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

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[barybadrinath]

You are a raving lunatic..... .safely tucked away behind your screen while hurling abuse and insults at people and trying to destroy reputations and businesses

How the hell you have been able to carry on doing this kind of crap for so long is beyond me.......you would of thought that your name would of preceded you by now and no one in this industry would/will want to go near you......hopefully this will be one of the positives to come out this situation.....

I can't see you live either. It seems to me that you are also sitting behind a screen

 

[bmugford]

@namesilo So would there ever be a situation where you'd lock down domains without even a court order?

It is certainly in the realm of possibilities. I don't think a registrar needs a court order to take action against something that blatantly violates the law like child pornography or is a major public safety issue.

It should be very rare, and limited.

This however is not the case here. This case is simply a business dispute.

GoDaddy should really have no role in it. Instead, without a court order Brent's domains have been locked for over a year with no end in sight.

It seems like this entire thing kicked off with GoDaddy saying there was a "court order" where none appears to exist.

Brad

 

[The Rover]

I can't see you live either. It seems to me that you are also sitting behind a screen

@barybadrinath serious question: Seeing that most of your comments here are regarding how terrible of a person you think @create.com is, weren't you already aware of his ranch (and his ideology that you clearly despise) before you initially decided to reach out him? You seem to have so much inner hate and disgust for him that I can't imagine that blossoming overnight. Or did you did you simply not care and only saw an opportunity?

 

[GTBAAA]

I personally can NOT afford to work with anyone in India - PERIOD. I have learned a great lesson here and @barybadrinath has hurt the chances of many in his country to work in the domain world.

I have no problem working with a US located Indian (and do regularly), but not some fly-by-night scammer in India.

Aman Bhutani has done great harm to his native country....and the people there.

 

[Silentptnr]

I can't see you live either. It seems to me that you are also sitting behind a screen

It seems you feel you are owed something. Has a court determined you are owed something? Is there a judgement or court order awarding you anything? Your comments should be with your lawyer.

The fact that GoDaddy has locked an innocent persons domains is what we are discussing. You must agree that this action by GoDaddy is wrong.

 

[NickB]

I personally can NOT afford to work with anyone in India - PERIOD. I have learned a great lesson here and @barybadrinath has hurt the chances of many in his country to work in the domain world.

Dude - that's not cool, you can't make sweeping comments about a whole country based on the actions of one idiot

 

[GTBAAA]

I personally can NOT afford to work with anyone in India - PERIOD. I have learned a great lesson here and @barybadrinath has hurt the chances of many in his country to work in the domain world.

I have no problem working with a US located Indian (and do regularly), but not some fly-by-night scammer in India.

Aman Bhutani has done great harm to his native country....and the people there.

 

[create.com]

Did you tell them how you try to harass GoDaddy and mr Bhutani last year.

Did Aman share with you that I was harassing him? This claim makes it sounds as if you have a personal relationship with him. You once told me that a Godaddy employee gave you a heads up that I was transferring domains from them when I was trying to avoid having my entire portfolio locked down. You went onto message me "sneaky sneaky".

I just found out that Aman is a board member of the New York Times. I believe this is the same newspaper that put my ranch on their newspaper's front page, is it not?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/19/us/exotic-hunting-texas-ranch.html

I hope this all doesn't have something to do with Godaddy and Aman's decision to lock my domains.

 

[The Rover]

It is certainly in the realm of possibilities. I don't think a registrar needs a court order to take action against something that blatantly violates the law like child pornography or is a major public safety issue.

It should be very rare, and limited.

This however is not the case here. This case is simply a business dispute.

GoDaddy should really have no role in it. Instead, without a court order Brent's domains have been locked for over a year with no end in sight.

It seems like this entire thing kicked off with GoDaddy saying there was a "court order" where none appears to exist.

Brad

Which is why if I had to guess (particularly after seeing the defendant's recent comments) that there are likely finer details that are involved, having less to do with a careless TOS and merely "dropping the ball" and more to do with someone at GoDaddy seeking a little social justice under the guise of enforcing an already insanely broad TOS. If there was ANY semblance of sense in this entire case or any reasons to lock down those domains, then I would actually never have thought that it could be driven by anything other than poorly written, overreaching policy.

 

[barybadrinath]

Did Aman share with you that I was harassing him? This claim makes it sounds as if you have a personal relationship with him. You once told me that a Godaddy employee gave you a heads up that I was transferring domains from them when I was trying to avoid having my entire portfolio locked down. You went onto message me "sneaky sneaky".

I just found out that Aman is a board member of the New York Times. I believe this is the same newspaper that put my ranch on their newspaper's front page, is it not?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/19/us/exotic-hunting-texas-ranch.html

I hope this all doesn't have something to do with Godaddy and Aman's decision to lock my domains.

Aman ji never told me but i know this from other sources. Till now As we speak Respected Aman ji has never communicated with me and i don't think there is any need . I have told many times and am saying again that i have no relationship with anyone in Godaddy. Respected Aman ji and godaddy must sue you for defamation .

You have still not answered my question that did your lawyer not call me fraudly by saying that he is calling from GoDaddy. From day 1 it's all lies ,lies and lies both in india and usa from your side. I won't respond now hereafter to you Brent sir and tomorrow i am going to the same place in Himalayas ( if you remember it , i know you do ). .

 

[The Rover]

Did Aman share with you that I was harassing him? This claim makes it sounds as if you have a personal relationship with him. You once told me that a Godaddy employee gave you a heads up that I was transferring domains from them when I was trying to avoid having my entire portfolio locked down. You went onto message me "sneaky sneaky".

I just found out that Aman is a board member of the New York Times. I believe this is the same newspaper that put my ranch on their newspaper's front page, is it not?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/19/us/exotic-hunting-texas-ranch.html

I hope this all doesn't have something to do with Godaddy and Aman's decision to lock my domains.

Ding Ding!

Honestly, part of me is glad this is happening. It's time for people to be called out. Leave ideology OUT of business.

 

[lambo.com]

I personally can NOT afford to work with anyone in India - PERIOD. I have learned a great lesson here and @barybadrinath has hurt the chances of many in his country to work in the domain world.

That is somewhat unambiguous racism lol.

India is a very diverse country!

 

[barybadrinath]

It seems you feel you are owed something. Has a court determined you are owed something? Is there a judgement or court order awarding you anything? Your comments should be with your lawyer.

The fact that GoDaddy has locked an innocent persons domains is what we are discussing. You must agree that this action by GoDaddy is wrong.

"Innocent" lol

 

[GTBAAA]

Dude - that's not cool, you can't make sweeping comments about a whole country based on the actions of one idiot

I sure can if my livelihood can be adversely affected.

Yeah, I bet you are rushing to work with a broker in India. Give me a break and stop trying to be so damn woke. My decisions are based on facts and history and policies.

 

[lambo.com]

"Innocent" lol

Cow worship and reverence needs to be kept out of domaining.

 

[carob]

Has GoDaddy provided proof of the court order yet demanding they lock the domains?

Key point there: does a court order exist? If so, does it specifically mention some or all of the locked domains? What exactly is the content of the suit filed against Godaddy in India?

In the absence of a court order, Godaddy are - as the US court transcript mentioned - allowed by their far-reaching ToS to lock a domain if there is threatened legal action.

That could be as simple as someone sending them a parrot that recites endlessly, "I am going to sue you Godaddy for providing services to a man who publicly burned toilet paper during a pandemic". A worried Godaddy employee would then, within the law, be able to lock all Oxley's domains.

But having locked the domains, it would certainly be a courtesy to inform the owner - otherwise the owner would risk the humiliation of selling a domain and then not being able to deliver. No one would want that, especially when the owner is a paying customer.

 

[Silentptnr]

"Innocent" lol

Innocent by judicial standards meaning until proven guilty in a court of law.

 

[bmugford]

@namesilo So would there ever be a situation where you'd lock down domains without even a court order?

Here is another situation I can think of -

When a UDRP is filed, the domain is locked under ICANN policy.

If you lose a UDRP for instance, you might file a lawsuit to block the transfer in a court that has clear jurisdiction. That process is largely controlled by ICANN policy and has precedent.

ICANN defines what "mutual jurisdiction" means.

That is not really locking the domain though, it is just preserving the lock pending litigation.

Brad

 

[barybadrinath]

Cow worship and reverence needs to be kept out of domaining.

I will request you to be in your limits and not comment anything on the religious beliefs of Hindus. It seems to me that you hate hindus a lot. You ******'"*

 

[barybadrinath]

Innocent by judicial standards meaning until proven guilty in a court of law.

Then How do i become guilty until and unless proved by law.

 

[lambo.com]

I will request you to be in your limits and not comment anything on the religious beliefs of Hindus. It seems to me that you hate hindus a lot. You ******'"*

Haha. I eat so much steak and love cows too. I like Hindus more than cows. What a world.

 

[Silentptnr]

Then How do i become guilty until and unless proved by law.

I don't believe you are guilty. I believe you feel that you were cheated.

I have no problem with you. You have not done anything to me.

You are entitled to be heard.

But I don't believe under any circumstance that GD should lock domains when there is no breach of terms. I don't believe GD should lock domains without court order. I don't believe GD should turn a deaf ear to it's clients.

 

[bmugford]

I don't believe you are guilty. I believe you feel that you were cheated.

I have no problem with you. You have not done anything to me.

You are entitled to be heard.

But I don't believe under any circumstance that GD should lock domains when there is no breach of terms. I don't believe GD should lock domains without court order. I don't believe GD should turn a deaf ear to it's clients.

The bar to file a lawsuit is pretty low, about $12 in this case.

Anyone can do it, especially if you never even actually serve the defendant.

However, we are only in this place because of the decisions and actions taken by GoDaddy. This is simply a business dispute.

If this is the bar in order to get your domains locked, we have a major issue.

Brad

 

[barybadrinath]

I don't believe you are guilty. I believe you feel that you were cheated.

I have no problem with you. You have not done anything to me.

You are entitled to be heard.

But I don't believe under any circumstance that GD should lock domains when there is no breach of terms. I don't believe GD should lock domains without court order. I don't believe GD should turn a deaf ear to it's clients.

Yes i was indeed cheated and very badly cheated.

 

[Silentptnr]

@barybadrinath

Perhaps you have closed the door too soon on negotiating with Mr. Oxley.

Perhaps a mutual understanding would produce positive results for both of you.

Each new day brings with it an opportunity to do the right thing and to be a better person. I truly believe this.