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Re: GoDaddy.com shuts down entire data center?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Sobol)
Sat Jan 28 15:27:48 2006

Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 12:27:19 -0800
From: Steve Sobol <sjsobol@JustThe.net>
To: Martin Hannigan <hannigan@world.std.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <200601281544.k0SFiHG1001976@world.std.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


Martin Hannigan wrote:

> Another interesting point is that GoDaddy charged a $199
> reconnect fee. They punished the operator for the behavoir of their
> customers. 

Which is, IMHO, *sometimes* appropriate and sometimes not.

I hear that the victim of the disconnection actually was a bit of a spam 
spewer. If there have been repeated problems with him not dealing with abuse 
problems from his customers, disconnection is definitely justified.

If this was the first or second incident, probably not.


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