[council] Response from GoDaddy regarding action taken with respect to a .org domain name

["Bruce Tonkin" <Bruce.Tonkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello All,

Earlier this week there was a posting about a specific case of action taken by 
a registrar over a domain name.  I don't think the Council list is the 
appropriate place for discussing specific disputes, but rather the list should 
be used to highlight general issues that apply to multiple situations which may 
require policy action.

Given that there is a public posting on this list, I gave the Registrar, 
GoDaddy, the right of reply.

See below.

Regards,
Bruce Tonkin


-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Ruiz, Vice President, Corporate Development & Policy, GoDaddy


We believe, under the circumstances, that we took the appropriate
action. This was not about "a controversial speaker" or freedom of
speech. This was about inappropriately acquired MySpace credentials
being made public. The posted credentials exposed tens of thousands,
many no doubt minors, to potential harm. The site publisher could not
be reached and we took the appropriate action as allowed under our
Registration Agreement and Terms of Service. We stand behind our
actions.
 
The author of this note, and the NCUC chair that decided to forward it
to the Council list, have indicted us in the very same manner they are
accusing us of. They have not even attempted to contact us for an
explanation, and have ignored our own response to the CNET News.com
article. In fairness, we ask that the Council also consider our
response, as well as the responses of others who have taken a different
view of our actions.


GoDaddy Response:
http://news.com.com/5208-1025_3-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=24518&messageID=232062&start=-1


As awful as this article describes GoDaddy...:
http://news.com.com/5208-1025_3-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=24518&messageID=232289&start=-1


Im sick...:
http://news.com.com/5208-1025_3-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=24518&messageID=232213&start=-1


Am I in the Twilight zone here???:
http://news.com.com/5208-1025_3-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=24518&messageID=232031&start=-1
(This response is apparently from a MySpace user as indicated from a
post on her blog, linked to in the above response.)


Tim Ruiz
Vice President
Corporate Development & Policy
GoDaddy.com
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-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Monday, 29 January 2007 7:35 PM
To: 'Council GNSO'
Subject: [council] [Fwd: [Fwd: [NCUC-DISCUSS] Recent Actions By Go
Daddy]]

The Chair of the NCUC has asked that the mail below be circulated on the

Council list.

Thank you.
Glen


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [NCUC-DISCUSS] Recent Actions By Go Daddy
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 10:53:30 -0500


I would like to draw attention to the recent actions of the Go Daddy
registrar in its decision to pull a .org domain name at the request of
social networking site myspace.com because a third party had placed on
the site a list of passwords and accounts of myspace users.
http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-6153607.html

This strikes me as a serious abuse of power by a registrar, and should
alarm the users of this constituency.  If registrars can exercise such
unrestrained authority over registrants, then no controversial speaker
is safe.

If there is not already a procedure for addressing this, I would
strongly urge this constituency to take appropriate action.

Harold Feld



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