GoDaddy bullying tactics

Mon Aug 20 10:57:29 MST 2007

Given your scenario, I would need to own the base domain of grill.com.  I do not and so GoDaddyGrill.com was born

I do like sub-domains and so do the search engines.  The search engines like them a lot. 

Joshua Zeidner <jjzeidner at gmail.com> wrote: 
  Keith,

    There is absolutely no reason why the owner of grill.com can't sell off godaddy.grill.com , and you can even have the  www.godaddy.grill.com address.  It's not commonly done, but I don't see any issues with it (it does perhaps defy habitual use patterns*).  In the days of the million dollar domain, it would appear to make sense in many situations. 

    best of luck in dealing with GoDaddy, once I was literally on the phone with the for almost 6 hours and they couldn't even tell me if I was a paying customer or not!

  -jmz

* in my opinion it actually looks better, wouldn't you rather have  www.go.daddy.grill.com, than www.godaddygrill.com?  it's way more readable.

On 8/20/07,  keith smith <klsmith2020 at yahoo.com> wrote: 
Yes they are very incorrigible, I know that first hand...

I'm not sure what you meant by using sub-domains... You mean get a plain vanilla domain and use sub-domains to create sections or categories? 

Joshua Zeidner <jjzeidner at gmail.com> wrote:  
 I just want to say GoDaddy is absolutely incorrigible!  There was another similar complaint on AZIPA not so long ago, the accusation was that GoDaddy was brokering the WHOIS queries to domain squatters. I had thought that GoDaddy would not engage in such activities, but now I have my doubts.  

 I still don't understand why people don't use subdomains more often.  If domain names are the new real estate, what are subdomains, the new condos? :)

 -jmz

  On 8/20/07, keith smith <klsmith2020 at yahoo.com> wrote:  Here is the latest turn of events - Yesterday I setup a transfer to 1and1 and today I get an email from GoDaddy as follows:

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Dear Keith Smith,

The transfer of   GODADDYGRILL.COM from Domains Priced Right to another
 registrar could not be completed for the following reason(s):    

Evidence of legal or other dispute such as a Court order, reasonable
 dispute over the identity of the Registered Name Holder, or an action of

 the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy.

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Okay ... These guys are really starting to irritate  me!

Josef Lowder < joe at actionline.com> wrote:  .
On Fri, 17 Aug 2007, keith smith wrote  
> I have had some time to think about everything and 
> feel I need to sit tight for now.  
> 
> I do not have the  time nor do I have the desire to fight with  
> GoDaddy, however I do not want to be bullied into anything either.  

Sounds good.  I certainly am not advocating "fighting" with 
anybody, either.  It's just a matter of taking a stand for what   
is reasonable and just. 

> For now I am going to take a passive stance. 

Good call.

> If Godaddy does decide to mess with my main website, which brings  
> me all my business, I will weigh my options.  

I think everybody on the planet would be shocked and repulsed 
if godaddy tried to do anything to harm you or anybody in any way. 
Such a misstep by them could very well prompt a mass exodus of  
registrations transferred to other registrars.  

> If anyone would like to buy GoDaddyGrill.com it might be for sale. 

Well worth exploring.  Some "activist" might be very 
interested in it.  Or it might make a great BBQ grill  
trademark name worth  developing. 

;)) 

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