I'm just curious will my domains be safe with GoDaddy because I was reading this article at http://domainnamewire.com/2007/02/27/godaddy-deletes-domain-name-for-inaccurate-email-address/ and it said GoDadddy took one of there clients domains. Which I highly doubt I have anything to worry about, but do you think they are actually aloud to take a domain?
The people who "lose" their domains with Godaddy's service are not putting the correct contact information and are suffering the consequences for it. Godaddy checks up on your info on a regular basis to see if it's legit. So, if you register a domain as "Your mother" at "123 Fake St" with the phone number "555-555-5555" because you don't want your name, street address and phone number to be public, rest assured, you're taking a huge risk! Godaddy calls me once a year as a "courtesy" but I think it's more like a test to see if the phone number I used for my contact # actually exists...
Yes but thats only for people in USA i think as i never had such problems with wrong phone no (i chanegd the phone but did not update it) (i live in India)
I'm not sure if the phone number is a big problem. I'v never been contacted by my phone that's registered with GoDaddy. Nor is my name the one that the phone is contracted to. I think their main concern is the address. Because they do send plenty of renewal notices and crap like that.
yeah... if you don't register with valid contact information they are legally able to take it from you..
It's important to always use valid contact information not only for GoDaddy but anything under ICANN period. If you don't want your personal information listed, you always have a "Make Private" option, which I would utilize. I don't see a whole lot of point of hiding the contact information, but that's just me and I've never been in a real situation where it has caused any problems.
this is making me nervous, I thought legally they was not aloud to keep your domain no matter what, maybe I should choose another company?
I have over 200 domains registered with godaddy, have never had any problems with them. Play by their rules and you shouldn't have any problems. Play straight with them and you should do fine.
Yeah I agree, but its still worrying that... 1) They took a domain away from someone before it had expired & 2) Gave it to another Godaddy customer Who was this customer and how did they get it? Was there an auction of the domain? Was it the same person who complained? Was it a Godaddy employee? These questions need to be answered.
I've known other people to think that as well, even though it's unrealistic. Do we have absolute rights to do anything with what we possess, even if it might infringe another party's rights? More often than not, a registrar will "take away the domain name from you" if it's found to either: a) violate any terms of your agreement, b) if they get an order from a court of competent jurisdiction, or c) if it's expired. It does not matter what domain provider you use as they have all the same conditions. It's just a question of knowing what you're getting into and understanding the terms of your agreement. Oh, and trying to stay in compliance, too.
GoDaddy is a credible registrar. They wouldn't just take the domain name away from you. They would need a valid reason.
Rrright... Their valid reason is money. I personally lost a 4-letter domain name to Godaddy in 3 easy steps. First, they call your phone number saying there is Spam coming from your domain's email address. (I didn't even have any email address registered with my domain!) Next, they wait 48 hours for you to respond. (I was on vacation out of country and couldn't use my cell phone for obvious reasons.) Then, they ask for $196 to get your domain back. (I didn't find it reasonable to pay them at the time!) The domain name is theirs! Voila!
That's an invalid WHOIS report thing. All registrars do that based on their contracts, though it's only Go Daddy I know who "tends" to charge a fee for that. That means someone reported your domain for invalid WHOIS to Go Daddy. They do not just comb through their lists and see who to tag whom they feel like, however tempting that is to believe otherwise. I've had my share of invalid WHOIS reports in my ex-registrar life.
All I can say is that I have more than 10,000 domains at GoDaddy, and they've never confiscated any domain from me.
Not in this case. I had several hundred domains with Godaddy at the time, all handpicked and meticulously maintained. Besides, they called the phone number in my registrar contact info. Been moving to namecheap since.. I can technically understand godaddy's point - someone reports the domain, they take action, yada yada. The problem was that they weren't helpful in investigating the issue. I specifically asked them to forward me one of those spam messages allegedly coming from my domain address, but they ignored my requests. So I was left in dark, and now recalling all the events, I still can't get rid of the idea that this was done in someone else's interest.
Good for you. Technically, in my case that was not a confiscation, that was a typical hostage vs ransom situation. They come, take your property, ask for (unreasonable) money, and take away the property if you don't pay. Pretty simple. I would say in this hard economic time, big corporations come up with yet more ways of making money. This is just the new rule of the game which I learned. I'm not saying this is good or bad, I'm just sharing the information with this forum, that this is how the game is played nowadays.