GoDaddy blocks all site/service access from some countries

[fab]

Have you heard this?

GoDaddy blocks all site/service access from some countries (according to their IP ranges) include:

Bulgaria
China (including Hong Kong)
Cuba
Ghana
Indonesia
Iran
Iraq
Libya
Macedonia
Malaysia
North Korea
Pakistan
Romania
Singapore
Sudan
Syria
Vietnam

 

[yl88]

the rest I understand why they r being blocked, but why Singapore and Hong Kong?

 

[singx]

Yup thats ridiculous, Pakistan, Singapore, Hongkong Malaysia, you are like blocking 40% of Asian users...thankfully not all ips...
Previouslyt enom wont enable me to signup from pakistan...you loose a great deal of potential customers...

 

[Malaysia]

you must be kidding.. i have more than 500 domains from them.. n they wanna block malaysia? i know some malaysians having more than 1000 domains wif them..i just login n so its still ok iguess..

 

[dongan]

it should't be the case.

 

[MadAboutDomains]

How have you actually found this out?

 

[weblord]

Yes i know this as well, before Im a reseller of wwd and even using a proxy just to access my account there for Philippines's ip ranges are also blocked but now they removed it.

I emailed them repeatedly and asked some fellow webmasters living in the Philippines to help me as well by sending an email to them.

 

[singx]

not all ips are blocked.

 

[bluearrow]

wow is this true ? if so hav they given a reason ? what whats gonna happen to webmaters and people live in those countries who ve reg'ed domains with godaddy ?

 

[fab]

How have you actually found this out?

It's posted in another forum. The list was a email reply by a staff of GoDaddy.

you must be kidding.. i have more than 500 domains from them.. n they wanna block malaysia? i know some malaysians having more than 1000 domains wif them..i just login n so its still ok iguess..

Do you use GoDaddy's redirection service? The guy said he couldn't access the actual page because his country was blocked.

Yes i know this as well, before Im a reseller of wwd and even using a proxy just to access my account there for Philippines's ip ranges are also blocked but now they removed it.

I emailed them repeatedly and asked some fellow webmasters living in the Philippines to help me as well by sending an email to them.

So Philippines is out of the blocked list? How many mails can make them do this? :td:

 

[wow!]

I guess they guess that Bin Laden hide in one of these countries...
Now he cant buy domains...

 

[Malaysia]

Do you use GoDaddy's redirection service? The guy said he couldn't access the actual page because his country was blocked.

nope.. dint use anything..just normal surfing the net..its broadband here n the ips changes everytime u on n off the router modem. so its quite impossible to block all.. doesnt seems to be any problems from the few malaysians i knwo using godaddy so far..

 

[Dave_Z]

Just remember that every company has the right to refuse business. If they
got numerous fraudulent experiences that cost them a lot of money, why not
block them out just to save further potential losses?

Paypal banned users from certain countries (including mine), so don't be at all
surprised if you see more of these things happening.

Sure it'll cost them money in future business. But better safe than sorry.

 

[hotniss]

racists...

 

[duskdawn]

I had full access to godaddy when I was in China.
Is this a rumor or at least exagerated?

 

[ff89]

there are not any problem to access godaddy.
I am in china

 

[cache]

I can also verify that godaddy does not block china.

 

[fab]

I think they checked certain IP

 

[Rob]

racists...

I love the people that cry racism at every opportunity :yell:

:td:

 

[matt_bodis]

Business have the right to refuse business? I don't think that is the case. Not sure how it works on the internet, but I do know that a store in the US cannot just ban you from buying anything. Illegal.