Musings Of A Marketer » domain registration http://www.nastaev.com Blog By Zalim Nastaev Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:36:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 GoDaddy Bans Hosters Out Of A Blue? http://www.nastaev.com/2008/03/05/godaddny-bans-hosters-out-of-a-blue/ http://www.nastaev.com/2008/03/05/godaddny-bans-hosters-out-of-a-blue/#comments Wed, 05 Mar 2008 12:35:26 +0000 Zalim http://www.nastaev.com/index.php/2008/03/05/godaddny-bans-hosters-out-of-a-blue/ I am afraid I was too fast hailing guys from GoDaddy. It appears they are making troubles to some of the Russian hosters – banning the domains registered at GoDaddy and hosted at some Russian providers.

I read a post here (in Russian) – in June 2006 GoDaddy blocked 1399 domains hosted at one of the biggest Russian provider Majordomo. No warning, no decent explanation etc. The main idea was spamming issues, but come on, 1399 names in one go? Among those – sites of Governmental institutions.

Why am I now talking about this old story? Just yesterday I found my friend having the same porblem. He just registered a cool domain name with GoDaddy, to the website hosted with a big Russian provider – Ru-Center. Neither he received any sort of a warning, nor he was explained of anything – he cannot start his website working – the domain is blocked, and the DNS link to SUSPENDED-FOR.SPAM-AND-ABUSE.COM. They replied a couple of times to his mails – explaining that there were some sort of security issues – spam, untrustworthy blah-blah. And then suddenly disappeared – no reply for several days already.

I mean, what kind of spamming problem can there be with a website that has not even started yet? Is it a fair policy – blocking crowds of domains for one or two spammers? I dare say, it’s not… So I am expecting my humble site to be blocked soon. Stay tuned :)

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Not so very true here in Russia, it seems. My latest experience with a Russian provider (Ru-Center) was a failure. I choose to buy from Internet using my credit card, I enter all the info, and lo! On the final stage of registration it turns out that I need to come down to the office to sign an agreement. Come on, guys, why would I care to come over if I want to pay by a credit card? If I do care to come – I will bring cash with me – it is just 20 bucks after all.

Result? I am here, registered with GoDaddy – the guys from over the ocean :)

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