Track GoDaddy Terms of Service Changes at Fresh Web Site

Fresh web site allows you to track changes in GoDaddy’s terms of service.

Electronic Frontier Foundation has launched TOSBack, a fresh service to track changes to firm’s terms of service. It right now tracks a number of popular web sites, counting Facebook, eBay, YouTube, and domain name registrar GoDaddy.com. It shows a side-by-side comparison with relevant changes highlighted. Most of these are minor or benevolent changes, but we all remember the uproar a couple month’s ago when Facebook radically changes its TOS.

Most people don’t realize that these sites change their terms on a regular basis. GoDaddy changed its Universal Terms of service in May and changed its Domain Name Registration Agreement twice in the past few weeks.

As stated by TOSback, on May 18 GoDaddy changed its Domain Name Registration Agreement by adding to the list of country code domain names that renew on the first day of the month prior to the domain expiring. These domains must also be renewed no later than the 20th day of the month prior to expiration if done manually.

On May 22, GoDaddy added a fresh term to its Domain Name Registration Agreement:

You acknowledge and agree a copy of the client contact data You provide will be used as the initial domain contact data and made public in the WHOIS database.

On May 20, GoDaddy changed its Universal Terms Of Service to reference agreements related to fresh GoDaddy products.