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GoDaddy, agent of censorship and stupidity

From 27b/6:

Computer security guru Fyodor reports waking up yesterday to find his website SecLists.org essentially removed from the web by his domain registrar, GoDaddy. After a bunch of phone calls to GoDaddy, he eventually got them to explain why: Because MySpace asked them too.

I’m sure this is something totally reasonable, except:

Their general councel tries to defuse it, and just makes it look even more stupid:

General counsel Christine Jones defends taking down SecLists.org, saying that Fyodor had close to an hour to respond to GoDaddy’s voicemail and e-mail warnings yesterday, and didn’t.

“We couldn’t reach him, and because the content was hundreds and hundreds of MySpace user names and password, we went ahead and redirected the domain to remove that content,” she says.

An hour? How generous. Maybe even less based on the information in the article.

“For something that has safety implication like that, we take it really seriously,” she says. “For spammers, we give people a little bit of time to respond to us.”

Wow, talk about blowing things totally out of proportion. Spammers get all the love from GoDaddy, apparently. Idiots.

Please understand that I think publishing this in the way it was done was a bad idea; however, the reaction by GoDaddy only makes the situation worse, and MySpace has demonstrated that they, like so many, are only concerned with the perception of security, and not with doing anything to actually make their user’s more secure. Unfortunately, I’ve used GoDaddy for registration, but that will change.

If people have any recommendations of people who have stood up to this kind of innanity