Domain Registrar Suspensions
Discussions revolve around domain registrars like GoDaddy and Namecheap suspending, seizing, or failing to renew domains without justification, including user experiences, historical incidents, and concerns over censorship or abuse complaints.
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Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41729526More recently Related:The Disappearance of an Internet Domainhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41778633
GoDaddy was once notorious for this. Don’t know if they still are.
Any stories of domains being seized that weren’t involved in criminal activity?
I moved everything to namecheap after they supported the EFF during the SOPA days. Then namecheap decided to get in the censorship business along with cloudflare. All my domains came off namecheap.
Better headline: pre-launch startup forgets to re-reg their domain after several expiration notices.
I've been concerned about NameCheap since this alleged incident occurredhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18063667
I thought it was GoDaddy that was caught doing that.
You should have bot the Domain Name insurance!https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23754056
Did you guys recycle a domain name? Blocked due to security concerns. You may need to work with the big vendors to get yourselves off the naughty list for actions taken by prior domain owners.
Namecheap has a history of ignoring and fighting abuse complaints from lawyers trying to shut down free speech with spurious trademark and libel claims without a court case. GoDaddy has a history of immediately pulling DNS of a domain after spurious complaints without a court order. This is in line with how Namecheap has operated for years.