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"Last night we talked a bit about RateMyCop, and the issues and opposition they were facing from the Tempe police department. I had planned on doing a bit more exploration of the website today, just to play around with it a little bit.  I, instead, was greeted with a big ol' clip art magnifying glass with \"oops!\" written in some cutesy font.  Below it was the urging to call a phone number if you were the site operator to get the explanation as to why the site was down.\nA quick call to the number indicated that it was GoDaddy, and that the account had been suspended. A little more digging revealed that Wired's Threat Level had been a bit quicker on their feet than I, and contacted RateMyCop founder Gino Sesto, who said he was given no notice of the suspension.\nGoDaddy apparently at first told him he'd been shut down over \"suspicious activity,\" a story which quickly changed to \"the site had surpassed its 3 terabyte bandwidth limit.\" Sesto thinks this is asinine, citing statistics of only 80,000 page views yesterday, and 400,000 the day before.\nThis is fairly par for the course for GoDaddy.  I personally have a few dozen domains with GoDaddy, but none are on their hosting plans.  I've been shopping recently for a new home for my personal blog, and many people warned me off GoDaddy hosting, citing similar experiences to this and what Fyodor of SecLists.org went through early last year, where he was given 60 seconds to remove material that GoDaddy found objectionable from his site before GoDaddy took down the site for him.\n\"Should registrars be involved in this? I'm not sure,\" said GoDaddy General Counsel Christine Jones, regarding the SecLists incident. \"We're the largest domain registrar in the world, and my view is, for $8.95 its not okay for somebody to come and use our services to harm other people.\" \nOf course, what remained unsaid was at what price point it becomes okay for GoDaddy to turn a blind eye to that which they find 'morally objectionable.' We're curious though (and curious why re-publishing public information is somehow morally objectionable and/or suspicious activity)."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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