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 I would think that web hosting customers are among the more informed groups when it comes to matters of internet censorship, privacy, and the like. This is why I am surprised when I read stories about GoDaddy readily censoring its customers without demonstrated legal requirement.
“I think it would be great if GoDaddy could correlate a loss of customers with censorship activities like this” I have been a customer of GoDaddy for both web hosting and domain registration. As many of you know, this website had been hosted on fatcow until recently , but during that time this domain was registered with GoDaddy.
Before long, however, this story started popping up everywhere about how GoDaddy shut down a prominent security website because of a request from MySpace. GoDaddy didn't provide adequate notification to the website owner, it just de-listed the whole website. To me, that was outrageous. I could see no excuse for not first contacting the site owner and requesting that they take down the offending comment. The owner of this security website would have taken the content down, if given the opportunity, and indeed, that is what he ended up doing. So, in light of this, I moved all my domain registrations to Moniker . Mind you, I didn't have any trouble myself, but it just seemed like a rediculous way to treat customers, and I could see it happening to me some day. Today, I read another similar story about GoDaddy. This one is related to their web hosting business, and is related to a fairly controversial site that was all over the news yesterday: RateMyCop . I don't want to talk about whether or not that is a good site. What I'm interested in right now is that GoDaddy shut the site down without providing any notification to the website owner. I know for a fact that GoDaddy has my phone number as a former customer, because they call me a couple times a year. Why can't they call their customer BEFORE they take the website down? Why can't they provide good explanations to the customer? This sort of treatment is simply unacceptable, in my opinion. Can GoDaddy continue with these sorts of activities without explantion or excuse and continue to thrive? Or will this sort of behavior catch up with them? It is my hope that consumers speak with their dollars and move their websites elsewhere. I moved all my websites to Bluehost and I haven't looked back since, and I think it would be great if GoDaddy could correlate a loss of customers with censorship activities like this.  Check out http://nodaddy.com/ for more examples of poor GoDaddy judgement.
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