Godaddy attacks Torrent sites

Written by Ernesto on January 12, 2006 

UPDATE: Thanks to all our (m-ook) readers and the readers on Digg and other blogs (TorrentFreak) for your support!

A rep from GoDaddy has Called and “cleared up the misunderstanding” they Will restart the DNS services for MyBitTorrent.com and allow MyBitTorrent to freely transfer to another registry of their choice. Again the power of Blogging has prevailed! *** Godaddy did the right thing!

M-ook writes that Godaddy (domain registrar) started to ban BitTorrent sites. With more than 1000 registered torrent sites, godaddy is a big player in the domain market. The first site they banned is MyBitTorrent (the suspension letter), they are even holding the domain in question.

MyBitTorrent can be reclaimed by paying 50$ as the suspension letter states

If you wish to transfer your domain name to another registrar, we first require that you pay a $50 administration fee before your domain name can be transferred.

The next step could be mininova, isohunt or torrentspy. These three belong to the biggest (torrent) site on the web and are all registered with godaddy.

Will this be the new “war on BitTorrent”?

Previously: uTorrent 1.4 is out!

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89 Responses

1 Jan 12, 2006 at 20:06 by Roomba

I use Godaddy and this just burns me.

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Wow, Poor myBittorrent. Hopefully they can get back online soon.

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GoDaddy is losing my business… 10 domains aren’t a whole lot, but it’s cash out of their pocket.

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well its gonna be a big hit for godaddy too coz true BT fans should boycot there domains :O) simple….

5 Jan 13, 2006 at 18:36 by secret

GoDaddy.com and their sister company BlueRazor.com have just lost my business, I will begin transfering all 300 of my domain names to another company.

6 Jan 15, 2006 at 01:17 by me

Wow, SECRET, 300 domains? sounds utterly useless. Unless you’re using them to sell domains to other people… what the hell are you doing with 300 domains registered?

Thats retarded.

but yeah, godaddy needs to die.

7 Jan 16, 2006 at 13:59 by me and you

Pretty sad.
I use them too but I’ll check around since my renewal is coming up in a couple of months.

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GoDaddy is about to lose my business as well.

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The more people boycott there service the better – Whatever the big-wigs try to do Torrents will allways find a way to fight back!

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just spread the word, there are many other registrars out there providing the same service for the same price, i look forward to the day we hear they are in receivership.

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I am a customer of godaddy i make websites with domain names included where i register a domain for 10 year intervals and i have over 5,000 domains from them. this is insane doing what they did. im just going to change all 5k urls to a different registrar. goodbye godaddy.

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Besides, it’s also high time I get a second static IP on another class C network, and set up a pair of DNS servers… GoDaddy is really dropping the ball by not allowing wildcard entries on their web-based DNS tool.

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[quote comment="250"]This is pure stupidity on their part. I believe in giving people and companies a second chance, ……………
Besides, it’s also high time I get a second static IP on another class C network, and set up a pair of DNS servers… GoDaddy is really dropping the ball by not allowing wildcard entries on their web-based DNS tool.[/quote]

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and the group who is causeing this problem, there name of the organzation is called:

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