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Despised Web Hosting Company GoDaddy Goes Down, Possibly Attacked By Hackers

Adrian Chen · 09/10/12 02:22PM

Everyone who didn't drop web hosting company GoDaddy during one of its many scandals—The sexist ads, the elephant-killing CEO, its support of SOPA—probably wishes they did now. GoDaddy's DNS service, which makes web addresses legible to humans, has crashed hard. Millions of websites are offline. It's a shame so many innocent people rely on GoDaddy to run their websites because otherwise we'd have no qualms about celebrating something that would make GoDaddy's uniquely hateable CEO Bob Parson's day a little less pleasant.

GoDaddy in Talks to Sell for $2 Billion

Adrian Chen · 06/24/11 12:42PM

Web domain name giant GoDaddy is reportedly in talks to be bought out for more than $2 billion. Who knows what kind of exploits GoDaddy's ridiculous elephant-killing CEO, Bob Parsons, will get up to with that kind of dough. He'll probably fly to a remote island and hunt the world's most dangerous game: tech bloggers. Honestly, we're terrified.

Meet GoDaddy's Ridiculous Elephant-Killing CEO

Adrian Chen · 03/31/11 01:55PM

What kind of a guy goes on a safari in Zimbabwe to shoot "problem elephants," then makes a graphic video about it, set to a dramatic Animal Planet-style soundtrack? Bob Parsons: former Marine, self-made millionaire, GoDaddy CEO.

Go Daddy is fightin' mad

Evelyn Nussenbaum · 03/12/08 07:20PM

GoDaddy writes in on our report of a customer fighting with the domain-name and Web-hosting service

Is Go Daddy struggling with the First Amendment or bandwidth?

Evelyn Nussenbaum · 03/12/08 12:12PM

While everyone agrees that GoDaddy.com shut down a police-rating site, the hosting service and the owner of RateMyCop.com can't agree on why. PR folk at Go Daddy say the site was a bandwidth hog, while the RateMyCoppers say they were shut down for "suspicious activity" — i.e. offending the police. In any case, RateMyCop is now moving to Rackspace.com and will live to rate another day. Back to those controversial posts, like the one calling Officer Michael Mannino of Phoenix, AZ "kind, caring and courteous."

Go Daddy defrauds customer, Google defrauds Go Daddy

Nicholas Carlson · 02/27/08 01:40PM

After domain-name registrar Go Daddy charged him for an account he never opened, MessageCast CTO Dave Hodson looked into how it happened. He discovered Go Daddy doesn't ask customers for the three-digit code that appears on the back of their credit cards during the purchase process — a measure meant to assure customers has the original cards in their possession. So Hodson blogged about it to warn others that "Go Daddy is a fraudster's paradise." Really, Go Daddy security czar Neil Warner should stop futzing around with time zones and get his employer to add card-code verification. But that's not the best part of the story.