Ricercar that sucks that it happened, but all it takes is someone doing whois queries to harvest domain contact information and you happened to be on a registrar they were picking on at the time. Someone will figure out how to bypass the captcha or whatever means a site has to prevent scripted lookups and they'll get a lot of domains. It doesn't necessarily mean they sold your information. I haven't had the issue any worse with them than the other registrars I've dealt with and I've used most of the big ones. But anything is possible - including one lame employee swiping info. I seriously doubt Bob Parsons would allow harvesting of contact info from Godaddy at a any price. He's a die hard retired marine and patriot that is very much into his moral character and ethics. But you never know for sure.
fwiw, i have godaddy right now, and am trying to switch cuz my sites (which are all personal sites basically) arent even available for me at 3 a.m. when me and three search engine robots are the only ones trying to visit
You'll get that from most shared hosting plans at various times. If you want perfection, get a dedicated server. That's the only way to get five 9's availability and even then you might not get it, but you do get a SLA.
lol.
Good analogy. MOST people have no problem, but there's always a minority. I think big companies don't care about a few ants, that's why it would probably be better to finder a smaller hosting company -- one that values each customer.
Never had any problems with paypal, but I think it's easier to solve paypal issues than spam...
Have you ever had an issue and called Godaddy? You get someone who speaks english and will resolve your problem. Period. Try that with any of the other big registrars, even the evil horrible netsol. Try that with PayPal, ever had them resolve something for you? I haven't. I have had to go after people on my own each time to get things resolved. Godaddy is nothing like paypal other than being a market leader in their segment.
Sorry to come off as such a Godaddy fanboy. To me they are like Google in that they set the standard, lower prices, increase their offering and all others follow in their footsteps. They've continually offered more than the competition and even if you have spam issues, just route your email through Google apps for domains and you'll be set. No registrar can control who does lookups on their domains, they can only try to minimize abuse. I've owned hundreds of domains personally and worked with thousands of domains for customers and the only registrar I will deal with if I have a choice is Godaddy.
