There is an easy way to test whether Godaddy is practicing selective Hypocracy or evenly enforcing their policy:
We recently caught then fraudulently auctioning domains they do not own or control at TDNAM. They were warned repeatedly (by me) and kept doing it.
SO - we should ask that TDNAM.COM's DNS be turned off while that's all 'sorted out'.
If they do it, they're enforcing policy, as they say.
If they don't do it, they are simply hypocrits hiding behind the bogus 'policy' argument.
And the beat goes on.
Tim Ruiz, the VP of GoDaddy, called me to discuss this issue.
My biggest complaint to him was that you, along with two other individuals, have supplied emails indicating that the three of you, all acting independantly, detected this while the names were being auction off, alerted the staff at TDNAM/GoDaddy to this, and yet the customer was told they were wrong and the auctions proceeded.
He responded that he was now aware of that and that the issue was being fixed. He assured me that he was calling every bidder and buyer that was involved in this fiasco.
Not to say that I do not doubt Mr. Ruiz, but I have heard from numerous people that they never got a phone call even after Mr. Ruiz himself paid a visit to one of the forums and said he was going to make the calls.
If all we get is lip service, then there is no need to do business with a company like that.
Perhaps we should all get together, those that won domains and paid for the domain names, and contest and dispute each one. That would be our right and that would be TDNAM/GoDaddy's case to defend. If we took each domain name as an individual domain name and filed a dispute for each and every domain name auctioned off that was not actually expired, then I think perhaps several hundred or maybe even a thousand or more claims would tie up their legal team for quite sometime and Bob may have to cut back on next year's super bowl commercial...say someone only sporting a size 34 chest.
Just a thought...but a serious thought.
