GoDaddy Employee Offers To Sell Back My Domain... story inside (drama)

[MyFuture]

I was just doing some research and came across this over a news channel...

www.newstin.com/tag/us/48677354

after I followed the link it went to icaan here:
http://public.icann.org/node/658 seems thread is gone?
anyways, here is screenshot of news story

 

[coyote_tls]

not much of a story left to read, however the concept is interesting.

 

[Fka200]

http://www.fka200.com/2008/03/23/godaddy-employee-offers-to-sell-me-back-my-own-domain-for-1000000/

 

[Red Rock]

http://www.fka200.com/2008/03/23/godaddy-employee-offers-to-sell-me-back-my-own-domain-for-1000000/

Thank You,
YOUR link has the complete story!
Well this sucks!
Does anyone know that employee's name???
I would really appreciate the info!
Thx,
Red Rock!

 

[aceeca]

I was just doing some research and came across this over a news channel...

www.newstin.com/tag/us/48677354

after I followed the link it went to icaan here:
http://public.icann.org/node/658 seems thread is gone?
anyways, here is screenshot of news story

How ironic that the google ad in the jpg is for godaddy

--Ace

 

[DotSauce]

The article does not mention any details about the GoDaddy employee or any specific domain name theft.

Seems to me it is some sort of ploy to deface GoDaddy?

 

[Dave_Z]

Seems to me it is some sort of ploy to deface GoDaddy?

That's one possibility. Possibilities are endless.

OTOH, I recall reading a thread on this subject at DNF. I'll try to find it.

 

[jberryhill]

That rant makes about zero sense.

Anyone want to explain, in some sort of chronological order, what happened?

Most of the time - 9 times out of 10 - when someone says their domain name was "stolen", what really happened was they didn't pay their renewal and the name was re-registered by someone else.

Details matter. This is just a schizo rant.

 

[Paul Nicks]

so, this whole article was a theoretical exercise then? Too many "ifs" without any real name or accusation to warrant such a damning headline.

 

[goodkarmaco]

Even if a employee scammed a domainer out of a name, it is not from Godaddy. Sure the employee is part of Godaddy, but any big company has some person or persons who are working for the company that scams. Its what happens when the company finds out that is important.

I have been reading many posts where a statement is made not based on fact. Often it is from less informed people who jump to conclusions. Yesterday a person made a post that Ebay is not going to allow domainers to sell names, the fact is they are shutting out transactions of items that can be downloaded.

A better way to post these assumptions is by saying what does this mean, instead of saying this is what is happenin.

 

[Red Rock]

I have been reading many posts where a statement is made not based on fact. Often it is from less informed people who jump to conclusions. Yesterday a person made a post that Ebay is not going to allow domainers to sell names, the fact is they are shutting out transactions of items that can be downloaded.

A better way to post these assumptions is by saying what does this mean, instead of saying this is what is happenin.

Excellent Statement!
Credibility is Everything!
Rep Added!

 

[tritrain]

I had heard that it's common for some GoDaddy service center people in India to watch for expirations, buy them up, then put them up for sale back to the original owner.

I don't know if it's true or not.

It is very disconcerting though and is quite unethical, if true. I certainly hope that, if true, GoDaddy starts clamping down on this behavior.

 

[goodkarmaco]

thks Red Rock

 

[Spade]

I had heard that it's common for some GoDaddy service center people in India to watch for expirations, buy them up, then put them up for sale back to the original owner.

I don't know if it's true or not.

It is very disconcerting though and is quite unethical, if true. I certainly hope that, if true, GoDaddy starts clamping down on this behavior.

This is absolutely false. Godaddy's customer support centers are 100% US based. (I am a former employee). Its not entirely uncommong for a Godaddy employee to purchase a domain from TDNAM or pick up an expired or dropped domain.

This story irks me because of the lack of details. I believe as it was written above "stolen" is something Ive heard from people who are upset that I purchased their expired domain names. Quite frankly, I think this story might be a bit of hot air, why would it not mention the domain or more specifics about the situation?

 

[Stix]

That rant makes about zero sense.

Anyone want to explain, in some sort of chronological order, what happened?

Most of the time - 9 times out of 10 - when someone says their domain name was "stolen", what really happened was they didn't pay their renewal and the name was re-registered by someone else.

Details matter. This is just a schizo rant.

looks like his account got hacked found this

Posted by: Jack Durban
November 9, 2007 2:15 AM

Godaddy just gave away one our most valuable domains www.3pd.com. All the culprit had to do was hack our account at godaddy and out of nearly 500 domains we thought were safe, he picked just one. Perhaps he was just testing the waters and intends to come back for all of them now that he nows how easy it was. Godaddy's response was "tough luck go to ICANN".

Do you know what is takes to get a domain back?! You have to file a formal law suit with ICANN which should be called "ICANT" and pay an attorney and ICANN $1,500.00. In other words we will have to dish out nearly $10,000.00 to recover a 9 dollar domain!

Doing business with the company more interested in their next Superbowl model than basic security for their client's assets, will cost us upwards of $10,000.00 to recover a nine dollar domain!

This coming Superbowl I will be watching out for the next Godaddy bouncing bimbo wondering if the guy that stole our domain is watching too, thanking Bob Parsons for making him and all the other lowlifes that so easily hacked Godaddy accounts so much easy money.

Bob, when you grow up and get past your adolescent obsessions please consider a little security for us poor slobs that trusted you and your incompetents to keep our domains safe.

http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/2007/08/phishers_now_targeting_domain.php

http://blogs.eweek.com/cheap_hack/c...et/afilias_and_godaddy_want_to_rule_us_1.html

It's all over the net...

JP Durban :

Godaddy is a schlock organization and just gave away one of our most valuable domains. All the thief had to do was cancel and transfer our domain and within a couple minutes created a new WHOIS account and viola free domain!........

 

[Spade]

But.... 3pd.com seems to be resolving just fine now. So, what was the resolution then? Whois history doesn't seem to reflect new or changed ownership at initial glance.

 

[Stix]

he got some domains back...

That's a miracle as they would not do that for me after several months of trying. I had to communicate directly with the thief and appeal to his senses. After some discussion his guilt got the best of him and I got it back on Easter 2008. I made him aware that whatever he did with the domain he would always be subject to being sought after as well as whomever he sold it to.

Bottom line is Godaddy could not have cared less even though they could have easily sent me a confirming email to OK the transfer. The scary part in all this was that the theft occurred inside Godaddy where I still have nearly 500 domains!

he did mention 3pd.biz somewhere...

http://getsatisfaction.com/people/jdurban

 

[Spade]

Hes so sure that it was an inside job.... how does he know that? So far, All Ive seen is moaning and groaning, not a single shred of information to support the allegation.