Think Before Buying or Hosting your Domain on GoDaddy!

July 26, 2012
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Today, I was checking around the blog FamousBloggers.net and it was being redirected to various websites. I dig deeper into this and came across to this blog’s owner Hesham Zebida’s post that two of his domains have been stolen from GoDaddy without any email notification to him.

Look at the full story coverage Hesham Zebida wrote sharing his actionable steps he took to get his both domains recovered but no supportive feedback is there from GoDaddy.

This is really bad news, I personally admire this blog and the great content being posted out there.

To check more with this, I researched in Google about past stories of the people whose domains got stolen from GoDaddy AND many links were found with reference to this.

http://www.namepros.com/warnings-and-alerts/699697-domains-stolen-from-my-godaddy-account.html

http://www.dnforum.com/f209/godaddy-com-stole-my-domains-ignores-me-thread-397886.html

https://getsatisfaction.com/godaddy/topics/godaddy_stole_my_domain

http://css-tricks.com/this-sites-domain-is-stolen/

http://www.dnforum.com/f26/domain-stolen-godaddy-thread-390437.html

That being said, GoDaddy is no longer a secured brand or a service provider!!

Edit:-

Hesham has got his both the stolen domains back after 4 long days of back & forth emailing and with the help of great people at Active-Registrar.  Read here for the detailed post by Hesham.

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  • Thanks Pratik for posting about it, I really appreciate it.

  • This is a really disappointing situation for the blog owner. GoDaddy folks should take this issue very seriously and help this blog owner to get his blog ownership back.

    Recently I came to know that GoDaddy has started their call-centers in India to attract more Indian customers for using their services. After reading this story, I have to say that GoDaddy should really need to focus on solving such loophole in their security system to maintain their existing customer base rather than they market their services to new customers.

  • Pratik Dholakiya

    My pleasure Hesham, this is my two cents to spread the word of whatever is happening to you.

  • Pratik Dholakiya

    I agree Manish, as I shared the stories in this post it looks like they are very weak at protecting the kind of account hacking & domains stealing that shouldn’t happen at all.

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  • Slug

    Domains are not only stolen FROM godaddy accounts and they do nothing about it, godaddy steals domains from its customers.

  • Pratik Dholakiya

    @Slug,

    That’s really worst situation a leading & well-known hosting provider company can create.