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Revolt Over GoDaddy CEO's Elephant Kill Video Makes 20,433 Domains Flee, Rival Claims
By Ben Popken on April 8, 2011 2:00 PM  
Rival domain name registrar Namecheap says they've raised over $20,000 for an elephant charity and poached thousands of customers who switched 20,433 domain names from GoDaddy following an uproar over a video their CEO posted of himself killing a pachyderm. Bob Parsons is unapologetic, saying he did it to feed the hungry villagers and save their crops. But that's just a moral fig leaf. In another video, Bob hunts and kills a leopard. I don't think it ended up as steaks for hungry villagers. More »

GoDaddy CEO Shoots Elephant, Sparks Stampede Of Customers To Flee
By Ben Popken on March 31, 2011 11:10 PM  
The CEO of domain name registrar GoDaddy is facing an online furor after the video he posted of himself killing an elephant in Africa went viral. After the elephant dies and CEO Bob Parsons poses next to it, villagers from all around come out to strip and devour the carcass on the spot. Many of them are wearing day-glo orange GoDaddy caps. As these images play in the video, "Hells Bells" provides the soundtrack. Now a backlash movement has started for folks to switch their domain providers away from GoDaddy. More »

Up-To-The-Minute Coupon Codes For Hot Sales
By Ben Popken on June 23, 2010 2:00 PM  
The deal aficionados on the FatWallet message boards have various discussion threads devoted to providing the most current coupons for a slew of stores. Rather then dig for them, here's a master list of their official store coupons and clearance threads. Members routinely get rid of dead coupons and post new ones, so this is definitely one to bookmark: More »

Go Daddy Leaves China Over Censorship, Privacy Concerns
By Meg Marco on March 26, 2010 2:20 PM  
GoDaddy.com, of the annoying Danica Patrick commercials, has announced that it will no longer sell .cn domain names. Why? It is not willing to comply with new rules from the Chinese government which requires domain holders to provide photo ID, says Wired. More »

GoDaddy Doesn't Outsource Customer Service
By Chris Walters on July 29, 2009 12:52 AM  

—>Last week, we posted that a popular web hosting company—GoDaddy, although we didn't name it at the time—provided a strange customer service experience to a commenter. Cyberguy was contacted via phone by someone from their "Office of the President" after emailing them, but then Cyberguy couldn't get their rep to state clearly which company he was representing. Cyberguy was rightly suspicious. Was GoDaddy outsourcing its own executive customer service?  More »

Perhaps You Don't Owe GoDaddy $6,579
By Carey Alexander on September 29, 2008 12:00 AM  

—>GoDaddy demanded $6,579 from Adam Fendelman after his disk usage skyrocketed to over 250 GB without warning, vastly exceeding his account's 150 GB allowance. GoDaddy's security department launched a "full-scale investigation" and quickly determined that Adam was responsible for both the data binge and the extraordinary bill. Adam refused to let the matter drop...  More »

Go Daddy Refutes Censorship Claim
By Chris Walters on March 12, 2008 11:19 PM  
The reader who sent Go Daddy an email asking why they shut down RateMyCop.com received a response in which they emphatically denied any censorship—this was all about a customer exceeding his contracted server usage limits and nothing else, they say. Read their full response after the jump. More »

Go Daddy Shuts Down RateMyCop Watchdog Site
By Chris Walters on March 12, 2008 9:24 PM  

—> Yesterday, Go Daddy pulled the plug on RateMyCop.com, which has been criticized by law enforcement officials for allegedly putting police officers in danger by listing their names and in some cases badge numbers. Visitors can then add comments and post critiques or praise about specific cops in their area. The website collected its officer data via public information requests, and no personal information is used, nor are undercover agents revealed. Still, law enforcement officials are upset at the exposure. When the site's owner, Gino Sesto, called Go Daddy, he was first told it was removed due to "suspicious activity," but then the reason was changed by a supervisor to an exceeded bandwidth cap, which Sesto disputes. Update: Go Daddy responded to our reader's email and said taking the site offline had nothing to do with censorship.  More »

GoDaddy Hushing Up Customer Credit Card Data Breach?
By consumerist.com on October 2, 2007 1:22 PM  

—>Did domain name registrar GoDaddy have a credit card security breach that they're not telling anyone about? That's what Reader Newcxns thinks. Two weeks ago, one of his Citi cards was replaced. One week later, another. The only thing Citi would tell him is that "a merchant" reported a possible data breach. No merchant has sent any data breach reports to Newcxns. In typical fashion, banks and vendors like to hide it when their security systems fail and compromise your account information.  More »

GoDaddy's Customer Service Suffers Wardrobe Malfunction
By consumerist.com on March 2, 2007 5:05 PM  

—>Godaddy really tipped the dildo cart over on this one.  More »

GoDaddy Goes Ho Bag Crazy
By consumerist.com on July 28, 2006 10:54 AM  

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RegisterFly Crash Lands
By consumerist.com on June 15, 2006 5:23 PM  

—>Don't be this consumer.  More »

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