GoDaddy account domain theft

Joe Styler said:

I'm being intentionally evasive.

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Bravo!

Evasive is fine. Evasive and dishonest you are not.

The point being that nobody was asking for account specific information or unverified access to it, or to comment on an account specific situation. The question is general, "Do you have logs?"

Of course there are logs. As you may not know, I direct persons who have coordinated with GoDaddy in these types of circumstances.

Joe Styler said:

I am not comfortable making a judgement call that this is the owner of the domains....Beyond that I am unwilling to comment on specifics of any account publicly especially where there is a potential for legal action as I am sure you can understand.

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None of which are relevant to the question either. Nobody was asking for unverified access to anything.

However, there is no reason to a subpoena for a customer who has been verified to be that customer through appropriate means, access to their own account data. If they are European, it is illegal not to provide that information to the customer, because stored IP address data is personally identifying data.

Joe Styler said:

To be clear though we will certainly help the account owner and have systems set up to do so that have been very effective in the past.

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Hot unrelated tip - if your team that works these things has not done so already, I'm pretty sure that someone in that department would gain valuable insight by looking into the WHOIS history for cika.com, and THEN taking a look at what happened to the domain name corresponding to the registrant email address back in about January/February of this year. If they go back and take a look at the compliance ticket on that one, they will obtain substantial enlightenment. ICANN Compliance has been chasing their tails for weeks looking for an "unauthorized transfer", in pretty much total ignorance that the registrant email domain had been re-registered by someone else, rendering the entire ensuing sequence of events to be technically compliant.

That's your payment for impressive honesty.