Forwarded from: Times Enemy <times (at) krr.org> Greetings. Yes, i may be beating the proverbial dead horse, however, i am pro-actively looking for ways to express my discontent with the way GoDaddy has overstepped it's bounds and disrespected the internet community. I include Bob Parson's response and justification of GoDaddy's actions to dropping http://www.SecList.org below. So far, it seems my response, to Bob Parson's rather weak excuse for dropping http://www.SecLists.org, is unacceptable by the bobparsons dot com moderators. Other postings to this thread have gone through moderation since my submission, and have appeared online. I could see how it may be off-topic, however, Bob made it "on-topic" by allowing the biggles' post through, and then again by responding to biggles' post. Perhaps it may find a warm spot in your hearts ... Original thread: http://www.bobparsons.com/GoDaddyGirlPage.html #------- INSERT ----------------------------------- Please don't do dumb things like take down seclists.org just because myspace asks you to. #3 biggles on Feb 14 2007, 06:46 Reply Dear biggles, We didn't take the site down because MySpace asked us to. We took that site down because the content on it was inappropriate — usernames and passwords for over 75 thousand kids sites on MySpace.com. We tried to reach the owner to get him to volunatary remove the bad content — but he was not available. As the usernames and passwords were being accessed for no doubt nefarious purposes, we had to act. After we took the site down, we were contacted by the owner who then voluntarily removed the inappropriate content and his site went back up in an hour. When you have a website that allows posting of anything, with it comes the responsibility to act when you are made aware that some of the content might be out-of-bounds. You also need to be available for contact when a problem arises. I ask you: If you had a child whose username and password was posted on that website, what would you have wanted GoDaddy to do? Leave the website up and let it be distributed all over the world, or be a good citizen and take the site down until such time as the bad content is removed. Sometimes you just have to do what's right. And that's what we did. Appreciate your post, Bob # 3.1 bob parsons on Feb 14 2007, 11:11 Reply # ------- END INSERT ------------------------------- My response, submitted and apparently rejected, 2007.02.14 approx. 1:30pm: #------- INSERT ----------------------------------- Greetings. I'll bite ... If my child(s) username and password were posted on www.seclists.org [http://www.seclists.org] , i would have another serious discussion with my children about strong passwords. We would immediately change *all* of their passwords, and we may even close the account(s). We may even respond to the thread in question with a chuckle and a polite thank you for the heads-up. If my child(s) username and password were posted on www.seclists.org [http://www.seclists.org] , i would expect GoDaddy to do it's job, not as the internet police which is quite frankly beyond the scope of a domain registrar imho, but as a domain Registrar. If my child(s) username and password were posted on www.seclists.org [http://www.seclists.org] , i would also expect GoDaddy to not balk and be slapped around by a www.networksolutions.com [http://www.networksolutions.com] customer. If my domain were the cause for concern, i would want my registrar to know it's legal rights, and to not bend over at the slightest legal threat(s). I would want my registrar to do it's job and protect my domain(s). I would want my registrar give me a fighting chance to defend myself and my domain(s). As a paying customer, as a client of my domain registrars, i would expect them to take my side, as easily as they take my money, when my site(s) content is questioned; especially when those questioning my site(s) are supporting a different registrar's bank account. If a threat is merely a viable potential for something to occur, and if that pathetic social networking site simply had to threaten legal action to have GoDaddy drop one of it's paying clients, then GoDaddy should have thought its actions completely through. The threat ignored has actually backfired, and become a vulnerability. Now GoDaddy has lost, and will continue to lose business because of it. All a competing domain registrar need do is offer good customer support and protect their clients' domains. GoDaddy may have legal protection to conduct business so poorly, but GoDaddy is lucky this incident happened with a domain owner who has more character than most. As i see it, GoDaddy conducted a denial-of-service (DOS) attack against SecLists.org, at the behest of myspace. It was irresponsible, not a wise move, even foolish, of GoDaddy to do what it did, and to even get involved. Also, Bob, i try to keep lame marketing gimmick's, such as GoDaddy's, out of my children's view, because i find it offensive and inappropriate for children. It may succeed at getting attention, but due to GoDaddy's decision to play the moral judge and drop www.seclists.org [http://www.seclists.org] i am shopping for a new domain registrar for my domains, my clients' domains, and for anyone else who wants a truly responsible domain registrar. #------- END INSERT ------------------------------- Also, for anyone who notices ... i am working on it .... .te ______________________________________ Subscribe to the InfoSec News RSS Feed http://www.infosecnews.org/isn.rss
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