GoDaddy Squashes RateMyCop.com
Web site hosted with GoDaddy taken offline, details not clear.
As stated by Wired, GoDaddy took controversial site RateMyCop.com offline yesterday.
The domain RateMyCop.com is registered with Name.com, LLC, but was hosted at GoDaddy.
As stated by Wired’s article, visitors to RateMyCop.com on Tuesday were redirected to a GoDaddy page reading, “Oops!!!”, which urged the site owner to contact GoDaddy to find out why the firm pulled the plug.
RateMyCop founder Gino Sesto told Wired he was given no notice of the suspension.
When he called GoDaddy, the firm told him that he’d been shut down for “suspicious activity.”
When Sesto got a supervisor on the phone, the firm changed its story and claimed the site had surpassed its 3 terabyte bandwidth limit, a claim that Sesto states is nonsense. “How can it be overloaded when it only had 80,00 page views today, and 400,000 yesterday?”
I tried to contact Sesto, but his site has private whois information. I also tried navigating the web site in both Internet Explorer and Firefox, and could get the links to “contact” or “regarding” to work. As for GoDaddy, a spokeswoman told Wired it couldn’t comment since of its privacy policy. This sounds strange, as GoDaddy has commented on previous situations like this.
It’s notable to note that this is not a domain name issue — this was a web hosting decision. Still, it’s one more black mark on GoDaddy. The Wired article has dozens of comments by now, many blasting GoDaddy for “doing this again”.
