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I received a very unsettling email from GoDaddy last week.





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crazyboy1987, on 1/19/2006 2:19:39 PM
Total Posts: 0, Joined: 1/19/2006
This is a scam definitely.

I think I received a similar email too some time ago..

Just ignore it.
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ChewySquirrel, on 1/19/2006 2:54:54 PM
Total Posts: 5, Joined: 1/16/2006
first the torrent site fiasco, now blackmail, note to self never register domain at godaddy.com
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Dogmata, on 1/19/2006 5:40:15 PM
Total Posts: 3, Joined: 1/5/2006
idd GD appeers to have some major financial trubles if u have stil my adivice is sell sell sell......
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kyanox, on 1/21/2006 2:00:21 AM
Total Posts: 79, Joined: 12/20/2005
I hear your plight, GoDaddy is on its way to the better business beauro reporting as we speak.

I'm sorry to hear that you have been, violated.
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damndl0ser, on 1/21/2006 7:52:33 AM
Total Posts: 10, Joined: 1/12/2006
Send them an email informing them that you will be turning them into the BBB like the poster above stated. It probably will not do much but inform them that you are also putting the letters you have received on every message board you can find and they might change their mind.
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LondonOntGuy, on 1/21/2006 2:45:04 PM
Total Posts: 4, Joined: 12/18/2005

Bwahah! Maybe GoDaddy should see what Maddox did to Orbitz when they fucked him around. Screwing him on something cost them big time.

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=orbitz_blows
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fugadugu, on 1/21/2006 11:45:11 PM
Total Posts: 4, Joined: 1/16/2006
Companies like orbitz and GoDaddy just take the fucking piss.
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corman, on 1/22/2006 12:41:55 PM
Total Posts: 6, Joined: 11/29/2005
Dude, you are a spammer just trying to rally people with the "little guy against the big corporation" BS. here's one of his posts, you decide if thats spam or not

http://groups.google.com/group/loyaldog/browse_thread/thread/174f0d232ad11893/ac588bb76ed84a85#ac588bb76ed84a85
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geowrian, on 1/22/2006 9:40:09 PM
Total Posts: 332, Joined: 11/21/2005
^^^
Does look rather ad-like to me. But spam?

spam: To indiscriminately send unsolicited, unwanted, irrelevant, or inappropriate messages, especially commercial advertising in mass quantities. Noun: electronic "junk mail". (similar definitions were also found using a define:spam search on google)

That require mass quantities, not a few posts on a board that he has been a member of (therefoe not indiscriminate!) for some time and asked the admin for permission first. I don't see how his few postings qualifies as spam...it was appareantly unwanted by some people, but the admins didn't feel that most people felt that way.

Anyway, GoDaddy is going to be in deep trouble for behavior like this. First, they're not supposed to be self-policing of the domains since they are ICANN accredeted. Secondly, sicne they started policing, they open themselves up to litigation. If somebody steals some work and posts it on their GoDaddy-registered domain as their own, GoDaddy may now be held liable for some damages for not enforcing their policies if they don't act in a quickly manner to shut the domain down. Bascially, one could argue that GoDaddy was protecting said domain (kinda weak, but it's been done before with other companies, and the companies lost). Third, this is EXTORTION! Saying they will overlook this by sending money to them as a sign of friendship and committment to not doing it again? Pure extortion.

Still, I say this is a spoofed email and somebody is trying to scam GoDaddy customers sicne I haven't seen any repitable sources even mentioning this.
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techlh, on 1/23/2006 7:39:23 AM
Total Posts: 3, Joined: 1/12/2006
The message you've linked to was moderated and approved by the list owner. Sorry dude, not spam.

I've posted an update to the GoDaddy extortion issue at

http://8008135.org/2006/01/23/a-godaddy-followup/

You'll find it interesting
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