p2pnet - rss feed: GoDaddy trashes Seclists.org
p2pnet.net News:- “I’m in the market for a new registrar. One who doesn’t immediately bend over for any large corporation who asks.”
So says Seclists.org owner Fyodor, aka Gordon Lyon, who descibes himself as a hacker, but the good kind, someone who’s been developing and distributing the free Nmap Security Scanner since 1997.
He was explaining why he’s had it with GoDaddy, the world’s largest domain name registrar.
In the mean spirited, dog-eat-dog world of Big Business, everyone is suing everyone else. That’s normal. But this corporate lust for power and control also spills over into CyberSpace, where openess and freedom are the accepted currencies.
In one of the latest debacles, at the command of Ruper Murdoch’s MySpace, GoDaddy summarily closed Seclists.org which, as CNET News points out, hosts some 250,000 pages of mailing list archives and other resources.
MySpace made the demand, and GoDaddy complied, because a list of thousands of MySpace usernames and passwords was archived on the site, says the story, going on:
“In a move that Seclists.org owner Fyodor Vaskovich said happened with no prior notice, the company deleted his domain name - causing his site to be effectively unreachable for about seven hours on Wednesday until he found out what was happening and removed the password list.
Fyodor said he spent hours on the phone with GoDaddy before he finally got through to someone who was willing to listen, says CNET, which has GoDaddy general counsel Christine Jones stating:
“We tried to contact the registrant, but they were not available at the time. To protect the MySpace users from potentially having private information revealed, we removed the site.”
She claims the episode lasted only about an hour. “But Vaskovich provided CNET News.com with a log of correspondence from GoDaddy that corroborates his version of the story. It indicated that only 52 seconds elapsed from an initial voice mail notification to the time the domain was marked as ’suspended’.”
“When asked if GoDaddy would remove the registration for a news site like CNET News.com, if a reader posted illegal information in a discussion forum and editors could not be immediately reached over a holiday, Jones replied: ‘I don’t know…It’s a case-by-case basis’.”
Also See:
CNET News - GoDaddy pulls security site after MySpace complaints, January 25, 2007
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January 27th, 2007 at 5:53 am
In my opinion, not p2pnet, not Jon’s, not anyone elses, I think that GoDaddy is the ghetto of registar services. This is my own personal opinion that I have come to when talking to other people and other things that I have heard about GoDaddy via word of mouth.
Another reason not to use them.
I hope Jon doesn’t get in trouble for this post, because after all, it is my personal opinion.
January 28th, 2007 at 9:53 am
it is a serious question. does anyone recommend one
it makes me wonder, did godaddy even verify the identity of the caller? I mean, thats pretty scary if only 52 seconds elapsed, and to delete the entire site so it read, versus just turning off the machine perhaps?? wth.
March 22nd, 2008 at 10:08 am
hi………..