GoDaddy blocked 1399 domains

[wasistdas]

GoDaddy had blocked 1399 domain names registered there by Majordomo hosting company in Russia. The reason of the block, as stated by abuse department of GoDaddy, was two complains from Spamhаus.org that Majordomo clients sent spam. Both complains had no relation to Majordomo hosted clients. Two complains demonstrated by GoDaddy had nothing common with Majordomo and its clients. Majordomo tried to settle the problem emailing and calling the support of GoDaddy. GoDaddy said that they reactivate domains only if Majordomo would pay $199 for every blocked domains. After Majordomo spent over 36 hours negotiating with GoDaddy they issued a special press-release and started preparing a case to start a sue against GoDaddy. After that GoDaddy unblocked domains.

Full press-release here: http://majordomo.ru/about/150606.php. You can use an online translator to read the text.

 

[ZuraX]

This is the way it has to be people. Get over it. If you spam you SHOULD lose the domain you spam from. If you are a host and refuse to remove spammers then I say every register needs to take back EVERY domain you host. The only thing I would do different from what GoDaddy does is if you move to a NEW host and you have never had a spam complaint that was proven to be true then you get the domain back.

Put it this way. If you lived in an apartment buliding and your neighbor upstairs was selling drugs, and doing other illegal stuff and your landlord did nothing. Would you stay there and keep paying him/her money to live there?

 

[Peter]

Put it this way. If you lived in an apartment buliding and your neighbor upstairs was selling drugs, and doing other illegal stuff and your landlord did nothing. Would you stay there and keep paying him/her money to live there?

Or on the other hand would you want to be evicted because you live in the same building as a drug dealer

 

[ZuraX]

Why would you wish to stay there? I wouldnt need evicted...

 

[Flaresolutions]

Haha, the internet stopping because of spam.. please give me the source of that fact and i'll laugh at them too. Your sterotypical "because its russian it must be porn or warez" attitude is stupid, I know plenty of russian websites out of those fields. Maybe because you dont have any russian acquantainces you wouldent be aware of this though, so of course, you have to create an enemy.. and in regards to this: "but one has to suffer to save millions", I hope one day, that'll be you.

Yes, I can. Spamming is getting bigger problem day by day. There was someone who told that because of the large amount of spam internet will just stop working in about 10 (or was it 5) years. I don't know how it is possible to stop something like internet, but it really s**ks to come home and find out that you have 200 or even 500 new email and only 1 or 2 are the ones that you should read (and then, by mistake, you also delete the ones that you should read).
And I am sure that at least 50% of the other domains, that weren't cought spamming, are involved in some kind of illegal activities. If not spamming then maybe warez or (illegal)porn or hacking or other stuff like that. I have never seen any russian site that wouldn't have at least one naked girl on home page.
I am sorry for the ones that never did anything illegal, but one has to suffer to save millions.

 

[ZuraX]

I was one of the "ones". A web host I used before got listed on a blocklist for being spam friendly. What I do? I moved to a new host. Simple.

 

[Robert Allen]

Godaddys annoying policys are not just annoying, but it deeping offends me. It is as bad as when google blocked china from accessing thier site. It is basically communism all over again..

 

[labrocca]

Spamassassin works pretty well. Cuts 95% of the spam out.

 

[Camron]

I know that spamming is a real problem over there, but blocking all of the domains, really neccessary?