[88014] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: GoDaddy.com shuts down entire data center?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Nash)
Tue Jan 17 15:26:33 2006
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 12:34:28 -0800 (PST)
From: Bill Nash <billn@bacchus.billn.net>
To: Matt Ghali <matt@snark.net>
Cc: "Robert E.Seastrom" <rs@seastrom.com>, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.61.0601171217220.16698@pants.snark.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Matt Ghali wrote:
>
> On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Robert E.Seastrom wrote:
>
>> The first and second paragraphs are sane. The last paragraph gives Go
>> Daddy the right to capriciously and arbitrarily delete your domain for
>> any reason they wish ("Morally objectionable activities will include,
>> but not be limited to...")
>
> Do you believe that your philosophical objections to the language absolves
> you as a customer from the minimal due dilligence of knowing what you are
> agreeing to?
>
Find me a registrar that DOESN'T have that kind of language in their user
agreements, then tell me if anyone wishing to do any kind of e-commerce
has a choice.
I've gone off on a tear about this before: A registrar has a license to
print money. Boilerplate user agreements that leave the user zero recourse
are the standard. I haven't seen a registrar yet that doesn't have this
kind of verbiage completely freeing them from liability for *any* action
taken on a domain registration, including none.
- billn
