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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

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It's not a popularity contest, but by saying to much, everybody will see it as an attack from competition and what godaddy does will be seen less important and it will be to bad to help them at this stage. You can say whatever you want, this is just my opinion.

Wake up please. I am the reality check. This incident will fade like the wind while those who are impacted attack each other for sport. I am not here to have my voice reduced so you can feel better about your own posts or brand identity. Read and learn and ask why it continues to happen. You didn't have one intelligent point to add to this for accountability enhancement outside of attacks on others. This company is seizing names, marginalizing users, targeting competitors, and you personally attack me as not being liked?

Read them!

https://domainnamewire.com/2021/02/22/godaddys-afternic-had-security-hole/

https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/24/22199406/godaddy-wins-2020-stupidity-award

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/11...-attacks-on-multiple-cryptocurrency-services/

https://www.zdnet.com/article/aws-error-exposed-godaddy-server-secrets/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveyw...llion-customers-need-to-know/?sh=37b1d0f01daa

https://www.cpomagazine.com/cyber-s...ansferring-ownership-of-cryptocurrency-sites/

https://thefederalist.com/2021/01/1...-kicked-off-the-internet-without-explanation/
 
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GoDaddy is a major domain investor, spending hundreds of millions (or more) on domain portfolios.

I hope no one files some business dispute lawsuit against them. By their own logic, they might have to lock all their own NameFind domains for years until the dispute is resolved.

That sounds pretty silly right? Because it is.

That is what is happening to Brent here.

Brad
 
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Wake up please. I am the reality check. This incident will fade like the wind while those who are impacted attack each other for sport. I am not here to have my voice reduced so you can feel better about your own posts or brand identity. Read and learn and ask why it continues to happen. You didn't have one intelligent point to add to this for accountability enhancement outside of attacks on others. This company is seizing names, marginalizing users, targeting competitors, and you personally attack me as not being liked?

Read them!

https://domainnamewire.com/2021/02/22/godaddys-afternic-had-security-hole/

https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/24/22199406/godaddy-wins-2020-stupidity-award

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/11...-attacks-on-multiple-cryptocurrency-services/

https://www.zdnet.com/article/aws-error-exposed-godaddy-server-secrets/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveyw...llion-customers-need-to-know/?sh=37b1d0f01daa

https://www.cpomagazine.com/cyber-s...ansferring-ownership-of-cryptocurrency-sites/

https://thefederalist.com/2021/01/1...-kicked-off-the-internet-without-explanation/

@Intelliname @Rob Monster

This is a thread in relation to a specific issue. It is not a thread to just randomly attack GoDaddy on everything.

This is not the place for off-topic rants about GoDaddy. Please create a separate thread, like "Everything wrong with GoDaddy".

Brad
 
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I would not be surprised if GD unlocks Brent's domains. I hope he will transfer them to another registrar.

GD has been a real disappointment.

I will continue to use Afternic and GD auctions but I will never use them as a registrar.
 
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Inexcusable actions by Godaddy.
 
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If anything good is going to come out of this thread is for everyone to petition ICANN to come up with a Uniform Standard and Policy for the whole Industry concerning Registrants' Rights specially when it comes to locking the domains.

IMO
 
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Wake up please. I am the reality check. This incident will fade like the wind while those who are impacted attack each other for sport. I am not here to have my voice reduced so you can feel better about your own posts or brand identity. Read and learn and ask why it continues to happen. You didn't have one intelligent point to add to this for accountability enhancement outside of attacks on others. This company is seizing names, marginalizing users, targeting competitors, and you personally attack me as not being liked?

Read them!

https://domainnamewire.com/2021/02/22/godaddys-afternic-had-security-hole/

https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/24/22199406/godaddy-wins-2020-stupidity-award

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/11...-attacks-on-multiple-cryptocurrency-services/

https://www.zdnet.com/article/aws-error-exposed-godaddy-server-secrets/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveyw...llion-customers-need-to-know/?sh=37b1d0f01daa

https://www.cpomagazine.com/cyber-s...ansferring-ownership-of-cryptocurrency-sites/

https://thefederalist.com/2021/01/1...-kicked-off-the-internet-without-explanation/
That proves my point, I rest my case.
 
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I would like to know if this could also happen to names at Uni. If a person in India or another country asks GoDaddy to block some of your names at Uni, a Cayman Islands company, will they oblige?

I guess - and fear - that anything is possible...
 
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I would not be surprised if GD unlocks Brent's domains. I hope he will transfer them to another registrar.

GD has been a real disappointment.

I will continue to use Afternic and GD auctions but I will never use them as a registrar.
It could happen, but that depends only if they believe that they are affected more than they will gain and that's not a good reason. This story is 1 year old, so they had time to decide what are their intentions and it will happen over and over again for smaller domainers. Godaddy should change from the roots to make sure that something will change.
 
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I would like to know if this could also happen to names at Uni. If a person in India or another country asks GoDaddy to block some of your names at Uni, a Cayman Islands company, will they oblige?

I guess - and fear - that anything is possible...

as I said unlike many things in life we buy..domains are special.. sadly special things often follow special rules.. in case of domains those rules aren't really in favor of owners.. but then at same time if u do own millions in domains putting aside this case maybe there are ways to bulletproof protect yer assets..otherwise if u are someone like Rick Schwartz then how do u sleep at nite..
 
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@Intelliname @Rob Monster

This is a thread in relation to a specific issue. It is not a thread to just randomly attack GoDaddy on everything.

This is not the place for off-topic rants about GoDaddy. Please create a separate thread, like "Everything wrong with GoDaddy".

Brad

Be serious, I have stayed 100% on-topic and have engaged as gentleman and ombudsman.
 
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Be serious, I have stayed 100% on-topic and have engaged as gentleman and ombudsman.

It was mainly just a comment to Epik.com Staff badges.

I agree, your comments are not as off-topic as the ones from Intelliname are.

There are (2) posts that are nothing but a laundry list of links that are irrelevant to this specific issue.

Brad
 
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It was mainly just a comment to Epik.com Staff badges.

I agree, your comments are not as off-topic as the ones from Intelliname are.

There are (2) posts that are nothing but a laundry list of links that are irrelevant to this specific issue.

Brad

Intelliname is like an elephant -- he forgets nothing. It is supernatural. He would have been quite a litigator but I am thankful he chose a different path since not much useful happens in court rooms. People just need to do the right thing, and find win-win. That is what I am advocating here. I actually tried in May 2020 to broker a settlement between Brent and Puneet. The gap was too wide then, and now we have this mess.
 
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I guess it will serve Epik more if they can just sit out of this one :)
 
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Intelliname is like an elephant -- he forgets nothing.

Likely unintended, but I have to ask... was that a Bob Parsons Elephant sized jab pun aimed at GoDaddy?

He would have been quite a litigator but I am thankful he chose a different path since not much useful happens in court rooms.

Must we talk ill about the legal system?

I actually tried in May 2020 to broker a settlement between Brent and Puneet. The gap was too wide then, and now we have this mess.

I hope this avenue remains open as things progress/digress. I don't see this getting cleared up amicably any time soon. I can only hope/wonder if GoDaddy CEO Mr. Bhutani put half as much effort into this as Mr. @Rob Monster has, would this situation have escalated to the levels we see here today?

In fairness, I don't know what GoDaddy CEO Mr. Bhutani has or hasn't done with regards to this, or much else. He is basically a ghost in regards to namePros commenting. And it appears he, his board, or his legal team, limits the amount of GoDaddy staff badges or GoDaddy representatives to assist the namePros community.
 
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Likely unintended, but I have to ask... was that a Bob Parsons Elephant sized jab pun aimed GoDaddy?



Must we talk ill about the legal system?



I hope this avenue remains open as things progress/digress. I don't see this getting cleared up amicably any time soon. I can only hope/wonder if GoDaddy CEO Mr. Bhutani put half as much effort into this as you have, would this situation have escalated to the levels we see here today?

In fairness, I don't know what he has or hasn't done with regards to this, or much else. He is basically a ghost as far as namePros goes. And it appears he, his board, or his legal team, limits the amount of GoDaddy staff badges or GoDaddy representatives to assist the namePros community.
TBF why the hell why would a CEO of a multi billion dollar company get involved in this? They deal with very high-level strategic decisions and areas that impact on the financial growth of the company

Don't get me wrong it is completely fuc&&d up this has been allowed to happen but this is not the CEO's responsibility - there will be a SVP or VP that runs the division that deals with this area and they should be the one/s who are getting their sh&t together and dealing with this.......
 
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"Money, money, money
Always sunny
In the rich man's world"

This is standard tactic for Godaddy, NetworkSolutions and other domain registrars.

They do not want to understand the problems and send you to the court.

Many people don't want to spend their time and money in the court, so they just give up.

As a result all this locked valuable domains going to Registrars auctions and bring them huge money.

You will be surprised how many domains in the world are in Legal Lock(Compliance Lock) status.

I can't find original Court Order from India in this topic (with blue stamps or holograms, and judge signature), only translated version which doesn't look like a legal document.

If there are real Court Order from India court than GoDaddy juridically has all rights to lock this domains.

GoDaddy will comply with any Court Order (filed in the US) or UDRP decision that orders it to reinstate ownership of these domains to owner control.

Until this happens, they will be playing for time, hoping to get these names for themselves and sell them at their GoDaddy auction.

Can anyone post a link to the original Indian Court Order(even in hindi language) about this case?
 
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TBF why the hell why would a CEO of a multi billion dollar company get involved in this? They deal with very high-level strategic decisions and areas that impact on the financial growth of the company

Don't get me wrong it is completely fuc&&d up this has been allowed to happen but this is not the CEO's responsibility - there will be a SVP or VP that runs the division that deals with this area and they should be the one/s who are getting their sh&t together and dealing with this.......

Well, TBF, why the toaster doesn't the CEO of a multi bullion dollar company have an account to the industries most active and popular forum aka namePros? Or further, why does the industries largest registrar only have two staff badged accounts on namePros? With all their resources, and thousands of hours namePros members have wasted with GD customer support :banghead:, wouldn't it make sense to staff a general @GoDaddySupport account 💡. At the very least to lessen the load/harassment the current two GoDaddy representatives receive. I'm not knocking Paul and Joe, more so noting the two of them have been indirectly tasked to shoulder an arguably unfair amount of public facing scrutiny/responsibility.

I get each company reserves the right to properly channel business communication. Just saying, (imo) from an information distribution standpoint, namePros offers a far more genuine opportunity of discourse than say backroom conversations, privileged deals, and/or media courting/handshakes are able to provide.

Circling back to the primary topic at hand, you may have missed @VPN.com comment on JamesNames.com that Mr. Gargiulo has already spoken to GoDaddy CEO Mr. Bhutani regarding this. 👇
...Of course, we wanted to get this resolved amicably with GoDaddy and most preferably without litigation against them. I spoke to GoDaddy CEO Aman Bhutani, Paul Nicks and Justin Redman, GoDaddy’s Assistant General Council about this case explicitly and the vulnerability to abuse this GoDaddy policy presents on multiple occasions. None of our conversations seemed to alter GoDaddy’s policy on locking the domains...

How is @VPN.com involved?

1. VPN.com lists @Sharjil as VP of Domain Brokerage.

2. @barybadrinath claimed @Sharjil threatened and/or harassed? his family.

3. As per Mr. Gargiulo comment on JamesNames.com, we (assuming VPN.com) previously brokered some of the domains locked and listed in the lawsuit.

...about 25 of Brent’s names were locked including several we previously brokered, CIA.com and Detect.com. We found this highly suspicious because each of these transactions were handled through Escrow.com, who verified the identity of the buyer, seller, and broker accounts…none of which were Puneet....
 
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In the requests section on NamePros, you get people saying something on the lines of "i have a client with a budget of $500k to $1.5 million looking for single word com's".

Anyway in the past few months, I've messaged 2 of these people (even though i knew they was full of s**t and i was wasting my time) and both of them said something on the lines of "i've asked my client but they are not interested but I've gave your domain to other clients of mine" (ie acting as a broker on your behalf).

I shot that down straight away and made it clear 'YOU ARE NOT REPRESENTING THIS DOMAIN' and 'DON'T GIVE MY DOMAIN TO ANY MORE OF CLIENTS' because if i said "thank you" or "that's great" they've got you, you have basically gave them your blessing to do that and act as a representive on your behalf and they want £$£$£$.

Bottom line, be careful what you say in messages, there's many 2 bit brokers around and it looks like that who Brent as dealt with here. If you go the broker route go with a respectable broker and make sure there's a contract.

Thanks a lot for this warning. Everyone should read this. I'm glad people in this community are looking out for each other. 😊😊
 
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Well, TBF, why the toaster doesn't the CEO of a multi bullion dollar company have an account to the industries most active and popular forum aka namePros? Or further, why does the industries largest registrar only have two staff badged accounts on namePros? With all their resources, and thousands of hours namePros customers have wasted with customer support, wouldn't it make sense to staff a general @GoDaddySupport account. At the very least to lessen the load/harassment the current two GoDaddy representatives receive. I'm not knocking Paul and Joe, more so noting the two of them have been indirectly tasked to shoulder an arguably unfair amount of public facing scrutiny/responsibility.

I get each company reserves the right to properly channel business communication. Just saying, (imo) from an information distribution standpoint, namePros offers more genuine opportunity of discourse than backroom deals, privileged conversation, and media handshakes/courting.

Circling back to this thread, you may have missed @VPN.com comment on JamesNames.com that he has already spoken to GoDaddy CEO Mr. Bhutani on JamesNames.com article regarding this. 👇


How is @VPN.com involved?

1. VPN.com lists @Sharjil as VP of Brokerage.

2. @barybadrinath claimed @Sharjil threatened and/or harassed? his family.

3. As per Mr. Gargiulo comment on JamesNames.com, we (assuming VPN.com) previously brokered some of the domains locked and listed in the lawsuit.
As always very good and valid points......

In the grand scheme of the Godaddy revenue/profit stream domainers are near the bottom of the list....

I agree the modern way of business should involve building communities and engaging with your customer/client base - Godaddy choose to target the end user in this regard, not domainers.......it's the way it is and won't be changing anytime soon as long the profits keep rolling in......

Did VPN actually speak to him or is it BS? - I suspect BS........
 
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Maybe they should rename the product Unbreakable Locking.
 
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I am left popping more popcorn like others following along,

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@Embrand + @bmugford and other ICA Members...

Perhaps this situation could be an opportunity for @Zak Muscovitch and the ICA to examine, and suggest best practices to protect domain registrants against domain brokers? And vice versa, protect domain brokers from domain registrants....

Or at least, outline what rights as domain registrants, we have to protect against registrars enforcing legal filings that may have been largely assumed out of jurisdiction.
 
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