namesilo is very scary in my opinion. i have had several discussions with them about dMCA policy and their terms of service which says: if anyone feels embarrassed or slandered by your domain, we can suspend it
that is very very very scary. look at all the racist, hateful comments on youtube comments or all the racist, hateful comments on yahoo - no one is deleting, repossessing, disabling the domains of youtube or yahoo
namesilo has a very very scary terms of service and they refuse to change it - so if your domain name or website could possible "embarrass" someone, namesilo can revoke it. namesilo does not need a court order according to their terms of service. be very careful with them. if you google namesilo and terms of service, on the first 3 pages, you will see people complaining about namesilo terms of service. even on this thread, a gentlemen had his domain turned off due to a copyright violation - namesilo just turned off his domain and did not bother to hear his side of the story.
I am sorry, but that is not correct. We do not get into specific cases due to privacy concerns, but the person who posted that (nearly 3 years ago) did not relay the entire situation. I am also not sure what you are referring to regarding googling our company name and terms of service showing people complaining about our terms of service. I just did so and did not see any such conversations. I feel you also misrepresented our TOS insinuating that if anyone feels embarrassed by a site that we can revoke the domain. That is not correct. Our TOS reads that if a site is
designed to harass, embarrass, etc. someone else that we
may suspend service. If a site is designed solely with the intent of harming another person then it would find itself in violation of our terms. However, this would need to be something very blatant and I do not believe we have ever disabled a domain due to a complaint such as this since the evidence would need to be completely overwhelming for us to take any action.
To address the comment more specifically, our terms of service are not very much different than most other registrars. We clearly ARE NOT in the business of deactivating domains due to frivolous complaints. If we were, we would not be in business, much less being one of the fastest-growing registrars in the world. Also, the Internet would be littered with complaints from our customers if we simply deactivated domains with no notice and not for clear violations for obvious things such as child pornography, web sites with death threats, etc. As with all registrars, we are tasked with ensuring our services are not used to engage in activity that is clearly fraudulent, illegal, etc. However, we advocate for our customers VERY strongly which is why you will not find people complaining about domain deactivations without cause in relation to registering domains with us. This is not the case with many of our competitors. We are happy to put our record up against any other company, and we are very, very confident that we have never, even once, deactivated a domain due to a frivolous complaint or not due to being engaged in obvious misuse. We take this very seriously and the facts speak for themselves.
I am sorry that the poster of this comment is not happy with our terms. I understand that they can appear to be over-reaching, but this is unfortunately what we feel necessary to include to ensure that our services are not misused, and that we have the legal ability to deactivate domains that threaten our ICANN accreditation, or open us up to liability. There are several registrars that simply do not care about sponsoring domains involved in criminal activity, but we are not one of those.