Thanks for the link, it was a great read.
Now let me just say that I do personally get special attention from Godaddy, and they are always very kind to me and helpful. However, I do think that GoDaddy was at fault in suspending SecLists.org. The site is a cutting edge security site and offers very original and high potential content.
The complaint was filed with Godaddy from MySpace. Myspace seems to be quickly becoming the new king of trademark infringment complaints and legal disputes.
First of all they went after typos of myspace.com, now they are going after these guys? I mean come on... business is business, but there is more to society than myspace's profits (which I, incidentally, do not think are harmed that much by these minor free speech issues as by the reputation that myspace is getting for sqwashing freedom of speech).
The way I see it, Godaddy is a domain registrar. They have obligations to ICANN's pseudo trademark laws, but they do not have any obligations to MySpace in non-trademark matters.
The content hosted on the servers to which the domain names point, is external to the sphere of action of GoDaddy. In this respect it is abuse. Not legal abuse (beacuse in their terms and conditions, godaddy says that they can suspend domains without reason), but this is ethically abuse. It is also a first amendment issue and a seperation of powers issue.
Godaddy should not have done what it has done.
Zach
Now let me just say that I do personally get special attention from Godaddy, and they are always very kind to me and helpful. However, I do think that GoDaddy was at fault in suspending SecLists.org. The site is a cutting edge security site and offers very original and high potential content.
The complaint was filed with Godaddy from MySpace. Myspace seems to be quickly becoming the new king of trademark infringment complaints and legal disputes.
First of all they went after typos of myspace.com, now they are going after these guys? I mean come on... business is business, but there is more to society than myspace's profits (which I, incidentally, do not think are harmed that much by these minor free speech issues as by the reputation that myspace is getting for sqwashing freedom of speech).
The way I see it, Godaddy is a domain registrar. They have obligations to ICANN's pseudo trademark laws, but they do not have any obligations to MySpace in non-trademark matters.
The content hosted on the servers to which the domain names point, is external to the sphere of action of GoDaddy. In this respect it is abuse. Not legal abuse (beacuse in their terms and conditions, godaddy says that they can suspend domains without reason), but this is ethically abuse. It is also a first amendment issue and a seperation of powers issue.
Godaddy should not have done what it has done.
Zach