information Brent Oxley Loses Access to Create.com, Plus Millions of Dollars Worth of His Domains

[James Iles]

Brent Oxley, the founder of HostGator, has been accruing a portfolio of ultra-premium domain names since he sold his hosting company for close to $300 million in 2013.

With purchases such as Give.com for $500,000, Broker.com for $375,000, and Texas.com for $1,007,500, Oxley has spent millions of dollars over the past few years accumulating this collection. According to his website, the portfolio is worth more than $25 million.

Oxley has now, however, lost access to a proportion of his portfolio

Read the full report on my blog

 

[The Rover]

This legal mess is actually being driven by ideological resentment, even if it's being done covertly or indirectly. Yet few people here are willing to call it for what it is. Naturally, anyone representing GoDaddy would never publicly admit this fact. Afterall, why on earth would they? Most are just concerned about their job. However, Brent is being targeted here. There's really just no precedent for this to have gotten to this point without it being fueled by something other than "legal issues".

Brent Oxley is likely one of the very few "right leaning" and "non-woke" people in existence who happens to own a domain portfolio at the high level that he does. He's also had his fair share of controversies and personal attacks from various left leaning woke people over the years. He was even personally attacked for destroying toilet paper for crying out loud. Does anyone remember that? At the very lease, GoDaddy simply seized this baseless opportunity the moment it was presented to them. The folks at Godaddy, (including the CEO) likely jumped for joy the moment they saw a complaint filed against Brent.

So, for those of you who don't actually grasp what it is you're witnessing, allow me to poke the bear just a bit further. Here's a few quotes from Bhutani, followed by a translation of what is actually occurring here:

Aman Bhutani: "They make vegan pies and the place is called Magpie and they just have a fantastic product"

Translation: "If you're vegan, I respect you. However, I despise you if you support the notion of killing animals for sport. If you spent millions of dollars on a hunting ranch, and you own millions of more dollars in domains registered at a company that I'm the CEO of, you need to be made an example of."

Aman Bhutani: "The Internet is the great equalizer"

Translation: "I believe in equal outcomes, regardless of the cost. The internet allows people of lessor means to create an income, even if it's at the expense of taking from the wealthy."

Source: https://seekingalpha.com/article/44...i-on-q4-2020-results-earnings-call-transcript

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Aman Bhutani: "..It's super important we understand the microbusiness"..

Translation: "We want everyone to be just a micro-business, but not a magnate. Excluding me of course.
Source: https://twitter.com/sh0kunin

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Aman Bhutani: “GoDaddy stands for humanity, to make opportunity inclusive for all. Standing for inclusive opportunity means acknowledging social atrocities and injustices and helping to make meaningful change. So, when we say we stand for humanity, that means we stand with the Black community during this difficult time. In an act of symbolic acknowledgement of the pain many of our teammates, customers and communities feel, we are featuring an altered logo on our website and social presence.”

Translation: "As GoDaddy's head virtue signalist, I'm now apart of the ruling class and I'll endlessly and blindly preach to the plebes on how racist they are. I'll create issues where there are none. If you don't feel this way, then you're the enemy and you must be punished. Especially if you're white; and if you're a right leaning white man with a multi-million dollar portfolio, then you're particularly in need of an ass kicking sooner or later."

Source: https://domaininvesting.com/godaddy-comments-on-blackouttuesday-logo-change/#comments

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Aman Bhutani:
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that."
The world looks to America.
To make opportunity inclusive for all.
We can do our part, and we must".

Translation: "If I publicly preach love enough, no one would ever accuse my company of targeting someone based on their ideology or skin color. Also, when I say "inclusive for all" I mean everyone except most white people just trying to get by, and if you're wealthy and white, you better tread carefully. And yes, I'll continue to virtue signal on my personal twitter account so that I can signal to other elites that I'm now apart of their divide and conquer club."

Source: https://twitter.com/sh0kunin

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All of this is far beyond the trite excuses of conspiracy theory. The fact patterns are all laid out for everyone to see. If you don't think that there will be more of this to come, then by all means, feel free to leave your domains at GoDaddy. However, this is social justice on steroids, and it's finally reached the domain industry in a way that's only now catching your attention.

 

[WGS_Thunder]

And Brent has a tank ! And I bet he's a Trump supporter !!

 

[Future Sensors]

And Brent has a tank ! And I bet he's a Trump supporter !!

Often words are more powerful.

 

[boker]

And Brent has a tank ! And I bet he's a Trump supporter !!

I don't like Trump, I don't like guns and I don't like people hunting for pleasure, but that has nothing to do with this...it's about what is right and what is wrong.

 

[Samer]

I don't like Trump, I don't like guns and I don't like people hunting for pleasure, but that has nothing to do with this...it's about what is right and what is wrong.

This thread has hit 14 pages;

Overwhelming support for Brent @create.com

 

[Future Sensors]

This thread has hit 14 pages;

Overwhelming support for Brent @create.com

Yes, Brent has the best words. Godaddy is looking for the best words.

 

[create.com]

Godaddy Paul,

Puneet was brought in for questioning by the Indian police due to stalking the prime minister of India! (basically the president of India) I've already sent you an official document related to this incident, and yet you continue to ignore my emails and keep my names locked down! Not only this, but you continue to take orders from him, as evident with Godaddy complying with his recent request to lock create.com without a court order, a contract, or any legitimate reason.

You all ignored my offer of complete immunity and continued to ignore my email requests for information. What is really going on here? Is this political, as Rob suggested? Does it have something to do with both your CEO and Puneet being from India? Is it because I own guns and tanks through my business Drivetanks? Why do facts not seem to matter??? Why are my emails to Godaddy ignored?

If this was simply a matter of policy, then why did you all lie about there being a court order that you haven't been able to provide? I have an affidavit from an Indian lawyer saying it doesn't exist, and I know I haven't been served, so how can it?

How about instead of posting, wasting everyone's time with empty words, you investigate this matter! I have thousands of crazy emails from Puneet, and yet I still have no idea what he's even claiming he's owed or why.

Can you make the dns changes that you claim are possible that were emailed to you back in December on detect.com? You're on here posting to show face with the community but can't even do something as harmless and straightforward as making a dns change!

Please have Aman call my phone number that Godaddy has on file. I'd be happy to keep the conversation off the record and would love to try to resolve this without you all continuing to ignore me and hiding behind broken policies.

I'd even possibly be willing to drop what inevitably will be a lawsuit against Godaddy for the millions you've cost me in domain name sales and the $10mms in what I believe I've suffered in business damages. I'd need my domains unlocked, an official apology, and need to be assured this won't happen to other innocent domainers in the future.


You seem to have missed my response to your previous post.

"
You said "For instance, a U.S. federal court denied Mr. Oxley’s request for an order requiring GoDaddy to unlock the domains."

Let me understand this.....

Part of why you locked my domains before January 9th, 2020 is because of what a judge said 10 months later on 11/24/2020? The Judge wanted to make sure Puneet was served and requested proof of service, which required us to get a Hague certificate. It's not easy to serve someone in India that doesn't want to be served. We just received the Hague certificate back a few days ago, and the case can now proceed in America to get you the court order that you demand. This has also been Covid times with lockdowns, court shutdowns, and all kinds of uncertainty delaying a court order.

I have some questions for you........


Godaddy initially claimed there was a court order to lock my domains.

1. Is Godaddy continuing to take the stance that there is a court order to lock my domains? yes or no, please.
2. Is this an official response from Godaddy? Yes or No, please.
3. Did you have to get permission from GoDaddy prior to this post?
4. Have you seen any signed contracts between Puneet or myself? Yes or no.
5. I requested this to be escalated to your CEO back in March of 2020. Is he aware of this situation? Yes or no answer, please.

" If the registrant would like to make changes to their DNS, they can contact our team to make them.

6. If this is true, why did you all ignore my request on December 8th, 2020 to change my DNS for detect.com? I still haven't had a response from you on this! This is one of the domain names I have sold pending your locks being lifted. Can you please make the emailed change request?


7. Why did you all take the courtesy to respond to Puneet when you locked my domains, and yet as a customer, you never notified me? You failed to inform me on both the original locks and the recent one of create.com a few weeks ago. Godaddy still hasn't responded to my email from February 19th on why create.com was locked. Can you please tell me why? Was there another imaginary court order you aren't able to produce?

"They are able to renew the domain names. "

I am not able to renew the locked domains, which is why I emailed you on april 21st, 2020, requesting you all to do so. You still have not renewed these names. You all ensured they would be auto-renewed at expiration; however, I do not feel comfortable considering how incompetent you all have been to date. Can you please renew these names for me as requested using the balance I have on file!!!"

 

[oldtimer]

Thanks for all the feedback on this so far. I've been reading every reply and can understand your concerns.

In the last 36 hours, we've been having some serious discussions about our policies, processes, and ultimately, how we can better serve our customers while protecting everyone's legal rights. We have already engaged the ICA and other industry experts to determine if there are any changes we should and could make. As we make progress, we will keep the community posted.

For Brent, I want you know that no domain name will be deleted. Consistent with our policy, we have paid for renewals and will continue to pay for renewals as necessary. We're keeping them safe, and leaving them up and running.

@Paul Nicks ,

That's great Paul,

Maybe something positive will come out of this after all.

When you all are considering to make some changes for the better don't just think of Godaddy, think of the domain Industry as a whole.

IMO

 

[Chris Hydrick]

#FireAman

 

[WGS_Thunder]

#FireAman

Nice !!

 

[branding]

#FireAman

Available btw

 

[barybadrinath]

Godaddy Paul,

Puneet was brought in for questioning by the Indian police due to stalking the prime minister of India! (basically the president of India) I've already sent you an official document related to this incident, and yet you continue to ignore my emails and keep my names locked down! Not only this, but you continue to take orders from him, as evident with Godaddy complying with his recent request to lock create.com without a court order, a contract, or any legitimate reason.

You all ignored my offer of complete immunity and continued to ignore my email requests for information. What is really going on here? Is this political, as Rob suggested? Does it have something to do with both your CEO and Puneet being from India? Is it because I own guns and tanks through my business Drivetanks? Why do facts not seem to matter??? Why are my emails to Godaddy ignored?

If this was simply a matter of policy, then why did you all lie about there being a court order that you haven't been able to provide? I have an affidavit from an Indian lawyer saying it doesn't exist, and I know I haven't been served, so how can it?

How about instead of posting, wasting everyone's time with empty words, you investigate this matter! I have thousands of crazy emails from Puneet, and yet I still have no idea what he's even claiming he's owed or why.

Can you make the dns changes that you claim are possible that were emailed to you back in December on detect.com? You're on here posting to show face with the community but can't even do something as harmless and straightforward as making a dns change!

Please have Aman call my phone number that Godaddy has on file. I'd be happy to keep the conversation off the record and would love to try to resolve this without you all continuing to ignore me and hiding behind broken policies.

I'd even possibly be willing to drop what inevitably will be a lawsuit against Godaddy for the millions you've cost me in domain name sales and the $10mms in what I believe I've suffered in business damages. I'd need my domains unlocked, an official apology, and need to be assured this won't happen to other innocent domainers in the future.


You seem to have missed my response to your previous post.

"
You said "For instance, a U.S. federal court denied Mr. Oxley’s request for an order requiring GoDaddy to unlock the domains."

Let me understand this.....

Part of why you locked my domains before January 9th, 2020 is because of what a judge said 10 months later on 11/24/2020? The Judge wanted to make sure Puneet was served and requested proof of service, which required us to get a Hague certificate. It's not easy to serve someone in India that doesn't want to be served. We just received the Hague certificate back a few days ago, and the case can now proceed in America to get you the court order that you demand. This has also been Covid times with lockdowns, court shutdowns, and all kinds of uncertainty delaying a court order.

I have some questions for you........


Godaddy initially claimed there was a court order to lock my domains.

1. Is Godaddy continuing to take the stance that there is a court order to lock my domains? yes or no, please.
2. Is this an official response from Godaddy? Yes or No, please.
3. Did you have to get permission from GoDaddy prior to this post?
4. Have you seen any signed contracts between Puneet or myself? Yes or no.
5. I requested this to be escalated to your CEO back in March of 2020. Is he aware of this situation? Yes or no answer, please.

" If the registrant would like to make changes to their DNS, they can contact our team to make them.

6. If this is true, why did you all ignore my request on December 8th, 2020 to change my DNS for detect.com? I still haven't had a response from you on this! This is one of the domain names I have sold pending your locks being lifted. Can you please make the emailed change request?


7. Why did you all take the courtesy to respond to Puneet when you locked my domains, and yet as a customer, you never notified me? You failed to inform me on both the original locks and the recent one of create.com a few weeks ago. Godaddy still hasn't responded to my email from February 19th on why create.com was locked. Can you please tell me why? Was there another imaginary court order you aren't able to produce?

"They are able to renew the domain names. "

I am not able to renew the locked domains, which is why I emailed you on april 21st, 2020, requesting you all to do so. You still have not renewed these names. You all ensured they would be auto-renewed at expiration; however, I do not feel comfortable considering how incompetent you all have been to date. Can you please renew these names for me as requested using the balance I have on file!!!"

Lol. Stalking the prime minister of India.hahaha. But then why am I not in jail. It must be a serious crime to stalk head of the country. Isn't it.
Or now you mean to say that I have setting with prime minister of india as well.

 

[branding]

Lol. Stalking the prime minister of India.hahaha

Welcome to the thread sir.

Time to get a refill on the popcorn guys.

 

[barybadrinath]

Welcome to the thread sir.

Time to get a refill on the popcorn guys.

Thanks.

 

[create.com]

Hi Puneet AKA barbadrinrath,

Can you please tell me how much you believe you're owed and why on this thread? Please include any evidence wether it be a contract, email, chat, anything.

Why did you file the complaint against the officer that questioned you? Are you now denying it was due to talking to Modi?

 

[branding]

Available btw

who of you guys ?

 

[create.com]

You emailed the unedited text to me below on March 2018....

"
I am already fighting facebook for facebookengineering.com and India's biggest businessman Vijay Mallya for Sidmallya.com domain name for his son siddhartha mallya.

also next year is election here in India sir , so i am sure people will come and post their complaints. If I am able to launch it properly Brent Sir, i am sure of its success. People really want to talk to our prime minister Sh Modi. I also have his full name narendradamodardasmodi.com and by pradhanmantriji.com i want to tell him this thing also. I even went till PM office in delhi but they sent me away thrice. so i am not able to reach him so by this way i want indians like me to reach him and tell their problems frankly and without fear which is our right as a citizen."

 

[barybadrinath]

Hi Puneet AKA barbadrinrath,

Can you please tell me how much you believe you're owed and why on this thread? Please include any evidence wether it be a contract, email, chat, anything.

Why did you file the complaint against the officer that questioned you? Are you now denying it was due to talking to Modi?

Well have I not filed my papers and evidences in usa and indian courts. I guess I have filed everything. Court has each of the evidence sent by me to them. Also I am not looking for social justice. I am only looking for justice delivered to me by usa court and indian court.
If I start opening my mouth and tell everyone the details , apart from you , two other big domainers of the industry will also be running away . Kindly reply and ask through court proceedings. I will reply there and I have been already replying there since last more than a year .

 

[creataweb]

 

[boker]

Well have I not filed my papers and evidences in usa and indian courts. I guess I have filed everything. Court has each of the evidence sent by me to them. Also I am not looking for social justice. I am only looking for justice delivered to me by usa court and indian court.
If I start opening my mouth and tell everyone the details , apart from you , two other big domainers of the industry will also be running away . Kindly appear and reply and ask through court proceedings. I will reply there and I have been already replying there since last more than a year .

I don't know if you are right or not, that will be decided in the court. I have only two issues. 1.You have made the complain over a year ago, but for some reason Brent was not served, so as far as I know, this case will not go ahead until is done, so everything is locked and you don't have any intention to push it forward, otherwise you could have done it in over a year. 2.Godaddy has no legal right to lock those domains and probably they will unlock them in the near future, I'm curious to see how the court case will go ahead, without these domains being locked.

 

[barybadrinath]

I don't know if you are right or not, that will be decided in the court. I have only two issues. 1.You have made the complain over a year ago, but for some reason Brent was not served, so as far as I know, this case will not go ahead until is done, so everything is locked and you don't have any intention to push it forward, otherwise you could have done it in over a year. 2.Godaddy has no legal right to lock those domains and probably they will unlock them in the near future, I'm curious to see how the court case will go ahead, without these domains being locked.

How do you know that Brent sir was not served. Do you even know his lawyer had appeared in India. He is fighting case in usa also from last one year. All the so called points raised by you and other domainers has been many times raised by Brent sir 's lawyer in usa and india ,for which I have already responded to court.

 

[boker]

How do you know that Brent sir was not served. Do you even know his lawyer had appeared in India. He is fighting case in usa also from last one year. All the so called points raised by you and other domainers has been many times raised by Brent sir 's lawyer in usa and india ,for which I have already responded to court.

He said it and it was a file with the court case somewhere in this thread, but I can't find it right now. Brent said it already that he has hired an indian lawyer, but that doesn't mean anything, for the issue to go ahead properly, you still need a Hague certificate for him to be served, correct me if I'm wrong. Also, I can bet that godaddy will unlock the domains in the next few days, let's see if I'm right, at least to stop the bleeding( also, if godaddy will not unlock them, an US judge will do it, because I can't see how can he can keep the lock without a final court order from indian court... filling a complain will not work here).

 

[BenLondon]

Dear GoDaddy,

I love GoDaddy and my partners love GoDaddy, we are about 20 years GoDaddy customers.

We have huge domain portfolio in GoDaddy and everyday buying domains from GoDaddy auctions.

Dear GoDaddy, if you want to be our Daddy many years more, please change your TOS, your policy, for your real customers, domainers benefıt. And stand by our sıde, protect our digital assets.

We don't want to live in fear every day, to see if something will happen to our digital assets.

As all we see that GoDaddy reputation is bleeding very badly.

I am not sure GoDaddy aware of this?

All domainers want to protect their domains, domains our digital assets, our family future...

Without finalized court order, GoDaddy can’t lock any customer domain.

This is not same as UDRP case, Wipo case takes a few months maximum. But foreigner countries courts cases take many, many years…. It depends that country law, rules and regulations…

So how come GoDaddy lock the domain(s) until the exact court decision, a few years, maybe 3-4 years, maybe more… That is absolutely ridiculous, let me ask GoDaddy this: Where is your conscience? Why you are not on your customers side, you are earning millions dollars everyday thanks to us. We are making GoDaddy number 1 registrar in the world.

Without us, GoDaddy is nothing. If you cant see that, you will learn it soon.

If you dont change your TOS, and not protect our domains, we are going to move all our domains to NameCheap or other registrars…

And of course will not join the GoDaddy auction, not buying any domain…

And you will lose all your reputation…

I am not Name Cheap customer yet, do you know this:

Lets read what James says on his website:

https://www.jamesnames.com/2021/03/brent-oxley/

" Namecheap asking for Oxley’s names to be locked, a request that Namecheap declined. I contacted Namecheap for comment. I was told:

“Namecheap always puts our customers first, protecting their right, freedoms and valuable digital assets such as domain names. We have a proven track record of doing the right thing by our customers that includes fighting for their rights in court when deemed necessary. We do not lock or disable customer domains on a whim without the correct legal requirement.”

In a nutshell:

Please read what Michael Gargiulo says below. As I know all domainers agree with these:

The current GoDaddy policy of waiting for a settlement through an Indian court is not a viable solution for American owned property.

GoDaddy has over 76 million domains registered through them or about 20% of all domains in the world. This policy impacts 1 in 5 domain owners.

If this can happen to Brent Oxley, one of the largest domain owners in the world, it can happen to anyone. I really hope GoDaddy can see the industry badly needs their help and reform on this issue. Registrars and in a unique middle position of critical influence when it comes to litigation oversight. We need a solution that protects owners, otherwise thee exploitation of GoDaddy’s policy (and cancel culture) will damage the long term value premium domain names carry, due to these mounting risks and ownership loopholes.

Michael Gargiulo
CEO at VPN.com

 

[bmugford]

How do you know that Brent sir was not served.

Simple Yes or No question then - has Brent been served in regards to the case you filed in India?
The online court records show that he has not.

Brad

 

[barybadrinath]

Many of the ill informed domainers here are indulging in bad language against GoDaddy. Let me tell everyone here that I have no relationship with GoDaddy and whatever GoDaddy has done or is doing or will do in immediate future , is all according to the legal laws of the respected country. GoDaddy is following the laws and GoDaddy has not committed any mistake in these disputes. They have not taken anyone's side and they are impartial to everyone till yet.
On the one hand Brent sir fight cases in india and usa through legal means and on the other hand tries a pressure tactic to compell GoDaddy to do illegal things.
Shall I tell everyone here what did you ask me to do last year against GoDaddy. Shall i post the screenshot here. Shall i tell everyone here how were you stalking top most executive of GoDaddy last year for fulfilling your illegal demands and when GoDaddy is not giving up against your pressure tactics, you are now trying to defame GoDaddy and it's ceo by linking them to their indian ethnic roots. In your usa most of the ceo of top companies are indians. I sometimes feel are you alright Brent sir. Don't make me open my mouth as the case is subjudic

Simple Yes or No question then - has Brent been served in regards to the case you filed in India?
The online court records show that he has not.

Brad

Well who the hell are you to question me. I am not obligated to respond to u.