Go Daddy states request to move Homelandsecurityus.com not regarding politics

Firm states campaign committee and politics not at play in request to change web hosts.

Last Friday GoDaddy.com sent a notice to the owner of Homelandsecurityus.com informing him that he needed to find a fresh home for his domain name and web site.

Douglas J. Hagmann, founder of the site, tells his story here. He claims that one of the Obama campaign’s “truth teams” asked Go Daddy to give the site the boot.

But Ben Butler, Network Abuse Director at Go Daddy, told Reglike today that its request to move the site had nothing to do with politics. Here’s the full statement from Butler:

We did receive complaints regarding objectionable content on Homelandsecurityus.com, but it was not from a government agency or campaign committee, nor was it political in nature.

As you may by now know, we investigate all serious complaints regarding content noted to violate our terms of service. In this case, we substantiated the complaints and found a number of examples of content that appeared to violate our Terms of Service.

We don’t speak to specifics due to client privacy concerns. We can tell you our terms of service prohibit content or activities designed to defame, embarrass, harm, abuse, threaten, slander or harass third-parties. We also don’t allow content to encourage unlawful activities by others, such as hate crimes, terrorism and child pornography. Our terms also prohibit activities that are tortious, vulgar, obscene, invasion of the privacy of a third-party, racially or ethically.

For a complete look at our terms of service, you can visit [here].

It would not be a violation of our terms to disagree with a person or organization’s politics.”

Whois records show that Hagmann moved his site to Network Solutions and is hosting it with JustHost.com.