anyone. And yet GoDaddy's general counsel, Christine Jones, defended its actions because she believed pedophiles would get access to children's names and passwords. "For something that has safety implications like that, we take it really seriously," she told Wired News editor Kevin Poulsen. "I think the fact that we gave him notice at all was pretty generous."

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This sounds all too familiar.

[spazlabz]

godaddy is quick to pull a site down with just the slightest provocation and very little if any investigation. one spam complaint and your shit is shut down pronto. However for a very generous fee that will offer to protect your site from being shut down that fast again in the future... it'll still get shut down if you don't kiss every inch of their ass after a complaint, but at least they will give you a little more time to pucker.

fuckyougodaddy is my new password of choice


spaz

[gonzo]

Originally Posted by spazlabz

godaddy is quick to pull a site down with just the slightest provocation and very little if any investigation. one spam complaint and your shit is shut down pronto. However for a very generous fee that will offer to protect your site from being shut down that fast again in the future... it'll still get shut down if you don't kiss every inch of their ass after a complaint, but at least they will give you a little more time to pucker.

fuckyougodaddy is my new password of choice


spaz

Godaddy will offer you every upsell known to man if you register there.

[JoesHO]

closed my godady account months ago, those guys are idiots.

domain registrars are pretty fucked up these days, at least some of them.

Moniker is a good place to us. and I here good things about tucows

[gonzo]

Originally Posted by JoesHO

closed my godady account months ago, those guys are idiots.

domain registrars are pretty fucked up these days, at least some of them.

Moniker is a good place to us. and I here good things about tucows

Mine are spread just like hosting.
Moniker, Buy Domains, and DirectNic.

[Jace]

Originally Posted by gonzo

Godaddy will offer you every upsell known to man if you register there.

of course they will, so do the other top 10 results in google for "domain registration"....domain registrars don't make all their money from domain regs, they make it from upselling hosting and other shit

[Jace]

sorry, I keep thinking of more shit

out of ALL the registrars I use right now, Godaddy is the ONLY one that CALLS me to see if everything is great on my end....about every 2-3rd domain reg I do through godaddy, they call me and make sure I am doing fine and that I am satisfied with their service....directnic never did that, moniker never did that, just godaddy

[gonzo]

Originally Posted by Jace

sorry, I keep thinking of more shit

out of ALL the registrars I use right now, Godaddy is the ONLY one that CALLS me to see if everything is great on my end....about every 2-3rd domain reg I do through godaddy, they call me and make sure I am doing fine and that I am satisfied with their service....directnic never did that, moniker never did that, just godaddy

Its a domain registration.
I dont want a call from them. All I want from a registrar is to purchase the domain, for them to secure it and make it easy for me to move if I wish.

Domain registrars dont have a service intensive job.
He was calling you for the upsell bubba!

[Jace]

Originally Posted by gonzo

Its a domain registration.
I dont want a call from them. All I want from a registrar is to purchase the domain, for them to secure it and make it easy for me to move if I wish.

Domain registrars dont have a service intensive job.
He was calling you for the upsell bubba!

never mentioned an upsell once, each time they just make sure my registration went smooth