Fyodor has started NoDaddy.com in response to last week's shutdown of seclists.org...

I created this site to document instances of customer abuse at GoDaddy. The goal is for GoDaddy to either improve their policies and customer service, or suffer continued loss of market share to their customer-focused competition.

While I gave this site its bare skeleton, I'm hoping it becomes more of a community effort. If you have been frustrated by GoDaddy's behavior, please see our call for volunteers and join in.

But it turns out GoDaddy has defenders! I found this article linked off of Google News!

Screw Seclists.com, you should higher an internet security employee from MySpace to make sure you don't post our personal, highly secure information on your website. Obviously you aren't capable or maybe you just don't understand internet law.

Talk about Comedy Gold! The layers of irony in that passage are so thick its like a work of art!

NoDaddy.Com - Exposing the Many Reasons Not to Trust GoDaddy with Your Domain Names

Are there any serious constitutional law scholars who use the supposed unconstitutionality of the Air Force as an argument against originalism. A quick (and by no means comprehensive) Westlaw search reveals several examples. The use of the Air Force as an argument against originalism and textualism is not just a straw man. It's actually quite common.

There is a really good discussion going on in this thread about what originalism means with solid (and not so solid) points being made on both sides. If you're interested in the big question of Constitutional interpretation you'll enjoy this thread. While the matter isn't a straw man, its wonderfully useful as a straw man argument against people who make straw man arguments about the Constitution. :) The kind of people who parrot that the "Constitution doesn't say nothn 'bout abortion" are typically strong supporters of the military. Pointing out that it also doesn't say nothn 'bout the Air Force may be a fun way to make their heads explode.

The Volokh Conspiracy - Who claims that Textualism and Originalism lead to the Conclusion that the Air Force is Unconstitutional?

At first blush it may seem like no big deal: clocks will move ahead by an hour three weeks earlier than usual this year. But for today’s networked businesses, the simple change could mean complex problems if IT shops aren’t prepared, industry experts say.

We discussed this on MemeStreams when it was being considered, but I wasn't really aware that this had come down. Every computer will need to be patched for this...

Daylight Saving changes: No Y2K, but there could be headaches - Network World

[Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton] has clearly staked out her positions on [digital-era privacy], and they're sending electronic civil libertarians' hearts a twitter.

Speaking as an electronic civil libertarian it is simply not possible for any position taken by the video game censorship candidate to send my "heart a twitter." If Clinton was interested in reaching people like me she wouldn't have been so vocal in attacking our culture over the past few years. What is, however, interesting is that Clinton is picking up this issue because it resonates with the people she is interested in reaching, mainstream Democrats. If mainstream Democrats care about privacy thats a good thing for privacy, regardless of who wins the Presidency.

Wired News: Hillary: The Privacy Candidate?

Gold Star

Hack 1 is "Be Media." Often, if you want to record audio or video or even just get in the door to some official function, you have to present your bona fides ahead of time.

I've long had an interest in Internet [and] Governance, so when I heard the United Nations was throwing a big party called WSIS on the topic, I figured I'd go see how the pros did it.

I'm not really a journalist, but I've played one on the Internet, so I got O'Reilly & Associates to name me their international tech reporter and applied for credentials. O'Reilly didn't make the cut as "bona fide media," so I reapplied as a stringer for the second-largest English-language newspaper in Bangkok.

Carl Malamud, the technology leader for the Center for American Progress, posted this greatly entertaining collection of ten ways to hack the government!

Internet Archive: 10 Government Hacks

The true purpose for the BellSouth building revealed!!

Space Monster: Destroy Nashville

Rattle wrote:
One big question remains.. What good registrars are out there these days? I have not had a chance to do any research.

I'm also interested if anyone has any feedback on this question. I've sent them a formal email and tried to explain to them why I think this situation was mishandled, but it remains to be seen if they are going to address the problem in a substantive way. So far their public communications have been defensive and somewhat misleading. They need to acknowledge the mistake and communicate about how they are addressing the problem. I'm willing to give them time for that to sink in. They provide a good service at a really good price and I don't want to go through the hassle of transferring from them, but if they don't clear this up I really have no choice. It is inevitable that people post objectionable material here, and Rattle and I are usually on top of it, but the last thing I need is for my DNS registrar to pull my domain and then offer that they'll get back to me in "1 to 2 business days" about a resolution, and charge me a fee for my trouble. Thats not OK.

RE: More experiences with GoDaddy, free speech, and domain deletion [Politech]

Last your GoDaddy yanked the domain for the data center where my computers are hosted. (nectartech.com) They managed to take thousands of domains offline as a result. I helped get them back online by recording two phone calls to their tech support department.

GoDaddy shut down an entire internet provider overnight in January by killing their domain, which broke their DNS resolution. You can listen to phone calls in which their customer support people refuse to bring the domain back online in spite of the fact that 100s of customers are offline. Whats more, people who work for GoDaddy show up in the threads and start threatening the person who posted the recordings!! The fact is that $8 domain name registrations sometimes have millions of dollars riding on them. A company with this sort of flippant attitude about people's network infrastructure shouldn't be responsible for it.

More experiences with GoDaddy, free speech, and domain deletion [Politech]

For some reason this has never been posted to MemeStreams. I you haven't seen it before its worth a look.

A series of drawings from an isometric perspective, in the style of a computer game. The subject of each drawing is the image, or images, that created a popular cultural event. Historical events (like the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at the Lorraine Motel) are used interchangeably with fictionalized events (like the picnic scene from The Sound of Music).

The artist was included in a recent book about the influence of video games on art.

isometric screenshots

Update: 27BStroke6 has an audio recording of the voicemail Fyodor received as well as clear evidence that GoDaddy just doesn't get it:

I think the fact that we gave him notice at all was pretty generous.

Jesus. I think the fact that I'm going to contact them formally before pulling my domains is pretty generous.

Here is my original post:

This was extremely irresponsible! GoDaddy shoots first and asks questions in 1 to 2 business days!

A popular computer security Web site was abruptly yanked offline this week by MySpace.com and GoDaddy, the world's largest domain name registrar, raising questions about free speech and Internet governance.

Fyodor says in his post:

I woke up yesterday morning to find a voice message from my domain
registrar (GoDaddy) saying they were suspending the domain
SecLists.org. One minute later I received an email saying that
SecLists.org has "been suspended for violation of the GoDaddy.com
Abuse Policy". And also "if the domain name(s) listed above are
private, your Domains By Proxy(R) account has also been suspended."
WTF??! Neither the email nor voicemail gave a phone number to reach
them at, nor did they feel it was worth the effort to explain what the
supposed violation was. They changed my domain nameserver to
"NS1.SUSPENDED-FOR.SPAM-AND-ABUSE.COM". Cute, eh?

I called GoDaddy several times, and all three support people I spoke
with (Craig, Ricky, then Wael) said that the abuse department doesn't
take calls. They said I had email abuse_at_godaddy.com (which I had
already done 3 times) and that I could then expect a response "within
1 or two business days".

1. This website is a major nexus for communication in the computer security industry. Having it down for an extended period of time likely had a greater negative impact on Internet security on the whole than the disclosure of a list of MySpace passwords that are already known to spammers.

2. It is totally inappropriate to shut down an entire site based on such a brief attempt to contact the owner and it is totally inappropriate to have a 1 to 2 day turn around time on review of decisions of this magnitude.

3. Godaddy has created a new denial of service attack that can be employed to shut down any website that allows public posting and employs them for DNS services:
Step one: Post objectionable material.
Step two: File complaint with GoDaddy.
Step three: Website goes down.

4. They have the audacity to defend this decision!

GoDaddy's Jones said that "we're not knee-jerk--we try to be responsible about verifying complaints." There's a broad spectrum of policies among domain name registrars, she acknowledged, with GoDaddy "probably the most aggressive."

When asked if GoDaddy would remove the registration for a news site like CNET News.com, if a reader posted illegal information in a discussion forum and editors could not be immediately reached over a holiday, Jones replied: "I don't know...It's a case-by-case basis."

You DON'T KNOW if you'd shut down NEWS.COM based on a single complain with no prior notification!?!# Fyodor says:

Needless to say, I'm in the market for a new registrar.

If GoDaddy doesn't do something to address their policies I'll be in the same boat. What a major pain in the ass!

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