Tuesday, December 27, 2011

SOPA debate puts GoDaddy in hot water over domain transfers - The Washington Post

Tuesday, December 27, 1:40 PM

Go Daddy has been accused of blocking domain transfers in the wake of its Stop Online Piracy Act revolt , theverge.com reports . Users of domain registrar Namecheap who've been trying to transfer domains in from GoDaddy in the wake of its SOPA revolt in the past couple days have been running into a bit of a speed bump: Namecheap alleges in customer service emails that GoDaddy is blocking its WHOIS requests, which means it needs to "manually insert WHOIS details into the form." In a follow-up blog post today, Namecheap also says that GoDaddy "appears to be returning incomplete WHOIS information" in violation of ICANN rules, taking the opportunity to sling a little mud in GoDaddy's direction:

It's a shame that GoDaddy feels they have to block their (former) customers from voting with their dollars. We can only guess that at GoDaddy, desperate times call for desperate measures.



SOPA debate puts GoDaddy in hot water over domain transfers - The Washington Post

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